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SIX OF THE WORST… Star Trek: the Next Generation episodes so bad that I couldn’t let my daughter watch them

Star Trek: The Next Generation was, in general, a really good show. However, there were a few episodes that I just cannot condone showing to my daughter. Here's six of the worst of them. [...]

By |December 6th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… Star Trek: The Next Generation season seven episodes, according to my daughter

My daughter and I recently finished watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (my wife joined us for a good chunk of it too), and I figured I would squeeze a couple of columns out of [...]

By |November 29th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… TNG episodes, part 2

I can tell I was starting to lose my momentum in this 30th-anniversary celebration because, in my notes, I wrote "write something here". Honestly, writing four columns in a row is tough (I wrote them [...]

By |September 27th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… TNG episodes, part 1

This post doesn't need much introduction. I mean, what would a 30th-anniversary celebration of TNG be without a top episodes list? Here's the first part of mine. 12. Conundrum (5.14) -- An alien race looking [...]

By |September 20th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… recurring characters on TNG

It's time for part two of our TNG 30th Anniversary celebration. Today we're talking about guest stars. One of the great things about most TV shows is that there's the one recurring character who you [...]

By |September 13th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE WORST… TNG misfires

Welcome, my friends, to the 30th anniversary celebration of Star Trek: The Next Generation. While it's not the original, it became a worthy successor and spawned multiple spinoffs while enriching the original canon. For a [...]

By |September 6th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE WORST… even-numbered Star Trek films

It's generally accepted that the even-numbered Star Trek films are the best of the bunch. But as we approach Star Trek 13*, I've been staring at my two-disc DVD versions of each of the first [...]

By |February 4th, 2015|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… Star Trek AU beards

Okay, let me explain how I came up with this: back on September 4, I tweeted a link to Dion Beary playing every Mumford And Sons song. Mr. Beary has a beard. There's a band [...]

By |September 24th, 2014|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… secret sex scenes in Star Trek novels

I started reading Star Trek tie-in novels in the mid-80s. My dad hurt his foot badly and was in the hospital; my mom picked me and my sister up from camp and took us to [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… nerdy tumblrs

I got into Tumblr in late 2008. I'm not sure how I found it, but once I did, there was no stopping me. I now have twelve different tumblrs, all of them for different subjects, [...]

By |May 7th, 2014|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments