The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier, Douglas and Shea T. Brode’s new collection of essays, is a sampling of academic insights into various aspects of the Star Trek fandom, including examinations of gender, race, sexual orientation throughout the franchise. The Brodes’ introduction – which could almost stand on its own as an essay exploring the …
Another entry in the “Harry Kim Must Suffer” series of episodes. This time it’s not at the hands of scary clowns, space STDs, parallel universes or promotion-stingy Captain Janeway. This time, Harry Kim is imperilled by that most dangerous of foes: a society of sexy women! We start out with Harry on the bridge experiencing deja …
When the Skrreeans arrive on Deep Space Nine, Kira is having a majorly bad day (Majorly bad day, get it?). The Bajoran Ministers are driving her up the wall, she’s late delivering her duty roster to Sisko, and now Quark is complaining the Bajoran musician she brought in is mesmerizing his customers away from drinking and …
Well I took a bit of a reviewing hiatus over the past month or so because I made a major move for work, but now I’m settled in Ottawa and feel like tackling an epic Janeway episode: “Bride of Chaotica!” “Bride of Chaotica!” is probably among the best holodeck-gone-wrong episodes. It’s written by the fabulous Bryan …
Photos from my Trek pilgrimage to Vulcan, Alberta today! Not only is the town full of amazing, geeky touches, but the Trekcetera Museum has some great artifacts, including Janeway’s coffee mugs and one of Seven of Nine’s uniforms, complete with redonkulous corset – as well as some of Bashir’s hyposprays that were, in reality, just …
When we left off at the end of Part 1, Lexxa Singh and her crew of renegades had just been captured by the problematically racialized and confusingly motivated baddie Borrada. Now, we see them in captivity, surrounded by effectively grotesque skeletons of Borrada’s previous dead. Now it’s Borrada’s turn to explain everything that’s going on, as …
I’ve been anticipating the release of the fan film Star Trek: Renegades for about two years now. I remember that when the crowdfunding campaign started, Ria at thevalkyriedirective did a mini-campaign to encourage them to craft strong female characters with functional costumes, and she got a fairly positive response from the creators. But in 2014 we started to see …