In which I ramble on about “Encounter at Farpoint”, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and a woman building a TARDIS.
Category Archives: Star Trek
Treadmill Review: The Trouble with Tribbles
From an episode that wanted to be taken seriously but kinda failed to make the grade, we shift to an episode that was always intended to be silly, one of Star Trek‘s few deliberate stabs at comedy: David Gerrold’s “The Trouble with Tribbles”.
Treadmill Review: Star Trek: “Day of the Dove”
A couple of times a week, not really often enough, I walk a three-mile course on the treadmill. This is not very exciting by itself, so I generally use the time to watch or rewatch something. Tonight, it was the last significant Klingon episode of Classic Trek, Jerome Bixby’s “Day of the Dove”. This is …
iPad: The Other Side of the Coin
Since my friend Richard was kind enough to refer people my way before writing his well-thought out refutation of my iPad/Star Trek article, it’s only fair that I refer you back to said refutation.
Followup: iPad: The Star Trek Use Case
[Original article] Several of you have pointed out to me that I’m not the only one who has noticed the resemblance between Apple’s impending device and Star Trek‘s ubiquitous portable data thingummies. Gizmodo points out there will be an app for that…
iPad: The Star Trek Use Case
Star Trek is, of course, a world full of ubiquitous computing, although it’s rarely portrayed in those terms exactly. We see communicators, tricorders, flat-panel displays everywhere…and, for portable information access and messaging, the PADD. Of course, these are really all just non-functional props. But the ideas behind them have long-since fired the imagination of real-world …
Star Trek Online–Second Impressions
[This was begun before the release; hence the now slightly outdated time reference] With the release of Star Trek Online due tomorrow, we’re currently working through the Head Start period. This is the second phase of “bonus” time for pre-order cusotmers, the first being the Open Beta period that ended on 26 January. The good …
Star Trek Online Open Beta Impressions
From the day I first heard they were going to do a Star Trek-based MMO, I knew two things: firstly, that whoever dared attempt such a thing was extremely brave; and secondly, that I would almost certainly be plunking down my cash to see how it came out. Because, let’s face it: while I’ve gone …