TV #36 of 2016: Star Trek, season 3 Star Trek: TOS ended up faltering in its final season, which is a huge shame. There’s still stuff to enjoy in most of the episodes, but lazy clunkers are the norm and I’d be hard-pressed to name a single real classic. (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, …
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TV Review: Star Trek, season 2
TV #21 of 2016: Star Trek, season 2 I’m still liking TOS, and still spotting some major influences on the TV shows and movies I’ve liked from the past half-century. This season also did a lot to establish the idea of the Prime Directive, which feels quintessentially Star Trek but wasn’t really a thing in …
TV Review: Star Trek, season 1
TV #12 of 2016: Star Trek, season 1 How do you even begin to describe something like Star Trek? I’m now watching it through from the beginning, and I’m coming into it fairly fresh – or at least, as fresh as one can be in this culture. I’ve seen the two J. J. Abrams films …
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