Jun 27, 2017
Westworld and the Holodeck.
A state-of-the-art entertainment complex where you can live out
your wildest dreams, surrounded by people who look, sound, and even
feel like flesh-and-blood. The sixth-season TNG episode “A Fistful
of Datas” tips its (cowboy) hat to the 1973 film Westworld, in
which a robot gunslinger...
Jun 20, 2017
Legacies of WWII in The Original Series.
For the cast and crew of The Original Series, World War II was more
than just a dark page in the history books—it was an experience
through which they had lived, loved, and lost. From piloting
bombers over the Pacific to storming the beaches of Normandy, many
of them had seen...
Jun 6, 2017
The Wrath of Khan and Classic Literature.
Nicholas Meyer, upon putting his stamp on the Star Trek universe
with The Wrath of Khan, introduced classical human literature to
the franchise in a way never before seen. Khan Noonien Singh's
bookshelf on the wreckage of the SS Botany Bay displayed a host of
significant...