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The Orville Is Everything I Love About Star Trek

Ian Dawe — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:05:23 +0000

The Orville Is Everything I Love About Star Trek" title="The Orville Is Everything I Love About Star Trek" style="float:left;" />I’ve been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember, and The Orville is absolutely the Star Trek show I’ve been waiting for. Relaxed, self-aware, smart and open-minded, The Orville succeeds so… [more]

New Frontiers and Bleak Futures: The Parallel Premieres of The Orville and Star Trek: Discovery

Karra Shimabukuro — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:37:52 +0000

The Orville and Star Trek: Discovery" title="New Frontiers and Bleak Futures: The Parallel Premieres of The Orville and Star Trek: Discovery" style="float:left;" />This fall season saw the premiere of both The Orville and Star Trek: Discovery, and with both set in space, invoking nostalgia, and claiming classic Star Trek as a foundation/inspiration, it’s hard not to make… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 13 – “The Galileo Seven”

Ian Dawe — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:50:26 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 13 – “The Galileo Seven”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 13 – “The Galileo Seven”" style="float:left;" />Star Trek is not Game of Thrones. No matter how much peril the main characters are placed in, we know that they’ll be out of it and safe by the end of the hour. That… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 12 – “The Conscience of the King”

Ian Dawe — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:00:03 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 12 – “The Conscience of the King”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 12 – “The Conscience of the King”" style="float:left;" />Star Trek: The Original Series often referenced Shakespeare, both in its themes and in its style. This is only to be expected, as elevated themes of tragedy and highly stylized stories of great people pulling… [more]

Star Trek Nemesis: The End of an Era

Ian Dawe — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:00:57 +0000

Star Trek Nemesis: The End of an Era" title="Star Trek Nemesis: The End of an Era" style="float:left;" />Star Trek Nemesis, released 15 years ago at this time of year, is the nadir of the entire franchise. The 1998 Trek instalment, Insurrection, was also very weak, but weak within the normal parameters of… [more]

The Present Future: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Science Fiction and its Connection to Current, Historical, and Social Events

Jarrett Mazza — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:05:28 +0000

Great science fiction is not defined by space operas or interstellar warfare, it is defined by its execution and integration of social, historical, and contemporary issues and whether it instills a specific message or conveys… [more]

For the Love of Spock: An Imperfect Portrait of a Fascinating Man

Ian Dawe — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:45:47 +0000

For the Love of Spock: An Imperfect Portrait of a Fascinating Man" title="For the Love of Spock: An Imperfect Portrait of a Fascinating Man" style="float:left;" />Adam Nimoy’s long-awaited documentary about his father, For the Love of Spock, is now playing in selected theatres and is available for streaming purchase on several services, after a storied build-up and crowdfunding campaign. Conceived… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 4 – “The Enemy Within”

Ian Dawe — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:00:46 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 4 – “The Enemy Within”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 4 – “The Enemy Within”" style="float:left;" />“The Enemy Within” was the fifth episode filmed for Star Trek: The Original Series, and only the third after it was greenlit, but it’s the first Star Trek episode that truly feels like Star Trek.… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 3 – “Mudd’s Women”

Ian Dawe — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:15:11 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 3 – “Mudd’s Women”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 3 – “Mudd’s Women”" style="float:left;" />“Mudd’s Women” was one of the three original scripts considered by Desilu Productions as a pilot episode for Star Trek, which would have been an interesting choice to say the very least. The first episodes… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 2: “The Corbomite Maneuver”

Ian Dawe — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:15:32 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 2: “The Corbomite Maneuver”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 2: “The Corbomite Maneuver”" style="float:left;" />“The Corbomite Maneuver” does what a television pilot episode should do. It introduces the main characters and their relationships, gives them a threat that’s significant but not world-ending and provides lots of coverage of the… [more]

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 1: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”

Ian Dawe — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:00:36 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 1: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”" title="Star Trek Re-Watch, Episode 1: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”" style="float:left;" />“Where No Man Has Gone Before” is an important part of the building blocks of what we now know as Star Trek. Filmed mostly in the summer of 1965, this episode wasn’t aired until over… [more]

The Great Star Trek Re-Watch: An Introduction

Ian Dawe — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 21:45:01 +0000

Star Trek Re-Watch: An Introduction" title="The Great Star Trek Re-Watch: An Introduction" style="float:left;" />The argument hardly needs to be made that Star Trek should appear on the Mount Rushmore of not only science fiction, but world popular culture. Since arriving 50 years ago this year, it has become… [more]

Superweapons vs. Supervoices: What the Beliefs and Opinions of Super-Villains Are Telling Us About the Present Day

Jarrett Mazza — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:00:40 +0000

To hell with negotiations, most want to see a good blow’em-up story: the Death Star, Starkiller Base, the Red Matter from the famed Star Trek reboot, and GORT from legendary The Day the Earth Stood… [more]

