This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail,” had a special guest star. No, not Paul Wesley as James Tiberius Kirk. The special guest star was the TARDIS from Doctor Who! It appeared in some FX shots. I circled it in the screencap image above. Maybe at someContinue reading “There’s a TARDIS in My Star Trek!”
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Recent Facebook Ads
Oh, Facebook ads. Did Facebook serve me something interesting? Oh, yes, indeed. Who doesn’t want to wear some fine Bob Larkin artwork on a shirt. Like, this shirt. What is this, my friends? That’s Bob Larkin’s cover artwork to J.A. Lawrence’s Mudd’s Angels. Harry Mudd and three scantily clad women, the starship Enterprise overhead. It’sContinue reading “Recent Facebook Ads”
The Strange World of AI Slop
Two weeks ago, the day after Easter, Pope Francis died. Last Saturday, Donald Trump fell asleep at the Pope’s funeral in Rome. In the middle of the week, a reporter threw out a question to Trump at a scrum on the White House lawn about who the next Pope should be, and Trump said heContinue reading “The Strange World of AI Slop”
A Memoir of the Klingon Invasion of Stardate 3800.0
Captain’s Log, Stardate 3800.1We have received orders from Admiral Turner at Starfleet Command, Priority One. A massive Klingon incursion into Federation space, led by General Gorrel, threatens Federation headquarters. We are breaking off our survey mission in quadrant Procyon IV to counter this invasion. Captain’s Log, Stardate 3804.6We have been fortunate that the Klingon incursionContinue reading “A Memoir of the Klingon Invasion of Stardate 3800.0”
Boldly Going Where No CoCo Has Gone Before
It is the year 2025. I am playing Mike Mayfield’s original 1972 Star Trek game in a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (released 1986) emulator on my Linux Mint Debian Edition machine. I did not have a CoCo 3. I wanted a CoCo 3. I had a CoCo 2, and I loved it. My first computerContinue reading “Boldly Going Where No CoCo Has Gone Before”
Saving the Galaxy, One Quadrant and Sector at a Time
For a certain type Star Trek fan, this is the coolest thing ever — Emanuele Bolognesi has taken the original, classic 1970s quadrant-sector Super Star Trek computer game and melded it with the interface of Interplay’s Star Trek 25th-Anniversary, resulting in the perfect marriage of gameplay and aesthetics. I discovered it last night, through anContinue reading “Saving the Galaxy, One Quadrant and Sector at a Time”
The Hero Sesame Street Needs
I believe I have found my Platonic ideal of a desktop wallpaper. Super Grover! How can one go wrong with Super Grover? The hero Sesame Street both needs and deserves! And whatever mishaps he gets into, whatever destruction head leaves in his wake, Commissioner Gordon will be right nearby to say, “Covered it.” I jest,Continue reading “The Hero Sesame Street Needs”
The Mysterious Shapeshifting USS Surak
If you were to ask a Star Trek fan on the street, “What happened between Star Trek III and Star Trek IV?” you would almost certainly be told, “Not much of anything. Kirk and crew spent their time on Vulcan after Spock’s resurrection on the Genesis Planet.” But a knowledgeable fan will tell you somethingContinue reading “The Mysterious Shapeshifting USS Surak”
Where No Bounty Hunter Has Gone Before
I saw this on Facebook this afternoon. Star Trek. Boba Fett. Star Trek: Boba Fett. Let’s interrogate this. A typo, obviously. But! Imagine for a moment. Boba Fett, the galaxy far, far away’s greatest bounty hunter, tossed through time and space into the 24th-century where he has to do what he does best to survive,Continue reading “Where No Bounty Hunter Has Gone Before”
Memorial Day at the Cemeteries
No Memorial Day parade in Dallastown yesterday — a casualty of the COVID pandemic, no doubt — so I went down to Baltimore to visit the cemeteries of my grandparents and great-grandparents and leave flags. I hadn’t been down that way since March, when I lined up the old photograph of the trolley at LoudonContinue reading “Memorial Day at the Cemeteries”