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Mark A. Altman

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Review “This Side Of Paradise” Remastered & The First TOS-R ‘Season’

By Mark A. Altman ⋅ August 2, 2007 ⋅ 50 comments

PARADISE LOST: LOVING THE ALIENAfter watching last weekend’s ‘remastered’ version of “This Side of Paradise," it’s not hard to imagine how Philip Kaufman got the idea to cast Leonard Nimoy in his 1979 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, one of the most underrated genre films of the 70’s (re-issued in a the new  […]

Review: “Patterns of Force” Remastered

By Mark A. Altman ⋅ May 25, 2007 ⋅ 60 comments

TRIUMPH OF THE BILLKirk & Company save us from the Nazis and proves we can all get alongSantayana once said “those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it,” but in the case of John Gill, he didn’t forget, he just made a really, really bad call. It was a bad call, John, a […]

Review: “A Piece Of The Action” Remastered

By Mark A. Altman ⋅ May 1, 2007 ⋅ 83 comments

GETTING INTO THE ACTIONWhether you’re a die-hard fan of the original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine or Voyager (and, god help you, if you are), it’s hard to argue that there’s only one series which did comedy well and that was Classic Trek. Unlike Next Generation (which tried to be funny, painfully in […]

Review: “The Doomsday Machine” Remastered

By Mark A. Altman ⋅ February 12, 2007 ⋅ 121 comments

THERE WAS, BUT NOT ANYMORE: DOOMSDAY HAS ARRIVED!Before getting to my review of the new “Doomsday Machine,” let’s get through the preliminaries first. First up, let’s address why it’s sacrilege to screw with the original Star Wars Films (ok, really SW and ESB, I never really cared what they did with Jedi – although putting […]

Editorial: Star Trek Lives!

By Mark A. Altman ⋅ December 10, 2006 ⋅ 141 comments

on J.J. Abrams taking the helm of the Star Trek franchiseIt was 40 years ago that Gene Roddenberry first taught the band to play. It was a seminal science fiction series called Star Trek. And despite having spawned a succession of spin-off’s and sequels, the original Star Trek, remains the most prescient and entertaining series […]

 

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