The Human Adventure continues… I’ve mentioned before that when I was growing up in Bermuda, Trek books were a big thing for me. I would hit the local shops, tracking down novels as they were released, and hunting down ones I’d missed. I remember when this one came out, it was the third in the…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – Homefront, and Paradise Lost
Station log: stardate 49170.65 ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe pen this episode that first aired on 1 January, 1986. Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) returns to Earth after a terrorist bombing that occurs there is believed to have been the act of Changelings, which would mean the Dominion have completely infiltrated Starfleet, and pose…
Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – Maneuvers, and Resistance
Captain’s log: stardate 49208.5 Kenneth Biller penned this Chakotay (Robert Beltran) episode that first aired on 20 November, 1995. When the Voyager picks up a signal that is using Starfleet codes, they tumble right into a trap set by Seska (Martha Hackett) who after fleeing the starship has continued to align herself with the Kazon….
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – The Sword of Kahless, and Our Man Bashir
Station log: stardate unknown LeVar Burton directs this episode that was written by Hans Beimler from a story by Richard Danus. It first aired on 20 November, 1995. This Worf (Micheal Dorn) and Dax (Terry Farrell) story sees the two officers joined by Kor (John Colicos) as the search a remote planet in the Gamma…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Starship Down, and Little Green Men
Station log: stardate 49263.5 David Mack and John J. Ordover pen this episode that first premiered on 6 November, 1995. Inside a gas giant, Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) leads the Defiant crew on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with some Jem’Hadar ships that were attacking a Karemma ship.As the crew work to elude and outwit the…
Star Trek: Discovery (2018) – Blu-Ray
The most controversial incarnation of Star Trek has come to blu-ray as season one comes home from Paramount Pictures. Featuring a gorgeous picture and sound transfer, no matter where you stand on the show itself, it looks and sounds amazing. Set after Star Trek: Enterprise, and a decade before The Original Series this incarnation of…
Star Trek: Voyager (1995) -Parturition, and Persistence of Vision
Captain’s log: stardate 49068.5 Jonathan Frakes directs this episode that was written by Tom Szollosi that first aired on 9 October, 1995. This episode sees the Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) – Kes (Jennifer Lien) – Neelix (Ethan Phillips) triangle finally dealt with and put to rest. Tom begins to realize he has feelings for…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Indiscretion, and Rejoined
Station log: stardate unknown LeVar Burton directs this episode from a script by Nicholas Corea, from a story by Toni Marberty and Jack Trevino. It first aired on 23 October, 1995. Kira (Nana Visitor) and Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) go after a Cardassian freighter, the Ravinok, that disappeared six years ago. It served as a…
Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – Non Sequiter, and Twisted
Captain’s log: stardate 49011 Brannon Braga pens this Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) -centric episode that first aired on 25 September, 1995. Harry wakes up in San Francisco, never having been assigned to U.S.S. Voyager which is listed by Starfleet as missing and presumed lost. In San Francisco, Harry has been working on starship designs, but…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – The Visitor, and Hippocratic Oath
Station log: stardate unknown Micheal Taylor pens this exemplary episode that first aired on 9 October, 1995. Tony Todd plays an adult Jake Sisko as we find ourselves in a temporal tale that is one of the best of the series. A young writer, Melanie (Rachel Robinson) knocks on an elderly man’s door, and we…
The Mind Reels 