Star Trek: Picard
I was a huge Star Trek fan as a kid. Star Trek was the gold standard of science fiction for me for the first 12 or 13 years of my life. (And yeah, my obsession with SF began very early.) In Read More
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Superversive Classic: The Daily Lives of High School Boys
This post originally ran on May 31, 2016. One of things that made me fall in love with anime back in the 90s was the sheer amount of science fiction you could find in anime, Read More
René Auberjonois, 1940-2019
It’s been a rough week for Star Trek. Veteran writer D.C. Fontana passed away, and now Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine has succumbed to metastatic lung cancer. Rest in Peace, Odo.
Continuing the Story
Franchises are funny things. There are times when the mere idea of adding to an existing story seems offensive; and there are times when not adding to it is heartbreaking. I roll my eyes at Read More
Review: The Haunting of Hill House
I am not a huge horror fan, but I like me a good ghost story. My tastes run towards the atmospheric and the clever, not towards the gory, and since gory tends to be a Read More
Observations Upon Our Genre by Moira Greyland
I was watching a few YouTube videos about the recent, largely ignored female Dr. Who, Batwoman, and other woke disasters. I would like to unpack why these movies and TV shows failed, for anyone who Read More
90s Rewatch – Earth: Final Conflict S1E6, “Float Like A Butterfly”
I want to say that everyone does an Amish episode sooner or later, but I it’s surprisingly hard to turn up a list of “Amish TV episodes.” (Thanks a lot, TLC.) There was at least Read More
90s Rewatch – Earth: Final Conflict S1E5, “Old Flame”
There are spoilers in this one today, folks. You done been warned. In today’s adventures of the alien-infested twenty first century, the nefarious Taelon decide to gift humanity with a new music conservatory in celebration Read More
90s Rewatch – Earth: Final Conflict S1E4, “Avatar”
We all tend to think of Roddenberry as the guy who made Star Trek, and thus we think of him as a science fiction guy. But with both episode four, “Avatar,” and episode two, “Truth,” Read More
90s Rewatch – Earth: Final Conflict S1E3, “Miracle”
Well, it wouldn’t be a show about first contact with an alien race if it didn’t include some sort of episode about the effects first contact would have on religion– and here we go! “Miracle” Read More