The Sanctified Nerd

Let's talk some Star Trek TNG . I've said before that the typical story of a TNG episode tends to be duller than those of The Original Series. Just last week, I saw an episode of each, and in TNG, the entire story revolved around a girl who turns out to be a Q (powerful being from another dimension for uninitiated), and how she made her choice between being human and being a...Q. It's decidedly dull. On the other hand, in TOS, Kirk and Spock (aided by historical figures of Earth and Vulcan history) are pitted against four villains of history in a death-match by curious aliens who wish to observe the battle of good v evil. Cheesy yes but more engaging. Because of the vanilla flavor of the week to week storylines themselves in TNG, what makes the show memorable is a handful of key characters - Piccard and Worf especially. The third memorable character, however, is the android Data. And personally, I have several problems with the concept of Data. For starters, e...

To keep a semblance of a regular schedule and because I've been getting back into Star Trek  following the announcement of Sir Patrick Stewart's return as Captain Picard, I'm planning a new series for this blog called "Trek Talk Tuesday". Lord willing I will post something every Tuesday but life makes such promises fragile. Suffice to say I will do my best to post one of these every Tuesday. I am of course more into Star Wars , Tolkien's Middle-earth and  Battlestar Galactica (1978) then I am into Star Trek  but I do enjoy it and in my own way, I love it. But don't expect me to be the fountain of nerd-knowledge here. Since this is my first post on Star Trek , I think a good place to start is establishing what parts I've seen and my overall feelings about the enterprise (pun intended). And in the coming weeks, I will look more in depth at some of the topics I will raise here. I have seen all of The Original Series (TOS), at least I think I have...

So I'm very late on putting this review out, but better late than never. This review has SPOILERS so if by some chance you have not seen this movie yet...either read and be spoiled or find a showing if you can or wait for the home media release in September. Okay, so first off let me say this is easily the best Disney Era "Star Wars" film to date, a title previously held by Rogue One  in my estimation. When I talk about "Star Wars" needing to have fresh stories but still be "Star Wars", this is a good example of what I'm looking for: an original adventure set in the SW Universe that uses the lore of that universe to create the backdrop. First, the few problems I had all of which come down to some casting  and editing  choices. The opening chase scene is well filmed but I really wish that Ron Howard and John Powell had taken a look at some of the great speed-based scenes of film history - from Ben-Hur 's chariot race to the "Star ...