DC’s take on Star Trek hit comic racks with its ‘1st star-spanning collector’s issue!’ in time for February of 1984. Set after the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, I know we’ll get a few issues before Star Trek III comes along. The first issue, The Wormhole Connection, was written by Mike…
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
I leave the Gold Key Treks behind… I know there are more issues to get through, but I don’t have them all yet. So it’s time to boldly go forward with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Sadly, this will be my only entry in the Marvel Comics version of Star Trek. As of this date,…
Stargate: Atlantis (2008) – Search and Rescue, and The Seed
The fifth and final season of Stargate: Atlantis got underway on 11 July, 2008. Written by Martin Gero the story finds Atlantis engineers working to free Ronon (Jason Momoa), Sheppard (Joe Flanigan), McKay (David Hewlett) and Lorne (Kavan Smith) from the building collpse that gave us the ending of the previous season. But Michael (Connor…
Stargate: Atlantis (2007) – Adrift, and Lifeline
Atlantis is right where we left her at the end of season three, stranded in space, a damaged ZPM, and decreasing odds of survival. Adrift opened season four on 28 September, 2007. It was written by Martin Gero. The pressure is on! McKay (David Hewlett) is trying to figure out a way to get the…
Stargate: Atlantis (2005) – The Siege: Part 3, and The Intruder
Things are pretty dire for the Atlantis Expedition. Ford (Rainbow Sun Francks) gets grabbed by a Wraith who is feeding on him when a grenade goes off and sends them both tumbling over the side into the distant ocean. Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) is on his suicide run, but is saved at the last moment, despite…
Greyhound (2020) – Aaron Schneider
Tom Hanks not only stars in this World War II naval thriller, but he also wrote the script, using the novel The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester to tell the tale of Captain Krause (Hanks) guiding a multi-national convoy of supplies and men across the Atlantic to England. There are fifty hours when the convoy…
Star Trek: Discovery – Fear Itself (2018) – James Swallow
Simon & Schuster send me back to the final frontier, where I boldly go to explore the third novel in the Discovery series, Fear Itself. This one made me feel like the series was back on track. As interesting an idea as the previous novel, Drastic Measures, was, it didn’t pull me in like Desperate…
M*A*S*H (1978) – Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde, Major Topper, and Commander Pierce
Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde is the ‘drugs are bad’ episode of M*A*S*H. Written by Ronny Graham, Ken Levine and David Isaacs, it first debuted on 27 February, 1978. The 4077th in the midst of an onslaught of patients, and everyone is doing there best to just survive, get through, and give their patients the…
Star Trek: Doctor’s Orders (1990) – Diane Duane
Doctor McCoy has to take over the center seat in the next Pocket Books Star Trek novel I dug into, Doctor’s Orders. Set during the original five year mission, the Enterprise has come to a remote planet known by the nickname, Flyspeck. There the crew learn of three different sentient species sharing the beautiful and…
Star Trek: The Pandora Principle (1990) – Carolyn Clowes
This week’s Star Trek book from Pocket Books was a story that I didn’t realize I needed. It’s set between the events of The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan during the second five year mission. We learn the backstory for Spock’s protégé Saavik, and how she was saved from a planet known as…
The Mind Reels 