When I was at Star Trek Las Vegas this year I picked up two issues of a fan-produced Star Trek news magazine called Stardate. In Issue #10 a fan had transcribed an informal talk Nichelle Nichols had given to a group of fans at the 1975 Star Trek convention in Chicago. It turned out to …
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 …
In “Judgment,” Enterprise draws inspiration from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country by putting Archer on trial in a Klingon court and sending him to Rura Penthe. What makes this feel like a great episode rather than a ripoff are two things: 1) The casting of two excellent guest-stars: J.G. Hertzler and John Vickery, and 2) The integration …
When I hit “The Crossing,” I thought I had hit gold. Finally, I thought, an Enterprise episode that is both done well and truly, truly captures the spirit and philosophy of Star Trek. And then, somehow an episode about the spirit of exploration became an episode whose main message was: “Beings that are different are not …
I joined The Ready Room podcast to talk about “Devil’s Due” And I joined Earl Grey to imagine a gender-swapped TNG crew. The Mary Sue has a really interesting piece on cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who was recently interviewed by the BBC and gave an insider look at sexism in the USSR’s space program. Over at …
“Canamar” is a strong, fast-paced, action-packed episode in which Archer and Trip are stuck on a prison ship that’s hijacked by two desperate prisoners. Sort of Con Air in space but better because Scott Bakula > Nicholas Cage. It’s also an episode where T’Pol’s in charge of Enterprise, and Hoshi and Mayweather get more than usual to …
In this episode, Enterprise finds a TARDIS-esque MacGuffin drifting through space. The Tholians appear for the first time since we saw them in TOS. A temporal anomaly means Reed and Archer have the same boring conversation over and over. T’Pol and Archer get awkward. So they tractor in this mysterious pod that is bigger on …