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Gene Roddenberry originally pitched Star Trek as “Wagon Train to the Stars” to network executives, playing on the reputation of the popular western. As I begin watching season 4 of Billions on DVDs from the library, I wondered if the producers pitched it as “Star Trek on Wall Street.” Bobby...

In the Star Trek episode, The Omega Glory (1968), the crew discovers a parallel Earth where the Chinese Communists (Kohms) won a biological war against the Yankees (Yangs), who, reduced to a barbaric state, are retaking the land they had lost. While the Chinese may have not engineered the...

Whither Star Trek? No, not quite, but short of Gene Roddenberry himself, probably the second person most responsible for the world of Star Trek has just died: Dorothy Fontana. Commonly known as DC Fontana, because back in the 60s, she used her initials to hide that she was a woman because she...

Do you wish there was more Star Trek to watch? Here are two freebies: Star Trek Continues Star Trek Continues Eleven great episodes that pick up where the original series left off. Go to: Star Trek Continues Next: Star Trek: Renegades Star Trek: Renegades (TV Series 2015– ) - IMDb Enjoy, and...

I'm watching BBC America's Friday night Star Trek marathon and now the episode "The Doomsday Machine" which had the most brutally intense acting I've seen in sci-fi, any Trek or otherwise: William Windom as the mentally damaged Commodore Decker. He sold his utter pain and anguish so well, it...