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…Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) November 9, 2017 11. When you put it that way, the question kind of answers itself. — Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) November 9, 2017 12. The key thing…

…to Disney, Star Wars was what Lucas said it was. He not only knew better than anyone what Star Wars is, no one else knew at all. “Star Wars,” according…

…do I have to be?” Inverting “Star Trek’s” Original Liberalism This clear-headedness had evaporated by December 1991, when the movie sequel “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” appeared, only months…

…single television season without a Star Trek series on the air. For a while, during the late-1990s runs of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” there were…

…handled the roll-out of “Star Trek: Discovery” as its prime feature, “Star Trek Voyager” was to be the flagship program of the newly launched UPN network in January of 1995,…

…the rebooted Star Trek movies. That is worrisome, because the recent films have not delivered on some of the essential aspects of Star Trek’s appeal. What is it that Star…

One of baseball’s most unique aspects is the outsize role of the starting pitcher in each game, reflected in the fact that only a pitcher (usually the starter) is assigned…

…Since “Star Trek: The Next Generation” went off the air in 1994, the franchise has undergone big changes. Films helmed by Abrams have fully altered the “Star Trek” universe, creating…

…at Wookieepedia don’t know what the phrase means, but I’m starting to wonder if Favreau and Filoni are using it as the “Star Wars” equivalent of “Frak” from Battlestar Galactica….

…rather than something from the rational-technological universe of Star Trek. Similarly, Federation ships coming out of warp speed now look exactly—exactly—like Star Wars ships popping out of hyperspace, a basic…

…based on a survey of her readers, the actual appeal of Star Trek is that it presents a kind of ideal capitalist workplace. In Star Trek, the work is meaningful;…

…Starbuck’s dream and suggests it is a message from Starbuck’s mother Socrata (Dorothy Lyman), causing Starbuck to leave in anger. Starbuck later tells Anders how her mother abused her, including…

…Williams pulls “Star Wars” together. Star Wars Is Full of Memorable Characters “Star Wars” also introduced perhaps the most memorable villain in all of cinema, Darth Vader. Encased in a…

…sent me a link to a recent podcast for science-fiction fans, in which political commenter Ana Marie Cox puzzles over the fact that Ted Cruz is a big Star Trek…

Star Trek is among the most prominent works of science-fiction television. The Star Trek universe is the brainchild of the late Gene Roddenberry and has, with a few interruptions, been…

…worthy of being a Star Wars film has heated up once again. What follows is one lifelong fan’s take on the film, the franchise, and life in the Star Wars…

…like “Battlestar Galactica” where Starbuck is now a woman in an entirely newly imagined story (and even that caused quite the uproar). “Star Trek” has not been re-imagined. Sulu is…

…damaged Basestar, trailing vapor. The Raptor is struck by debris, knocking Starbuck unconscious. When Starbuck awakens, the Raptor is aboard the Basestar. Eights approach Athena about rebelling against the Sixes’…

…for the Star Wars version of a cab with a flute, not a whistle. 4. Wipe Out If Star Wars movies are known for one editing trick, it’s the “wipe”…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of “Star Wars.” It’s been 40 years of Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, Vader, R2, 3PO, and rest of the Star Wars universe. So many…

…debriefing, Starbuck can recall only stars matching those seen in the Tomb of Athena, a ringed gas planet, and a flashing triple star. Tyrol discovers Starbuck’s Viper bears its original…

…fiction in their formative years was “Star Trek,” whether “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” (TNG) for people my age, or the Original Series for those older. “The Orville” features McFarlane…

…young people raised reflexively to avoid acknowledging that there is any definite difference between men and women. So there’s an idea for the next Star Trek movie: “Star Trek: Beyond…

Once considered the territory of the super dork, Star Trek has come a long way. I used to get teased for loving “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and braced for…

…timeline of Star Trek’s previous incarnations. Then he gave up the only advantage of this approach — freedom from existing story lines — by pilfering old Star Trek stories for…

…Star Wars fan hurts. Marvel will continue to gain on and outpace Star Wars in popularity with younger generations and make more money at the box office (remember those?), but…

…star, a pop star, a porn star, a gang star, or a marvel star, yet the Blackstar says: How many times does an angel fall? How many people lie instead…

…Start and TPS slots, and Educare (a program with Early Head Start slots and TPS slots). Educare, the brainchild of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and the Ounce of Prevention…

…‘The Marshall’ Cylon Graffiti — “Battlestar Galactica” is a series that owes its very existence to “Star Wars,” so I love when the series make sly references to each other….

…Starbuck is the proof of life after death. Starbuck slaps Baltar before Adama has him removed. Afterward, Apollo is unconditionally accepting of Starbuck, who pins her own photo to the…

Spoilers abound.  “Star Trek” has always sailed the cosmos on the unearthly wind of left-wing pieties, but a message more inhuman than mere collectivism and leftism emerges in “Star Trek:…

…Wars story with the Starkiller Base standing in as an amped-up version of the Death Star. According to the Star Wars website, the First Order (more of a cash-strapped startup…

…crew launch a search and rescue operation for Starbuck. They have roughly 26 hours before Starbuck’s oxygen supply is consumed. Starbuck is jolted awake as her parachute drags her across…

…patrol Starbuck was too hung over to fly. Kat calls out Starbuck. During the ensuing argument, Starbuck accuses Kat of riding her to cover up her own fear of Scar….

…missing one of the most important developments in the Star Wars universe on Disney’s cartoon series, “Star Wars: Rebels.” When Disney purchased Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe, they dismissed…

…List of Good Places to Start Here are just a few potential Star Wars stories worth telling. The Godfather: Star Wars Style. “Solo” touches on the criminal underworld of the…