Prelude to Discovery | Part Two

By 2020, Star Trek: Discovery had proven successful, but not without its critics. Over the course of its first two seasons, the creative staff took note of the “feedback” from fans and made adjustments and tweaks to the look, feel, and storytelling. Those changes and the studio’s interest in expanding and growing the franchise for […]

Prelude to The Animated Adventures Of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek

Much has been made about Gene’s love/hate relationship with the Animated Series over the years, and I think it’s likely due to the general quality of the art rather than the storytelling (although a case could be made that some of the animated adventures stretch storytelling in-universe, and in one episode a cross-over with another […]

Prelude to Picard | Part Four

In my prior post on the subject, “Prelude to Picard | Part Three,” I made a small crack about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine not yet being relevant to the events of the series. Now that we’re deep into the fantastic final season of Star Trek: Picard, I find myself having to eat my words. […]

Prelude to the Original Series Films

In a slight break to the format of that of the other “Prelude to…” posts, I thought I would do one post that covers the first 30 years of Star Trek on the silver screen in one post. As you may already know, the fact there is a blog about how to watch Star Trek, […]

Prelude to The Next Generation

As I worked through three seasons of Star Trek, the two seasons of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and then the original film series, I felt a bit daunted by the amount of work facing me in building out the “Berman Era” of Star Trek. While it is well-known that Gene Roddenberry wanted to distance […]

Prelude to Enterprise

To use a well-worn joke, it’s been a long time getting from there to here… We’ve come to the end of the Berman era of Star Trek with the fourth spin-off of the seminal science fiction series with Star Trek: Enterprise. For this prelude, things are a bit different than the others. The show is […]

Prelude to Picard | Part Three

I began this list several weeks in advance of the debut of Star Trek: Picard. Needless to say, as each episode premiered I was equally delighted (and dismayed) to add to this list. If you’ve not watched the last TNG film or the film reboot, Star Trek, recently (or at all), I highly recommend working […]

Prelude to Picard | Part Two

I began this list several weeks in advance of the debut of Star Trek: Picard. Needless to say, as each episode premiered I was equally delighted (and dismayed) to add to this list. If you’ve not watched Star Trek: Voyager recently (or at all), I highly recommend working your way through this three-part prelude series […]

Prelude to Picard | Part One

I began this list several weeks in advance of the debut of Star Trek: Picard. Needless to say, as each episode premiered I was equally delighted and dismayed to add to this list. If you’ve not watched Star Trek: The Next Generation or the subsequent films recently (or at all), I highly recommend working your […]

Prelude to Discovery | Part One

In 2016, it once again appeared that the film franchise had stalled out. Star Trek: Beyond was by most measures a success, but no where near the box office results of the prior two films. Paramount, with its hopes dashed in repositioning the franchise into a multibillion dollar global IP, started looking at other approaches […]