Welcome to my online writing collection. Here I’ll publish odds and ends: mostly short stories, essays, and reviews.
Movie Memories
An ongoing series of tributes to movies that inspire me. Part review, part memoir.
And a TV miniseries:
- V: What a 1983 Miniseries Can Teach Us About Fighting Fascism – Part One
- V: What a 1983 Miniseries Can Teach Us About Fighting Fascism – Part Two
Video Game Memories
An ongoing series of tributes to video games that inspire me.
Essential Star Trek Episodes
This is a series of articles exploring the most essential classic Star Trek episodes. I started this project in 2017 intending it to be weekly, wrote two essays, then got swamped with the Discovery reviews below. It’s ripe for a revival someday.
The Original Series
Star Trek: Discovery Reviews
I wrote reviews of Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 as it came out, then jumped ship on the series. Here you can see my gradual, tortured evolution from “die hard fan who will watch anything with the name Star Trek” to “actually, I’m done.”
- “The Vulcan Hello”
- “Battle at the Binary Stars”
- “Context is for Kings”
- “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
- “Choose Your Pain”
- “Lethe”
- “Magic to Make the Sanest Mad Go Mad”
- “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”
- “Into the Forest I Go”
- “Despite Yourself”
- “The Wolf Inside”
- “Vaulting Ambition”
- “What’s Past is Prologue”
- “The War Without, The War Within”
- “Will You Take My Hand?”
Short Stories
Just a bit of satire, written for fun in 2016-17: