Oct 28, 2023 Best of Opus Movies Nerdery The Official Movie Magazine for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Is a Blast of Trekkie Nostalgia Long before the internet, we relied on magazines like this for information about our favorite genre movies.
May 6, 2023 Nerdery TV “The Next Phase” Allowed The Next Generation to Explore Death and the Afterlife With all of the requisite technobabble, of course.
Apr 24, 2023 Nerdery TV Picard and Riker’s Relationship Was the Best Part of Star Trek: Picard One reason Picard worked as well as it did was that it reveled in the camaraderie between these two old friends.
Aug 29, 2022 Nerdery TV Character Flaws and the “Final Frontier” How Star Trek dropped the ball by making its characters a little too perfect.
Aug 17, 2022 Nerdery TV How Star Trek Can Shape a Life We run a risk when we write off the TV shows we watch as merely trivial entertainment.
Jul 24, 2022 Best of Opus Literature Nerdery Diane Duane’s The Wounded Sky is Star Trek at Its Most Bizarre and Breathtaking (Review) This 1983 Star Trek novel contains a threat to two universes, bizarre alien technology, and a deeply emotional view of the Enterprise crew.
Jul 20, 2021 Nerdery TV The Next Generation’s “Relics” Is a Delightful, Poignant Rumination on Time and Aging What could’ve been some cheesy service turned out to be one of Star Trek’s best and most human episodes.
Dec 28, 2020 Nerdery TV A Commander, an Android, and a Klingon Walk Into a Casino One of my favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes finds the fun in a goofy and bizarre plot.
Oct 6, 2019 TV The Second Picard Trailer is Sci-Fi Nostalgia Done Right Set a course for the feels, maximum warp.
Sep 13, 2019 Movies Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Ambitious, Awe-Inspiring… and Boring The first Star Trek film contains some of the franchise’s most awe-inspiring scenes. At other times, it’s quite the snoozefest.
Jul 22, 2019 Nerdery My Favorite News From San Diego Comic-Con 2019 The Expanse, Picard, Marvel, Robotech, and more.
Jul 9, 2019 Nerdery Hero Collector’s U.S.S. Enterprise NCC–1701–D Illustrated Handbook Looks like a fitting tribute to Starfleet’s flagship (and my favorite fictional spacecraft).
Mar 8, 2019 Pop Culture Pop Culture Is More Than Mere Entertainment Inventors, engineers, scientists, and astronauts have been inspired by Star Trek, so why not politicians?
Jan 30, 2019 Nerdery TV Which Star Trek ship would win in a race? What’s the difference between warp 9.6 and warp 9.975?
Sep 30, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: The Terminator’s Back, Star Trek & Religion, Movie Theatres Suck, Silicon Valley Silliness Also: Amazon’s new sci-fi titles, The Prisoner, VidAngel, Donald Trump takes on the NFL, Facebook and Russia, and much more.
Sep 15, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: (Dis)Trusting Facebook, Silicon Valley Backlash, Netflix’s Atypical, Pizza Hut Nostalgia & more Also: Artificial intelligence and “gaydar,” popular Star Trek episodes, Hollywood’s decline, Asian shoegaze, and imagining aliens.
Jul 31, 2017 Best of Opus Nerdery Religion TV Star Trek Has Always Been More Religious Than Its Creators Want or Realize It’s a stretch to say that “religion basically no longer exists” in the Star Trek universe.