|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.23 “A Taste of Armageddon” – (Original air date: Thursday, February 23, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “A Taste of Armageddon.” On this date in history: The 25th amendment to the US Constitution is ratified. This amendment clarified issues dealing with presidential succession and disability. It […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.22 “Space Seed” – (Original air date: Thursday, February 16, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Space Seed.” On this date in history, The Monkees were finally knocked out of the #1 spot on the Billboard list. “I’m a Believer” was replaced by “Kind of […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.21 “The Return of the Archons” – (Original air date: Thursday, February 9, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Return of the Archons.” On this day in history: The first of the seven victims of the so-called Kenosha Murder Alley in Kenosha, Wisconsin, disappeared. This alley has […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.20 “Court Martial” – (Original air date: Thursday, February 2, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Court Martial.” On this day in history, the American Basketball Association was formed. It would last until 1976, when it merged with the National Basketball Association. The ABA used […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.19 “Tomorrow is Yesterday” – (Original air date: Thursday, January 26, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Tomorrow is Yesterday.” On this day in history – This is just tragic timing, but the Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed the […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.18 “Arena” – (Original air date: Thursday, January 19, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Arena.” On this day in history: Major Bernard F. Fisher of the USAF became the first person to be awarded the Air Force Medal of Honor. Major Fisher had […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.17 “The Squire of Gothos” – (Original air date: Thursday, January 12, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Squire of Gothos.” On this day in history: Dr. James Bedford becomes the first human to be cryonically frozen in the hope of one day being resuscitated. Fun […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.16 “The Galileo Seven” – (Original air date: Thursday, January 5, 1967)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Galileo Seven.” Happy New Year!!! Welcome to 1967. On this day in 1967: The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” was the #1 single on the US charts. It’s a […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.15 “Shore Leave” – (Original air date: Thursday, December 29, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Shore Leave.” This day in history: The #1 single in the US and UK simultaneously is “I’m a Believer,” by The Monkees. At #5 on the UK charts is […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.14 “Balance of Terror” – (Original air date: Thursday, December 15, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Balance of Terror.” This day in history: Walt Disney died on the same day “Balance of Terror” first aired. He was in the middle of producing “The Jungle Book” […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.13 “The Conscience of the King” – (Original air date: Thursday, December 8, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Conscience of the King.” On this day in history, the US and the USSR signed a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space. They were probably […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.12 “The Menagerie, Part 2” – (Original air date: Thursday, November 24, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Menagerie, Part 2.” This date in history. On this same day in 1966, the Abbey Road sessions that would result in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band began […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.11 “The Menagerie, Part 1” – (Original air date: Thursday, November 17, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Menagerie, Part 1.” Any nerd worth his weight in Soylent Green knows that this was the original Star Trek pilot repurposed into a two-part episode of the […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.10 “The Corbomite Maneuver” – (Original air date: Thursday, November 10, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Corbomite Maneuver.” Since TOS is kind of like a time capsule all on its own, I thought I’d begin to include an “on this day in history” portion […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.9 “Dagger of the Mind” – (Original air date: Thursday, November 3, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Dagger of the Mind.” Tantalus Penal Colony. A bit on-the-nose, wouldn’t you say? In Greek mythology, I believe Tantalus was being punished in Tartarus by standing in a […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.8 “Miri” – (Original air date: Thursday, October 27, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Miri.” The U.S.S. Enterprise comes across an exact duplicate of Earth hundreds of light-years from their Earth. It has the same mass, circumference, density, atmosphere and topography. An […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.7 “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” – (Original air date: Thursday, October 20, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” The main piece of trivia I remember about this episode is that it was written by Robert Bloch, the author who gave us […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.6 “Mudd’s Women” – (Original air date: Thursday, October 13, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Mudd’s Women.” “Captain’s log, Stardate 1329.8. The U.S.S. Enterprise in pursuit of an unidentified vessel.” Boom. That’s what I’m talking about. Short and to the point, straight into […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.5 “The Enemy Within” – (Original air date Thursday, October 6, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Enemy Within” The Planet-of-the-Week is Alfa 177 (yes, with an ‘F’). I’m hoping it has a moon named Amigo, so that we can honestly say this […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series—Season One: Ep. 1.4 “The Naked Time” – (original air date Thursday, September 29, 1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “The Naked Time” The Enterprise orbits the planet PSI 2000 (which is more than fifty times higher than you should inflate your car tires) to observe the […]

|||[Boldly Going]|||Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 1: Ep. 1.3 “Where No Man Has Gone Before” – (original air date 9/22/1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” The Enterprise picks up the distress signal of an Earth vessel that’s been missing for two centuries. Kirk and Spock are playing […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 1: Episode 1.2 “Charlie X” (original air date: 9/15/1966)

Welcome to my rewatching of the original 79 episodes of the series that launched the franchise. Below are the bulletpointed notes I jotted down while watching “Charlie X.” The episode is deftly set up in the teaser. The USS Enterprise meets up with a small cargo ship, the Antares, which picked up a young […]

|||[Boldly Going]||| Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 1: Ep. 1.1 “The Man Trap” – (original air date 9/08/1966)

In this rewatch of TOS, I’ve decided to showcase each of the 79 episodes of the Trek series that started it all. I’m viewing the first season, more or less, in the order the episodes are listed on Netflix, which is by original air date order rather than production order. I won’t be watching the […]

Stargate SG-1: Season 1 — a review

I began watching this series many years ago. I stopped during the first season. My memory can no longer be trusted, but I believe I stopped watching because—at that time—I still hadn’t watched all of the episodes of the various Star Trek series. I felt like I was cheating on the franchise that brought me […]

Episodes: Season 1 — a review

I’m returning to my old form here, watching a television series after it’s been off the air for a couple of years. I wish I had “discovered” this one sooner. I was aware that the Showtime series Episodes existed. And, I knew that it starred Matt LeBlanc playing some version of himself. Subconsciously, I think, […]

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