Star Trek: Gateways — Chainmail
{4.5/5} “The legend of Keller is the only force holding us with you. If you want my people to take your orders, then you must show them why. If you let my orders be disobeyed, if you protect him, all your words about treating us as equals will dissolve. You have planets watching you. Planets.” […]
Star Trek: Gateways — One Small Step
{4.5/5} “McCoy made a small noise, as if that was enough to convince him. Kirk had to agree. He almost reached for his communicator to tell Scotty to deactivate the shield. But something wasn’t right. He couldn’t pinpoint it, but this commander was a tad smooth for his taste. She watched him too carefully.” Star […]
Shatner and Nimoy at a convention
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy sometimes appeared together at conventions, talking and answering questions from the audience. They are very funny together. This particular video is from 2009. One of the funny parts is that, since the J. J. Abrams Star Trek movie had just come out, Nimoy asks Shatner “Have you seen any good […]
Star Trek: “Q and False” and Other Stories
{4.5/5} “Archer smiled… ‘I’d rather see humanity on a long road to get where we’re going, than take a short-cut.’ He shook his head. ‘No offence, but I don’t want to put myself in debt to a god-like being. I’ve read the classics. I know how those bargains turn out.’” (from “The Offer”) Star Trek: […]
Worlds of DS9: The Dominion / Ferenginar
{4.5/5} “He tried to help the Link see that their refusal to consider themselves connected to other, non-changeling lifeforms, and their rejection of the possibilities afforded by amity rather than distrust, should be regarded as antithetical to a species that exulted in self-change. The Founders seemed capable of any transformation, he maintained, but not in […]
Worlds of DS9: Trill / Bajor
{4.5/5} “Though she was well acquainted with her people’s penchant for secrecy, she also knew that Trills, like all Federation members, were proud of their free and open society. She had to believe that her people would never throw away the latter because of an habitual attachment to the former.” (from Trill: Unjoined) Worlds of […]
Star Trek: Picard (season 3)
{5/5} “You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone.” Star Trek: Picard season 3, aired in 2023 Jean-Luc Picard and Laris are moving to Chaltak Four. Neither Picard nor any of […]
Worlds of DS9: Cardassia / Andor
{4.5/5} “‘You know, Keiko, when you’re brought up to think carefully before you dare to utter even a single word, suddenly being free to say what you like is…’ He had to grope for the right words to express himself here. ‘Well, it’s terrifying,’ he said, at last.” (from Cardassia: The Lotus Flower) Worlds of […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Unity
{5/5} “Most people know it, but they let themselves forget. They hang on to the pain because it’s familiar, because to let it go might mean having to change. It’s easier to keep the pain than to ask the questions, to find out why you think what you think, to question why you do the […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Rising Son
{4.5/5} “He turned back, satisfied that his team was on top of things, and grinned, almost laughed out loud; the eager, frightened, delighted look on Jake’s face was priceless. It was the face that every fortune hunter had but kept hidden, and it did his heart good to see Jake wearing it.” Star Trek: Deep […]