While tremendous fun for both fans and the wider audience, the new Star Trek movie fails to satisfy on a deeper level, unlike the best of the franchise. The idea behind the movie was a clever one, taking us back in time to the period leading up to Classic Trek and giving many [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Welcome to TheOggblog: Crisis and Opportunity
We live in a time of both crisis and opportunity, or as Homer Simpson put it, “criso’tunity.” According to Greg Palaste on a recent Laura Flanders Grit TV episode, the world is on fire. A litany haunts those with their eyes open; global warming, peak oil, empire fed on war, rising global poverty and disease…
Yet [...]