Given that I enjoyed Christopher L. Bennett's Star Trek tie-in novels, I figured I'd like his first original novel, Only Superhuman. And I did. Mostly. Source
https://escapepod.org/2016/09/12/book-review-only-superhuman-by-christopher-l-bennett/
Author : Tade Thompson Narrator : Suyi Davies Okungbowa Host : Norm Sherman Audio Producer : Mat Weller Discuss on Forums This story was previously published in the Steampunk World Anthology edi...
Author : Evan Berkow Narrator : Kate Baker Host : Norm Sherman Audio Producer : Mat Weller Discuss on Forums Escape Pod 515: The Winter Festival is an Escape Pod original. The Winter Festival By ...
After the success of Of Gods and Men, Tim Russ returns to the fan film arena with Star Trek: Renegades. Though I had high expectations, I think I expected more than what I got. Especially from th...
https://escapepod.org/2015/09/14/fan-film-review-star-trek-renegades/
Despite the furor over the reboot universe and the sci-fi landscape's love for the later iterations of Star Trek, there's still something about The Original Series that keeps bringing people back...
https://escapepod.org/2013/06/03/fan-film-review-star-trek-continues-episode-1-pilgrim-of-eternity/
So, as if you didn't know, I'm a huge Star Trek fan. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that I was going to see Star Trek Into Darkness on opening weekend. Since my birthday was the same we...
https://escapepod.org/2013/05/20/film-review-star-trek-into-darkness/
How do I conclude 25 articles about Star Trek: the Next Generation? How about by giving you some new TNG-related media you might not have thought to enjoy? Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/31/25-days-of-tng-day-25-where-do-we-go-from-here/
And now, my top ten (or perhaps eleven) TNG episodes. I'm sure you'll find some you expect... but you'll also find some you won't, and I hope you're surprised. In a good way. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/29/25-days-of-tng-day-24-the-top-25-episodes-part-2/
I'm sure that, sometime in the past 18 years, you've read a "top 25 TNG episodes" list. Well, here's another one, with my scintillating (for certain values of scintillating) commentary. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/28/25-days-of-tng-day-23-the-top-25-episodes-part-1/
What could be worse than the 15 episodes on yesterday's list? I'll give you a hint: seasons two and seven are heavily featured today. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/27/25-days-of-tng-day-22-the-bottom-25-episodes-part-2/
It's pretty easy to just say "oh, yeah, that episode was terrible"... but how bad was it compared to others? Was it just that opportunities were missed, or was it truly a cluster of massive propo...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/26/25-days-of-tng-day-21-the-bottom-25-episodes-part-1/
When you write a series of 25 posts in non-chronological order, you sometimes find artifacts -- things you meant to write, or meant to make note of, that just got lost in the shuffle. This list o...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/24/25-days-of-tng-day-20-11-lost-best-episodes/
Even though Star Trek canon says that, after Nemesis, there was no more official Trek until Spock attempted to save Romulus, I think we all knew the intellectual property was too valuable to just...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/22/25-days-of-tng-day-19-the-relaunch/
Following the TNG season finale, I think it was already known that a film was in the offing. At least one. Turns out we got four, all of which you've probably seen, and most of which have both go...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/21/25-days-of-tng-day-18-the-best-and-worst-of-the-tng-films/
I'm not sure when exactly we knew that the seventh season of TNG was going to be the final one, but as far as final seasons go, it didn't really blow me away. Compared to other final seasons, it ...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/19/25-days-of-tng-day-17-the-best-and-worst-of-season-7/
Now that I've given you my list of the 10 worst tie-ins, how about I go in the other direction? Is your favorite TNG tie-in on my top-ten list? Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/17/25-days-of-tng-day-16-the-10-best-tie-in-novels/
I've been reading the TNG tie-in novels since they were first released. Unfortunately, there have been some real stinkers over the years. Here are ten of them. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/15/25-days-of-tng-day-15-the-10-worst-tie-in-novels/
The sixth season was sort of weird. There were a lot of iffy episodes, and several that I just didn't like (and couldn't tell you why). But it did have my favorite Riker episode of all time. So...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/14/25-days-of-tng-day-14-the-best-and-worst-of-season-6/
Though TNG was substantially more advanced than TOS, there were still technological advancements coming that have since made TNG into a bit of a dinosaur. What doesn't hold up, 25 years later? ...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/13/25-days-of-tng-day-13-10-things-that-dont-hold-up/
For my money, if you chop off the premiere and the finale, Season 5 was probably the best season of TNG. Though it had a few big-time stinkers, the great episodes were really great and even the m...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/12/25-days-of-tng-day-12-the-best-and-worst-of-season-5/
Because of the changing nature of pop culture and fashion, it's very difficult to include contemporary references in fiction. Some people do it very well, some people epic fail, and some, like TN...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/10/25-days-of-tng-day-11-anachronisms-and-the-stifling-of-creativity/
Season Four had some pretty high-concept, hard-hitting episodes. It also introduced a war that apparently everyone in the Trek universe either missed, ignored, or forgot about. And it sent Wesley...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/08/25-days-of-tng-day-10-the-best-and-worst-of-season-4/
In 25 years, the stars of TNG have provided a lot of memorable quotes -- both on the show and off. Let's take a look at a sampling. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/07/25-days-of-tng-day-9-in-their-own-words/
After the debacle that was Season Two (and the writer's strike), it really amazed me just how strong TNG came back with the third season. Though Five is probably my favorite, Three is a close run...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/06/25-days-of-tng-day-8-the-best-and-worst-of-season-3/
While Star Trek: TNG had a strong core cast, sometimes it was guest stars and recurring characters that made certain episodes work. With that in mind, here are the ten that I consider the "best"....
