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Star Trek: season 3, episode 15-16
"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"/"The Mark Of Gideon"
February 5, 2010 - 11:02a.m.
I've talked about how much I love Trek's commitment to Big Ideas, but you'll get no argument from me that sometimes, that commitment has a downside. Trek can be inspirational in its vision of a brighter, more ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 13-14
"Elaan of Troyius"/"Whom Gods Destroy"
January 29, 2010 - 10:01a.m.
Ah, women. Women, women, women, women, women. They're so bizarre, amiright guys? They just don't make sense. Not the way men do! All their lady feelings and childbirthing and there's that whole thing with cramps and periods ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 11-12
"Wink Of An Eye"/"The Empath"
January 22, 2010 - 10:01a.m.
I take notes when I watch Trek episodes for recapping. I do that for every show I watch. I don't spend all that much time directly referring to those notes when I do the actual write-up, but I like ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 9-10
"The Tholian Web"/"Plato's Stepchildren"
January 15, 2010 - 09:01a.m.
One of the most interesting criticisms I read of the new Star Trek movie came in Keith Phipps' review here on the AV Club. (My isn't that convenient. Don't forget to buy a T-shirt!) He pointed out that ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 7-8
"Day Of The Dove"/"For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky"
January 8, 2010 - 09:01a.m.
Today on Star Trek, we're going to learn a very special lesson about friendship, and love, and not doing that whole thing where you cut somebody up with a sword. Yeah, that's bad. Partly because it leads to ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 5-6
"Is There In Truth No Beauty?"/"The Spectre Of The Gun"
December 18, 2009 - 09:12a.m.
I'm wondering if I should try an experiment when we come back from break (in case you haven't checked a calendar recently, the next two Fridays are holidays, so no Trek till the new year)--maybe I should ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 3-4
"The Paradise Syndrome"/"And The Children Shall Lead"
December 11, 2009 - 09:12a.m.
Indians are just so adorable, aren't they? I mean Native Americans, but that's such a cold, clinical name. "Indians" was good enough for our forefathers, and "Indians" they shall remain in our hearts. Such sweet, childish innocents! I ...
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Star Trek: season 3, episode 1-2
"Spock's Brain"/"The Enterprise Incident"
December 4, 2009 - 10:12a.m.
It used to be tough to be a geek. Oh, don't get me wrong, it still basically is--both in the biting-heads-off-chickens sense and the social outcast with a tendency to obsess over intellectual (aka, "non-sexy") pursuits sense. But these ...
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Star Trek
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock / Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
August 20, 2009 - 09:08a.m.
Stories have to move forward. If you were chart out the plot progression of a successful genre film, you'd probably find lots of curves and loops and the occasional cul-de-sac, but overall, the thing would progress from left to ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 25-26
"Bread and Circuses" / "Assignment: Earth"
August 13, 2009 - 09:08a.m.
If the first season of Trek was the Age of the Godlike Being, the second season has been all about the Prime Directive; what it means, what it demands, and what it costs when someone breaks it. It's a ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 23-24
"The Omega Glory" / "The Ultimate Computer"
August 6, 2009 - 09:08a.m.
On my way home yesterday, I stopped at Newbury Comics looking for a Seagal movie for the weekend (DON'T YOU JUDGE ME), and I ended up buying (in addition to Marked For Death) a copy of the Nicolas Cage ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 21-22
"Patterns Of Force" / "By Any Other Name"
July 23, 2009 - 09:07a.m.
It may be a stretch, but I'm starting to discern something of a theme emerging in the second season of Star Trek. We've got our Federation now, and we've got the Enterprise dealing with less-advanced civilizations; and ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 19-20
"A Private Little War" / "Return To Tomorrow"
July 16, 2009 - 09:07a.m.
A more political minded fella than myself could make some good hay out of the premise of the first part of this week's double feature. "A Private Little War" has Kirk revisiting a pastoral society and finding that things ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 17-18
"A Piece Of The Action" / "The Immunity Syndrome"
July 9, 2009 - 09:07a.m.
Man, I love gangster movies. I couldn't tell you why. I have this half-baked theory that crime dramas are the closest thing that movies set in modern times can get to the power and danger of royalty, but you ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 15-16
"The Trouble With Tribbles" / "The Gamesters Of Triskelion"
July 2, 2009 - 09:07a.m.
Did you know there was a commemorative plate made for the original Trek? Probably more than one, I guess, but the one I remember had Kirk in a pile of tribbles, in a painting inspired by one of the series ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 13-14
"Obsession" / "The Wolf In The Fold"
June 25, 2009 - 09:06a.m.
James T. Kirk is obsessed. How do we know he's obsessed? Well, he has a persistent and unflagging commitment to an idea that may not be entirely worthy of such a commitment. (It's an evil mist. Quick, to ... -
Star Trek: season 2, episode 11-12
"Friday's Child" / "The Deadly Years"
June 18, 2009 - 09:06a.m.
I've talked a lot about the virtues of James Kirk and his stellar first officer, but I've been overlooking the third member of science fiction's most delightful of holy trinities: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, a simple country doctor ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 9-10
"Metamorphosis" / "Journey To Babel"
June 11, 2009 - 09:06a.m.
While the Enterprise's basic "search and explore" mission provides a lot of open ground for the writers, it does get a bit old to start each new episode with Kirk and the others taking readings off a brand new ...
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Star Trek: season 2, episode 7-8
"Catspaw" / "I, Mudd"
May 28, 2009 - 09:05a.m.
Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise, whose ongoing mission is to visit a bunch of strange planets which are invariably done up like amusement park themelands. Here's the wild west world! Here ...
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Star Trek
Star Trek: The Motion Picture / Star Trek
May 21, 2009 - 09:05a.m.
I grew up watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture; I started long before I had any concept of what good or bad meant, and for the longest time, the ST:TMP wasn't so much a movie as it was ...
