Ric Crossman

Kids These Days Frontispiece: A woman sits in a chair ( SFA , "Kids These Days) Foreword Welcome to this book, which we believe to be the first study companion to Starfleet Academy. Written by an expert in the field of interpreting both text and context, we are confident you will find this a valuable resource to accompany any and all academic courses relating to the adventures of the academy's students and faculty. We hope you find the reading of this book as stimulating and...

(A quick note before we get started: if you've been enjoying my Starfleet Academy reviews, you might be interested to know that I've been hard at work writing the first season up as full IDFC essays. The first of these, on "Kids These Days", will be up Wednesday 1st April, which is an amazingly funny date considering it'll be the first time I put an episode essay up outside of the established blog order.) Spoilers below OK. There we go. I put some effort ahead of "Rubincon" into getting in...

Spoilers below So, in this week’s recognition that a reviewer must consider the place they’re coming from: ten minutes into “300th Night” I sat on and crushed my glasses, while trying to wrestle my dog into position for us to spray antiseptic onto his backside. This has not  put me in a terribly good mood. This might be why “300th Night” didn’t really work for me. I don’t think that’s true, though. There’s too many other reasons I can think of. A helpful metric I use when thinking about where...