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Book Review: The Face of the Unknown by Christopher L. Bennett

Face of the Unknown Book Cover

From the publisher: Investigating a series of violent raids by a mysterious predatory species, Captain James T. Kirk discovers that there is a startling connection with the First Federation, a friendly but secretive civilization contacted early in the USS Enterprise‘s five-year…

The Evil Aesthetic of the Mirror Universe

Uhura and Sulu in the Mirror Universe

The TOS episode “Mirror, Mirror” cemented the idea of an alternate, “evil” universe in the public imagination, and the plot became a recurring theme, in both DS9 and Enterprise. Looking at the ways in which costume designers William Theiss and…

Terry Farrell Talks Trek and Much More

I interviewed one of the coolest ladies of Star Trek, the incomparable Terry Farrell, at Star Trek: Las Vegas 2015 and she had loads of great things to say on being true to yourself, how Dax made her stronger, and one…

Disabled Fans Talk Star Trek

shrits with kirk, uhura and spock in wheelchairs, holding phasers

That flutter of nerdy excitement you’ve been hearing across the internet is the sound of Trekkies like me geeking out over the tantalizing information we’ve been fed about Star Trek: Discovery, the new Star Trek series coming to CBS in…