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Jeff Bond

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Review - “The Omega Glory” Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ July 3, 2007 ⋅ 47 comments

Once again it befalls me to offer the defense of a not-very-well-thought-of episode of original Trek. When most people bring up “The Omega Glory,” it’s to do their impression of William Shatner’s inimitable (well, actually, VERY imitatable) delivery of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution at the episode’s infamous climax: “WE…THE PEOPLE…of the unitedstates…do ORDAIN […]

Review: “Errand Of Mercy” Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ May 14, 2007 ⋅ 77 comments

Here’s another classic Trek episode that needs no defense—in fact it’s one of the all time greats, and probably ranks among my top handful of Star Trek episodes ever made. Kirk and Spock meet the franchise’s first Klingons and wind up coming up against a far more powerful—but ultimately benevolent—force when the Federation and Klingon […]

Review: Wolf In the Fold Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ March 13, 2007 ⋅ 50 comments

Robert Bloch’s “Wolf in the Fold” is typical both of the horror writer’s contributions to the series (he also wrote “What Are Little Girls Made Of? and “Catspaw”) and of the show’s second season, in that in year two Trek often presented some fairly dark and outlandish plotlines but shook them up with humor. The […]

Review: “Journey To Babel” Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ February 5, 2007 ⋅ 38 comments

For the last two reviews I’ve written for the site I deliberately took on Trek outings that I feel are a little undervalued by the community—not so here. Dorothy Fontana’s “Journey to Babel” is an acknowledged Trek classic and would be even if it had only conjured up Spock’s parents, Sarek and Amanda, in the […]

Review of Friday’s Child Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ January 8, 2007 ⋅ 45 comments

While I’m curious as to why anything written by Dorothy Fontana would qualify as “underappreciated,” the second season episode “Friday’s Child” often produces a shrug of disaffection when you mention it to fans. I’ve never understood this and it’s always been a favorite of mine. Maybe it’s the patently ridiculous costumes, the mix of cyclorama […]

Review - Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

By Jeff Bond ⋅ January 1, 2007 ⋅ 85 comments

part 3 of our series reviewing past Trek movies 
In the wake of 1982’s enormously successful The Wrath of Khan, and particularly before the universally despised Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Leonard Nimoy’s directorial debut, Star Trek III, was the whipping boy of the burgeoning Star Trek movie franchise. On the face of it […]

Review of Space Seed Remastered

By Jeff Bond ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ 35 comments

In addition to its place of honor as the inspiration for what is usually considered to be the best Star Trek movie ever made, the first season episode "Space Seed" displays many of the virtues that got me hooked on Trek in the early Seventies: cool spaceships, great music (albeit tracked from other episodes here), […]

 

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