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Geek Girl Authority
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
STAR TREK: 5 Alternate Lives
The Star Trek Franchise follows the crews of Starfleet ships in the future as they boldly explore the galaxy. But what if our heroes lived a different kind of life? For this week's Trek Tuesday, we're remembering five Star Trek episodes that show our heroes living a different life. Did we include your favorite? Be sure and let us know in the comment section or over on social media. 'The Inner Light' Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5's 'The Inner Light' is widely regarded as one of the show's best episodes. In this episode, the U.S.S. Enterprise-D encounters a strange probe floating in space. But when the probe zaps Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), he is inexplicably transported into a new existence. RELATED: Star Trek: Guest Star Spotlight on Majel Barrett Roddenberry Picard is unable to contact the Enterprise-D or determine how he might return to his former reality. So eventually, Picard settles into life as 'Kamin' on the planet Kataan. Thus, he lives out a recreation of the final decades of the doomed planet from whence the probe originated. Meanwhile, only twenty minutes pass on the Enterprise-D . However, he does get to keep a flute to remember the experience. We see that he still displays this flute on his desk decades later in Star Trek: Picard Season 3. 'Hard Time' On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) had a reputation for being something of a whipping boy. But in Deep Space Nine Season 4's 'Hard Time,' that reputation seems particularly well-earned. The episode sees O'Brien falsely convicted of espionage on the planet Argratha. On this planet, those who are convicted are placed into a virtual simulation. This simulation distorts the prisoner's perception of time. So, O'Brien has served his sentence before Starfleet learns he's been incarcerated. But from O'Brien's perspective, that process took twenty years, not a matter of days. In the wake of his experience, he struggles to readjust as he returns to his normal life about Deep Space 9. 'Far Beyond the Stars' Speaking of popular episodes, there are few Star Trek episodes more universally lauded than Deep Space Nine Season 6's 'Far Beyond the Stars.' In this episode, Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) finds himself inhabiting the life of Benny Russell, a Black author living on Earth in the 1950s. RELATED: Star Trek : Answering Your Questions About Caitians Russell writes the story of Sisko, the Black captain of a space station in the future (sound familiar?). But unfortunately, he faces discrimination and oppression as he attempts to get the story published. In this episode, Sisko is both the dreamer and the dream. 'Workforce' In the Star Trek: Voyager Season 7 two-part episode 'Workforce,' the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager are captured and are brainwashed into believing they are different people. As such, they accept that they have spent their lives living and working on an industrial workforce. While there are some echoes of their previous lives, the crew is unable to remember the true nature of their existence. So, it's up to Neelix (Ethan Phillips) and Chakotay (Robert Beltran), who weren't affected by the mind-warp, to restore the rest of the crews' memories. 'The Elysian Kingdom' Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1's 'The Elysian Kingdom' saw the U.S.S. Enterprise crew experiencing a whole new reality after they encounter an enigmatic nebula in space. This is thanks to the fact that the nebula bonds with the daughter of Doctor M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Rukiya (Sage Arrindell/Makambe Simamba). As a result, the Enterprise and her crew are transformed into fantasy analogues of themselves. RELATED: Star Trek: The Animated Series : 5 Characters and Species Introduced by the Show The fantasy analogues are taking from the children's picture book The Elysian Kingdom, which M'Benga reads to Rukiya. Interestingly, this book was written by the aforementioned Benny Russell. At the conclusion of the episode, reality is restored. However, M'Benga must accept that his daughter has chosen to remain with the nebula rather than continue waiting in the transporter buffer for M'Benga to cure the ailment with which she is afflicted. These Star Trek episodes are currently available for streaming on Paramount+. STAR TREK: Tracing the Holodeck's History Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.