Inside the Frontier: What Non-Comic Readers Can Learn From Reading The Star Trek Comics

Jarrett Mazza — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:00:10 +0000

What kind of relationship do comic books and films share? This is a broad, subjective, and fairly debatable question to ask most comic readers, but it is still nonetheless a question that continuously courses through… [more]

The Good, the Trek, and the Ugly: Spotlight on Star Trek Continues

Mark J. Hayman — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:00:04 +0000

Star Trek Continues" title="The Good, the Trek, and the Ugly: Spotlight on Star Trek Continues" style="float:left;" />There’s something you ought to know: Star Trek Lives! Not merely in the Rasputin-like, unkillable sense that it just won’t go away, no; rather, in the infinitely more appealing sense that the franchise torch continues… [more]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Awakens and Awakens…

James Rovira — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:37:36 +0000

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Awakens and Awakens…" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Awakens and Awakens…" style="float:left;" />My friend Kellie on Facebook wanted to post something about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but before doing so, she posted this insane spoiler alert: I wanna discuss A Thing about Star Wars. If you’re… [more]

IDW’s Star Trek Planet of the Apes Offers Reflections on Ideology

Daniel Rasmus — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:00:24 +0000

Star Trek Planet of the Apes Offers Reflections on Ideology" title="IDW’s Star Trek Planet of the Apes Offers Reflections on Ideology" style="float:left;" />Science fiction is often referred to as a genre that puts ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. There can be no better example than the Planet of the Apes, where human astronauts swing ahead in time… [more]

Star Trek III and PTSD

Ian Dawe — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:00:11 +0000

Star Trek III and PTSD" title="Star Trek III and PTSD" style="float:left;" />“The Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone,” Admiral James T. Kirk intones in his first scene in Star Trek III, the darkest and in some ways most heartfelt of all the… [more]

Sequart Announces Five Books on Star Wars and Planet of the Apes

Mike Phillips — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:45:53 +0000

Sequart Organization is going sci-fi in a big way! With the success of our Star Trek book, we’re proud to announce that work has commenced on three Star Wars books and two Planet of the Apes books. Over… [more]

Harve Bennett Left His Mark on Star Trek

Ian Dawe — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:00:23 +0000

Star Trek" title="Harve Bennett Left His Mark on Star Trek" style="float:left;" />This has been a tough time for us Star Trek fans. Not only did we lose Leonard Nimoy, we lost Harve Bennett, one of the important creative personalities behind Trek in the 1980s. It should be… [more]

A Defence of Star Trek The Motion Picture

Ian Dawe — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:00:21 +0000

Star Trek The Motion Picture" title="A Defence of Star Trek The Motion Picture" style="float:left;" />I don’t like to rank art, instinctively. This isn’t a sport, and it’s not about ringing all the bells and checking off all the boxes. So, when people ask me to rank the Star Trek… [more]

City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay: Star Trek‘s Classic 1930s Tragedy

Ian Dawe — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:00:07 +0000

Star Trek‘s Classic 1930s Tragedy" title="City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay: Star Trek‘s Classic 1930s Tragedy" style="float:left;" />The final part of Scott and David Tipton’s adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s original draft of “City on the Edge of Forever” caps one of the most intriguing and emotional stories in the Star Trek universe,… [more]

New Life and New Civilizations is Available for Order by Comics Shops

Julian Darius — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:12:44 +0000

New Life and New Civilizations is Available for Order by Comics Shops" title="New Life and New Civilizations is Available for Order by Comics Shops" style="float:left;" />New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, edited by Joseph F. Berenato, is now available for order through Diamond Comics Distributors. New Life and New Civilizations is listed in the book section of… [more]

The Shatner News No One Covered: Scenes from a Comics Convention, Part 1

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:00:44 +0000

Recently, Denise Dorman, the wife of the great Star Wars artist, Dave Dorman, posted a blog where she described the financial difficulties faced by many of the comics creators who attend conventions. Hers was a… [more]

More Fascinating Storytelling in City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay

Ian Dawe — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:00:38 +0000

City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay" title="More Fascinating Storytelling in City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay" style="float:left;" />Before I get into my discussion of issues #3 and 4 of this excellent IDW Star Trek comic series, City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay, I should correct a factual error I… [more]

Sequart Releases New Life and New Civilizations, on Star Trek Comics

Julian Darius — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:00:23 +0000

New Life and New Civilizations, on Star Trek Comics" title="Sequart Releases New Life and New Civilizations, on Star Trek Comics" style="float:left;" />Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, edited by Joseph F. Berenato. On 8 September 1966, visionary futurist Gene Roddenberry introduced the world to… [more]

The City on the Edge of Forever: IDW Re-imagines Harlan Ellison’s Original Teleplay

