Learning when to take action versus when to sit still - choosing our battles, in other words - is one of life's more challenging lessons.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Assignment: Earth
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Bread and Circuses
Bread and Circuses is spot on in criticizing both the business of television and all of us for being so dependent on it.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Ultimate Computer
The real problem with technology is never the actual hardware or software, but the people designing and using it.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Omega Glory
"The Omega Glory" makes a nice double-feature-of-depression with "Patterns of Force."
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: By Any Other Name
Not only have the Kelvans assumed unfamiliar forms, but they are far removed from their own species and all the cultural influence associated with it.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Patterns of Force
If Nazi Germany had been as efficient as some people claim, they would probably have won the war.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Return to Tomorrow
The episode is primarily a study of two classic TOS themes: balance of power and risk.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: A Private Little War
The episode raises important questions about balancing the Prime Directive’s non-interference mandate with offering support to a struggling society.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Immunity Syndrome
Spock and McCoy, raised to believe in the superiority of their respective species, see in each other a colleague and prospective friend who shatters an entire cultural mythology.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: A Piece of the Action
Why is it okay to joke about poisoning a food supply in The Trouble with Tribbles but not criminals with guns in this episode? Maybe it's because elements of A Piece of the Action cut too close to home
