Gold Keys Comics continued its Star Trek adventures, with The Flight of the Buccaneer, its twelfth issue, which hit comic spinners for November of 1971. Len Wein once again served as the storyteller, Alberto Giolitti continued to work as artist, and George Wilson painted another cover. This one ends up just being a silly pirate…
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Farscape (1999) – The Flax, and Jeremiah Crichton
Aeryn (Claudia Black) and Crichton (Ben Browder) find themselves trapped in a something called the Flax, while teaching Crichton to fly the shuttle. And trouble brews aboard Moya with the arrival of a garbologist named Staanz (Rhys Muldoon). The Flax was written by Justin Monjo and it first aired on 16 July, 1999. The flax…
Galactica 1980 (1980) – The Super Scouts: Part II, and Spaceball
As the children fall ill, Troy (Kent McCord) and Dillon (Barry Van Dyke) develop a risky plan to save them, and show the chemical company responsible for the pollution, represented by Stockton (Mike Kellin) the folly of his ways. The Super Scouts: Part II aired on 23 March, 1980 and was written by series creator…
Enemy Mine (1985) – Wolfgang Petersen
Enemy Mine, from director Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr., looks like a 50s era sci-fi film (particularly the model work and space suits) but it’s message of prejudice, hate, and race war, is as relevant today (and arguably more so) than it was when it was made. Feeling like a…
The X-Files (1996) – Quagmire, and Wetwired
Kim Newton takes on one of my favourite subjects in this week’s X-files, the episode features some additional work by Darin Morgan and brings lake monsters into the realm of our two FBI agents, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). The episode first debuted on 3 May, 1996, and featured the final appearance of…
Star Wars: Rebels (2016) – Homecoming, The Honorable Ones, and Shroud of Darkness
Hera (Vanessa Marshall) heads back to her home world of Ryloth with the Ghost crew in Homecoming. Steven Melching penned this episode which first debuted on 17 February, 2016. Arriving home leads to the inevitable confrontation with Hera’s father, Cham Syndulla (Robin Atkin Downes) who was first introduced in The Clone Wars. We also catch…
Star Trek: Enterprise (2002) – Two Days and Two Nights, and Shockwave
Captain’s log: 18 February, 2152 Micheal Dorn directs this episode that was written by Chris Black from a story by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It debuted on 15 May, 2002, and sees the crew of the Enterprise finally arrive at Risa. We follow a couple of stories for those who get shore leave, Trip…
Star Trek: Voyager (1999) – Gravity, and Bliss
Captain’s log: stardate 52438.9 Nick Sagan and Bryan Fuller penned the teleplay for this episode from a story by Jimmy Diggs, Sagan and Fuller. It first debuted on 3 February, 1999. When Tuvok (Tim Russ), Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) and the Doctor (Robert Picardo) crash land on a planet that lays within a temporal anomaly,…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1998) -Waltz, and Who Mourns for Morn?
Station log: stardate 51408.6 Ronald D. Moore pens this episode that first aired on 8 January, 1998. Captain Sisko (Avery Books) is on assignment, escorting Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) to trial, for war crimes during the course of the ongoing Dominion War. Dukat is a changed man, he’s lost control of his empire, been ousted…
Star Trek: Voyager (1997) – Day of Honor, and Nemesis
Captain’s log: stardate unknown Airing on 17 September, 1997, Day of Honor, written by Jeri Taylor, did a lot to advance the B’Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) – Tom Paris (Robert Duncan MacNeill) storyline. Never one to celebrate Klingon tradition, Torres is ready to forget the whole thing, Her day gets more complicated when the Voyager’s…
The Mind Reels 