“Why would I want an old Star Trek calendar?” That was the question I pondered standing in the dealers’ room at my first con, way back in 1987. I’d only been a “Trekker” for about…
A new trailer to watch and ponder as we wait for Star Trek Into Darkness‘ debut (which is, somewhat shockingly, now just shy of two months away). (No, I am not responsible for the fact that…
Paramount has released a new motion poster for J.J. Abrams new film Star Trek Into Darkness including elements from both the teaser poster and teaser trailer. I think Paramount made a wise decision in focusing…
What is Geek Grab Bag? It’s a collection of odds and ends found throughout the week from the Internet. Send in your submissions to be featured in future issues of the column to max.pfeffer@yahoo.com The…
As it did in the run-up to director J.J. Abram’s 2009 reboot (or was it?) of Star Trek, IDW is offering a four-issue miniseries designed to set the stage for the sequel, Star Trek Into…
For an episode in which the audience hears that everything is all wrong, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” gets almost everything right. The premise is high science fiction, marking, as far as I can recall, the first time…
“The people I create in there are more real to me than the people out here.” So Reginald Barclay confesses to Geordi midway through “Hollow Pursuits.” Barclay—Starfleet’s very own Walter Mitty, played to awkwardly painful…
If this list were a countdown instead of a chronological one, this episode would almost certainly hold first place. A dramatic, smart, and moving exploration of what happens when the Prime Directive is inadvertently broken,…
What is Geek Grab Bag? It’s a collection of odds and ends found throughout the week from the Internet. Send in your submissions to be featured in future issues of the column to max.pfeffer@yahoo.com Alright…
“So… shall we begin?” Yes, please. There will be plenty of time for theologizing, sci-fi Christian style, about this in the days and weeks ahead. For now… Great Bird, but this looks so cool! Bleak…
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