Star Trek’s Brent Spiner Constantly Considered Quitting In The Franchise’s Early Years

“Star Trek: The Next Generation” lasted for seven seasons from 1987 to 1994, and would go on to inspire four feature films from 1994 to 2002. But Spiner apparently always had one eye on the door throughout those first seven years. Data was beloved by fans, and some might say he’s the second most important … Read more

Just How Bad Was Star Trek’s Most Devastating Battle?

Screenshot: Paramount The Battle of Wolf 359’s legacy goes much further than just “The Best of Both Worlds,” both in and out of the text of Star Trek itself. The trauma of the incident follows Picard throughout the remainder of TNG, brought up explicitly in episodes like the following season’s “Family” and “The Drumhead,” and … Read more

A Surprising Next Gen Cast Member Gave Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart Major Insecurity

It wasn’t Wil Wheaton’s incredible, all-time great child performance in “Stand By Me” that threw Stewart for a loop. It was his adolescent confidence.  Now, it turns out that Stewart was already nervous taking on such a high-profile and very public role, essentially continuing the legacy of Gene Roddenberry and taking the mantle of captain from William Shatner. In his memoir, … Read more

The Legacy Of Armus, Star Trek’s Most cost-effective, Scariest, Most Controversial Villain

The origin of Armus is legendary in a Jack Kirby type of manner. The “tar” is the bodily manifestation of all of the unfavorable feelings and psychic impulses of a long-forgotten species of unnamed “Titans” who used superior know-how to actually rid themselves of hate. The Titans then left their world and deserted their sticky, … Read more

Unusual New Worlds S2’s Rigel VII Return Is A Sequel To Star Trek’s Very First Episode

Scant element about Rigel VII is offered in “The Cage,” although Pike experiences an phantasm of the planet whereas held captive by the Talosians. The planet (at the very least as Pike remembers it) seems to be like a medieval swashbuckling fantasy, with a purple sky and stone fortress. A local of the planet known … Read more