Stardate: 42609.1Original Air Date: March 20, 1989Writers: Steve Gerber & Beth WoodsDirector: Joseph L. Scanlan “We’re sitting on a bomb that could go off any second… or maybe never.” In response to a desperate plea from Picard’s old friend Captain Donald Varley of the USS Yamato (a galaxy class ship),…
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Star Trek TNG: Season 2, Episode Ten “The Dauphin”
Stardate: 42568.8Original Air Date: February 20, 1989Writer: Scott Rubenstein, Leonard MlodinowDirector: Rob Bowman “Do not be fooled by her looks. The body is just a shell.” The Enterprise-D is approaching Klavdia III and, when the ship has exited warp, Geordi is making some routine adjustments to the deuterium control conduit…
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) by Jules Verne
“The year 1866 was marked by a peculiar development, a baffling, bewildering phenomenon that surely nobody has forgotten…” Jules Verne’s magnificent nautical adventure novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas begins in the year 1866 as something strange occurs on the high seas. Many traders, shipowners, sea captains, skippers, and…
Book Review: Children of Dune (1976) by Frank Herbert
“The dead should remain dead…” (164). Book three of Frank Herbert’s magnificent original Dune series, Children of Dune was initially published as a four-part serial in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. Surprisingly, Herbert’s editor David Hartwell at G.P. Putnam’s Sons had to convince the publisher’s management to print additional…