Fan Fiction – An Audiobook

Oh! I almost forgot, but I listened to an audio-book in the last week or two, called Fan Fiction, by Brent Spiner.

Doctor Who & Star Trek The Next Generation–Non-Existent Crossovers (Seventh Doctor)

Doctor Who has been on (and off) the air since 1963, with a myriad of adventures showing the Doctor and his companions traveling to endless corners of the universe.

(Daily Doctor Who #215)

Weekly Geeky Question #37: Patrick Stewart’s New Star Trek Project

Every week in 2018, the plan is that my friend Rod is going to ask me some geeky question that will answer in a post. This week is Week #37, and this week, Rod’s question is very topical from a Geeky perspective:

What’s my suggestion for a new Star Trek project featuring Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard?

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Seven Summary

It’s taken me a while to get to it, but here at last is the summary of the seventh and final season of Star Trek:  The Next Generation.   It’s a season that manages to leave a good taste in the mouth mostly because the finale, All Good Things, is so outstandingly enjoyable that it almost manages to wipe away the memory of all the sub-par episodes of the year.  But then you’re like, “Oh yeah, Masks, and Sub Rosa, and that one with the train on the holodeck….  And so it goes.

Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Pegasus [7.12]

Riker’s former commanding officer arrives on board the Enterprise, using his rank as an admiral to usurp Picard’s authority on  a secret mission to recover their ship, the Pegasus, which has long been thought lost in an incident in which a young Riker protected his Captain from other mutinying officers.  This creates conflicted loyalties for Riker and strain in his relationship with Picard.

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Inheritance [7.10]

During a mission, Data meets human scientist Juliana Tainer who reveals that she is his “mother” – she helped to create him and was in fact married to Data’s creator, Noonian Soong.  However, during the course of the mission Data realizes that Dr. Tainer is in fact also an android, albeit a highly sophisticated one. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Interface [7.3]

Geordi learns that his mother, a Starship captain, has disappeared along with her ship.  At the same time, he is on a mission in which he is assisting with a rescue mission via a drone that he can see and hear through via virtual reality.  Geordi begins to experience visions of his mother asking him for help,

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Six Summary

Season Six of Next Generation is beginning to show a few signs of growing thin, but overall still makes for enjoyable viewing.  The thin-ness is really the same as for Season Five – there are no big story-arcs winding up.  Indeed, there aren’t really any big story-arcs winding down either.  Those all finished a couple of years prior, and the new ones are really being saved for Deep Space Nine.  We also see the roles of various regular fixtures on board the ship sort of peter out, such as Guinan, Alexander, Ro, and the O’Briens.  Though some will show up one more time next year, basically their presence as regular parts of the Next Generation landscape end on a whimper this year.

What we do get is a bunch of stand-alone episodes, including some great of ones. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Second Chances [6.24]

On a planet that Riker barely escaped from eight years earlier, the Enterprise discovers a duplicate of Riker, created by a freak transporter accident on that previous occasion. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Mind’s Eye [4.24]

Geordi is kidnapped by the Romulans and secretly brainwashed into assassinating a Klingon governor in order to break up their alliance with the Federation.