Tag: Star Trek
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Review: STAR TREK GENERATIONS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“You know, there was a time when I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then the Borg came… and they showed me that if there’s one constant in this whole universe, it’s death.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Relics”
“NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.” Ironically, the (arguably) least consequential of the Original Series / Next Gen crossover episodes, “Relics,” is probably the best of the lot. As befits its guest star, it’s a wild and sloppy affair, but wonderfully entertaining and warmhearted. Scotty has, since about the third Star Trek movie,…
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Review: STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Well I sure as hell am not going up there sober.” The popular “best” of the four Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: First Contact is actually my least favourite. It’s hard for me to imagine a more stupidly, or crassly, conceived franchise property than this. The film drips concept rather than storytelling,…
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Review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
Bandersnatch in a Bandit Hat So here we are. Star Trek has completed its metamorphosis from a science fiction framework built on new and innovative storytelling into a “greatest hits” reboot where the entirety of its narrative tension is derived from the current article’s relationship with the audience’s knowledge of the original version – specifically,…
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Review: STAR TREK
And on we go. So here we are, at last. Honestly, the (latent? dormant? something) Trekkie in me – the one who, like umpteen million others, found Trek when he was a disenfranchised, too-cerebral adolescent – never thought the Powers That Be would have the balls, or the foolishness, to reboot the franchise as they…