With spring soon to be here, the next round of sporting events will come about. Baseball and soccer season are starting within the United States. Outdoor sporting events will be starting up. The sporting world is prevalent within the Star Trek universe. Here are some episodes that feature sporting elements within the plot.
Star Trek fans are avid collectors. There are a large number of Star Trek collectables available for us to show our fandom. So for this month we’ve decided to showcase episodes and movies that deal with collectables of some kind or another.
TOS:Spock’s Brain (I wonder what this would go for on Ebay?) TAS:How Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth (Kukulakan has a collection of animals) TMS:Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (What will Dr. McCoy add to Kirk’s collection of antiques?) TNG:The Most Toys (A collector tries to add Data to his collection) DS9:In The Cards (Jake Sisko seeks a rare 1951 Willie Mays baseball card) Voy:Hunters (The crew of the Voyager encounter a race that collects trophies) Ent:Dead Stop (What does the repair station want from the crew of the Enterprise?) DSC:The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry (Burnham finds a killer in Lorca’s collection) Other Trek:Star Trek Under Glass (A documentary about Star Trek collecting produced by our own Admiral Hunsaker) Link goes to video. Fan Film:The Archive – A Star Trek fan production (Can the last collection from an ancient race be saved?) Link goes to video. Non-Trek:Soul Hunter (Babylon 5, season 1 episode 2: A mysterious alien is collecting souls)
Ok we couldn’t help ourselves when it came to the theme for the January Trek of the Month. We have reached the year 2020 and we now have 2020 vision. (yea we know, we need to start ducking the thrown items due to that bad pun). So the theme for the month is visions.
TOS:Is There in Truth No Beauty? (Can Spock regain his vision with the help of a blind woman) TAS:The Lorelei Signal (Can the male crewmembers of the Enterprise see past the illusion?) TMS:Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Sybok is using visions to take over the Enterprise) TNG:Rightful Heir (Worf has a vision of Kahless) DS9:Image in the Sand (The Prophets give The Sisko a vision, can he decipher it?) Voy:Barge of the Dead (B’Elanna has visions of her mother in the Klingon afterlife) Ent:Doctor’s Orders (Can Dr. Phlox handle being alone on the Enterprise?) DSC:Through the Valley of Shadows (Captain Pike has a vision of the future) Other Trek: What We Left Behind (This DS9 documentary features a hypothetical 8th season) Fan Film:The White Iris (Star Trek Continues: Captain Kirk has visions of the women in his past. The link goes to the episode) Non-Trek:Future Echoes (Red Dwarf Season 1 Episode 2: As the crew of the Red Dwarf breaks light speed, they start encountering visions of their own future)
So what did you think of the episodes/movies for the December Trek of the Month? Here they are as just a reminder.
TOS:The Cage (The first episode produced for Star Trek) TAS:Beyond the Farthest Star (The first animated series episode) TMS:Star Trek: The Motion Picture (This first movie is celebrating its 40 year anniversary) TNG:Encounter at Farpoint (The pilot episode for The Next Generation) DS9:Emissary (This episode introduced us to Deep Space Nine) Voy:Caretaker (The Voyager gets stranded in this first episode of the series) Ent:Broken Bow (Welcome Archer and company to the series) DSC:The Vulcan Hello (Pilot episode for Star Trek Discovery) Other Trek:Trekkies (The first of two documentaries released in theaters about Star Trek fans) Fan Film:Come What May (The first fan film in the Star Trek Phase II/New Voyages series. Link goes to the film.) Non-Trek:Forbidden Planet (one of the first intelligent Science Fiction films)
While it may be the end of the year, we’ve decided to make the theme for the Trek of the Month the firsts. With the first movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture celebrating it’s 40th Anniversary this month, we wanted to honor it. So here are some firsts episodes created for Star Trek.
TOS:The Cage (The first episode produced for Star Trek) TAS:Beyond the Farthest Star (The first animated series episode) TMS:Star Trek: The Motion Picture (This first movie is celebrating its 40 year anniversary) TNG:Encounter at Farpoint (The pilot episode for The Next Generation) DS9:Emissary (This episode introduced us to Deep Space Nine) Voy:Caretaker (The Voyager gets stranded in this first episode of the series) Ent:Broken Bow (Welcome Archer and company to the series) DSC:The Vulcan Hello (Pilot episode for Star Trek Discovery) Other Trek:Trekkies (The first of two documentaries released in theaters about Star Trek fans) Fan Film:Come What May (The first fan film in the Star Trek Phase II/New Voyages series. Link goes to the film.) Non-Trek:Forbidden Planet (one of the first intelligent Science Fiction films)
Send your thoughts and comments on each episode or movie that you watched to Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org and we will post them in a future blog. We will have a new Trek of the Month in December.
