Try this on for size. It’s 2266. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are zipping through space, and there’s an emergency distress call from a nearby colony, under attack. The Enterprise diverts from its routine patrol. Had the Enterprise stayed on its course for another day, Spock would have detected a derelict Earth ship from theContinue reading “What if… No Khan Noonian Singh?”
Category Archives: Star Trek
Regeneration
Paramount announced recently “Regeneration,” a late-season Enterprise episode in which Earth scientists discover wreckage of a Borg sphere buried under a glacier in the Arctic. Borg drones are found aboard, they reactivate, and much wackiness ensues, ultimately drawing Jonathan Archer and his crew into the fray. The reaction of fans on bulletin boards and UsenetContinue reading “Regeneration”
Hail and Farewell
Fred Frieberger, producer of the original Star Trek during its third and final season, passed away this past Sunday. He was 88. Trek fans of the old-school stripe tend to blame Frieberger for the third season’s failures but give him none of the credit for its successes. I find this behavior both unfortunate and deplorable.Continue reading “Hail and Farewell”
Alternity! Independence Day in the Star Trek universe
A really bizarre thought I had went something like this: Suppose “War of the Worlds” happened in the Star Trek history. So in the 1890s humanity learned that aliens existed, and the invasion fleet left lots of steampunk hardware around. The Great War gets a whole lot nastier, with both sides trying to use reverse-engineeredContinue reading “Alternity! Independence Day in the Star Trek universe”
Strange Stunt Casting
Suppose a future episode of Enterprise featured Frank Finlay as a dog breeder, the one who sold Captain Archer his beagle Porthos? Or is this just too strange a thought to contemplate?
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Somehow, in some twisted cosmic way, this is utterly appropriate. I am Khan. Khan Noonien Singh, ruler of one-quarter of the Earth, a gentically engineered superman. Khan. I like that. So says a Star Trek personality test, anyway. “It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive.”
Canon Fodder
I’m something of a grinagog, and certainly reading onward would give one that impression. I recently made these comments at TrekBBS regarding the Star Trek novels and what constitutes “canon” Star Trek, and for posterity’s sake decided to archive them here because I thought they were both amusing and informative. Thank you, Roger Waters [posterContinue reading “Canon Fodder”
New Year’s Eve
John Ordover announced yesterday the winners of this year’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds contest. Of the five stories I submitted for consideration, none made the final cut. I thought I had a real shot with “Memorial Day” The story of Jake Sisko and the Cestus III Dominion War Memorial wasn’t the incestuous continuity pornContinue reading “New Year’s Eve”
Writer's Notebook
I have a ticket to the 1:00 showing of The Two Towers. I hadn’t planned on going today–I’m not someone who really has to see a film on opening day. But, today happens to be my only day off this week, my Christmas shopping is finished, my mental energy is waning under the Christmas onslaught,Continue reading “Writer's Notebook”
I am Spartacus!
I am writing a book. There’s a scene in That Thing You Do when the Wonders are about to perform on television, and Lenny asks Skitch, “How did we get here?” And Skitch Patterson, with his Spartacus fixation, says, “I have brought you here, sir, for I am Spartacus.” It’s that sense of unreality thatContinue reading “I am Spartacus!”