A Star Trek V Audio Commentary & A Brief Note About William Shatner

My cousin has been going through a rewatch of the Star Trek movies lately, and he asked me to do a special thing since I’m someone who actually likes Star Trek V.

“At Least You Have to Admit That…”

One of my least favorite argument tactics.

Positively Fan Street

Postulating on fan behavior through the lens of Van Halen changing their lead singer 35 years ago.

Is It Time to Remake The Godfather Part III?

I decided to examine it as a symptom of a very troubling and lazy trend. The trend of franchise reboots by erasing previous continuity, but retaining the mythology of at least one of its predecessors.

Could #Sybok Have Stopped #Thanos? #AvengersInfinityWar #AvengersEndgame

This is one of those posts that I know, in my heart of hearts, only I could have written.

Dear Disney, Please Remake The Black Hole

As Disney®™© continues to delve into their archives for things to regurgitate on the masses, there’s one that cries out for a loving remake. It’s a film that cried out for a longer production timeline and bigger budget at the time, as it was rushed to production to compete in a changing market. I’m neither […]

A Reply to “The Happy Borg”

I take issue with this reply simply because, if anything, the Borg came to be known by their core inconsistencies.

Why Doesn’t the Federation in Star Trek Use More Robots?

On this week’s Words With Nerds, set to release a couple days after this post, we ponder a question to which I’ve never gotten a satisfactory answer, and which puzzles me constantly. Why doesn’t the Federation in Star Trek use more robots? The driver of the question is really the casualty rate in the respective […]

Could Sybok Have Saved Darth Vader?

Could Sybok have alleviated Darth Vader of his pain and guide him back to the Light Side?

The Immutable Impermanence of Character Trivia: The Corollary Argument to The Perpetual Reboot Theory

This is a counterpoint to the idea that Craig contended that what was once true for a comic book character is what was always true, until it is specifically contradicted.

The Last Movie

Is this all an argument against watching bad movies since, theoretically, each one could be the last one you see?

How Star Trek V Enhances Star Trek IV

In my endless quest to review Star Trek V: The Final Frontier into a respectable place in the franchise, I realized something. Our introduction to Sybok, Spock’s estranged half-brother long ago banished for eschewing logic to pursue emotional enlightenment, enhances a pivotal moment in its predecessor. In fact, it enhances Spock’s entire arc in Star […]

Hot Wookiee Love

On the February 20, 2014 episode of Words With Nerds, I posited an ethical question rooted in Star Wars, the answer to which may carry implications for all of sci-fi, really. Is it bestiality to make love to a Wookiee? I suspect the initial response around the table would be an emphatic “no!” While I’m […]