Category Archives: News

Just in case you didn’t realize there was a link in Tuesday’s comic, here is the film Jin and Nadifa watched on that old Panasonic VHS machine. The narration was provided by the amazingly talented voice actress Tamara Ryan who … Continue reading →

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of her first appearance on screen I’m finally posting the beauty shots I took of my 1/350 Enterprise model. These comps were created three years ago when I finished the model, but, for some … Continue reading →

As the rhetoric surrounding immigration heats up beyond expensive, country spanning walls into warnings about taco trucks on every corner, I wanted to present another gentle reminder to my dear readers that Time’s Refuge was conceived nearly ten years ago. … Continue reading →

Star Trek was never immune to nasty tropes, despite it’s progressive veneer. The Klingons, for instance with their Fu Manchu facial hair, are very much designed to take advantage of the “Yellow Peril” motif sci-fi villains, including Ming the Merciless, … Continue reading →

Reader warning: Spoilers, including the film’s twist, are discussed below. This is going to be a hard review to write. Not because Star Trek Beyond is a difficult movie to write about, but because there are certain realms of dialogue … Continue reading →

In case you’re not on Facebook, I wanted folks to know two strips were published today. The first one was supposed to be Friday’s comic. The second, posted later in the afternoon, was supposed to be today’s. Since the second … Continue reading →

John Cho, star of Star Trek: Beyond, announced today that Sulu is gay, shacking up with a dude, and raising a kid with him in the new movie. About fucking time, right? I mean, socially conscious Star Trek’s got it’s … Continue reading →

I’m a social critic by nature. Anyone reading this comic probably knows that by now. As a writer and artist I often have the liberty to cloak my messages in analogy and metaphor. Tell a story and let the audience … Continue reading →

For those of you who don’t know, Gene Roddenberry made a dazzling amount of failed TV pilots in the 1970’s. Two of them, Genesis II and Planet Earth, were part of the same story. They involved Dylan Hunt, a hibernated … Continue reading →

I ranted, a bit back, about how the Kirk in The Wrath of Khan was not the Kirk we know and love. With Kirk so deeply misunderstood, could he ever spring back? He does, in fact, in the very next … Continue reading →