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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… rules for naming your characters

With NaNoWriMo just around the corner, I'm sure many of the writers in the crowd are working up their outlines and prepping for the marathon task of writing at least 1667 words per day through [...]

By |October 25th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… things The Orville did better than Star Trek: Discovery

I am, as you know by now, an enormous Star Trek fan. When I heard that Bryan Fuller was attached to a new Trek series, I had hopes. And then the studios ground up and [...]

By |October 11th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|3 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 BEST… things I found while packing for my upcoming move

My family is moving to a new house in two days, and when you move, you have to pack. When you pack, you find things that you'd forgotten even exist. When my wife went through [...]

By |June 21st, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… lessons learned from the things in my cubicle

I work in a cubicle. It's an open cubicle, so I'm not isolated or anything, but it's still a cubicle. I sit here for about nine hours a day, minus meetings. So of course I'm [...]

By |May 24th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|0 Comments

SIX OF THE BEST… methods of faster-than-light travel

Depending upon what your favorite sci-fi universe is, you probably have a different mental picture of what faster-than-light travel looks like. I've read and seen a lot of sci-fi over the years, so I think [...]

By |March 8th, 2017|Six of the Best/Worst|1 Comment