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Thoughts on “The Hierarchy of Needs,” Parts I & II

Thoughts by Thomas Lee

By Thomas Lee

Upon finishing parts 1 and 2 of "The Hierarchy of Needs," I thought, "This is how Voyager OUGHT to be written."

IMHO, if Mr. Braga and company could write Voyager episodes as well as Mike has written "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "The Hierarchy of Needs," Trek fans everywhere would be demanding SEVENTEEN seasons of Voyager instead of just looking forward to the end of Season Seven (or hoping it ends with Season Six). Mike’s K/7 masterpieces make the canon Voyager episodes look downright amateurish and shallow by comparison—especially when Mike does his take on a canon episode. The "Before and After" image of a slug of crystallized carbon next to a cut and faceted diamond comes to mind.

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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Articles No Comments

Size of the Enterprise revealed

An interview with ILM co-visual effects supervisor Russell Earl at TrekToday states that the length of the Enterprise in Star Trek is 2,357 feet, or about 785.67 yards (718.4 meters). That’s more than twice the size of the Enterprise in the original timeline! The length of the Narada was also revealed as five miles.

Read more at http://www.trektoday.com/content/2009/05/star-trek-xi-creating-the-magic.html

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Articles No Comments

Thoughts on the New Star Trek

I’ve written a short piece on my personal site about some of the things that have been plaguing my mind about the new movie. Read more

Sunday, May 24th, 2009 Articles No Comments

Yesteryear

By using the Guardian of Forever, Kirk, Spock, and the historian Erikson explore the planet Orion’s past. When they return, there is no record of Spock.
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In Memoriam

This page is dedicated as a tribute to all the cast and crew involved in the production of the various incarnations of Star Trek who have passed on.
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009 Articles No Comments

Star Trek XI film review

I wrote a review of Star Trek XI over on my personal site. Check it out here.

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Articles No Comments

Analysis of the Temporal Cold War

The Temporal Cold War was introduced in “Broken Bow,” when Captain Archer discovered that the Suliban were manipulating events in the Klingon Empire at the direction of an individual from the future.
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 Articles No Comments

Through a Glass, Darkly: Analysis of the Multiple “Mirror Universes”

Over the past four decades, since the episode “Mirror, Mirror” first aired on 6 October 1967, we have seen multiple iterations of the alternate reality known colloquially as “the Mirror Universe.”
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Articles No Comments