The third season of Star Trek Discovery opened with something of a soft reboot. The crew of the USS Discovery leapt forward in time from the 23rd century to the 32nd, leaving them momentarily safe but in an unfamiliar future. By the fourth episode of that season, “Forget Me Not”…

When William Shatner was on stage at the Star Trek Las Vegas: The 57-Year Mission he did something he does at every convention, he started talking about anything and everything that came into his head. …

Anyone who says that plots from the old Doctor Who series are slow-moving and stodgy in comparison to the stories featured in the revival of the show should look to “The Time Warrior” for correction; the old series could move quickly when it wanted to. Here we have an alien…

Truth is often stranger than fiction, though it isn’t always as interesting. The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (1989) is the exception, giving us a tale just as exciting as any best-selling, fictional thriller and yet is entirely factual. …

So last night I’m watching an old Wheeler & Woolsey¹ comedy from 1931 and came across a surprising line of dialog. Robert Woolsey’s character is describing the lost loves of his past. Of one he states: “But that gal could cook. …

The November 2023 writing prompt for the Make It So publication asked which Star Trek technology would I like to have in my life. I immediately thought of the replicators (faster than light travel is a fascinating concept, but what am I feasibly going to do with a warp drive…

White Zombie (1932) is credited as the first ever zombie movie, which makes it one of those films that inspired countless, paler imitations. I’d previously seen many of the lesser derivatives, but this was the first time for me to see the instigator. I hugely enjoyed it, which surprised me…

The November 2023 writing prompt for the Make It So publication asked for a discussion on our favorite “comfort episodes”. When thinking of a Star Trek episode that works as good comfort viewing, my mind went to the one episode that was also comfort living for the characters themselves. “Take…

“We need an effort like we’ve never seen before… again!” Like many computer geeks my age, I grew up using the VIC-20 and the Commodore 64. But I was far too young to be reading the Wall Street Journal and the Forbes 500 reports to learn how well the company…