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My heart belongs to Evil Keiko

Deep Space Nine’s “The Assignment” opens with what seems like a classic pre-credit gimmick: Keiko O’Brien is coming home from a botany trip, and Miles, Molly, and Julian (now apparently a member of the family) are all anxious that she will...

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‘Star Trek: a Book to Color’ (1967)

A Trek paratext, not quite a comic, but more than a simple colouring-book: Star Trek A Book to Color (1967), the first (of many) such books, combines black-line drawings that kids can colour-in with three original stories. ‘Star Trek Book C...

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Star Trek's First, and Best, Prequel

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning” gets me literally every time.

What is the first Star Trek prequel? To answer this question, we should be begin by defining a prequel: a story that is published after an existing stor...

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Why Doesn't Every Starfleet Wessel Have A Ship's Counselor?

Let’s start from the premise that mental health and wellbeing are absolutely as important as physical health and wellbeing, and that an enlightened future-society, such as the Federation, would recognise that fact. A starship would need its...

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The Mid-Franchise Doldrums

Most of the time, when people rewatch Star Trek, they choose a particular series to watch all the way through. Even for more ambitious rewatches, it is often more pragmatic to watch the entire series successively in chronological order rath...

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    I keep trying to do science and get distracted by other science. Teach folks stuff in the meantime, but probably mostly myself. Naturally stealthy. Smell like a tree.

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    Cultural historian. I have a Memory Alpha entry don‘t argue with me.

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