Tag: Captain Pike
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What Star Trek is
I’m a Captain Pike guy, and I don’t even know why. The original version of “The Cage” was unearthed and broadcast when I was a relatively new Trek fan, barely a month before the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s second season. Since that night, I’ve watched that episode… probably a hundred times. From…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Too Short a Season”
“Annie, with the golden hair.” One can admire “Too Short a Season” for its ambition, certainly, being a story about a nonogenarian admiral who ages backwards, Benjamin Button-style, to respond to an old threat. One can admire Clayton Rohner’s performance, too, as the actor strips away layer after layer of arthritic body language with surprising…