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3.1 Mellow Submarine
The Next Generation Season 1 Retrospective The bad - if hardly new - news: the first season of TNG really doesn't work. The good - if...
Ric Crossman
Jun 7, 202210 min read
6.1.25 "...All Your Desperate Displays"
Shockwave, Part 1 Our creation had strode out into the world. Which is to say both that it had legs, and that it lived. But much can live...
Ric Crossman
Jun 5, 202211 min read
3.1.25 Who Do You Think You Are?
The Neutral Zone A look back at how we've reached this point. "You Would Have Left One Of Your Own Kind To Die" "The Neutral Zone" is one...
Ric Crossman
Jun 2, 202210 min read
1.1.25 Animal, Vulcan, Mineral
The Devil In The Dark Back when I wrote up "Space Seed", I complained about the difficulty inherent in writing up an episode which is...
Ric Crossman
May 31, 202213 min read
6.1.24 Court Martial, J Archer, Cpt, 18-19-22, 1.8.2152 - Expert Testimony (Bonus Post)
Summary We present below copies of the expert mathematical testimonies from Professors Field and T'Mont, submitted to the court martial...
Ric Crossman
May 29, 202216 min read
6.1.24 The Weekenders
Two Days And Two Nights Today I tutor you in Trek's taxonomy of travel. Its list of leisure labels. The holiday-makers guide to the...
Ric Crossman
May 26, 202211 min read
3.1.24 The Replacement Killers
Conspiracy Oh, it's you! For a moment I was worried it might be... well, that doesn't matter now, I'm sure. Take a seat, while I fix you...
Ric Crossman
May 24, 202226 min read
1.1.24 The Spore Drive
This Side Of Paradise (My thanks to friend of the blog and friend of the me @hammard_1987 for steering me round the sharp corners of...
Ric Crossman
May 22, 202216 min read
6.1.23 "...Our Feathers In The Wings Of The Final Songs"
Desert Crossing So here’s a fun little paradox. A story that’s fascinating in the ways by which it fails to be interesting. Trade Secrets...
Ric Crossman
May 19, 202212 min read
3.1.23 "...If I Was In LA"
We'll Always Have Paris Here at last. Endgame "We'll Always Have Paris" is an episode with special significance when it comes to IDFC,...
Ric Crossman
May 17, 202211 min read
1.1.23 "...And I Feel Fine"
A Taste Of Armageddon Another handful of footfalls into a wider and more interesting galaxy. First Impressions It’s one of those...
Ric Crossman
May 15, 202213 min read
6.1.22 Sad Ambassador
Fallen Hero Well, this is nice. To Reiterate... “Fallen Hero” continues an approach Enterprise introduced with “Vox Sola” last episode...
Ric Crossman
May 12, 202211 min read
3.1.22 "This First Parting There Was Among Us"
Skin Of Evil “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”- Victor Hugo The Swan On Its Song This is another of those episodes...
Ric Crossman
May 10, 202216 min read
1.1.22 Me Sowing/Me Reaping
Space Seed Time to slay a sacred cow. Or perhaps it might be appropriate to say, time to topple a graven image. Tough on fascism, tough...
Ric Crossman
May 8, 202224 min read
6.1.21 Unlike Steve McQueen
Vox Sola “Vox Sola” feels somewhat modest in its ambitions, especially after watching “Return Of The Archons”, which rewrote the book on...
Ric Crossman
May 5, 20229 min read
3.1.21 The Solar System Cannot Be Reformed
Symbiosis It’s probably safe to assume that just about everyone reading this post knows that the Federation is a post-money society. The...
Ric Crossman
May 3, 202217 min read
1.1.21 "...They Do Things Differently There"
Return Of The Archons “Return Of The Archons” was an episode with an unusually long gestation period. Originally, it was in the running...
Ric Crossman
May 1, 202212 min read
6.1.20 All Hail West Texas
Detained This is the episode in which Enterprise does the inevitable, and references Quantum Leap. It does so in three ways. It casts...
Ric Crossman
Apr 28, 202215 min read
3.1.20 "Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons"
The Arsenal Of Freedom What happens when the gun-runners run out of track? Women What Work “The Arsenal Of Freedom” adds to the growing...
Ric Crossman
Apr 26, 202212 min read
1.1.20 The Tell-Tale Heart
Court Martial “Court Martial” is something of a mess. Production Trials That’s a statement of fact, rather than a value judgment. I’m a...
Ric Crossman
Apr 24, 202217 min read
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