Written by Art Wallace and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels This episode was conceived as an attempt to sell a new series to the networks. The series was much different from Star […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Assignment Earth – How You Spin-Off a Space Series
Book Review: Star Trek: Vulcan’s Soul – Exiles – A Journey of Vulcan and Romulan History
Knowing how much I enjoy a good backstory, the Vulcan’s Soul series in the Star Trek universe was recommended to me. Exiles is the second book in the series and picks up […]
Quantum Leap Season 2 – Can We Get a “Do Over” From Universal?
From the first episode on, I never missed a showing of Quantum Leap when it aired on network television. The second season, which stretched from the Fall of 1989 to the Spring […]
Corona Virus Diaries: March 16, 2020
It’s a blustery, cold day in north-central New Hampshire. I woke up this morning to the wind howling and a temperature below zero. Even right now it’s only 21°F with a “feels […]
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Ken Burns – Discover the Legacy of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition
I can’t remember exactly how much time was actually covered in history class about the journey of Lewis and Clark to explore the land purchased from Napoleon and France by President Thomas […]
Book Review: By The Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder – Glorious Prairie in Full Color!
When I was about nine, a friend of the family gave me my first Little House book. I was immediately captivated by the stories within and read them over and over through […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Bread and Circuses – Rome If You Want To
Written by Gene L. Coon and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Ralph Senensky I get that budgets were an issue back in the 1960s for television programs. For that reason, and the fact that […]
Sharpe’s Waterloo – A Satisfying Conclusion to a Great Series
Written by Charles Wood and Bernard CornwellDirected by Tom Clegg March 1815 – Napoleon escapes from Elba and returns to France to plunge Europe into war once again. Facing Napoleon is an […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – The Ultimate Computer – Rise of the Machines
Written by Laurence N. Wolfe, D.C. Fontana, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by John Meredyth Lucas Over the years there have been many cautionary tales about letting computers run our lives too much. From […]
Book Review: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah – A Tale of Survival Amidst Hardship
Reading this novel in the shadow of what the last year has been like, there’s a sense of deja-vu. Granted, the last year hasn’t quite been the caliber of The Great Depression, […]
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