Aug 29 - Retro Review: Hero Worship A young boy who is the sole survivor of a disaster that killed his parents decides to emulate Data.
Aug 21 - Retro Review: New Ground Worf's human mother brings his son Alexander on board, insisting that she can no longer raise the boy.
Aug 14 - Retro Review: A Matter of Time When a visitor from a future era arrives on the ship, Picard asks for assistance about how to save a dying planet.
July 31 - Retro Review: Unification, Part Two Picard learns the reason for Spock's visit to Romulus: an attempted reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan races.
July 17 - Retro Review: Unification, Part One Shocked to learn that Spock may have defected to the Romulans, Picard and Data cross the Neutral Zone in to find him.
July 10 - Retro Review: The Game When an interactive game becomes addictive to the crew, Wesley Crusher and his new girlfriend must save the day.
June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.
June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.
May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.
May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.
May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.
Several Star Trek writers will be giving advice on how to write for the franchise at the San Diego Comic-Con later this month.
Joseph Di Lella, author of the 'Do you have what it takes to write for Star Trek?' series, will be hosting a panel entitled 'How to Pitch and Write for Star Trek' on Saturday, July 19, from 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Here's a brief rundown of the five panelists:
D.C. Fontana - Fontana is a veteran Trek scribe, having written for the original Star Trek, the animated series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Her episodes include "The Enterprise Incident", "Journey to Babel", "Yesteryear", "Encounter at Farpoint" and "Dax". Outside of the franchise, Fontana has penned episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Earth: Final Conflict.
Jimmy Diggs - Diggs has successfully pitched and sold several episodes over the years, including Star Trek: Voyager's "Elogium", "Rise", "Concerning Flight", "The Omega Directive" and "Infinite Regress". He is also credited as a story writer on Deep Space Nine's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume".
Harry 'Doc' Kloor - Kloor is credited as the story writer of Voyager's "Real Life", "The Raven", "Scientific Method" and "Drone". He also worked on Earth: Final Conflict and penned the animated film 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey, featuring the voices of Robert Picardo (the EMH) and Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Eric Stillwell - Formerly script coordinator on The Next Generation, Stillwell now serves as associate producer on The Dead Zone. He co-wrote the stories for TNG's "Yesterday's Enterprise" and Voyager's "Prime Factors". The novel The 34th Rule is also based on a story he co-wrote.
Keith R.A. DeCandido - An accomplished author and editor, DeCandido co-created the Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBook series, and is the writer of Trek novels such as The Brave and the Bold, Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness and Diplomatic Implausibility. His other genre work encompasses the Andromeda, Farscape and Buffy universes.
After the panel, copies of Di Lella's workbook on writing for the franchise, entitled Get Off That Couch: Learn How To Pitch And Write For Trek, will be available to purchase.
This year's San Diego Comic-Con will run from July 17-20. Guests include genre luminaries Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), Joss Whedon (Buffy), X-Men screenwriter David Hayter, Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and cast and crew from Farscape, Smallville, The Simpsons and the new Battlestar Galactica mini-series.
For the full line-up of guests, exhibitors and panels, head over to the Comic-Con web site.
