Our actions will come back to us, sometimes sooner than we expect (or much later, where humpback whales are concerned).
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Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Who Mourns for Adonais?
"Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?"
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Amok Time
This conflict between short-term gain and long-term prosperity was a suitable theme for a 1960s America in the midst of figuring out what it wanted to be.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Operation – Annihilate!
Our crew will continue doing what they always do: collaborating and making whatever sacrifice is necessary for the needs of the many. Shame on us if we ignore their example.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The City On the Edge of Forever
The City On the Edge of Forever holds up brilliantly more than fifty years later.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Alternative Factor
A power-mad villain with the ability to destroy the world is never confined or regulated in any way. That could never happen, right?
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Errand of Mercy
One of wisdom’s most essential traits is an alignment between purpose and actions.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Devil in the Dark
We should consumption and commerce aside and care for one another instead.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: This Side of Paradise
(Note: This post is viewable as a page elsewhere on this site. If you haven’t read it yet, my introductory post on this Star Trek: The Original Series rewatch is a good place to start. Previous essays on specific episodes can be found here.) Original Air Date: March 2, 1967 Crew Death Count: 0 Bellybuttons:…
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Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: A Taste of Armageddon
When we make war on others, we are, ultimately, making war on our own kind.