Ian Dawe — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:00:28 +0000

The City on the Edge of Forever: IDW Re-imagines Harlan Ellison’s Original Teleplay" title="The City on the Edge of Forever: IDW Re-imagines Harlan Ellison’s Original Teleplay" style="float:left;" />The original draft of City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison is one of the more famous unproduced screenplays in television or indeed film history. The final episode itself was justly recognized as… [more]

A Much Longer Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: On Reading The Star Wars

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:00:43 +0000

The Star Wars" title="A Much Longer Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: On Reading The Star Wars" style="float:left;" />Star Wars began for me in the toy section of an old five and dime store called TG&Y. It was there I discovered a whole collection of new and unusual looking figures—“dolls” as my Arkansas… [more]

Political Heroes in Assimilation: Dissecting the Star Trek / Doctor Who Crossover

Desmond White — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:00:20 +0000

Assimilation: Dissecting the Star Trek / Doctor Who Crossover" title="Political Heroes in Assimilation: Dissecting the Star Trek / Doctor Who Crossover" style="float:left;" />Should the hero remain an outsider to corrupted society, or should he actively recover that society from within? [more]

Star Trek into Darkness Hostile to Star Trek, Intelligence

Julian Darius — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:24 +0000

Star Trek into Darkness Hostile to Star Trek, Intelligence" title="Star Trek into Darkness Hostile to Star Trek, Intelligence" style="float:left;" />Before we continue, I need to issue the obligatory spoiler warning. In order to really get at what’s going on in this film, I’ll have to talk about its plot. So if you haven’t seen… [more]

John Harrison is the New Joker

Mike Greear — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:15:42 +0000

I just got back from watching the brand new installment of J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, Star Trek into Darkness. Without going into a full-scale review, I would say that this… [more]

On the Star Trek Peter Pan Records of 1979

Julian Darius — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:04 +0000

In the last two days, we’ve discussed the seven original Star Trek stories produced by Peter Pan Records in 1975-1976 (parts one and two). Today, we look at the company’s 1979 Star Trek offerings. The… [more]

On the Star Trek Peter Pan Records of 1975-1976 (Batch Two)

Julian Darius — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:25 +0000

Yesterday, we discussed the Star Trek stories produced by Peter Pan Records, including the first three stories. Today, we continue that discussion. “The Time Stealer” “The Time Stealer,” the first track on the second 12″… [more]

On the Star Trek Peter Pan Records of 1975-1976

Julian Darius — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:16 +0000

People who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s will likely remember Peter Pan Records (and its imprint Power Records), which published original audio stories featuring licensed properties during this time. Peter Pan Records actually… [more]

On Star Trek: Countdown and Necessary Movie Tie-Ins

Cody Walker — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:53 +0000

Star Trek: Countdown and Necessary Movie Tie-Ins" title="On Star Trek: Countdown and Necessary Movie Tie-Ins" style="float:left;" />I’m not really one for movie tie-in comics because the whole idea just seems so superfluous to me. Artists on these comics are in an awkward position where they are either criticized for not making… [more]

The British Star Trek

Julian Darius — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:40 +0000

While U.S. publisher Gold Key was busy printing Star Trek comic books, Britain had its own Star Trek comics. Comic strips, to be more accurate. American comics traditionally are monthlies, starring a single character or… [more]

On Gold Key’s Guardian of Forever (in Star Trek Vol. 1 #56)

Julian Darius — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:00:23 +0000

Star Trek Vol. 1 #56)" title="On Gold Key’s Guardian of Forever (in Star Trek Vol. 1 #56)" style="float:left;" />On Monday, we talked about Gold Key’s Star Trek #1 from 1967, which had the ship exploring the dead Galaxy Alpha, then systematically eradicating the one planet it found with life one it. Oh yeah,… [more]

On the Very First Star Trek #1

Julian Darius — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:49 +0000

Star Trek #1" title="On the Very First Star Trek #1" style="float:left;" />Star Trek has a long history in comics. In fact, the very first Star Trek comic book began in 1967, at the end of the original series’s very first season. This first series was published… [more]

It’s Star Trek Week and Sci-Fi Week at Sequart!

Julian Darius — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:00:16 +0000

With Star Trek into Darkness debuting later this week, Sequart is proud to feature two back-to-back weeks of themed content: Star Trek Week and Sci-Fi Week. Beginning tomorrow (Monday, 13 May), we’ll begin a week… [more]

How I Learned the Truth About Comics Through Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who

Cody Walker — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:00:45 +0000

Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who" title="How I Learned the Truth About Comics Through Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who" style="float:left;" />IDW has recently made a name for themselves by crafting crossovers between the various licensed properties that they produce. Infestation was the first of these crossovers where an invasion of interdimensional zombies does battle with G.I.… [more]

Quesada Redesigning Daredevil? — and Other News

Julian Darius — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:46:31 +0000

Quesada’s Daredevil Redesign Joe Quesada’s return to Daredevil is producing a lot of press. The Marvel Editor-in-Chief has apparently been planning to return to drawing for some time, but wanted to wait until the project… [more]