So, I had some more time to play Star Trek Online. While my initial review was pretty strongly worded, I still stand by much of it. The space flight aspects get slightly easier with time, but only slightly, and I still find it hard to get a proper heading for launching torpedoes ( Read more... )

( Cut to spare my non-gamer friends. )

Saw the new Star Trek flick last night.

Here's my extremely short and spoiler-free review of it...

It's the first Trek movie to not suck in a very, very long time. If you like Trek, or if you like movies, you'll probably like it.

There's something really funny about finding the name of your favorite writer attached to stuff that happened almost 15 years before you knew who he was ( Read more... )

There was once this episode of Star Trek: TNG where the Enterprise encounters the ship from a race of people who communicate solely through citing metaphors from their common mythology. It's implied, through a moment when Picard finds what he believes is the captain's personal diary, that this odd style of communication is their only one ( Read more... )