In today’s episode, I call in some help in ranking starship captains, generals and other sci-fi leaders. What makes a great leader? What makes a poor one? What are the most compelling portrayals in sci-fi?
Out of this madness, Uhura appeared. A vision in red and black. Beautiful, smart as hell and not interested in nobody’s nonsense.
Destroy everything about this except it’s ears. It’s ears it keeps, and I’ll tell you why…
The Captain Is Dead is fun and really difficult-to-win co-op board game.
A Board Game for Star Trek/Board Game enthusiasts
(Warning: this ain’t an entry level board game)
Fanboy Criticism is a growing form of art criticism that makes the oddest of demands from today’s artists:
The complete cessation of the artistic impulse.
Edit: Reposted with a new date so that people can comment on it and stuff. Note: This post is spoilerific. It will completely ruin any surprises that might exist in the upcoming movie Star Trek...
Due to popular demand (two people), I’m bringing my daily commute reads to the front page on…Monday (since I clearly forgot to uncheck the “mini post” box on this one! Conor Friedersdorf riffs on...
Adm. William McRaven, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, believes, “We are achieving in the SOF world probably the best results we’ve seen in many, many years.”
Saturday evening, burned out and brain-dead after two weeks of grading papers, I plopped down in the living room to take advantage of my weekend alone by watching the first two Star Trek films. ...
If you missed Alex Knapp’s article on the five leadership lessons of James T. Kirk you really should read it. Or, if you prefer, you can watch Alex’s video version which he recorded at...
~by Ryan B I want to bounce off of this Alyssa Rosenberg post, not because we have a deep disagreement, but because I think she’s not being totally fair. She’s certainly right that Abrams’...
“A series of cataclysmic events leads to the annihilation of a war-mongering elite. All that remains is a rogue group of working-class types who are motivated by racial resentment, obsessed with drilling, and led...
By the way, I saw Star Trek this past weekend and it was great fun. I’m not a big Trek fan – though I loved some of the old movies when I was a...
John Podhoretz’s Star Trek review is pretty darn good.
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