If you're a Brit, the current issue of Star Trek Magazine, published by Titan, has reached its 200th issue!

The magazine started before the US got it, so if you're an American, whose car has the steering wheel on the wrong side, then it'll be #73. And #73 isn't a special number, is it?

I did pick this up for the first time in ages. Some pretty good features in it. I did buy it regularly back in the day (it started in the UK in 1995). It always seemed to find material even during the barren years between 2005 (when Enterprise finished) and 2009 (when Abrams' project was released).

I will make one criticism: you know I love letters pages. Back in the day, the publication had some long and lively letters, whether it be people suggesting how the franchise could progress - one writer suggested the Omega Quadrant - or those looking at the real world through the lens of Trek. Sadly, like a lot of publications, recent years have featured 'letters pages' where the editors simply select some short posts (from Facebook) and tweets. Sorry, but 280-character tweets and short FB posts will never be as enjoyable to read as well-formulated letters. That isn't a criticism of the internet, but people don't tend to write "novels" as posts on Facebook while Twitter's 280-character limit will always be limiting.

Today marks 25 years since Star Trek: Voyager first aired on UPN in the United States.

Out of all the post-TOS shows, Voyager may be my favourite. Being 70,000 light years from Earth meant that they were boldly going where no-one had gone before. I enjoyed the show for the most part, many of the villains were menacing. And the Delta Quadrant setting meant we weren't going to be bumping into the Ferengi every five minutes. One of my favourite episodes is "Tuvix", a most thought-provoking one which sees Tuvok and Neelix accidentally merged, becoming Tuvix. Tuvix argues for his right to life while Janeway wants Tuvok and Neelix back. Great stuff.

Happy 25th anniversary, Voyager.

Unfortunately, Voyager is probably the Trek series I have seen the least of. But that's due to never having UPN available and then when it finally did air on a local affiliate, the video and audio were always out of synch. Perhaps someday I'll have the opportunity to try a watch/rewatch of the series.

To be honest, I liked the Original and Next Generation equally well and then Voyager and DS9.

Favorite Trek series is truly that which you grew up with. My best friend is a TOS fan. Has 3 boys who all grew up during the times when Next Generation through Enterprise was on. The oldest boy grew up with DS9. The middle boy with Voyager. The youngest during the days of Enterprise. They can barely tolerate Next Generation (usually say it is too "slow") except for any Klingon or Borg episodes and all 3 have no idea why we adults like TOS (other than they admit Kirk is the best Captain cuz he kicks ass, takes no shit and gets all the alien babes) so much. They have the kids of today concept: if it isn't new and fancy and special effects driven then it must not be very good. 

All 3 boys refuse to watch Lost in Space or Space: 1999 as it is boooooring to them. Babylon 5 is too fake looking with all the CGI and  they will leave the room when we watch Star Trek the Animated series. They LOVE Star Wars because it is big screen movie style science fiction: a lot of flash, explosions and cool designs and elements and minimal story/plot that they can easily dive into. They roll their eyes whenever we put on Flash Gordon. They won't watch Doctor Who or the movies 2001 A Space Odyssey or it's sequel 2012. Puts them into instant brain sleep coma mode. Whaddaya gonna do with kids today? Sheeeeeeesh 

I was checking out some back issues of Star Trek Magazine. One was #198 from mid-2019. A guy called Rich Matthews wrote an article about the Borg. Here's a portion of that article:



I think he has a point with that last sentence. What about the rest of you?