This is a companion web page for my Amazon Kindle eBook. Studying Star Trek I am 100% certain that most people today who visit websites about Star Trek would not likely stop to think for even just a few seconds about scholarly studies which examine this show business phenomenon. However, I was never one of them. My personal interest in Star Trek began when I was in my final year of high school. As it … Read more
What motivated me at long last to get the streaming video service CBS All Access (rebranded in March 2021 as Paramount+) was a simple life upended due to an international health crisis. Staying put in an apartment for longer than 30 consecutive days thus far has prevented me from getting the infectious virus. Yet the pressing sense of confinement started to affect my dreams, my moods, and my eating–not necessarily in that order. So it … Read more
The sheer volume of words written about The Kennedys miniseries almost discouraged me from watching it. But, I did watch it, and yet somehow I lived to tell about it. From the extreme partisan political intensity of what I had read in advance of actually watching the 8-part miniseries in its entirety, I was prepared mentally for overwhelming anti-Kennedy or anti-Democrat or anti-liberal propaganda. I can tell you that is not at all what this … Read more