I had opportunity recently to rewatch "the Cage," and, being much more familiar with the original run of Star Trek than I was the last time I watched it, there was a lot of speculation on the similarities and differences between Pike and Kirk and how the latter might have reacted in the same situation ( Read more... )

Dear Star Trek ( Read more... )

We just got to the Enterprise episode with the Time Babies and zomg time babies. I- this must be one of my very favorite tropes. It's the sci-fi plot where Our Heroes get lost in time somehow and have generations upon generations of offspring in an aborted timeline. I don't know why I love this so much. But DS9 had a Time Babies episode ( ( Read more... )

I'm rereading Arthur, King of Time and Space, and every so often one hits me right between the eyes.

Like this one.

Wrath of Khan was flipping brilliant. No matter how many times I see that scene, or parodies of that scene (which, watching four star trek movies in three days came to like five or six times) it never fails to get me ( Read more... )

So. Still watching the movie. We're halfway through. Nothing has happened. Well, a console exploded at Chekov. Then he got better. Ayyup ( Read more... )

Last night we finished up both Futurama and Star Trek: the Animated Series. So we started watching Star Trek: the Motion Picture, mostly cuz it was there, and the Other One has never seen it. Good golly is that movie boring. (To be fair we're not very far into it...) It is just establishing shot after establishing shot after establishing shot ( Read more... )

So...was the plan at the end of the episode to get the two giant saurian rock monsters to fall in love with Kirk? Because I can see that sort of thing back-firing horribly. That said? BEST. PLAN. EVER.

And in one strip, I found this at the bottom:

"Living in a vast galaxy, everything in nature should be interesting. Imagine an interplanetary druid, wandering the stars, seeking out new life forms, new civilisations...

Wait a second. That would be...

Fascinating."
Ah ha ha ha ha ha I had never thought about things in quite that way but I can tell ( Read more... )

We played Artemis after the wedding on Saturday. What a perfect cap to the evening. I even dressed up in Science Station Blue. It was good fun. Except that halfway through one mission my computer just...turned off for no reason. So, they had to do a decent chunk without a Science Officer. And they survived anyway, good for them ( Read more... )

So...is the ending for "Requiem form Methuselah" actually canon Kirk/Spock? Because if there's another way to interpret that I'm not seeing it. It went about like this ( Read more... )