Children Of The Comet "Also, M'hanit decrees you are all now named Blempuus ven Sclim. He demands you say your name!" "I really don't see how... " "WHY THIS IGNORANT HATRED OF OUR GOD, BLEMPUUS?" Computer, music. Genre: of the spheres.

Starstruck "I could always call up my holographic mess-hall chef. HAH! Oh, you kids. You kids have NO idea. Wow." Our second binary system in the second round of the second iteration of IDFC . Feels like something we should be doing something with, right? "Red Wunz Go Fasta!" When we covered Battle At The Binary Stars , we talked about how Michael risked being torn apart by the difficulty of trying to orbit two stellar bodies at the same time. "Starstruck", as the oldies say,

Envoys "The lightning will go back in the bottle if I have to PUT IT THERE MYSELF" A step back, a leap forward. Second Contact We talked ...

Our playground for the month In which two academics expand the boundaries of maths by expanding the boundaries of the Romulan Star...

Maps And Legends The Plastic Popular Front It still hurts to think about. All that potential wasted. With Discovery abandoning the true...

Battle At The Binary Stars TFW Head Office is calling, but the boss hasn't come back from his bathroom break Ladies, gentlemen, and those...

Strange New Worlds Snow in April. Wait, no. Strange New Worlds is almost certainly unique in the history of television. This is probably...

Those of you in America (or with deep pockets for an import) might be interested in the latest book from ATB Publishing; Outside In Can...

Lost And Found "You have nothing to lose but your chains, and your lazy assumptions of gender!" The scenery's unfamiliar, but we're...

Some of you may already be aware that, when I'm not writing about Trek , I'm an teaching-focussed academic. Occasionally, these two...

Second Contact A dynamic is ESTABLISHED. A Star Trek situation comedy? You must be joking. Laugh Trek Writing up Lower Decks is going...

Empires of the suns Once more we MATHS! I mean, sort of. Broadly. The Boom; Where It Happens This post is brought to you by the number...

On the off chance you haven't noticed - it seems to keep floating at the top of the blog - the IDFC shop is finally open for business!...

Remembrance Of COURSE we're starting with a dog photo Picard offers us something new in its lack of newness. To one extent or another,...

The Vulcan Hello "Captain, we have Admiral Whitesplain on Channel 7" Alright! Let's give this another go. Long-Range Sensors In...

The first IDFC book approaches! (Artwork by @ harrysaxon.bsky.social ) That's right! A mere - checks dates - Jesus , a mere two and half...

So. It's been precisely three years since this blog debuted, and just over two since my last post. Time for an update. I've not been...

So! What did we learn? Let's start by answering that narrowly, by turning to the results. Deep Space Nine has been undergoing a welcome...

The Original Series Season 1 Retrospective Well, this is a bit of a thing. Six years past, back when I first had the ludicrous idea to...

Operation -- Annihilate! It was in 2021 that my sister emigrated to Canada, to continue her research career in a small Ontarian...