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Lukas Kendall
Dec 24, 20221 min read
Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Third Season Triumph
The cable channel Heroes & Icons—aka “every old show from the CBS library, around the clock”—has rolled around to the top of Star Trek:...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 6, 20222 min read
R.I.P. Kirstie Alley
What a terrible shock: Kirstie Alley has died from cancer at 71. I was just rewatching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and marveling at...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 29, 20221 min read
The Cage Versions
The two-part Star Trek episode “The Menagerie” rolled around on H&I’s nightly Star Trek block. I watched the first part last night and...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 22, 20222 min read
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Screenplay
All ten of the “original” Star Trek (and Next Generation) films are on HBOMax, after having disappeared from Paramount+ in recent months....
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer
Today, November 17, is World Pancreatic Cancer Day (part of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month). You do not want to get pancreatic cancer....
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 30, 20221 min read
Nick Meyer on Composition
One of the fun things that happened in producing the FSM CDs was getting to meet writer and director Nicholas Meyer, when we released CDs...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 29, 20221 min read
Star Trek VI Recreation
Many thanks to everybody who reached about the out-of-print FSM CDs we are selling through Screen Archives—details yesterday. I’m always...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 26, 20221 min read
William Shatner Obscurities
Above: the last-known picture of William Shatner without his toupee! Sorry if this is mean-spirited. I think Bill can take it. It’s from...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Star Trek 4 Plot Gag Revealed
You may have seen various clickbait articles about the unmade Star Trek 4 script by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, now that the writers...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 4, 20223 min read
Star Trek V Re-Watch
I recently rewatched Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why? I don’t know. Mostly nostalgia. And curiosity for what I would think of it...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Star Trek: The Next Generation EPK
It’s the 35th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the two-hour pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint.” I previously...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 25, 20222 min read
Michael Piller 1994 Documentary
I’ve long been fascinated with Michael Piller, the writer/producer who came aboard a floundering Star Trek: The Next Generation in the...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 18, 20222 min read
ST:TMP Deleted Scenes, Part 2
Another deleted scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been teased online, from the new super-special-edition home video release....
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 9, 20221 min read
ST:TNG Cast on Early Talk Show
Check out this video find from our friends at the Post-Geek Singularity. (This is Rob Burnett and Mike Bawden’s site.) It’s the complete...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 8, 20221 min read
Star Trek’s 56th Birthday
Star Trek premiered on NBC 56 years ago. (Time for a colonoscopy, Star Trek!) I was, of course, not there. I was born in 1974. But wow...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 7, 20221 min read
ST:TMP Director’s Cut Deleted Scenes
This is cool—the new Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K Blu-ray has deleted scenes. Not just the same deleted scenes that we’ve seen in the...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 5, 20221 min read
John Anderson in Psycho
John Anderson, the wonderful Canadian actor who gave a great performance as the tormented alien in “The Survivors” in Star Trek: The Next...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 27, 20223 min read
The Roddenberry Archive
The big annual Creation Star Trek convention is going on this weekend in Las Vegas. Although I think they lost the Star Trek license so...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Outlander–Space Seed
This is sort of funny. My wife and I have been watching Outlander. We affectionately call it “Hunky and Chickie.” Good show. There seems...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 1, 20223 min read
Farewell to Nichelle Nichols
There has been a sea change in the cultural perceptions of black women the last 80 years. The default impression went from this... To...
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