Apr 30, 2020
Picard Season 1, Part II.
Ancient utopias? Lovecraftian monsters? A quixotic quest, where
the windmills may be giants after all? The second half of Picard’s
first season continues to draw on a rich well of inspiration.
In this episode of Primitive Culture, host Duncan Barrett is once
again joined by Tony Black to...
Apr 23, 2020
Picard Season 1, Part I.
With a Pulitzer Prize-winning author at the helm, it’s perhaps no surprise that the first season of Star Trek: Picard should be one of the richest in Star Trek history, at least in terms of literary, cultural, and historical allusions. From Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel Don Quixote to...
Apr 5, 2020
Nicholas Meyer interview: On writing Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes.
To Star Trek fans, Nicholas Meyer is one of the most highly regarded writers to have played in Gene Roddenberry’s sandbox. As someone with only a passing familiarity with the original 1960s TV series, his outsider’s perspective was invaluable when...
Apr 5, 2020
Nicholas Meyer interview: On writing Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes.
To Star Trek fans, Nicholas Meyer is one of the most highly regarded writers to have played in Gene Roddenberry’s sandbox. As someone with only a passing familiarity with the original 1960s TV series, his outsider’s perspective was invaluable when...
Apr 3, 2020
Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes.
“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes’s famous maxim is one that any self-respecting Starfleet science officer could live by. So it should come as no surprise that Star Trek’s two most-celebrated rational...