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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 12, 2019

Star Trek “The City on the Edge of Forever”: teleplay vs. episode

Many Star Trek fans say that the original series’s crowning achievement was the penultimate episode of the show’s first season, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Some fans go further than that by saying it’s the finest episode of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 20, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”

Previously: Leland-Control and his Section 31 ships were coming for the Discovery and its Sphere data. They couldn’t delete the data or destroy the ship, so the only solution was to build a brand new Red Angel Suit (to be…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 12, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Such Sweet Sorrow”

Previously: Pike got a time crystal from the Klingons on Boreth, but paid the price by getting a glimpse of some really bad things in store for him. Control took over Burnham’s old friend Gant, which tried and failed to…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 6, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Through the Valley of Shadows”

Previously: There were seven signals, but even Mama Burnham AKA the Red Angel had no idea what they meant. Culber was resurrected, but no longer loved Stamets. Control wanted that Sphere data, so it possessed Leland using nanoprobes while saying…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 29, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Perpetual Infinity”

Previously: The Discovery crew found the bioneural signature of the Red Angel, and it was a perfect match for Michael Burnham. Burnham learned that her parents worked for Section 31 and designed the Red Angel suit. On the Section 31…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 23, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “The Red Angel”

Previously: Spock had contact with the Red Angel, who came from the future and showed him the end of all life in the galaxy. Culber died and was resurrected but no longer had feelings for Stamets. Airiam got possessed by…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 16, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Project Daedalus”

Previously: Pike and Vyler’s shuttle got hit by a squid-like probe from the future that downloaded all of Discovery’s data. Lt. Airiam, the robot-like bridge officer, got infected with nefarious programming which was symbolized by three red lights flashing in…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 8, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “If Memory Serves”

Previously: Well, this is different; this week, the “previously on” clips all come from “The Cage”, the original Star Trek pilot. I’m going out on a limb and guessing this is the first time in Star Trek history that the…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 3, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Light and Shadows”

Previously: For the first time since the pilot, there are no “previously on” clips this episode, and instead Burnham’s obligatory voiceover catches us up on what we missed: Saru saw the Red Angel, it was wearing an “exosuit made of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 25, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “The Sound of Thunder”

Previously: Section 31 was on the hunt for Spock, who had a psychic connection to the mysterious signals across the galaxy which presage the arrival of the Red Angel. Dr. Culber was killed, but then resurrected in the mycelial network.…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 18, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Saints of Imperfection”

Previously: Mirror Georgiou recruited Voq/Tyler AKA Vyler into Section 31. Lt. Spock was wanted for the murder of his doctors. Tilly started to see the ghost of her junior high classmate May, who turned out to be a “multidimensional fungal…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 11, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “An Obol for Charon”

Previously: Discovery was out to track down the source of “seven signals” that seem to foretell appearances of the Red Angel. Spock knew about the signals months before they were detected, which in some way led to him voluntarily committing…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 4, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Point of Light”

Previously: Michael Burnham fell in love for the very first time with Lt. Ash Tyler, a man who—whoops—turned out to be a surgically-altered Klingon sleeper agent better known as Voq the Torchbearer. Together with his Klingon lover L’Rell,…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jan 24, 2019

Battle of the Star Trek Western Episodes

Gene Roddenberry originally pitched Star Trek to NBC as “Wagon Train to the stars”. This was for the simple reason that westerns were at their height of popularity on both TV and the big screen during the 1960s. While…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Dec 21, 2017

Star Trek "Dagger of the Mind"

In the franchise’s entire 51-year history, there’s only been one Star Trek episode of any of the six series that’s been holiday-themed. That episode was the original series’ “Catspaw”, which was the first episode filmed for the show’s second season,…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 12, 2017

Star Trek (TAS) “Bem”

The Stardate is 7403.6, which now that I think about it, could be the date this script was finished or something. It makes me wonder now how many Stardates are actually secret codes, like somebody’s telephone number or some hot…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 5, 2017

Star Trek (TAS) “Yesteryear”

We’re coming into the home stretch with our recaps of the animated Star Trek series, with just four episodes left to go. So it should only follow that we’re finally getting around to the episodes we didn’t have much motivation…

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· by Steven Birkner · Jul 11, 2017

Exploring Star Trek's spiritual side

Star Trek’s relationship to the subjects of religion or spirituality has been complicated. Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, was known for being a secular humanist with a skeptical attitude toward religion, and few of Star Trek’s main human characters delve…

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· by Steven Birkner · Oct 20, 2016

Star Trek's best time travel episodes, part 1: TOS, TAS & TNG

Within the six Star Trek TV series, there are dozens of episodes that involve time travel, and I'll be looking at the ones that did it best.

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jul 7, 2016

VIDEO: Ranking the Star Trek films (part 2 of 2)

Part two of a two part ranking of all 12 Star Trek films, from worst to first.

Tagged: Spock

Star Trek “The City on the Edge of Forever”: teleplay vs. episode

Star Trek: Discovery “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”

Star Trek: Discovery “Such Sweet Sorrow”

Star Trek: Discovery “Through the Valley of Shadows”

Star Trek: Discovery “Perpetual Infinity”

Star Trek: Discovery “The Red Angel”

Star Trek: Discovery “Project Daedalus”

Star Trek: Discovery “If Memory Serves”

Star Trek: Discovery “Light and Shadows”

Star Trek: Discovery “The Sound of Thunder”

Star Trek: Discovery “Saints of Imperfection”

Star Trek: Discovery “An Obol for Charon”

Star Trek: Discovery “Point of Light”

Battle of the Star Trek Western Episodes

Star Trek "Dagger of the Mind"

Star Trek (TAS) “Bem”

Star Trek (TAS) “Yesteryear”

Exploring Star Trek's spiritual side

Star Trek's best time travel episodes, part 1: TOS, TAS & TNG

VIDEO: Ranking the Star Trek films (part 2 of 2)

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