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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! The guys once again travel beyond the stars to hang out with the crew of The USS Enterprise as they watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Where Captain Kirk and crew must travel back to the planet Genesis, retrieve the body of

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Comic Issues
llyzabeth

Comic Issues #216 – The Truth is (Sometimes?) Out There

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a rumor-filled podcast as the crew talks about the rumors of a new Star Trek show, a new Alien Nation, and a new X-Files mini series. (Spoilers: one of those is totally not a thing.) After that they get into the

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Blog
Anthony Silva

Geeky Gift Guide

Christmas is drawing near and those of us who didn’t do ALL of our holiday shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday may still be looking for gift ideas for others, and of course ourselves. From Treks to Wars, Rings to Thrones, and Bats to Spiders we’ve found some of the coolest geeky gift ideas

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the guys decided to once more go where no one has gone before. They travel back to the world of Star Trek, this time re-visiting Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, or as it is most commonly known as “the one with

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Movie Novelizations

We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve

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TV & Movies
James Huneycutt

[Editorial] Star Trek: In Defense of J.J. Abrams

On May 16 of 2013 Star Trek: Into Darkness released in theaters. The film was well-received by critics and went on to score the largest box office returns in the franchise’s history. (On a more personal note, Into Darkness was reviewed favorably by our own Leland Pierce.) But less than three months later at the One Trek Mind

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To Timidly Go: Are Sci-Fi Film Tropes Holding Back Sci-Fi Gaming?

With souped-up graphics and processing power, Playstation 4 and Xbox One will bring us one step closer to truly “cinematic” video games. But could game developers’ long quest to emulate silver-screen cool actually limit the creative potential of next-generation console titles? This question came to mind after the recent burst of publicity for Destiny and

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness is the twelfth installment in the Star Trek franchise and the sequel to 2009’s Star Trek. J.J. Abrams once again directs with a screenplay written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. This new adventure brings back all of our favorite crew members, adds some new ones, and gives us

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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Star Trek: Nemesis

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! In honor of the new Star Trek film, we’re taking a small break from comic book movies this week to yet again boldly go where no one has gone before. This week we watched 2002s Star Trek: Nemesis. The last adventure with

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