Category: Star Trek Musings

Star Trek Has Hit GOG.com

Oh, fellas. You’re killin’ me. YOU’RE KILLIN’ ME.

GOG.com just recently put up Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and each go for about six bucks. Two of those games are perhaps the finest Star Trek games ever conceived and the closest you’d have gotten at the time to playing authentic Star Trek episodes… and yes, those look to be the enhanced CD-ROM versions featuring the voiceovers of the original crew. Starfleet Academy… I’ve never played all that much, but I’ve heard it’s good.

I guess I could hold out hope that I may yet be able to play Klingon Academy… maybe…

Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015)

The news of Leonard Nimoy’s passing is a shock. Best known for his role as Spock in the long-running Star Trek franchise, but Mr. Nimoy has been a director (including Star Trek III and IV, Three Men And A Baby) as well as having dabbled in some poetry and even music. But it was his passion as a photographer that identified with his latter years. Mr. Nimoy has left a profound impression on the world and his presence will be sorely missed.

LLAP, Mr. Nimoy.

Not All Of Roddenberry's Ideas Were Good… Star Trek & JFK

A link to an blog posting about Gene Roddenberry’s proposal for a Star Trek movie where Klingons prevent the assassination of JFK and that somehow messes up the timeline. A movie proposal so reviled by Paramount that it was rejected every time Roddenberry tried to submit it for a Star Trek sequel. In fact, I can recall what William Shatner once noted in his book Star Trek Movie Memories, that when Roddenberry got wind that Star Trek IV was going to involve time-travel, Gene applauded the idea, but suggested that his JFK story would be better than what they had.

And after reading the premise for said treatment, I guess I should happy we got the movies that we did because this would have been terrible, especially the bit where one of the Enterprise crew would be involved in enacting a real life assassination of a beloved leader (supposedly) in order to restore the timeline. If The Motion Picture nearly curtailed Star Trek’s return to form as some would believe, no doubt this idea of Kirk meeting JFK would’ve been the death knell for Trek and it’d have no chance of continuing onwards to fifty years worth spin-off series, sequels, and whatnots that the closed-minded Trekkies would believed was TEH RUINZED FOREVAH! by the reboot Trek series.

That having been said, it somewhat surprises me that Roddenberry didn’t try and turn this into a TNG episode or something. Replace Klingons with Ferengi or something… nah, it still would’ve sucked.