Tag Archives: Star Trek
Adieu Ellison
Harlan Ellison was a firebrand author of New Wave speculative fiction who wrote everything from sci-fi to fantasy, short stories, novels, television shows, film criticism and much more. Ellison’s “The City on the Edge of Forever” is widely-recognized as the best episode in the original Star Trek series and his Outer Limits episode, “Soldier,” was [...]
Satan Trek
What did William Shatner do between the end of the original Star Trek series and the first Star Trek feature film? Didn’t he make a movie about family curse connected to a Satanic grimoire that featured Anton LaVey as a technical advisor and featured John Travolta in his very first appearance on film? Beware The [...]
Oswald: Patsy
The television show In Search Of is a strange little chestnut from my childhood. I knew the show’s host, Leonard Nimoy from his turn as “Spock” in Star Trek repeats, and In Search Of’s focus on unexplained phenomena, missing persons and extraterrestrial encounters was right on target for a kid who already loved Sci-Fi. I [...]
