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"But Star Trek doesn't have any Christmas episodes," you might say. And you would be correct. Technically. But you don't need actual Christmas when you have the spirit of Christmas, and that's exactly what these Trek episodes have: the hardiest of Christmas spirits. (If you absolutely insist that it must actually be Christmas, I suppose…
A long time ago I wrote a post on my Top 5 Star Trek Original Series episodes. So today I thought I would carry on, and write about some top Next Gen. And since it's two and a bit seasons as long as TOS, it's a slightly longer list. Now, I may have, at some…
Continue reading ➞ Top 12 Star Trek The Next Generation Episodes
An Admiral hails you. They're probably going to betray you and Starfleet principles. Half of the senior staff are giving acting lessons. Half of the senior staff play a musical instrument. None of them offer music lessons. The Captain is wearing a red shirt. The walls are beige. They are closing in. Beigely. The holodeck…
Continue reading ➞ How To Tell If You Are In Star Trek The Next Generation
This week’s Trek post (it’ll stop soon, it will) is about the most reviled genre of Trek story: the Holodeck episode. after copious and diligent research,* there are three main reasons I’ve found that makes this Trek genre beat out even the dreaded One Episode Romance as Worst Trek Genre: 1) It’s considered lazy writing…
This year is Star Trek’s fiftieth anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than with a helping of good old-fashioned nerd-rage at an Internet list you don’t agree with? After reading a list of the 100 Most Important Members of Starfleet on Wired, I was cool and collected despite the many egregious errors, not least…
Continue reading ➞ The 100 Greatest Starfleet Characters in Star Trek
Lizbeth Myles 