Geek Tyrant
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
How George Wendt's Norm From CHEERS Inspired One of STAR TREK's Most Lovable Background Characters — GeekTyrant
Did you ever watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and notice that walrus-faced alien who's always sitting at the bar, quietly nursing a drink? Well, that Morn, and this silent space barfly was directly inspired by George Wendt's beloved character Norm from Cheers . His name was officially mentioned in the Season 1 episode 'Vortex' and Morn was always seated at Quark's Bar. Always drinking. Always... just kind of there. He was played by actor Mark Allen Shepherd, and he became one of the most endearing recurring presences on Deep Space Nine, racking up appearances in 93 episodes. According to Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr, Morn was intentionally named and designed after Norm. While Norm would famously stroll into Cheers to enthusiastic cries of 'Norm!' and proceed to spout dry funny one-liners and beer-soaked wisdom, Morn quietly occupied the same symbolic role. Everyone knew him. Everyone had a story about him. Characters on the show often described Morn as chatty, hilarious, and full of gossip... even though we never heard him say a thing. It was a running gag. Originally nicknamed "The Grinch" by the production crew due to his Seussian look, Morn's moniker was changed before filming. While his character never got any actual lines, the writers tried. Behr admitted the writers repeatedly brainstormed bigger roles and actual dialogue for Morn, but the showrunners always cut those scenes before cameras rolled. Still, Shepherd embraced the character. In a past interview with he recalled spending 12-hour days in full Lurian makeup and improvising small moments in the background of bar scenes. Despite never speaking, Morn even showed up in crossover episodes of The Next Generation , Voyager , and Lower Decks . One of his greatest moments came in the Season 6 episode 'Who Mourns for Morn?', which begins with his death. Or so we think. Turns out, Morn faked his death to flush out old criminal partners from a long-con robbery. We learn he'd once robbed a bank, swallowed a fortune in liquid latinum, and stashed it in one of his stomachs. After some chaos, Morn casually strolls back into the bar, alive and bald (the latinum made him lose his hair), with a sheepish shrug that says: 'What'd I miss?' Shepherd said that Morn actually did have lines and recalls the joke he told in the show, saying: 'Finalism finger fink. Obligatory quotient yokefellow, coconut kachina cosmological argument. Bank swallow fish story, inculpate minuteman. Stress certifier in lecithin. Hard-hearted dill, divine minded domineer, mind reader sextuplet, garden fly honey suckle garbage. Palter rimfire, green peace. Change is the ultimate solution.' Yeah, it makes absolutley no sense. Morn's legacy lives on as one of Star Trek 's most amusing Easter eggs and background gags, a tribute to Norm, to bar culture, and to the idea that sometimes, being there is enough to become a legend. Via: CinemaBlend
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Liberals torch ‘trash' Gavin Newsom for launching podcast with Charlie Kirk interview
Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is seen as a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, is under fire from liberals and progressives for his friendly interview with Charlie Kirk, which featured Newsom agreeing with the MAGA provocateur on trans athlete bans and other culture war issues. 'Gavin Newsom is trash and always has been,' one Bluesky user noted about the Newsom-Kirk sitdown. In the aftermath of Republicans taking control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Newsom announced last month that he was launching a new podcast that would feature prominent Trump world figures for spirited discussions. The governor pointed to his high-profile appearances on Fox News, including a 2023 debate against Ron DeSantis moderated by Sean Hannity, as proof the project could work. 'We already know what our disagreements are with the MAGA movement. I want to understand what the motivations are, the legitimacy of those motivations, and just really understand where people are coming from,' he said about the launch of This Is Gavin Newsom. 'They are influential — they are. They explain more things in more ways on more days about what's going on and if we're not trying to understand their motivations, we will be victims of their motivations.' At the time, Newsom declined to reveal who his first few guests would be on the podcast, but hinted that they would be fairly well-known figures in Trump world. 'I don't want to lose these folks by letting their names out there,' he said, adding: 'Look at the lineup at CPAC. It's that crew.' Ahead of the first episode of the podcast dropping on Thursday, Newsom posted a photo of him and Kirk — the founder of MAGA youth advocacy group Turning Point USA — standing together and smiling. The revelation that the governor had made the far-right activist and Trump acolyte his first podcast guest was enough to spark outrage among many on the left, even before the episode went live. ''The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk' is more than enough for me to say 'absolutely not' to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party,' attorney Max Kennerly wrote on Bluesky. 'People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.' 'Sometimes you see something that makes you realize that another person's mind is just always going to be a locked door to you, a total mystery,' games journalist Ian Boudreau stated. 'Impenetrable. For me that was Gavin Newsom making his debut podcast episode a talk with Charlie Kirk.' Center for International Policy chief editor Kelsey Atherton snarked that Newsom 'would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much,' referencing a 1995 Deep Space Nine episode about a fictional civil disturbance that took place in 2024 San Francisco. The criticism of Newsom only escalated after his interview with Kirk aired. During the episode, the governor asked Kirk to give him 'advice' for his party while also agreeing with the ultra-conservative activist that Democrats were in the wrong when it came to protecting trans athletes in sports. 'I think it's an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it's deeply unfair,' Newsom, who has long touted his LGBTQ advocacy, declared. 'I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.' Additionally, after Newsom said that Republicans 'were able to weaponize that issue at another level,' Kirk challenged him over the use of the term 'weaponize,' prompting the governor to demur and change it to 'highlight.' The exceedingly friendly chat with Kirk and his agreement on trans athletes and other hot-button social issues only drew more backlash from the left. 'If you want to understand the DNC's relationship with trans people you have to ask yourself why Montana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma had openly trans legislators before California and New York (which still have never had any),' ACLU communications strategist Gillian Branstetter reacted. 'Who do Democrats think is the audience for 'Gavin Newsom in a podcast with Charlie Kirk,'' former Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham wondered, while podcast host Andy Levy flatly said it was 'utterly contemptible' how Newsom readily embraced Kirk's viewpoints. 'I know we all know this absolute toad of a man is scum but it truly cannot be overstated just how much he sucks and looks like you threw a Bond villain and the rich property developer who wants to close the Community Center in an 80s kid movie in the Fly machine,' comics writer Zoe Tunnell shared in a post. 'This is Dem leadership.' While progressives torched the Democratic governor for his congenial sitdown with the TPUSA founder, Kirk was busy gleefully retweeting clips of Newsom proclaiming that his 13-year-old son was a massive fan of Kirk's.
