A friend of mine scripted another Syfy channel monster movie so I’ve heard some stories about time and budget restrictions . ...

Loved WARBIRDS, btw. One of my favorite Syfy channel monster movies.

I adore THE BEAST MUST DIE, which is actually based on a story by James Blish of all people.

FYI: a new CAPTAIN KRONOS comic book series just went on sale.

Based on the novel, “Hell House,” by Richard Matheson.

Oops. Was going to mention that I loved seeing “The Changeling” cited as well. That’s a great movie, too.

Great cast. Horrible movie. I literally couldn’t finish it . . . and I have a great tolerance for bad horror movies.

The original Robert Wise movie is so, so much better.

Great list. Glad to see THE UNIVITED and HAUSU on the list. But let’s not forget:

1) The sinister house in ‘SALEM’S LOT, particularly in the original tv mini-series version.

2) Hell House, from THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, based on Richard Matheson’s novel.

I thought Paris was in a penal colony when Voyager began?

In “The Cage,” the Talosians telepathically recreate a park in Mojave. Technically, it’s an illusion, but it’s supposedly a perfect copy of a real place in Pike’s past.

Good question. The Space Needle in Seattle? The HOLLYWOOD sign?

Beyond the Cyrano Jones thing, Lorca is obviously conducting top-secret experiments with “unknown” life-forms. Chances are, this was all hushed-up by the time Kirk meets his first tribble.

And dare I add DEADLANDS: BONEYARD by Seanan McGuire . . . ?

The Orville is a deliberately nostalgic valentine to 90s-era Star Trek. Discovery is a bold attempt to reinvent Star Trek for the 21st century. Both are perfectly valid approaches, although Discovery’s is arguably more ambitious.

For what it’s worth, I’m enjoying them both.

Or MONSTERS VS. ALIENS.

Um, isn’t that the outcome we were hoping for? Were we actually rooting for the first new TREK show in sixteen years to suck?

Yep. San Francisco (and the Golden Gate Bridge in particular) have been targets since at least IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA back in the fifties. See also the most recent GODZILLA reboot.

Yep. TNG is sometimes ragged for being too preachy and not having enough conflict, but “The Wounded” proved that TNG could do moral ambiguity and conflicting loyalties and emotions as well as any Trek show. I loved that everything was NOT tied up neatly at the end and there were no easy answers . . . .

I don’t know. The TOS movies were still going strong when TNG debuted, so it wasn’t as though TOS was some ancient relic from the past at that point.

And let’s not forget “The Wounded,” another wonderful episode that arguably doesn’t get enough love.