Two Actresses, One Borg Queen
Ready to settle the debate over
which actress best portrayed the Borg Queen? Neither are we.
But that's not stopping us from wading into the debate. Full
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Then, Voyager
Our Voyager Retrospective takes
a look at the ship's bumpy seven year trip home. Full
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Survive Her
One of the hallmarks of a show that
has gotten just a little too old for its own good is the introduction of
outrageous, bizarre, or merely out of character plot twists which work
retroactively to change what we know about an established character-- to
suddenly try and make the audience think that maybe we didn't really know
them as well as we thought after all. Full
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Captain's Holiday?
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It all sounded good.
It seemed that Ken Biller's tenure as show-runner of Voyager would
be marked by a renewed emphasis on neglected character arcs. To wit,
the writing staff has promised to address Kim's rank in an episode in which
he becomes Captain of an alien vessel; to run with the long ignored Torres-Paris
relationship; Torres' own feelings about her Klingon heritage-- even the
long subdued, but simmering Doctor-Seven of Nine attraction. Full
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Star Trek News Celebrates Its Pathetic
Fourth Anniversary
On July 20 1996, STAR TREK News
first opened its doors. When it began, it was a pathetic little site
run by a person who had little idea what he was doing and who had little,
if any, real grasp of HTML.
In the ensuing four years,
not much has changed. This site plugs on in its own sad little way,
really just a cover for my continuing, and increasingly desperate attempts
to elicit personal praise and attention from other people. Full
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Farewell to Arms
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After six and a half years in first-run
syndication, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine leaves the air in a two-hour
final episode entitled "What You Leave Behind" airing at the end of May. |
It may not be fair to evaluate
the legacy left behind of this series: after all-- it hasn't even concluded
yet-- however, as a series, DS9 leaves behind much
that is already ripe for analysis.
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Behind the Roddenberrys
Since 1997, this site has held its
annual Roddenberry Awards each summer, recognizing the best performances,
scripts, direction, effects, design and episodes from Deep Space Nine,
Voyager and the Star Trek films.
At first, they were concieved
as an elaborate poll with a little bit more formality than the typical
poll where you select your choice and get an instant
result. For one, it was intended to mimic popular real-life awards
like the Academy Awards and the Emmys. And why not? With two
shows on the air (and a movie every two years), Trek was producing at the
very least, somewhere around 52 hours of entertainment each year. Full
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What Will HAPPEN.
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JANEWAY
Can Kathryn Janeway get her crew
home back to the Alpha Quadrant by the end of the season... and will she
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SEVEN
OF NINE
Will Seven ever be able to completely
sever her ties to the Collective and can Voyager's wild child survive on
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Voyager Season Five Writer Round
Up
So many new writers, so little experience.
We hedge our bets about who will thrive. Full
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Voyager Frequently Asked Questions
Guide
Things you know we know you want
to know.
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DS9 Mid-Fifth Season Analysis
It's Never Too Early To Start Analyzing
The Season!
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Voyager 1997 In Review
Our annual round up of the year's
best and worst episode brings up a surprising list of candidates.
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DS9 1997 In Review
An analysis of the year in episodes.
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Voyager 1998 In Review
A round up of episodes that make
up the latter half of the fourth and early fifth seasons. Full
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Star Trek's
Social Commentaries at the Crossroads
The seventh
season of Voyager behaved as the most social activist in recent
Trek memory. Good thing, or good riddance? Star Trek
has a history of its social commentary stories, but is it time to finally
give them up? The seventh season had a plethora of examples of how
much, and how little, Trek's social commentaries have changed in
three decades. Do social commentaries have a place in Trek anymore?
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Bujoldly Go
Genevieve Bujold Syndrome?
Do the Scott Bakula Series V negotiations remind you of anything?
They should. Are the lessons of Voyager's shaky start being ignored?
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Is the New Enterprise Crew Spliced?
Is Archer
just Captain Johnway? Did the EMH choose the name 'Phlox'?
Did Seven's implants sprout pointy ears? Have the Suliban spliced
the crew from Treks past? Full
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The Millennium Gate Comes To Portage
Creek
The events of the Star Trek:
Voyager episode "11:59" between December 28 to December 31, 2000 are
recapped from the possible perspective of the local newspaper in Portage
Creek, the place where the Millennium Gate is built, and where Kathryn
Janeway's ancestors meet.
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Summary Judgement
Capsule Reviews of the first bunch
of episodes from Voyager's seventh season. Full
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Trek Or Treat?
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Sure, almost every show on the air
takes time out to have one of those very special holiday shows. But they
usually focus on Christmas. And while |
gift giving and family bonding all sound
nice, what most TV producers have not yet realized is that trickery and
scariness is what really plays well on TV. So while other
shows divert their resources in to Christmas episodes, Trek has been building
up a solid canon of Halloween worthy shows. Okay-- so there's only been
one overtly Halloween themed episode. But a closer examination proves that
there are many hours of Trek entertainment which make especially fitting
viewing at this joyous time of year.
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Trek Actors Move On
Blasting to a theater near you this
fall! The cast of a legendary sci-fi show is called into service
to save the galaxy once again while attending conventions
and meeting their devoted fans at
the same time!
While it's unlikely that
the remaining cast of Star Trek's Original Series will ever band together
again (unless to mutually promote each other's tell-all books), this
December, fans may nonetheless get the opportunity to live that fantasy
out vicariously through a group of characters when the movie Galaxy
Quest is released. Full
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A Dance With The Devil
Benjamin Sisko doesn’t have it easy.
His wife is dead, killed
by the Borg at Wolf 359, and he reluctantly takes command of a dilapidated
space station, writhing with the worst the galaxy has to offer: Bajoran
terrorists, irate Cardassian military officers, scheming Ferengi, and an
untested command staff. Commander Sisko doesn’t know
whether he can trust these people
in whose hands he must place his life. And, Captain Jean-Luc Picard,
formerly Locutus of Borg, assigns Benjamin Sisko command of Cardassian
space station Terok Nor, now designated Deep Space Nine, a waystation that
happens to be at the mouth of a stable wormhole (in which the Bajoran Prophets,
who make Sisko their Emissary, reside) to the dangerous Gamma Quadrant.
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Best of Trek Volume II Album Review
Just as phasers, warp drive and
the term "Beam me up, Scotty" have become some of Star Trek's cultural
references recognizable to even the most mainstream of audiences, another
easily identified Trek staple has, over the years, become Alexander Courage's
distinctive theme music of the original Star Trek series.
Courage's theme is one of those from classic TV shows where even the first
few chords can evoke an instant flash of nostalgia. Any TV show (much
less a franchise) would be lucky to produce one timeless, memorable piece
of music. Yet each of the ensuing Trek shows have become
associated with themes which are
almost tireless in their durability. Full
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Voyager Season Four Preview
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The hype, the rumors and controversy
that promises to make this season of Voyager a real departure.
Seven of Nine: Her splashy
introduction brought Voyager not only to the top of the heap of Star Trek
headlines, but those of the mainstream media as well.
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Learn How To Create Your Own Star
Trek 9 Rumors!
These days, it seems that the one
sure fire way to gain celebrity for yourself and attention for your site
is to claim you have insider info on the next Star Trek movie. In light
of that fact, and the fact that people hideously mishandling their "news",
I've decided that if we are going to have to be exposed to these rumors
for the next two or three years, I may as well teach people how to do it
right. No more transparent attempts: I am going to teach you how to make
your very own Star Trek IX rumors seem credible. It's fun, and easy
too! Full
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