Tag: the meaning of life
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I’m so fascinated
Even if I hadn’t quit my job this year, I think this summer’s strike actions by the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guilt / AFTRA would feel like a central idea in … well, everything. My relationship to my own career, both where I’ve been and where I now want it to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven years, sat at that table, though he was always welcome – and as the cards…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Neutral Zone”
“Heck, it’s the same dance, it’s just a different tune.” The last episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation has a lot going against it – it’s a cheap knockoff of the basic plot of the Original Series’ Khan episode, “Space Seed,” and its A-story (the Enterprise encounters a group of…