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/05/25-days-of-tng-day-7-the-10-best-recurring-characters/
Season Two is generally considered to be the worst of all the TNG seasons, and with good reason: there were some truly atrocious episodes. Of course, the Borg were introduced in Season Two, so it...
https://escapepod.org/2012/10/03/25-days-of-tng-day-6-the-best-and-worst-of-season-2/
Although the bridge was pretty important, there were two other equally-well-used rooms on Deck One. Oddly, neither was the bathroom. Source
One thing that we as Star Trek fans had to deal with was the idea that there was going to be an entirely new Enterprise on our screens. While the pause between the Original Series and the first f...
Given how underwhelming most of the first ten episodes of TNG were, it's a wonder the show didn't get cancelled. Had it aired last year (instead of 25 years ago), it wouldn't even have gotten pas...
https://escapepod.org/2012/09/29/25-days-of-tng-day-3-the-best-and-worst-of-season-1/
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her continuing mission: to explore strange, new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where...
https://escapepod.org/2012/09/28/25-days-of-tng-day-2-episode-review-encounter-at-farpoint/
In 1987, my dad came home with the VHS tape of Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home, which we'd seen in theaters the previous fall. Attached to the beginning was a trailer for a new version of the show ...
https://escapepod.org/2012/09/26/25-days-of-tng-day-1-an-introduction/
I recently watched "Our Man Bashir" , and I was reminded just how flimsy the "malfunctioning transporter/holodeck" plot can be. Here's what I mean. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/05/09/how-bad-technobabble-hurt-a-good-episode-our-man-bashir/
I have a problem with graphic novels. Actually, I have four. In the second part of my two-part article, I'll tell you about the rest of them. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/02/21/my-problem-with-graphic-novels-part-2-of-2/
I have a problem with graphic novels. Actually, I have four. In the first part of my two-part article, I'll tell you about a couple of them. Source
https://escapepod.org/2012/02/20/my-problem-with-graphic-novels-part-1-of-2/
The assassination of JFK was a watershed event in human history, one that many people believe should never have happened. In Stephen King's new novel, 11/22/63, we learn that, no matter what we t...
https://escapepod.org/2011/12/03/book-review-112263-by-stephen-king/
When I first saw the Voyager episode "The Gift", I thought Janeway had done a good thing saving a human from the Borg. Now, fourteen years later, I wonder just what the hell Janeway -- and the wr...
https://escapepod.org/2011/11/18/the-gift-of-choice-unless-youre-a-borg/
Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack for Deathly Hallows 2 provided a fitting musical end to the Harry Potter saga. I especially enjoyed what I'm calling Cycles -- the Battle Cycle, the Snape Cycle, an...
For fourteen years, Peter David has been writing about Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the U.S.S. Excalibur. In his latest New Frontier novel, Blind Man's Bluff, he continues in the fast-paced adven...
https://escapepod.org/2011/05/20/book-review-blind-mans-bluff-by-peter-david/
I've always enjoyed the Star Trek: Titan novels, as they've taken up the mantle of single-episode stand-alone novels. The Titan entry to the Typhon Pact series, while not flawless, is a worthy ad...
https://escapepod.org/2011/04/21/book-review-seize-the-fire-by-michael-a-martin/
In 1987, the Star Trek TNG commbadge was pretty cool. You could touch it and be instantly connected to the ship. But my new Evo is pretty cool too, and it does way more. Which would you rather ha...
Here's the basic plot of Paths of Disharmony: For 200 years, these dudes have been our friends, ever since we helped them make peace with these other dudes who were our friends even longer. But n...
https://escapepod.org/2011/03/03/book-review-paths-of-disharmony-by-dayton-ward/
We love Spock. We love Sisko. But will we love them in the same book at the same time? A review of David R. George III's Rough Beasts of Empire reveals that... well... we won't. Source
https://escapepod.org/2011/02/25/book-review-rough-beasts-of-empire-by-david-r-george-iii/
After the demise of the Borg, our Star Trek heroes needed a new Big Boss to fight. So the editors gave us the Typhon Pact. "Zero Sum Game" is the first in the miniseries, and... well, I'm a littl...
Why was Captain Archer's Enterprise so much cooler-looking on the inside than Captain Kirk's? Why did Robert Heinlein say we'd store computer data on tape spools? Why did Londo's quarters have a ...