Dec 31, 2021
Jack Bauer and Jonathan Archer.
Premiering just after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Enterprise took another two seasons to fully engage with the radically changed real world in its storytelling. When the show did reveal its own 9/11 story in the third season, it followed in the...
Dec 12, 2021
Naren Shankar on a life in science fiction.
While Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga took the Star Trek: Next Generation cast to the big screen—not to mention reinventing classic space shows Battlestar Galactica and Cosmos—it was another young writer from the TNG stable, Naren Shankar, who would contribute to the...
Nov 21, 2021
Live from Destination Star Trek London 2021.
After the cancellation of last year’s Destination Star Trek (DST)
in London, anticipation for 2021 event, billed as Europe’s largest
Trek convention, was greater than ever. A slew of last-minute guest
dropouts—combined with the ongoing coronavirus
pandemic—didn’t...
Oct 17, 2021
James Bond and Julian Bashir.
Not many film franchises can boast 25 installments over the course
of more than half a century, so for sheer longevity the James Bond
cinematic franchise certainly gives Star Trek a run for its money.
In some ways, the old-fashioned brutal masculine ethos of Bond
feels very much out of...
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...