Star Wars Holiday Special GEts Documentary

For years I thought I’d imagined its existence but alas it was true. It did exist. Now it’s getting its day in the documentary sun. For decades, I remembered seeing bits and pieces of what I thought was a Christmas special that featured footage from Star Wars, such as I understood it as a 6-year-old child who […]

It’s a Date With Doctor Who

The release date for the first 60th anniversary special has been announced and I have some thoughts A couple of days ago, it was finally announced that the first of the three Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials would air on the BBC and drop on Disney+ on November 25th. The powers that be left it awfully late in […]

We Both Love Sci-Fi But Can’t Agree on What to Watch

The sometimes amusing Pitfalls of being in a Geeky partnership Photo by Jay on Unsplash How does a marriage between two people who have such varied tastes in speculative fiction work? Carefully my friend. I don’t love hard science fiction and my spouse does. I like things like Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Firefly, and Quantum Leap […]

Strange New Worlds and The Art of Autistic Masking

In episode Five of Season Two, Strange New Worlds’ Spock Leveled up in his autistic coding image via Unsplash Spoiler Alert: This essay contains spoilers for Strange New Worlds’ season two episode “Charades”. “Careful what you’re wishing for, cause when you gain, you just might lose.” — Joan Osborne, from the song “Spider Web” Ethan Peck’s version […]

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

Will Disney’s involvement with Doctor Who revitalize the show or Exterminate what we loved most about it? Photo by Charlie Seaman on Unsplash Will Disney’s distribution and financing of Doctor Who turn out to be a good partnership or will Disney drag another franchise down with the rest of its failures? Disney has already managed to run Marvel, […]

What Are You watching?

My mom is dying and that is all I can hear in my head image via Unsplash My mother was not someone to watch science fiction or fantasy, or anything paranormal or what she called weird. Whenever I was living with my parents (which, unfortunately, did happen several times in my adult life), I’d be […]

My Blog Was Quoted in the Washington Post

And I didn’t know until two years later. Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash TW: this article mentions ED. I was staring at my phone, my heart racing, a weird excited but also devastated feeling creeping throughout my body as I saw in my Google results that I was mentioned in a The Washington Post article. I yelled over to […]

Genetic Modification and Losing La’an’s Kirk

How the two are connected and the “greater good” isn’t always so great. image via Unsplash I addmit it. I’ve been writing about Star Trek a lot lately. I promise that will not always be the case. I’ve simply rediscovered the joy of a former special interest, and it shows. My abandonment of Star Trek over 20 years ago […]

Strange New World’s “The Broken Circle” Slumps a Bit

Some thoughts on the first episode of Strange New Worlds’ sophomore season. Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash I know I am late in writing about the second season of Strange New Worlds but the truth is that I didn’t decide to revive this blog until a little over a week ago, and that is why these entries […]

Fantasy Series Authors don’t know when to Stop

Long book series are exasperating and annoying and make me feel fatigued even if I never start reading them Image via Unsplash Just the thought of picking up The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher again makes me feel so exhausted and defeated. Since I put the fourth book down 15 years ago, I have […]