Does Anyone Watch “Star Trek” in “Interstellar”?
On “Star Trek,” the Apollo Program, and the story within the story of “Interstellar”
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Star Trek on Overthinking It
Interference by Default: The Hegemony and Hypocrisy of the Prime Directive
Is the non-interference mandated by the Prime Directive worse than the interference that it tries to prevent?
Rewriting the Future: Retroactive Continuity as Marketing
When is changing the past the right decision? When it’s profitable.
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Episode 272: Grand Theft Auto: Watching People Play for More Than A Decade
The Overthinkers Tackle Grand Theft Auto V in a special live episode with more than the usual digressions.
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A Few Good Starfleet Officers
“You want me on that wall. You NEED me on that wall.” Must a civilized society use uncivilized means to protect itself?
Episode 255: I Think I Like Star Trek 2 Better Than Star Trek 2
The Overthinkers tackle J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek Into Darkness.
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Episode 252: Perhaps. But Not Today.
The Overthinkers tackle Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Best of Both Worlds” parts 1 and 2.
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Stats Alert! Frequency of Yellow and Red Alerts in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Battle stations! How often did the Enterprise go to yellow and/or red alert?
Episode 224: He Has Two Levers
The Overthinkers tackle the user interfaces in Science Fiction and New York Comic-Con 2012.
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The Dark Knight Patronizes: Democracy vs. the Prime Directive
Rob Northrup makes the case that there Science Fiction endorses a grotesque form of elitism.