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Tagged: Spock

· 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…