Aug 30, 2021
Tony Black’s new book: *Star Trek, History and Us*
From 1960s hippies in “The Way to Eden” to the War on Terror in
Enterprise Season 3, Star Trek has always reflected the cultural
moment from which it springs. In his new book, Star Trek, History
and Us, Tony Black brings the Primitive Culture approach to...
Jul 19, 2021
Robert Duncan McNeill on Star Trek's Directors' School.
To Star Trek fans, he is Tom Paris, the cocksure pilot of the USS Voyager. But in Hollywood, Robert Duncan McNeill is better known as a different kind of helmsman. From his first day of filming on the Voyager pilot "Caretaker," McNeill declared his intention to...
Jul 1, 2021
Twenty Thousand Leagues across the Delta Quadrant.
Throughout Star Trek: Voyager’s seven seasons, Tom Paris repeatedly proved his credentials as a mid-20th-century history buff, with his replicated TV set, black-and-white B-movie holonovels, and even his own 3D cinema. But in the fifth-season episode “Thirty...
May 28, 2021
How Nicholas Meyer’s other time-travel caper inspired The Voyage Home
When Nicholas Meyer was called in to write a new script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, just weeks before pre-production was due to begin, he must have been struck with a bad case of déjà vu. Leonard Nimoy explained that the story outline he...
May 8, 2021
The Scopes Monkey Trial, Inherit the Wind, and DS9’s “In the Hands of the Prophets.”
The trial of US high school teacher John Scopes in 1925 was perhaps
the definitive 20th-century showdown between religion and science.
Indicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in defiance of
creationist state law,...