Trek Blogging
By There’s probably not a subject that’s seen more useless internet commentary than Star Trek, but, characteristically, Lance manages to add something insightful. Read.
Speaking of the Trek, I’ve recently watched a couple uncut episodes on G4, probably the first episodes of the original series that I’ve seen in six or seven years. I had forgotten that many of the episodes are, well, good. Trek, especially in its original incarnation, often seems to carry with it too much pop culture baggage to be engaged with seriously as entertaining television. Moreover, many of the episodes (partly because of the baggage) are nigh unwatchable. Still, some of the scripts crackle. The Kirk-Spock-McCoy triad is one of the best handled and most complex three sided relationships that television has managed to portray, and the character of Kirk himself, a “perfect storm” of writer, actor, and medium, remains a towering television figure, perhaps the most enduring character that the medium has offered.