B+Season 0Star Trek: Star Trek: The Animated SeriesZack Handlen3/26/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI've made some disparaging comments about Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974) in the past. In my defense, I had…
Season 0Star Trek: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier / Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryZack Handlen3/12/10 11:40amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkGod help me, but I enjoy Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. It is, no question, a not very good movie. The story is…
Season 3Star Trek: "All Our Yesterdays"/"Turnabout Intruder"Zack Handlen3/05/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAnd so here we are—the final two aired episodes of the original Star Trek. One is decent, and the other is flat out…
Season 3Star Trek: "The Cloud Minders"/"The Savage Curtain"Zack Handlen2/26/10 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe're getting close to the end, folks. I've given up hope at this point of finding some lost classic, which is for the…
Season 3Star Trek: "Requiem For Methuselah"/"Way To Eden"Zack Handlen2/19/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI wouldn't mind living forever. Despite all those Twilight Zone episodes about the dreariness of immortality, I,…
Season 3Star Trek: "That Which Survives"/"The Lights Of Zetar"Zack Handlen2/12/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor all the crazy aliens the Enterprise runs into, there's an awful lot of death floating out there in the universe. It…
Season 3Star Trek: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"/"The Mark Of Gideon"Zack Handlen2/05/10 11:11amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI've talked about how much I love Trek's commitment to Big Ideas, but you'll get no argument from me that sometimes,…
Season 3Star Trek: "Elaan of Troyius"/"Whom Gods Destroy"Zack Handlen1/29/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAh, women. Women, women, women, women, women. They’re so bizarre, amiright guys? They just don’t make sense. Not the w…
Season 3Star Trek: "Wink Of An Eye"/"The Empath"Zack Handlen1/22/10 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI take notes when I watch Trek episodes for recapping. I do that for every show I watch. I don't spend all that much…
Season 3Star Trek: "The Tholian Web"/"Plato's Stepchildren"Zack Handlen1/15/10 9:30amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of the most interesting criticisms I read of the new Star Trek movie came in Keith Phipps' review here on the AV…
Season 3Star Trek: "Day Of The Dove"/"For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky"Zack Handlen1/08/10 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkToday on Star Trek, we're going to learn a very special lesson about friendship, and love, and not doing that whole…
Season 3Star Trek: "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"/"The Spectre Of The Gun"Zack Handlen12/18/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI'm wondering if I should try an experiment when we come back from break (in case you haven't checked a calendar…
Season 3Star Trek: "The Paradise Syndrome"/"And The Children Shall Lead"Zack Handlen12/11/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIndians are just so adorable, aren't they? I mean Native Americans, but that's such a cold, clinical name. "Indians"…
Season 3Star Trek: "Spock's Brain"/"The Enterprise Incident"Zack Handlen12/04/09 10:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt 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…
Season 0Star Trek: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock / Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeZack Handlen8/20/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkStories have to move forward. If you were chart out the plot progression of a successful genre film, you'd probably…
Season 2Star Trek: "Bread and Circuses" / "Assignment: Earth"Zack Handlen8/13/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf the first season of Trek was the Age of the Godlike Being, the second season has been all about the Prime Directive;…
Season 2Star Trek: "The Omega Glory" / "The Ultimate Computer"Zack Handlen8/06/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOn my way home yesterday, I stopped at Newbury Comics looking for a Seagal movie for the weekend (DON'T YOU JUDGE ME),…
Season 2Star Trek: "Patterns Of Force" / "By Any Other Name"Zack Handlen7/23/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt may be a stretch, but I'm starting to discern something of a theme emerging in the second season of Star Trek. We've…
Season 2Star Trek: "A Private Little War" / "Return To Tomorrow"Zack Handlen7/16/09 9:24amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA more political minded fella than myself could make some good hay out of the premise of the first part of this week's…
Season 2Star Trek: "A Piece Of The Action" / "The Immunity Syndrome"Zack Handlen7/09/09 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMan, I love gangster movies. I couldn't tell you why. I have this half-baked theory that crime dramas are the closest…
