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featuring the episodes The Menagerie Part I and The Menagerie Part II

The original Star Trek two-parter (and, for the original series, the only one), The Menagerie is a brilliant re-use of the original (and, at that point, unaired) Star Trek pilot episode, The Cage. This has been said about 16,000 times by fans and critics alike, but re-watching the two-parter makes it hard to come to any other conclusion. (more…)

Inspired by his experiences making Apollo 13, actor Tom Hanks took on the duties of writing, producing and even directing the epic 12-part HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon. The result? In most cases, every bit the sheer poetry that Apollo 13 was, only spread out over enough episodes for a half-day viewing marathon. (more…)

Nearly ten years later, I’m still mixed on my opinions of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s final season. Did they really go out with a bang, or would they have been better off ending on a song? As many outstanding episodes as there were (the slick speculative fiction of Parallels, which plays with all kinds of what-if scenarios; the outstanding military-ethics drama of The Pegasus which gives Riker long-overdue hidden depths; Lower Decks, which everyone was so sure was a launching-point for future Voyager regulars; and the stellar send-off of Ro Laren in Preemptive Strike), there were also some clunkers which came to rest with an almighty and ungainly “plop” during a season that should have been the best one yet. (more…)

It waits at the edge of the final frontier. It waits for an untested captain and an uncertain crew. But most of all, it waits for you.

Thus went the first ever on-air promos for Stsr Trek: Deep Space Nine, as seen in December 1992, a month before the January ‘93 premiere. And me? I was excited as could be. I was a loyal Next Generation devotee, and this new series was an intriguing new concept being put together by the writers and producers who had turned Next Generation around in the show’s third season. How could it fail? (more…)