Written by Margaret Armen, Arthur H. Singer, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Jud Taylor I can remember a time when Star Trek reruns were on television every evening. That was the foundation for […]
Star Trek: The Enterprise Incident – Romulan Girl Power
Written by D.C. Fontana, Arthur H. Singer, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by John Meredyth Lucas Proving once again she was integral to the success and popularity of the Star Trek series, D.C. Fontana […]
Star Trek: Spock’s Brain – The Third Season Can Only Get Better From Here
Written by Gene L. Coon, Arthur H. Singer, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels The third season of Star Trek began with NBC slashing the budget for the series (the budget for […]
Star Trek: Assignment Earth – How You Spin-Off a Space Series
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 […]
Book Review – Star Trek: Vulcan’s Soul – Exiles
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 […]
Star Trek: 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 1960’s for television programs. For that reason, and the fact that […]
Star Trek: 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 […]
Star Trek: The Omega Glory – What The Hell?
Written by Gene RoddenberryDirected by Vincent McEveety Being a science-fiction fan requires some suspension of disbelief. I’m okay with believing that somehow technology in the future overcomes the issue of no gravity […]
Star Trek: By Any Other Name – Don’t Pick Up Space Hitch-Hikers
Written by D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels Although better than the previous episode, we still are in the midst of a series of lackluster episodes of the […]
Star Trek: Patterns of Force – It Might Happen Here, But It Couldn’t Happen There
Written by John Meredyth Lucas and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Vincent McEveety The second season of the original Star Trek series seemed to find certain plots that worked well and then beat them […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 
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