The Literary Loupine

Captain’s log, stardate 81539.4: Ferengi DaiMon Tog decides that Troi’s mother is the woman for him, and kidnaps her along with Deanna and Riker. On the Enterprise, Wesley forgoes an opportunity to travel to the Academy to help locate the Ferengi ship and recover the three captives. This week, several episode concepts from Hell: A Troi episode and a Ferengi episode, done up as a romantic comedy…

Captain’s log, stardate 81520.8: Vulcan Ambassador Sarek, father of Spock, beams aboard the Enterprise to be transported to his final diplomatic duty. But he is suffering the initial symptoms of a mind-deteriorating disease and his telepathic skills project violent, irrational impulses in the crew’s minds. In which TNG has its first engagement with the Original Series era since the first two…

Captain’s log, stardate 81501.7: Kivas Fajo, an ‘antique collector’, considers Starfleet’s only android officer Data, a prize for his collection and fools the crew of the Enterprise into thinking that Data has been killed in a freak shuttle accident. For whatever reason, my most abiding memory of this episode comes from when I first watched it back in 2022, during my initial run through TNG. I…

Captain’s log, stardate 81482.4: Reginald Barclay neglects his duties in favor of spending time on the holodeck, where he has constructed programs simulating members of the crew. When the senior crew of learns of Barclay’s holo-addiction, he must come to terms that he has a problem. Hello readers! I got a special treat for you this week: longtime friend of the blog Freezing Inferno is here to…

Captain’s log, stardate 81463.3: The Enterprise is called on to transport first-contact specialist Tam Elbrun to Beta Strongrem to make initial contact with an alien life form. However, things go disastrously wrong when Romulan attackers show up and the Beta Strongrem sun goes supernova. The adaptation, usually, is a way to experience a story you love through a different medium. Netflix’s A…

Captain’s log, stardate 81444.2: Picard is pressed into taking a vacation on Risa where he is tangled up in a plan by 27th century aliens to retrieve a weapon that has made its way back in time to the 24th century. Jean-Luc Picard, as we all know, is the ultimate workaholic. When he’s not sitting in his command chair on the bridge dealing with whatever crisis is happening to the Enterprise this…

Folks, if you’re reading this then you know what I know: Paul McCartney, one of the best musicians living today, had the honor of literally turning out the lights on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, bookending his own first appearance with John, George, and Ringo on The Ed Sullivan Show back in February 1964. It’s no surprise that Stephen had Paul on for one last hurrah – the man’s got an…

Captain’s log, stardate 81424.7: Picard is kidnapped and deposited in a laboratory maze with three other captives, while a replica of the Captain begins to wreak havoc with the crew of the Enterprise, leaving Riker no choice but mutiny. This week, Captain Picard finds himself as an unwilling participant in a social deduction game put on by a couple of aliens who wish to study the importance of…

Well dear reader, it happened again! I tend to plan very far ahead when it comes to blogging projects, and just in the couple years that have passed since this one came to be, (Feb. 7th, 2024 per my notes) Ringo has released two new albums, and Paul has finally released the one that I was thinking about in December of last year. It’s called The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and as with so many of Paul’s…

Captain’s log, stardate 81406.2: The Enterprise receives a Klingon first officer on the Federation exchange program who is actually Worf’s brother. When Worf learns that their father has been charged with betraying the Khitomer Outpost, he sets off on a mission to clear his family name. Welcome back! This week we get one of my favorite Worf episodes of the whole show, a true deep dive into…

Back to solo Beatles again, and this time there’s some news! Paul’s latest studio album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, will be released on May 29th, but since that’s a Friday and my Beatles related pieces come out on Mondays, there’s a gap that needs filling! The Dungeon Lane post will go out on June 1st, followed by a quick tribute to both Paul and Stephen Colbert, in tribute to the recently…