Thanks! FYI: Books 2 and 3 are both on sale now. Dave Mack wrote Book 2 and Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore wrote Book 3.

For what it’s worth, they brought Trip back to life in the novels.

Thanks! I wish I could have attended, but . . . deadlines!

Thanks! And let it be noted that Number One figures prominently in the next two volumes of the trilogy, written by David Mack and the team of Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, respectively.

I just kicked things off. They had to carry the story forward to the end. :)

Her costumes notwithstanding, T’Pol was actually a fairly interesting character, what with her secret visits to human jazz clubs and such. She and Trip were arguably the best two characters on the show.

She made an interesting contrast with Spock, who spent much of his adult life trying to reject his human half. T’Pol…

This where I shamelessly mention that the original Number One returns in my latest Trek novel. (Yep, that’s her on the cover, next to Kirk and Spock.) She’s also appeared in the numerous other STAR TREK novels and comic books, despite making only one appearance on the show.

Honestly, the black-and-white thing didn’t bother me. That whole episode was a humorous lark; would a few lines of technobabble “justifying” the b/w conceit have made the episode any funnier or more entertaining? I think not.

That episode wasn’t about explaining how exactly the hardware worked. It was meant to be a…

Are we forgetting the Old West program from “A Fistful of Datas”?

Good choice! This is one of my favorite episodes, too.

“Yesteryear” by D.C. Fontana is generally regarded as the best of the Animated Episodes.

I confess: I was sure I heard them mention the Kzinti in the new movie.

In retrospect, I realize that they must have been referencing the Xindi (from ENTERPRISE) instead, but I remember going “Wow! They mentioned the Kzinti! I wonder if Niven got paid for that one line?” :)

Great news. Congrats to my friend Dave Mack for scoring this gig!

Tor actually published a tie-in edition of the Sheckley novel, to capitalize on the movie. Sadly, Mick Jagger was not on the cover. :)

Based on the novel “Immortality, Inc.” by Robert Sheckley.

And team up with Captain Marvel and the Mighty Isis.

True, but it’s probably not accurate to describe it as a black-and-white movie. I certainly remember Heather’s final teary, snot-faced monologue being in color . . . .

It’s not THE ARTIST or YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN or whatever.

“ . . . a low budget, black-and-white experimental film . . . .”

Um, correct me if I’m wrong, but the original movie was not in black-and-white.

I assume you saw THE BIG BANG THEORY episode where Sheldon freaked out over ALPHAS being cancelled on a cliffhanger . ...

THE MIDDLEMAN, which I discovered far too late.

I love BUFFY, but, in general, it has oddly eclipsed XENA in the popular memory. It’s also not uncommon to see articles on the “new” trend female action heroes that cite BUFFY as a ground-breaking pioneer while overlooking XENA . ....