Loaded Couch Potatoes

Check out that cover blurb: “THE ULTRA-POWERED NOVEL OF A TELEPATHIC SPACE TERROR,” eh?

I’ll be the judge of that, Mr. Bantam blurb dude from the mid-’70s.

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Check out this report over at TrekMovie.com.

In case you’re too lazy, here’s the short version: for an episode of its next season, Mythbusters is going to be re-constructing Captain Kirk’s makeshift anti-Gorn artillery cannon from “Arena” to find out if it will actually work.

Now, this is cool and everything, but hey, Mythbusters, let me give you some pause: even if you can’t get it to work, you ain’t provin nothin’ to nobody.  You don’t have access to the materials the Metrons were willing to provide for Kirk’s and the Gorn’s use.  So how can you positively say it wouldn’t work?  Huh?  Huh?  Huh?

Yeah, that’s what I thought, son.

Fox, oh Fox, why do you taunt us so?

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Today, I’ve got a look back at the first three books in Peter David’s Star Trek: New Frontier series, which began in 1997 and launched a new Trek series that, thus far, has appeared in only novels and comics.  Which is, in my opinion, a good thing; that opinion might have something to do with the reason why I’m not reviewing the fourth novel in the series.

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On the BBC.co.uk website, Herb Solow — one of the original producers of Star Trek in the 1960s — has written a review of the new film reboot of the franchise.

First impressions: “The production looked flawless”; “Most of the characters rang true”; “I was impressed and taken with the obvious concern to honour our original series.”

Solow’s review is largely positive, but he does have reservations about certain aspects.  To find out what they are, visit the full article.

Honk Mahfah reviews Mission to Horatius, the first original Star Trek novel.

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Empire Online has posted a story choosing the best and worst episodes of the various Star Trek series.  For each series, the three best episodes are chosen, as well as the one episode the editors deem to be the worst of each series.

Their picks for the original series’ best: (1) “The City on the Edge of Forever,” (2) “Mirror, Mirror,” and (3) “Space Seed,” with “Spock’s Brain” clocking in as the worst.

To find out which episodes of the spinoffs Empire chose, check out the full story.

Honk Mahfah is back with the second part of his Star Trek review.  Spoil long and prosper.  For part one, click here.

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Over on the message board for the Tuscaloosa Science Fiction society, I recently responded to a post about the more emotional Spock hinted at in bits of Zachary Quinto’s performance from trailers for the new Star Trek.

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Latino Review has a lovely review of the Blu-ray set of Star Trek‘s entire first season.

The review is chock full of photos illustrating the enhanced effects created for the Remastered, high-definition versions of the episodes.  There are several side-by-side comparisons, as well, which give you a great indication of just how much CBS improved these classic episodes during the cleanup process.