The Independent
06-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Liberals torch ‘trash' Gavin Newsom for launching podcast with Charlie Kirk interview
Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is seen as a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, is under fire from liberals and progressives for his friendly interview with Charlie Kirk, which featured Newsom agreeing with the MAGA provocateur on trans athlete bans and other culture war issues. 'Gavin Newsom is trash and always has been,' one Bluesky user noted about the Newsom-Kirk sitdown. In the aftermath of Republicans taking control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Newsom announced last month that he was launching a new podcast that would feature prominent Trump world figures for spirited discussions. The governor pointed to his high-profile appearances on Fox News, including a 2023 debate against Ron DeSantis moderated by Sean Hannity, as proof the project could work. 'We already know what our disagreements are with the MAGA movement. I want to understand what the motivations are, the legitimacy of those motivations, and just really understand where people are coming from,' he said about the launch of This Is Gavin Newsom. 'They are influential — they are. They explain more things in more ways on more days about what's going on and if we're not trying to understand their motivations, we will be victims of their motivations.' At the time, Newsom declined to reveal who his first few guests would be on the podcast, but hinted that they would be fairly well-known figures in Trump world. 'I don't want to lose these folks by letting their names out there,' he said, adding: 'Look at the lineup at CPAC. It's that crew.' Ahead of the first episode of the podcast dropping on Thursday, Newsom posted a photo of him and Kirk — the founder of MAGA youth advocacy group Turning Point USA — standing together and smiling. The revelation that the governor had made the far-right activist and Trump acolyte his first podcast guest was enough to spark outrage among many on the left, even before the episode went live. ''The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk' is more than enough for me to say 'absolutely not' to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party,' attorney Max Kennerly wrote on Bluesky. 'People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.' 'Sometimes you see something that makes you realize that another person's mind is just always going to be a locked door to you, a total mystery,' games journalist Ian Boudreau stated. 'Impenetrable. For me that was Gavin Newsom making his debut podcast episode a talk with Charlie Kirk.' Center for International Policy chief editor Kelsey Atherton snarked that Newsom 'would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much,' referencing a 1995 Deep Space Nine episode about a fictional civil disturbance that took place in 2024 San Francisco. The criticism of Newsom only escalated after his interview with Kirk aired. During the episode, the governor asked Kirk to give him 'advice' for his party while also agreeing with the ultra-conservative activist that Democrats were in the wrong when it came to protecting trans athletes in sports. 'I think it's an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it's deeply unfair,' Newsom, who has long touted his LGBTQ advocacy, declared. 'I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.' Additionally, after Newsom said that Republicans 'were able to weaponize that issue at another level,' Kirk challenged him over the use of the term 'weaponize,' prompting the governor to demur and change it to 'highlight.' The exceedingly friendly chat with Kirk and his agreement on trans athletes and other hot-button social issues only drew more backlash from the left. 'If you want to understand the DNC's relationship with trans people you have to ask yourself why Montana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma had openly trans legislators before California and New York (which still have never had any),' ACLU communications strategist Gillian Branstetter reacted. 'Who do Democrats think is the audience for 'Gavin Newsom in a podcast with Charlie Kirk,'' former Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham wondered, while podcast host Andy Levy flatly said it was 'utterly contemptible' how Newsom readily embraced Kirk's viewpoints. 'I know we all know this absolute toad of a man is scum but it truly cannot be overstated just how much he sucks and looks like you threw a Bond villain and the rich property developer who wants to close the Community Center in an 80s kid movie in the Fly machine,' comics writer Zoe Tunnell shared in a post. 'This is Dem leadership.' While progressives torched the Democratic governor for his congenial sitdown with the TPUSA founder, Kirk was busy gleefully retweeting clips of Newsom proclaiming that his 13-year-old son was a massive fan of Kirk's.
