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How To Abbreviate A Star Trek Subtitle

September 10, 2026

What’s the proper way to abbreviate a Star Trek series title? It sounds like a trivial question until you discover just how strongly people disagree about...

Star Trek vs The West Wing

September 4, 2026

How many of you have thought to compare these two series, The West Wing and Star Trek: The Next Generation? For me, the similarities are too big to ignore...

Solving Star Trek's Time Travel Problem

August 31, 2026

Star Trek has a massive time travel problem. Across 60+ episodes and films, time travel forms the main through-line of the plot. And yet, not a scrap of it...

The Fourth Death Of Star Trek

July 16, 2026

Afternoon! I've taken some time to write about what may come next for the Star Trek franchise. And I've based that soothsaying on what has come before....

Brand New TREKSPERTISE! - "The Sanctuary Prophecy"

May 2, 2026

Greetings! A new video essay is out: The Sanctuary Prophecy. It’s a deep dive into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense”— a story that feels less like...

New Short Fil: "The Speech"

October 31, 2025

We are finally showing off our strange, little homage to Shakespeare's famous St. Crispin's Day Speech, filmed way back in the height of the COVID-19...

Dragon Con 2025

August 23, 2025

Howdy, all!I will be at Dragon Con this year, down on the Trek Track. If you are around, swing by and see my presentations.

We've Found A New Newsletter Home!

January 3, 2024

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