It’s August, and where I live, that means barbecue season. Every time I leave my house, I smell meat and/or vegetables sizzling on a grill somewhere. What better time to write about food? In spite of replicators, Star Trek includes…
In the TNG pilot episode “Encounter at Farpoint,” when Data tells Riker he would gladly give up the abilities of an android to become human, Riker smiles and nicknames his new shipmate “Pinocchio.” The wooden puppet protagonist of the 1883…
Is it logical to believe in ghosts? For most of our favorite Star Trek characters, I imagine the answer would be no. Starfleet officers are scientists, and it’s part of the job not to believe anything without proof. On the…
Have you ever read an original novel and thought: Hey, that sounds like fanfiction – and meant it as a genuine compliment? If so, you may have been reading a little too much fanfiction (or not enough). Either way, this…
Is there any book less likely as a candidate for a Vulcan-run book club than A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? I can just imagine T’Pol’s unimpressed poker face. She would find his work moralistic, emotionally overwrought, and problematic in…
First of all, I’d like to thank fellow contributor Kerry Purvis, author of the original two entries in the T’Pol’s Book Club series, who gave me permission to use her formatting. Since Star Trek and literature are both examinations of…
Welcome, readers, to the second edition of T’Pol’s Book Club! For this meeting we will be discussing the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and comparing it to Star Trek episodes with similar storylines. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…
I recently finished watching Star Trek: Enterprise for the first time, and I was intrigued by a conversation in the episode “Horizon” between Trip and T’Pol. T’Pol is invited to go to movie night to see Frankenstein, but T’Pol does not…