Star Trek Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection

It's been quite a ride, but our Star Trek film franchise retrospective has finally arrived at the first post-Ground Zero Trek movie. After the crowd-pleasing tour de force of Star Trek: First Contact, fans were looking forward to the TNG crew's second solo feature. Expectations ran high. And why shouldn't…
January 27, 202310 Comments
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How to Butter

Dead Internet search algorithms have reportedly made my post on how to make popcorn hard to find. Re-sharing it on Twitter kicked off a series of cooking discussions, which led to the subject of butter itself. Note: I do not use, nor do I recommend you use, butter on popcorn.…
January 26, 20232 Comments
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Star Trek: First Contact

Our retrospective on the Star Trek film franchise left off on the installment that officially handed the keys to the Next Generation crew. Though a general audience pleaser upon release, Star Trek: Generations has since acquired a reputation as a mixed bag of good visuals marred by character mishandling and…
January 20, 202311 Comments
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The Gen Y – Millennial Gap

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I don’t quite know what to say. I’m a millennial, and one who has hardly heard a song from the 80s (That I was aware of) but when I heard that last song on your list I felt… Something. It wasn’t nostalgia, it was……
January 17, 20239 Comments
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80s Not 80s

One strange aftereffect of Cultural Ground Zero has been the rise of the retrowave musical aesthetic. Like the PulpRev in fiction, this movement doesn't so much embrace a genre as an earlier state of the art - in retrowave's case, the 1980s. To a member of Generation Y, the phenomenon…
January 16, 202334 Comments
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Star Trek: Generations

Way back in 1992, when pop culture was regaining its footing after the post-1980s hangover, I recall a friend telling me that another Star Trek movie was planned. It would feature the Original Series and Next Generation casts and be called Generations. To understand my reaction to that claim, you've…
January 10, 202311 Comments
Geek Gab's Back

Geek Gab Is Back

If you're a loyal reader, you're aware of the special relationship between this blog and the Geek Gab live stream. The mastermind behind the mic, Daddy Warpig, was gracious enough to give me a co-hosting spot back when I was first breaking onto the scene. It gave me the chance…
January 9, 20236 Comments
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Speculation on VHS

Loyal readers will recall the summer of 2021, when we delved into the seedy world of video game speculation. For newcomers, what was alleged to have happened was unscrupulous grading services were colluding with auction houses to drive up prices on vintage video games. So you had carts with millions…
January 4, 202314 Comments
Star Trek VI

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

At the end of our previous Star Trek movie review, I made the bold claim that one of the best films in the whole franchise would be up next. And not only will I not walk back that statement. I'm going to amplify it. Though The Wrath of Khan may…
January 3, 202315 Comments
Star Trek V

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

We are now deep into the point in the Star Trek film series when the principle actors started getting behind the camera. The move from starring to directing inevitably led to self-indulgence. We saw the first glaring signs of this trend in Star Trek IV. Today, we examine the series…
December 27, 20229 Comments