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VHS Nostalgia, Part I
I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they were basically indestructible, until they weren’t. The machines that handled them were noisy too: sound…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven years, sat at that table, though he was always welcome – and as the cards…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Booby Trap”
“My God, I bet I had a Promelian battlecruiser too…” Against the claim that there are no good Geordi episodes, I stake that there are at least two, and they are (oddly enough) back to back in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s third season. The first is “Booby Trap,” which became rather more… controversial?… in…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
“I can’t compete with a ghost from his past.” I was twelve years old, and I had seen Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and, perhaps, a couple of episodes of The Original Series with my mom, who would not have suggested Star Trek to me at all if she’d had any notion of what…
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I’m with Hordak
I was not hugely into He-Man when I was growing up. This is not to say it was completely insignificant to me; I’ve written before about that time my parents got me Snake Mountain for no reason and it was probably one of the five best days of my life. But on the whole He-Man…
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Snake Mountain
I just got my Animated Obi-Wan, completing my set of the first wave of Clone Wars animated figures, and making me a very happy boy indeed. I was actually contemplating taking a trip down to the Snail when I opened my door and found the package waiting — which made me remark, “don’t go to…