Showing posts with label Star Trek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Trek. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Three Lessons for Starfleet Academy

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Star Trek has reached a crisis and juncture and turning point--which is not unusual. If my very lengthy series of essays on this blog layin...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Star Trek Discovery and the Unfathomable Profundity of Stupidity

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Star Trek Discovery and the Unfathomable Profundity of Stupidity "He's dead, Jim." Star Trek: Discovery is over. Somehow, some...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

The Millennial Sovereign, The Real Story of Star Trek, and the Problem of Charisma

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The Millennial Sovereign, the Real Story of Star Trek, and the Problem of Charisma What is it that makes a human person more than just anoth...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Why Star Trek Generations is the Best Next Generation Movie: Or, Against the Art of Simulation

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Why Star Trek Generations is the Best Next Generation Movie: Or, Against the Art of Simulation Before I begin this week's post, I would ...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Mini-Art-Criticisms: Star Wars, Fellowship of the Ring, There Are Doors, Star Trek The Motion Picture

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Mini-Art-Criticisms: Star Wars, Fellowship of the Ring, There Are Doors, Star Trek The Motion Picture [ I am experimenting with various form...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Or, There Are Weasels Under the Coffee Table: Or, Is 19th Century Liberal Imperialistic Utopianism Not All It's Cracked Up to Be?

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Before I get finally and totally buried in the depths of the Dissertating Lifestyle, I present to you, my dear, long-suffering readers,...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

In Defense of the Awful, Terrible, No-Good Terrifying Alienated Surrealism of the First Two Seasons of Star Trek the Next Generation

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Alright, stop the presses: I want to write something in defense of the first two seasons of TNG. Now, before everyone stones me thr...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Pakleds and Klingons and Riker Rapidly Losing His Mind, Oh My!

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So once again, after many years (months? minutes? I dunno, folks, I'm bad at math), the much-heralded, much-longed-for return of the N...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Star Trek as Imperialist Literature

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I've watched and read and thought about Star Trek a lot more than is probably healthy, but here's something that only very recently...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Attack of William Shatner, A Vulcan Televangelist, and Christopher Plummer With An Eyepatch; or, Farewell to TOS

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The year was 1989, and Star Trek: the Next Generation was finishing its second dismal season.  The new spinoff, born of the unprecedented...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Next Generation of Television; or, It's Tough Being the Bastard Child of a Legend; or, How Gene Roddenberry Destroyed Star Trek; or, How Michael Piller Saved Star Trek; or, One Big, Happy Family; or, Meat Loaf and Mashed Potatoes

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When last we encountered the intrepid hero of our articles--the mythic property "Star Trek"--he found himself at last in a tru...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Spock Returns and Goes to San Francisco: or, How Star Trek Became A Franchise

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The year was 1982, and Star Trek was back with a vengeance. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn , despite being made on the cheap in a ve...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

The Wrath of Khan, the Recreation of Star Trek, and the Redemption of Kirk

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If there's one key insight that animates the Wrath of Khan, fueling its action and driving its plot, it is this: Kirk is not a very g...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

The Death and Highly Improbable Posthumous Success of Some Show From the '60s; or, Almost Everything Was Terrible in the '70s; or, The Messiest, Bloodiest Television Revival Ever; or, Why Star Trek the Motion Picture Is Not Very Good

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Famously, Star Trek went off the air, finally and for good, only a matter of weeks before the Apollo moon-landing.  Later, people invol...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

A Computer, a Space Hippy, and the Ubermensch Walk Into A Bar

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Following on my previous analysis of Star Trek TOS as a whole, here, taken pretty much at random (based, that is, on my own personal likes,...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Original Series and the Myth of Originality

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When I spoke in my last post about Star Trek as a myth, I used that term in a very specific sense: that of a body of stories produced b...
Monday, June 20, 2016

A Brief Introduction to Star Trek

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What is Star Trek? On some level, that's an easy question to answer.  We all know Star Trek: a television show (five television sho...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Morn is Star Trek

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In the world of hypotheticals, all the time people come and ask me: Captain Peabody, why are you a Star Trek fan? This is an important qu...