I decided to lighten it up a bit now that I’ve finished Miami Vice, and I definitely wanted to dig into another classic 80s series. I remember only seeing a couple of Moonlighting episodes when it originally aired, and of course, the pilot when it was released to home video as a feature length film….
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – To the Death, and The Quickening
Station log: stardate 49904.2 LeVar Burton directs this episode with a script by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. It first debuted on 13 May, 1996. A devastating attack by Jem’Hadar renegades destroys one of the station’s docking pylons in a raid, and Sisko (Avery Brooks) leads his crew aboard the Defiant in pursuit….
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) – Rules of Acquisition, and Necessary Evil
Station log: stardate unknown Ira Steven Behr pens this episode from a story by Hilary Bader that first aired on 17 November, 1993. Pel (Helene Udy) is a Ferengi who has arrived on the station to serve in negotiations between the Ferengi Alliance and civilisations in the Gamma Quadrant. Pel, however, is a female posing…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – Unnatural Selection, and A Matter of Honor
Captain’s log: stardate 42494.8 Unnatural Selection made it’s debut on 20 January, 1989. Written by John Mason and and Mike Gray, the story puts the ship’s new doctor, Pulaski (Diana Muldaur) on centre stage, as the Enterprise responds to a distress signal from the starship, Lantree. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew investigate, as Pulaski…
The Terminator (1984) – James Cameron
I do love a story that involves some temporal mechanics, and this one always pleases. Yes, T2 is arguably the better and stronger film, but you wouldn’t have T2 without this first film, which I was happy to revisit on the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list. Cameron did a lot of model work and visual effects for various science…
The Mind Reels 