Imagine if NBC had picked up the original pilot of Star Trek. Any Trekkie worth his salt has seen the hour-long episode that canonically takes place 13 years before the original series. The casting and characterization are the main differences between the pilot and the actual show. The hot young captain in this episode isn’t …
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Star Trek: Section 31 is coming out in January, and if you know anything about January releases, you know what that means. It’s probably not going to be in contention for any Oscars, nor could it be, because it’s getting released on Paramount+. The intersection of made-for-streaming movies and early-year releases proves that nobody wants …
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Star Trek is one of the only TV shows from the 60s that people are still regularly rewatching. I’m not saying that The Beverly Hillbillies wasn’t an incredible piece of television, but they’re not making Beverly Hillbilly TV shows on Paramount+ to this day. The 90s might’ve seen the reassurance of ’60s TV by reviving The …
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Star Trek is one of the oldest fandoms in the world. People have been making fanzines and fanfiction inspired by the series since the 60s, and all different iterations of Star Trek have made incredible meme fodder since the invention of the internet meme. The two Patrick Stewart image macros are obviously the most famous …
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I think the reason that Kirk and Spock work so well as a pair is that they’re a classic example of literary foils. For those of you who need a brush up on English class,  «In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the …
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Star Trek memes are some of the oldest memes in the book. I don’t know about y’all, but Annoyed Picard was one of the first memes that came into my line of sight in 2012. It was such a perfect vehicle for expressing all of the grievances you might’ve had. The meme came from the …
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Listen, I know that we missed Star Trek Day last week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate the holiday! On September 8th, 1966, the first episode of Star Trek aired, and it’s been entertaining fans ever since. The celebration of Star Trek Day only began in 2020, which is strange because annoying people …
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Learning Klingon sounds like it’d be super fun, but it is kind of impossible in practice. One of the most critical parts of learning a language is conversing with native speakers. Unless there is a child who was raised in impossibly rare circumstances, there are no native speakers of Klingon. In 2009, it was predicted …
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Happy belated Labor Day, Trekkies! I hope you had a fabulous day off binging Star Trek instead of working at your non-Starship Enterprise workplace. Star Trek has a couple of episodes that depict labor unions, mostly in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In the episode Bar Association, labor unions were banned and seriously punishable in …
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Halloween is closer than you think it is. I don’t want to be controversial, but I think dressing up as a Star Trek character is one of the easiest things you can do for Halloween. I guess it could either be the most basic costume or the most difficult and involved one, depending on which …
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