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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...
Lukas Kendall
Oct 26, 20221 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...
Lukas Kendall
Oct 25, 20222 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...
Lukas Kendall
Oct 4, 20223 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 29, 20221 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 25, 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....
Lukas Kendall
Sep 18, 20222 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 9, 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 8, 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 7, 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...
Lukas Kendall
Sep 5, 20221 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...
Lukas Kendall
Aug 27, 20223 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...
Lukas Kendall
Aug 12, 20221 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...
Lukas Kendall
Aug 1, 20223 min read


The Secret of Star Trek
Yes, there is a secret to Star Trek, and I’ll tell you! (I first wrote about this at trekmovie in 2015.) Years ago I went to a panel...
Lukas Kendall
Jul 20, 20229 min read


ST:TNG Eric Stillwell Letters
My earliest screenwriting efforts came at the age of 16–17 when I wrote and submitted spec scripts to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I...
Lukas Kendall
Jul 4, 20224 min read


Gregory Jein 1945-2022
I was terribly saddened to hear the news that Gregory Jein had died. He was one of the greatest modelmakers of all time—with credits...
Lukas Kendall
Jun 28, 20222 min read


Star Trek III Reissue
Intrada is reissuing our Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 2CD set on June 14. I am glad. It was the highlight of my time at FSM to...
Lukas Kendall
Jun 8, 20223 min read


Wil Wheaton
Like most fans of my generation, I knew Wil Wheaton as the terrific star of Stand by Me, and was encouraged when he was announced in 1987...
Lukas Kendall
May 26, 20223 min read


Up the Long Ladder
I have a soft spot for this late-second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. It was the first time I really started to take...
Lukas Kendall
May 21, 20223 min read


Q Who (or Q Who?)
The all-time classic Next Generation episode “Q Who” rolled around again in the nightly airing of vintage Trek shows on the Heroes &...
Lukas Kendall
May 19, 20225 min read
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