Set during the original five year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Mel Gilden’s Trek novel is one I really enjoyed. He totally has the characters down, and not only could I hear the characters in my head, I could see everything in my mind’s eye playing out like an episode. Captain Kirk is less than…
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Star Trek: Short Treks (2019) – Q&A, The Trouble with Edward, Ask Not, Ephraim and Dot, and The Girl Who Made the Stars
Captain’s log: 2254 Micheal Chabon pens the first Short Trek of the second season. This short traps Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Spock (Ethan Peck) in a turbolift, shortly after the young science officer has joined the Enterprise crew – his first day in fact. Trapped together, the two slowly get to know one another….
Star Trek: Discovery (2019) – Such Sweet Sorrow Part 1 & 2
Captain’s log: stardate 1050.8 Time is running out as Leland (Alan van Sprang) as Control, and his fleet of Section 31 ships are closing in on the Discovery and the Enterprise, in this, the first part of the season two finale of Star Trek; Discovery. Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman, Such Sweet…
Star Trek: Discovery (2019) – Project Daedalus, and The Red Angel
Captain’s log: 2257 Jonathan Frakes returns to direct this episode that first aired on 14 March, 2019 and was written by Michelle Paradise. When members of the Discovery crew infiltrate a Section 31 station, Pike (Anson Mount) and the rest begin to fear they have a leak aboard ship. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Spock (Ethan…
Star Trek: Best Destiny (1992) – Diane Carey
Author Diane Carey pens a follow-up to her novel, The Final Frontier, as we head out into space again with Captain Robert April (a character I’ve quite grown to like through his appearances in The Animated Series, and the novels), of the U.S.S. Enterprise, George Kirk, and Kirk’s sixteen year old, problem-filled teen, Jimmy Kirk….
Star Trek: Discovery (2019) – Saints of Imperfection, and The Sound of Thunder
Captain’s log: stardate unknown Kirsten Beyer pens Saints of Imperfection which first aired on 14 February, 2019. What starts off as an episode that we think may finally deliver the goods and give us Spock (Ethan Peck) as Discovery has picked up the warp trail of his stolen shuttle, leads instead to an exploration of…
Star Trek: Short Treks (2018/2019) – Runaway, Calypso, The Brightest Star, and The Escape Artist
Captain’s log: 2257 I take on the first season of Short Treks this week which aired between the first and second season of Star Trek: Discovery, Featuring shorter tales, some that will have a direct effect on future episodes and events. The first episode, Runaway, lets Tilly (Mary Wiseman) have a bit of a moment…
Star Trek: Discovery (2018) – Will You Take My Hand?
Captain’s log: 2257 Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts write the teleplay for the first season finale of Star Trek: Discovery from a story by Berg, Harberts and Akiva Goldsman, who also directs. It first aired on 11 February, 2018, and ended with a moment that excited some fans, and infuriated others. With Georgiou (Michelle…
Star Trek: Discovery (2018) – What’s Past is Prologue, and The War Without, The War Within
Captain’s log: 1834.2 Ted Sullivan pens the next episode in the Mirror Universe arc of Discovery. It first debuted on 28 January, 2018. Lorca (Jason Isaacs), revealed to be a resident of the Mirror Universe continues to move forward with his coup against Emperor Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). This action forces Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) to come…
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) – The Vulcan Hello, and Battle at the Binary Stars
Captain’s log: stardate 1207.3 Bryan Fuller and Akiva Goldsman pen the teleplay for the series opener from a story developed by Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Disco premiered on 24 September, 2017, and the controversy began right away. The opening story is basic enough, setting up the premise, and reintroducing us to the pre-Kirk (by a…
Star Trek: Enterprise (2005) – Terra Prime, and These Are The Voyages…
Captain’s log: 22 January, 2155 The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Enterprise brings the Terra Prime two-parter to a close in this story written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Manny Coto, from a story developed by the Reeves-Stevens and Andre Bormanis. It debuted on 13 May, 2005. Paxton (Peter Weller) is holding the solar…
Star Trek: The Disinherited (1992) – Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger
The Human Adventure continues as I delve into another Star Trek novel, and revel in the storytelling that actually feels like an episode (or several) of The Original Series. Set during the original five year mission, the three authors work to craft a tale that works as a cohesive whole while giving us separate story…
