The Corbomite Maneuver: the first thing TOS made after being greenlit, and the episode where Star Trek worked out what it believed. Kirk bluffs an all-powerful alien, wins, then turns round to help it back up. Still my favourite hour of the show. #StarTrek New review: boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

The Constitution-class was not Starfleet’s most powerful ship. It was its most hopeful one. New Ship Spotlight on why the most famous silhouette in Star Trek is really an argument about optimism, and what it says about the Federation that built it. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/constitution...

Klingon honour is the most quoted thing about the Klingons. It's also the thing they're worst at living up to. New Race Spotlight: the gap between what the Empire preaches and what it actually does. Are they living by a code, or wearing one? #Startrek boldlytrek.com/the-klingons...

Everyone files Spock as the unemotional one. He's the opposite, ever feeling a dam under pressure. New BoldlyTrek Character Spotlight on the half-Vulcan who belonged to neither shore, and learned to become the bridge itself. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/spock-a-brid...

Our TOS rewatch reaches Dagger of the Mind. A plastic dome with a light in it becomes one of the scariest things TOS ever made, on one bleak idea: a machine that doesn’t hurt you, it empties you. Shame nobody worked out what the villain wanted. 7/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

Fandom wasn't always something you scrolled. It used to arrive through the letterbox. I'm making a Star Trek fanzine, by fans, for fans. Issue Zero late 2026. Readers, writers, artists, and letter writers welcome: boldlytrek.com/fanzine/ #StarTrek

What Makes Star Trek, Star Trek? Strip away the Enterprise, the uniforms, the familiar faces. Keep every one of them and remove only the ideas underneath. One of those is still Star Trek. The other is just cosplay with a budget. #StarTrek New editorial: boldlytrek.com/what-makes-s...

New on BoldlyTrek: my "Miri" review. One of Season One's strongest premises, a duplicate Earth and children who never grow up, and it still never becomes the classic it should have been. Good, frustratingly short of great.  #StarTrek 
7/10  boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

Seven chapters into Star Trek: Stargazers and I think I’ve found the problem, and it isn’t the romance or the cast. You could lift the Deep Space 9 setting out of it entirely and barely notice. New on BoldlyTrek. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/i-read-the-f...

@idwpublishing.com ‘s art book never pretends the optimistic flagship and rogue stolen ship were same show, that’s its smartest move. Creator commentary finally delivers the written history I keep asking these books for. The cover gallery runs a touch long. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/the-art-of-s...

The Gorn began as a lesson about not mistaking your enemy for a monster. Then Strange New Worlds turned them into one. New Race Spotlight, from Kirk’s mercy in “Arena” to the horror of “All Those Who Wander”. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/the-gorn-peo...

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK / Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Mirror War Vol. 1 (IDW) / Mirror Picard building an armada to restore the Terran Empire. The concept is irresistible. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-th... #StarTrek

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK / What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S01E07) / Robert Bloch asks whether you can strip out the messy parts of a person and still have a person. The ideas are genuinely sharp. The pacing is not. 7/10. / boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK Mudd's Women (S01E06) The "space hookers" read has buried what this episode actually is. Roger C. Carmel arrives fully formed, the placebo twist earns its moral, and the contradictions are the whole point. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to... #StarTrek

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks (IDW) @idwpublishing.com first Trek art book is a 344-page record of how the Cerritos got built, skate nacelles and all. The roads-not-taken character designs alone make the first hundred pages worth exploring. 8/10. boldlytrek.com/the-art-of-s...

The original Borg were frightening because nobody was in charge. New on BoldlyTrek: what happened to them once somebody was. The Borg Queen: Did She Save the Borg, or Ruin Them? (Character Spotlight) boldlytrek.com/the-borg-que... #StarTrek

New on BoldlyTrek Star Trek: Holo-ween — A Halloween Special You Can Enjoy Without Quite Admiring Review - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-ho... #StarTrek

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK Star Trek: Red Shirts Cantwell turns the franchise’s oldest joke into institutional critique. The formal craft is genuinely impressive. The bleakness is relentless. I admire it more than I love it. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-re... #StarTrek

The Ferengi weren't satirising greed. They were satirising the stories we tell to justify it. boldlytrek.com/the-ferengi-...

Made by people working from publicity photos and a vague outline. The result is Trek in silhouette: the shape is right, some of the ideas are genuinely good, the characters are slightly wrong in ways you can’t quite articulate. 7/10 - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-go...

Why the debate about Star Trek’s non-canonical novels misses the point, and what we’re actually looking for when we ask whether stories matter - boldlytrek.com/why-i-cant-m... #StarTrek

“The Enemy Within” asks a genuinely interesting question about what leadership actually requires — then spends half the episode undermining its own argument. Shatner’s good Kirk is better than he gets credit for. 6/10. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to... #StarTrek #TOS

The Naked Time is held together by a crewman who removes his quarantine glove to scratch his nose in a room full of mysterious corpses, a space virus that does whatever the plot requires, and a time travel ending that arrives from another dimension entirely. L

Rewatched Where No Man Has Gone Before. The galactic barrier is still gloriously stupid, Kirk still punches a god to death with rocks, and Sally Kellerman is still the best thing in it by a distance. Holds up. #StarTrek #TOS #BoldlyTrek - boldlytrek.com/where-no-man...

Every era. Every series. No engagement bait, no pile-ons, no pretending outrage counts as criticism. Just someone writing about Star Trek because they genuinely love the thing. boldlytrek.com #StarTrek

Charlie X (S01E02) Charlie Evans is seventeen, alone, and has the power to do anything he wants. Trek’s first real monster isn’t an alien. New review up at the link #StarTrek - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

The Man Trap (S01E01) The very first episode of Star Trek to air, and it opens with a salt-craving shapeshifter picking off the crew. Sixty years on it still holds up. Review at the link #StarTrek - boldlytrek.com/the-man-trap...

The Cage (Pilot) Before Kirk, before the Enterprise we knew, there was this. The pilot NBC rejected and Trek almost never happened. Full piece at the link #StarTrek - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-th...

Star Trek Scouts Yes, it’s aimed at five year olds. Yes, I watched it anyway. The franchise has to start somewhere, and this is where it starts now. Thoughts at the link #StarTrek - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-sc...

From TOS to Discovery, and all the strange bits in between. If it’s got a Starfleet delta on it, I’ll probably end up talking about it. New stuff going up regularly. Feel free to follow along or disagree with me. boldlytrek.com #StarTrek

Jonathan Archer Unpopular opinion maybe, but Archer’s place in Trek history is more important than he gets credit for. Made the case properly at the link #StarTrek - boldlytrek.com/why-jonathan...

Why Star Trek Still Matters Sixty years. Still here. Still worth talking about. This is why I built the site , full piece at the link - boldlytrek.com/why-star-tre... #StarTrek

Built this Trek site because I wanted somewhere to write about Trek properly. No word counts to hit, no discourse to chase, no one to answer to but the readers. That’s the whole idea. boldlytrek.com