On September 8th, 1966, the Starship Enterprise boldly began a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds. Nearly 50 years later, Star Trek is still heralded for the way it explored strange ideas and new ways of telling crazy metaphorical stories. Unsurprisingly, the wealth of culture explored throughout all of the franchise’s incarnations has not only been […]
In the early ’90s, riding my bicycle to my local library in Mesa, Arizona yielded more than just good exercise. I also encountered, on the dusty shelves at the back of the science fiction section, nearly every Star Trek novel published by Pocket Books up to then. One of them in particular lodged itself in my […]
