Stardate: 43152.4Original Air Date: October 9, 1989Writer: Michael WagnerDirector: Les Landau “An entire planet obliterated except for a few acres of trees and grass and one building…” Three days after receiving a distress call, the Enterprise cautiously enters the Delta Rana system, specifically the fourth planet in the system where…
Star Trek TNG: Season 3, Episode Two “The Ensigns of Command”
Stardate: UnknownOriginal Air Date: October 2, 1989Writer: Melinda M. SnodgrassDirector: Cliff Bole “The Sheliak haven’t broken a century of silence to send us after phantoms…” This episode begins with Data partaking in a classical performance (Data plays the violin) during which he learns that excessive honesty can be detrimental (this…
Star Trek TNG: Season 3, Episode One “Evolution”
Stardate: 43125.8Original Air Date: September 25, 1989Writer: Michael Piller & Michael Wagner, Teleplay by : Michael PillerDirector: Winrich Kolbe “The fact of the matter is we are dealing with the potential breakdown of the main computer.” Ensign Wesley Crusher is falling asleep at his laboratory desk before being urgently summoned by…
2000 Pulitzer Prize Review: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Maladies, poorly interpreted, can’t be cured.” The seventh short story collection to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (when counting the previous collections of James Michener, John Cheever, Jean Stafford, Katherine Anne Porter, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Olen Butler), Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies contains nine short stories, many…