I always love my Trek, but there are times when I just cannot get enough of it. I’ve been listening to the scores, whistling Fred Steiner, watching Strange New Worlds, revisiting The Original Series, digging back into the novels, and it struck me… I haven’t really done much on the blog with the comics. So…
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Monday Musings – Boldly Going: My Life’s Journey to The Final Frontier
I can remember a time in my life before Star War and Star Trek. There’s a few years of my childhood in the 70s that were untouched by the pop culture events that would play such a huge part in my life. But when I finally ventured to the final frontier, I was drawn into…
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2019) – Becky Chambers
The last (for now) Becky Chambers book for me to read was her first. Again, it’s too short, but it hints at the wonders to come in her Wayfarer Series and Monk and Robot books. The story follows a foursome of Earth explorers as they explore strange new worlds. Well four of them anyway. And…
Toronto Comicon Weekend 2024
The weekend just took right off for those of us who went to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to get our geek on. Costumes galore as well as celebrities, collectibles, panels, and new and old friends. There’s always something to see at Comicon. As mentioned previously, this time the con was in the North Building,…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023) – Subspace Rhapsody, and Hegemony
Subspace Rhapsody does something that Star Trek has never done before, gives us a musical. With songs by Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley and Tom Polce and a script by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff this episode first debuted on 3 August, 2023. Sure, musicals aren’t everyone’s fare, but in a season that took some…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023) – Those Old Scientists, and Under the Cloak of War
Those Old Scientists is a massively entertaining episode that combines humour with some great character moments and gives us a crossover that fans had been hoping for. Not only does the episode incorporate characters from the animated series Lower Decks, it was also directed by Jonathan Frakes. The script was written by Kathryn Lyn and…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023) – Charades, and Lost in Translation
Spock (Ethan Peck) and Chapel (Jess Bush) are involved in an accident, and the aliens who caused it repair the shuttle, and the injured Spock, but his mixed DNA causes problems, so they use Chapel as the guideline, and make him human in Charades. Written by Kathryn Lyn and Henry Alonso Myers this episode debuted…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023) – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Among the Lotus Eaters
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow gives us a time travel story in the vein of The City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday, and Assignment: Earth. Written by David Reed, the episode first aired on 29 June, 2023. La’an (Christina Chong) is still trying to find her way back to the crew after…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023) – The Broken Circle, and Ad Astra Per Aspera
Season two of Strange New Worlds got underway with The Broken Circle. Written by Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman, the season got underway on 15 June, 2023. The Enterprise is docked at a starbase as Captain Pike (Anson Mount) goes off in search of someone who will be able to help Una (Rebecca Romijn)…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) – All Those Who Wander, and A Quality of Mercy
All Those Who Wander is the penultimate episode of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and it is determined to make the Gorn the scariest aliens in the Trek universe. Written by Davy Perez, this episode first aired on 30 June, 2022. The Enterprise, which is on a priority mission, receives another…
The Mind Reels 