I could have pursued the easier more modern route by introducing Star Trek to my partner, Tori, beginning with TNG or current programs like Strange New Worlds or Discovery, as the look and storytelling methods are concurrent with today’s audiences. Read more…
Although Star Trek is broadly known for its idealism and optimistic approach to humanity’s future, there are moments when Gene Roddenberry’s vision was helmed by others that tested its limits. After his death in 1991, Rick Berman took over and Read more…
In the face of adversity, when all seems hopeless, there are two paths: We can give up and travel further down the road of despair, grow distant from our dreams, jaded and inflexible, thus live out an existence guided by Read more…
Jeffrey Hunter as Christopher Pike was the first captain of “Star Trek”. Yes, the franchise revealed others before him, including a previous vessel named Enterprise. However, in 1965 when “The Cage” was filmed and its footage retooled in the following Read more…
I was around five years old in the early 1980s, watching the original “Star Trek” series on the weekends with my father on KTLA, channel 5 in Los Angeles. I fondly recall the episode “Shore Leave”. Around that time, “Star Read more…