Let’s face it, Star Trek can have really bad luck with women. Whether it’s being seduced by salt-sucking shapeshifters or being so damned suave that an intergalactic peace offering bonds to you, the moment our illustrious men get rose-colored glasses…
Star Trek Enterprise has always been my least favorite series in the franchise. Like a lot of Trek fans my age, I grew up watching TNG, DS9, & Voyager with my parents. They are fans of the original series and…
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Mirror Broken, IDW’s latest Star Trek comic miniseries takes on the challenge of bridging the Mirror Universe gap between TOS and DS9. How far did Mirror Spock’s reforms go? How did the Terran Empire fall…
Each Star Trek show holds a special meaning for many of us, but no one can ignore that Deep Space Nine, at its core, is a show about politics. Politics in space. Politics that involve shapeshifters and Tribbles. The events…
Kes appears in four seasons, 70 episodes, of Star Trek: Voyager. She wears 19 different outfits. I’ve ranked them. And her opening outfit from “Caretaker” is number 19 – the bottom of the list. Kes is introduced as a hostage.…
A funny thing happened when I started writing about women in Star Trek. Okay, maybe it wasn’t so funny. I had to laugh to keep from banging my head against the wall—a strategy I’ve adopted in Trump’s America to avoid…
Back when I was a kid the only place I could buy Star Trek action figures was Zellers (a Canadian department store now bought out by Target). I really wanted Voyager action figures, specifically Captain Janeway, but the only one…
You probably remember it as “the clown episode.” Set near the end of Voyager’s second season, “The Thaw” features a classic Delta Quadrant scenario: Janeway & Co. stumble upon people in need, try to help them, and end up…