The eighth episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Original Series has a truly poetic title: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. And not only that! It’s based on a couple of ideas that maybe weren’t completely new in 1968, when the episode aired, but they hadn’t been … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E08, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Day of the Dove couldn’t have been more explicit in his condemnation of war, violence, and torture. The episodes sends this pacifist message totally in line with the ideals of Gene Roddenberry with a story with Klingons, now undoubtedly the most present antagonists of Kirk and the whole Federation (see Errand of Mercy, Friday’s Child, … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E07, Day of the Dove
It’s not easy to write about the fifth episode of the third season Is There in Truth No Beauty?. Diana Muldaur returns to Star Trek here, this time as a blind person with psychic powers, after her appearance in Return to Tomorrow the previous season. I give this episode a pass just because of here presence: … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E05, Is There in Truth No Beauty?
It seems that there’s no smooth sailing in this third season. After two good episodes that followed a bad start to the season, here’s another forgettable episode. And the Children Shall Lead deals with the importance of experiencing loss, and the importance of crying and of expressing one’s emotions. These are good life lessons that … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E04, And the Children Shall Lead
The Paradise Syndrome is clearly a mix between Pocahontas and Avatar, and it probably served as an inspiration for The Inner Light (the amazing episode of the fifth season of The Next Generation). There are so many things done right in this episode! Unfortunately, there’s also one extremely negative aspect and I want to get it … More Star Trek: TOS – S03E03, The Paradise Syndrome
Snowpiercer is a 2013 film directed by Bong Joon-ho based on a French graphic novel published a few years earlier entitled Le Transperceneige, by Jean-Marc Rochette. It’s a science fiction movie with an exceptional cast: in addition to Chris Evans, there are, among others, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, and Ed Harris. And what’s … More Snowpiercer: Movie Review
Doomsday is a film directed by Neil Marshall, who, as far as I’m concerned, hasn’t made a single bad movie in his whole career so far (but I haven’t seen his 2019 Hellboy which apparently isn’t very good). This is his third film and it came out in 2008, six years after Dog Soldiers and … More Doomsday: Movie Review
Bread and Circuses surprised me. Not because it’s the first episode of the second season to recycle previously-used ideas, but because it recycles the main idea of Patterns of Force, which is one of the most recent episodes! Once again, the USS Enterprise is sent out in search of a missing captain and finds him … More Star Trek: TOS – S02E25, Bread and Circuses
Released in 2019, strongly desired by Ira Steven Behr (who also directed it together with David Zappone), and shot and produced over a span of several years, I finally watched What We Left Behind, the documentary about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! The title is obviously a spin on the last episode of the seventh … More What We Left Behind: Movie Review (Star Trek: DS9)
The Immunity Syndrome is the eighteenth episode of the second season of the original Star Trek series and, let me tell you, it’s a great one. It’s entirely based on the wonderful relationship of friendship and respect between Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy and they have memorable dialogues and interactions in it. But let’s start … More Star Trek: TOS – S02E18, The Immunity Syndrome
