Category Archives: Star Trek

Gone with the Northeast Wind

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Nathan

The 1988 Oziana has a game on both the front and back cover, derived by Fred Meyer and drawn by Bill Eubank. For each of fifty different transformations, the player has to guess who was transformed into what. I like … Continue reading →

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Don’t Toy with Me

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Nathan

The Toys That Made Us – We’d started watching this Netflix series some time ago, back when it only had two seasons, but the third one premiered before we’d finished the other two. Each season has four episodes, so there … Continue reading →

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Orc My World

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Nathan

This past weekend, Orcs were trending on Twitter, based on a tweet about how a description of them in Dungeons & Dragons was pretty racist. (Full disclosure: I haven’t played D&D, although I’ve come across it quite a bit in … Continue reading →

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I Have the Power!

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Nathan

Hell’s Super, by Mark Cain – This comedic look at the popular conception of Hell is narrated by Steve Minion, a rich guy in life who became the superintendent in Hell, conscripted to fix everything that breaks. The fact that … Continue reading →

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Magical Arts and Sciences

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking a bit recently about magic and science in fiction. I’m not saying anything at all new when I point out that a lot of what’s considered science fiction contains very little science. Sometimes it just seems to … Continue reading →

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The Gang’s All Here

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Nathan

Picture by Mark Spears I noticed on Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Timeline of Oz that he’s added several fictional works not directly related to Oz or L. Frank Baum, crediting some of them to Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe chronology. … Continue reading →

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Gated Communities

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Nathan

As if Gamergate wasn’t bad enough, now there’s Comicsgate as well, because people suck. And both of these supposed movements have people using these terms to refer to themselves, despite the fact that using “gate” in the names of scandals … Continue reading →

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Everybody Now Engage, Yeah You Know It’s All the Rage

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Nathan

Here are my thoughts on the ninth and tenth Star Trek films, replete with spoilers. Insurrection – The plot of this one is centered around a planet where some kind of weird radiation concentrated in its rings keeps the inhabitants … Continue reading →

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Everybody’s Doing It, the Jean-Luc Picard

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Nathan

We’re up to the Star Trek films using the cast of The Next Generation, where they drink Romulan Pepsi instead of Klingon Coke, and a British guy playing a French guy is the captain of the Enterprise. I think this … Continue reading →

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Always Going Forward, ‘Cause We Can’t Find Reverse

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Nathan

My re-watch of the Star Trek movies has reached the end of the films starring the original cast. I’d seen these two before, but only once each a long time ago. For the most part, I think I have to … Continue reading →

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