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Like most fans of my generation, I knew Wil Wheaton as the terrific star of Stand by Me, and was encouraged when he was announced in 1987...
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Lukas Kendall
May 21, 20223 min read
Up the Long Ladder
I have a soft spot for this late-second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. It was the first time I really started to take...
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Lukas Kendall
May 19, 20225 min read
Q Who (or Q Who?)
The all-time classic Next Generation episode “Q Who” rolled around again in the nightly airing of vintage Trek shows on the Heroes &...
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Lukas Kendall
Apr 5, 20221 min read
La-La Land Final Star Trek Album
La-La Land Records has announced their final Star Trek franchise album, a 4CD set of previously unreleased music from the four Rick...
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Lukas Kendall
Mar 29, 20226 min read
Jack Sheldon Interview
Jack Sheldon (1931–2019) had a hell of a life. He was an all-time great jazz trumpet player and first-call session musician. (Buy the...
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Lukas Kendall
Mar 27, 20222 min read
Admiral Kirk’s Shoe Lifts
Taylor White’s Creature Features store in Burbank used to host live events (panels and gallery openings) and boy were those fun. The...
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Lukas Kendall
Feb 12, 20227 min read
My $95 Star Trek III CD
I had fun yesterday talking about my earliest soundtrack collecting experiences in the 1980s. As with a lot of geek kids of the era—I was...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Forgotten Trek
I am trying to avoid Wordle so I don’t become addicted to another time–suck. In lieu of that, may I recommend one of my favorite Star...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 17, 20213 min read
James Horner/Star Trek Music Theory
I’d like to do a little music theory today. Maybe somebody smarter than I am will read this and offer some wisdom? I love James Horner’s...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 9, 20211 min read
George Pérez
I was very sad to learn that the great comic book artist George Pérez announced a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He is truly one of the...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 8, 20213 min read
The Dead Spot of ST:TMP
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 42 years ago yesterday. Like most Trekkies I have a lot of fascination with this film: the...
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Lukas Kendall
Dec 7, 20214 min read
Thirty Years of Star Trek VI
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Wow! I don’t really pay attention to movie...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 27, 20213 min read
My Arne Starr Anecdote
Arne Starr is a comic book inker—and a very good one—and also an actor, which I didn’t realize until I just looked him up: IMDB, Memory...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 12, 20212 min read
The First Book About Star Trek Music I Ever Got
In the 1980s, somehow or other I stumbled across some interesting small-press books about Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I don’t...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 6, 20212 min read
The Critical Drinker
Somehow I discovered a YouTube vlogger named Will Jordan, who goes by “The Critical Drinker” (exaggerating his natural Scottish accent)...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 31, 20211 min read
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween, everybody! The above pic is from a few years ago. The kids are going as Cinderella and Hermione Granger this year. I’ll...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 30, 202110 min read
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Three—The Best Season!
Star Trek: The Next Generation is rolling into season three in the nightly airing on the H&I cable channel, part of their Star Trek...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 15, 20212 min read
Star Trek Blueprints
If you were a sci-fi fan in the 1980s, pre-Internet, your access to the larger “worlds” behind your favorite franchises (Star Wars, Star...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 6, 20212 min read
ST:TNG First Season Scripts
The nightly reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation on H&I have rolled over from season one to two, and it’s as good a time as any to...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Ratings
When I created this blog, I used a bunch of Wix templates without giving it much thought. As a result, there’s a view counter on each...
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