So I have finally gotten around to seeing all of the episodes of Enterprise (good thing there were only four seasons), and I thought that this would be a good time to put in my Top 10 list. Enterprise is my third favorite series, and I will admit it was very slow to grow on [...]
OK, so I wasn’t talking about my novel necessarily (although it would be nice if it had that kind of influence). I was referring to the return of the Star Trek franchise in general. In one of my first posts, I posed the question whether or not the TNG universe could be salvaged. J.J. Abrahms [...]
In one of my earlier posts, I explained how I was skeptical that a replicator could give you ‘anything you wanted out of thin air’ without a substantial energy requirement. As marvelous a piece of technology that the replicator was, it seemed to empower the crew with too much. For too long, Star Trek has [...]
I always thought it a shame the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine never reached the mass audience that TNG had. I have my theories as to why it had trouble sustaining viewership, but I will save that for another post. I understand that the first two seasons were rather slow, but by the fifth season, [...]
I thought I’d give out my favorite ST:TNG episodes that I’d grown to love since I was young, all of which probably influenced the direction of my novel in some way. It’s hard to believe that this series ended seventeen years ago, yet I still see blogs today highlighting favorite TNG episodes. Today, I [...]
One of Star Trek’s neat little technologies includes the replicator, a device that can make almost anything with a known molecular structure “out of thin air.” This means that people in this universe can make theoretically anything that they want out of pure energy, which plays an important role in Star Trek’s moneyless economy. This [...]
Jake: ”I’m Human, I don’t have any money.” Nog: ”It’s not my fault that your species decided to abandon currency-based economics in favor of some philosophy of self-enhancement.” Jake: ”Hey, watch it. There’s nothing wrong with our philosophy. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” Nog: ”What does that mean exactly?” Jake: ”It [...]
We all miss Star Trek. When I was a little kid, Star Trek: The Next Generation series had just begun, I was completely enthralled. The idea of a holodeck, voice-activated computers, and walking/talking androids completely captured me. I continued to love Star Trek when Deep Space Nine launched in 1993. I appreciated the creative direction [...]
How Becoming a Scientist Has Screwed Me Forever The term “science-fiction” (or sci-fi) is a little unusual relative to the other categories of fiction, like romance, or horror, or drama. All “science-fiction” really says is that it is a story that has some root in scientific fact. Wikipedia defines it as a story that has [...]