Tag: Star Trek

‘Strange New Worlds’ is fun! The Original Series? Not so much

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I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was a boy in the 1980s, but I learned more about Jim Kirk in the July 20 episode of Strange New Worlds (“Lost in Translation") than I did in all three seasons of the original series. I shouldn't be surprised about this. Like most hack television series … Continue reading ‘Strange New Worlds’ is fun! The Original Series? Not so much

A Close Reading of Star Trek’s ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’

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When I was kid, watching syndicated reruns of original series Star Trek episodes on Saturday afternoon with my dad, I thought the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” which first aired on Sept. 22, 1966, was the best episode of the series. But as an adult, I see the episode very differently now. In … Continue reading A Close Reading of Star Trek’s ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’