Tag Archives: Star Trek

As part of my ongoing rewatch of Star Trek in chronological order, I binged Star Trek: The Animated Series for the third time and realized that The Animated Series did try to go where “no live action Star Trek has gone before”: Of course, it all too often went where the original series had gone before. Sequels: Reskinned plots: In general, the IMDB ratings show a decline from TOS: In fact, only one episode scores above the average TOS rating of 7.4: “Yesteryear”, by D.C. Fontana, at 8.0, about Spock’s […]

The Top 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), according to IMDB, but in chronological order: Episode Title Rating Rank Season Episode* Balance of Terror 8.8 3 1 14 Space Seed 8.7 4 1 22 The Devil in the Dark 8.3 10 1 25 The City on the Edge of Forever 9.2 1 1 28 Amok Time 8.6 6 2 1 Mirror, Mirror 9 2 2 4 The Doomsday Machine 8.6 7 2 6 Journey to Babel 8.5 8 2 10 The Trouble with Tribbles 8.7 5 2 […]

Here is one possible chronological viewing order of Star Trek, arranged in roughly chronological order within the fiction. (If you don’t want to watch all 900+ episodes, you can watch the top 100 episodes in chronological order.) In September 2021, I decided to start a multi-year quest to rewatch all of Star Trek in roughly fictional chronological order. Roughly, because I’m not going to interleave TNG and DS9, and DS9 and Voyager, for instance. And roughly because new prequels like Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, which I watch as […]

When I first met Rick Dakan, one of the creators of City of Heroes, we talked about a class he’s teaching at Ringling College of Art and Design in the spring, “The History of Game Art.” The class starts with Spacewar! in 1962 but to my surprise doesn’t cover some of the BASIC games of the timeshare era (circa 1964 to 1976). Yes, some have “art” (in fact, some are only art). BASIC Computer Games, the first computer book to sell a million copies, is thought of as a collection […]