So after our first month of having a joint viewing schedule, we’ve decided to continue the fun. These are episodes and movies that you can select to watch as your schedule will allow. At the end of the month we will ask you for your thoughts on what you watched for a future blog post.
November is the time for Thanksgiving. It is a time that we think about what we are thankful for as we gather as a family and enjoy a good meal. Sometimes we eat a lot at this event, just like Tribbles. Thus the Tribbles are the theme for this month.
So what did you think of the episodes/movies for the first Trek of the Month? Here they are as just a reminder.
TOS:Catspaw (A Halloween based episode complete with a haunted castle) TAS:The Magicks of Megas-Tu (Stuck in a world where magic works and science doesn’t) TMS:Star Trek: First Contact (Cybernetic zombies, definitely not Swedish) TNG:Phantasms (You must kill zem. You must kill zem all) DS9:Empok Nor (Trapped on an abandoned station with maniac killers on the loose) Voy:The Haunting of Deck 12 (Neelix tells a ghost story. Could it be true?) Ent:Impulse (What happens when Vulcans go out of their minds?) DSC:Context is for Kings (What killed the crew of the USS Glenn?) Other Trek:For the Love of Spock (A documentary on Leonard Nimoy) Fan Film:Ghost Ship: A Star Trek Fan Production (It’s just a recovery mission) Non-Trek:Alien (1979 movie, hunted by a killer alien)
Send your thoughts and comments on each episode or movie that you watched to Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org and we will post them in a future blog. We will have a new Trek of the Month in November.
So we are going to try a new program within the Seventh Fleet website. This will help us with our goal of having fun with Star Trek (yea novel concept for a fan club right). Every month we will announce a variety of Star Trek episodes and movies from all of the Star Trek series (and some that are from other franchises). These are recommended episodes/movies to watch sometime during the month as your schedule allows. But you’ll be watching the same episodes/movies during the month that members of your Star Trek family will be watching as well.
Some months we will try to have a theme for the selection of episodes/movies. Other months may be just a random selection of episodes/movies. If you have a suggestion for a theme, please email it to Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org for consideration.
We will have a listing for each series. TOS (The Original Series), TAS (The Animated Series), TMS (The Movie Series), TNG (The Next Generation, DS9 (Deep Space Nine), Voy (Voyager), Ent (Enterprise) and DSC (Discovery). There will also be a listing for Other Trek (bloopers, documentaries or anything Trek related that isn’t an episode/movie), Fan Film (one of the many Star Trek fan films available on the internet) and Non-Trek (Any other Sci-Fi/Fantasy series that sounds like fun).
So for those of you who just want to have fun, that’s it in a nutshell. Watch one or more of the suggestions within the month. That’s all and enjoy.
For those of you who are overachievers (and you know who you are), we will try to have Merit Sheets available to fill out while you are watching the episode/movie. However it is strongly suggested that if you have never seen the episode/movie before, watch it first before trying to answer a merit sheet for it. Again, we watch the show for fun. Let us know if you have any questions.
And without further ado, the theme for October 2019 is Spooky Stories (it is the month of Halloween). We tried to select something that would be appropriate for the time of year.
TOS:Catspaw (A Halloween based episode complete with a haunted castle) TAS:The Magicks of Megas-Tu (Stuck in a world where magic works and science doesn’t) TMS:Star Trek: First Contact (Cybernetic zombies, definitely not Swedish) TNG:Phantasms (You must kill zem. You must kill zem all) DS9:Empok Nor (Trapped on an abandoned station with maniac killers on the loose) Voy:The Haunting of Deck 12 (Neelix tells a ghost story. Could it be true?) Ent:Impulse (What happens when Vulcans go out of their minds?) DSC:Context is for Kings (What killed the crew of the USS Glenn?) Other Trek:For the Love of Spock (A documentary on Leonard Nimoy) Fan Film:Ghost Ship: A Star Trek Fan Production (It’s just a recovery mission) Non-Trek:Alien (1979 movie, hunted by a killer alien)
And for those of you who wish to do so, here are links to some of the Merit Sheets/ADVOTs that have already been produced (not all episodes have been done yet).
