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The Worst of Star Trek The Original Series Turnabout Intruder The finale episode of The Original Series.  Kirk's old flame is jealous of his success as a starship captain, so she steals his body to become captain of the Enterprise.  Miserably bad acting, a tired boring gimmick (the body swap trope), and a premise (Lester's motivation being that women can't be starship captains) that is sexist and insulting to what the franchise stands for (and wrong: see captains Hernandez, Georgiou, Batel and Janeway among others).  It boggles the mind that Gene Roddenberry's name is in the credits as the writer of this episode.  With this episode TOS ended with a deafening whimper. Spock’s Brain "Brain and Brain!  What is Brain?!"  This episode.  The long ridiculed, goofy third season premiere.  A goofy story filled with silly, absurd, nonsensical, cringeworthy moments like McCoy remote controlling brain-less Spock and being able to perform brain surgery after g...

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Timeline 2244 USS Constitution and USS Enterprise begin construction at San Fransisco Ship Yards 2245 USS Enterprise is commissioned, enters service, begins a five year mission under Captain Robert April Dr. Sarah Poole-April, wife of Captain April is Chief Medical Officer 2246 USS Enterprise renders aid to Tarsus IV following the massacre by Kodos the Executioner 2248 Una Chin-Riley is assigned to USS Enterprise as science officer 2249 Christopher Pike is assigned to the Enterprise as first officer under Captain April 2251 USS Enterprise's first five year mission ends Robert April is promoted to Admiral, placed in charge of the Constitution Class program Christopher Pike is promoted to Captain, placed in command of USS Enterprise USS Enterprise begins a new five year mission under Captain Pike, Una Chin-Riley is assigned as first officer, Dr. Philip Boyce is assigned as Chief Medical Officer 2253 USS Enterprise docks at Starbase 40, Ensign Spock is assigned...

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Star Trek In Memoriam 2025 Clay Hodges Actor TNG "The Vengeance Factor", "Man of the People" and "Phantasms", VOY "Repentance", Star Trek VI Rex Holman Actor TOS "Spectre of the Gun", Star Trek V Paul Capp Actor DS9 "Defiant", VOY "Caretaker" Joe Farago Actor, Stuntman Star Trek VI Bruce French Actor TNG "The Drumhead", VOY "Caretaker", ENT "The Andorian Incident", Star Trek: Insurrection Gary Jense n Stuntman TNG "The Icarus Factor" Layla Sarakalo Extra Star Trek IV Roberto Orci Producer, Screenwriter Star Trek 2009, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond Patty Maloney Actress VOY "The Thaw" Clive Revill Actor TNG "Qpid" Gene Winfield Set Builder, Model Maker TOS Margaret Clark Novel and Comic Book Editor Pocket Books, DC Comics Clifton Jones Actor TNG "Redemption" and "Redemption Part II" Lorna Raver Actress VOY "Q2" Peter ...

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What is Star Trek About? A Reflective Essay What is Star Trek about?  This is an interesting and loaded question.  From it's beginning with the original series in the 1960's Star Trek is and always has been about deep, thoughtful, intellectual stories about an optimistic future for humanity.   The concept as conceived by Gene Roddenberry was a future in which humanity (a united humanity) works together with other races and species in common cause.  The cause being exploration, learning and personal betterment.  A future where humanity has overcome its internal struggles and provincial attitudes and prejudices and moved beyond national squabbles, beyond poverty, disease, war, into a more enlightened future.  In the original series this was often shown in the form of episodes that were in truth morality plays, set in a sci-fi concept and a future several hundred years hence. Episodes like "Let That be Your Last Battlefield" that took a very blunt look ...

Trek Throwback Thursday Star Trek in the 1990s The 1990s.  Arguably Star Trek's golden age.  Many would call it the peak of the franchise.  The Next Generation hit it's stride, Deep Space Nine ran it's entire seven seasons, Voyager ran it's first five, Kirk and company made their final motion picture appearances, and The Next Generation cast starred in three motion pictures of their own.  Whether you watched reruns or new episodes of TNG or DS9 on whichever channel had the first run syndication rights in your area or caught Voyager on UPN (remember UPN?), you saw some of Trek's finest hours: TNGs "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Inner Light" and "Chain of Command", DS9s "Duet", "The Visitor", "In the Pale Moonlight and "Far Beyond the Stars" and Voyagers "Scorpion", not to mention some of the franchises greatest movies, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek First Contact.  The h...