Category: Star Trek
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You don’t want wives, you want this. This is what you want, Mister Childress. I hope you remember it and dream about it, because you can’t have it. It’s not real! — Eve It’s a good thing I started paying attention near the end of this episode, because I nearly wrote Mudd’s Women an unfairly…
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Someday, it will probably cease to amaze me that Animorphs cribbed a whole Star Trek plot. Say Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide did it first if you really you want to, but let’s be honest about where Animorphs #32— the one where Rachel gets split in half as a starfish and develops a good and…
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Time travel. Homoerotic subtext. Sulu brandishing a rapier. Spock crying about his mom. Scotty lasering through the bulkhead to free the bridge crew from (O’)Riley’s singing. The Naked Time has everything. When Spock and some guy — and there’s a reason his name is so forgettable — beam onto another ship, they find the whole…
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It was with great aplomb that my friends and I turned on Pluto’s Star Trek channel some months ago. Our out-of-town friend Jacob hadn’t seen most of the original series, and so, fuelled by the joy of recreating the mystery of syndication, we waited on tenterhooks to find out what we’d be watching. Alas, it…
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Sixty years ago today, The Man Trap aired on primetime television. As far as ratings go, Star Trek wouldn’t break the top 30. Other shows with that ignoble dishonor include Love on a Rooftop (a sitcom about a newlywed couple struggling to survive in San Francisco on an apprentice architect’s salary), The Monroes (a Western…
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It doesn’t hold very much popcorn, but I like it anyway.
