With a new year upon us, I decided the least I could resolve for 2019 was to try and finally finish Enterprise. I’ve seen almost all of Season 1 plus a smattering of episodes from the other seasons, but it’s time to fill in the gaps, starting with “Minefield.” If “Shuttlepod One” wasn’t enough, get …
From These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season 1 by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn: Roddenberry wrote to [Sam] Peeples suggesting many changes and specifically asking that Dehner be portrayed as ‘something less than a ‘swinger,’” that she be “a little overly intelligent and inhibited.” NBC’s Donald Bays wrote to Roddenberry after reading an early script where Gary …
The big news is that I recently launched a podcast called Women at Warp, with co-hosts Andi (@FirstTimeTrek), Grace and Sue. Our website is live at womenatwarp.com and the first episode is available here. In February I joined Cam and Tyler on their podcast Subspace Transmissions to talk about Trek’s worst child characters. Elizabeth has …
I’m a mother of a four-year-old boy. At the time [of writing ‘Final Mission’], my son was a little younger, but still, the idea of that incredible bond and how people create it with their children and with other people’s children was obviously in the forefront of my mind. So I wanted to work with …
Star Trek has some great courtroom drama episodes, and I’d argue “Court Martial” is the first. It starts out when Kirk is accused of an error resulting in the death of an old friend and officer, Benjamin Finney. Commodore Stone, played by African-Canadian actor Percy Rodrigues, orders Kirk to submit to a court martial to determine whether …
On Number One: Gene never got around to fleshing her out, so I made up her back story. I saw her as a genetically bred human from another planet, a place never disclosed. Although she was cloned, I decided that she had grown up in a normal human family kind of atmosphere. She was totally …
Some highlights from a December 1998 Star Trek Communicator interview with Star Trek: Insurrection Costume Designer Sanja Milkovic Hays (who is also working on the costumes for Justin Lin’s upcoming Trek reboot movie). On getting the job: “I was petrified! It’s Star Trek. It’s bigger than life! I literally brought a cartful of books and I kept talking. …