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“It may be true that headaches were once quite common. That was in the days before the brain was charted. Before we understood the nature of pain.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Justice”
“State. The. Purpose.” “Justice” isn’t particularly successful as a piece of drama but it’s a bracingly open shot across the bow on three of Roddenberry’s core beliefs – sexual libertarianism, atheism, and the evils of capital punishment. On the first…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Lonely Among Us”
“Yes. Normal.” “Lonely Among Us” is batshit crazy and generally godawful, a long, meandering joke without a punchline – so I’m gonna talk about the action figures instead. The B-plot of “Lonely Among Us” involves the Enterprise stewarding two groups…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Where No One Has Gone Before”
“Why is this child here?” The first great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation represents such a substantial elevation over its brethren that it takes a minute or two to become accustomed to its quality; everything about “Where No…
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Electronic Oblivion: A Hymn to the Fallen
My JVC handicam was on its last legs; it was no longer able to play back tapes reliably, and I figured its ability to record would be out the window in short order. This was the small camera I bought…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Naked Now”
“It never happened.” The Data/Tasha Yar sex scene remains a standout of not just Star Trek: The Next Generation but the entire Star Trek franchise, and possibly the whole history of shipping and slash fiction and cosplay and ooey-gooey SF…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
“But the Joker cannot win,” a broken and defeated Batman pronounced at the end of The Dark Knight, conjuring a lie which drives the engine of The Dark Knight Rises. Terrorists always do win, is the problem; their part of…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS: A Look Back
“The Bat, The Cat, The Penguin,” the movie posters snarled in the summer of 1992, and Batman Returns did not disappoint; here was a Gotham bestiary par excellence. If the task of sequelizing Batman was an inherently thankless one –…
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