Tag Archives: Star Trek

WordPress prompt just for laughs

Posted on March 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

I don’t usually respond to these prompts, but this seemed fun. First up, TV series: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. With the other Trek series, I generally pick and choose episodes. Yeah no, I’m not watching “Spock’s Brain”, “Code of … Continue reading →

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Blogging prompt: criticize your favorite

Posted on November 15, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is to criticize our favorite film, show, or book. Hmm… Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Strange New Worlds has rocked my world the last two years, and especially the last season. Although I’ve … Continue reading →

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Child of Two Worlds

Posted on October 24, 2023 by smellincoffee

The Enterprise is a plague ship enroute to an independent world for a rare medical ingredient when it answers a distress signal and things get…complicated. As in, this couldn’t be worse, could it? complicated, because the rescue creates a no-win … Continue reading →

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In Harm’s Way

Posted on October 23, 2023 by smellincoffee

Scarcely five days after the Enterprise barely escaped an encounter with a giant machine capable of devouring entire planets, a rattled Jim Kirk has another foul assignment land on his desk. A scientist has gone missing on a planet within … Continue reading →

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A life reading SF

Posted on October 5, 2023 by smellincoffee

It amuses me to think that there was a time — even when I was keeping this blog — where I steadfastly maintained that I wasn’t a science fiction reader, that I just liked Star Trek. Part of me even … Continue reading →

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The Autobiography of Cap’n Kate

Posted on September 21, 2023 by smellincoffee

I haven’t read any of the Autobiography books that Star Trek has been putting out in recent years, but when I spotted that Kate Mulgrew did the Audible version of this, I had to give it a try. I consistently … Continue reading →

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Living Memory

Posted on September 18, 2023 by smellincoffee

When Starfleet begins analyzing a series of disruptive and potentially dangerous flares in space, Commander Pavel Chekov realizes there’s a pattern: these flares mostly in places visited by the Enterprise on its five-year mission, albiet in reverse order — and … Continue reading →

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The High Country

Posted on September 15, 2023 by smellincoffee

All Chris Pike wanted to do was take a gander at a strange planet from Enterprise’s new shuttle, Eratosthenes. But then the laws of physics went AWOL, and he’s woken up to find himself living in…eh, the Old West? Well, … Continue reading →

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Star Trek Day: May the Spock Be With You

Posted on September 8, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today is Star Trek day, which I’m pretty sure is something Paramount made up to compete with May the Fourth. I’ve been a Trekkie since a trampoline accident landed me in a hospital for three weeks and I suddenly got … Continue reading →

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season II

Posted on August 31, 2023 by smellincoffee

No, Strange New Worlds is not a book. It is, in fact, a TV show. But I pay the bills ’round these parts, so I reckon’ I’ll write about what I want. The long dead period of onscreen Trek was … Continue reading →

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