Author Archives: Mark Farinas

For all the kick-ass women out there, real and fictional.

Kirk, to me, cannot be a sophisticated master of space and time if his sexual appetite is limited to anthropomorphic heteronormativity.

If there was one thing Roddenberry really couldn’t get enough of it was Femdom. The fetish shows up over and over again in his various pitch documents and productions. The ultimate example has got to be his second shot at … Continue reading →

I met Richard Hatch at WonderCon several years ago. He was sitting next to Erin Gray of Buck Rogers fame and across from Malachi “Commodore Mendez” Throne who had just inappropriately referred to my then three-year-old daughter as a “heart … Continue reading →

Screw the Prime Directive! Click the image for a full size wallpaper that’s also great for printing.

I’m just starting to realize “Basis of Proof” was the 2016 presidential election. Except in real life the ship exploded with everyone on it.

Happy holidays, folks. Because of other commitments and the hectic holiday schedule only one comic will be posted a week for the next two weeks. Those comics will go up on a Wednesday. On January 3, 2017 everything goes back … Continue reading →

Witness the birth of Lieutenant Data in The Questor Tapes. The wife watched this one with me, so, now, whenever I say “I am Questor, beep, beep!” I get a good laugh.

Gene’s final attempt at a TV pilot before being offered the chance to bring Star Trek back was a paranormal thriller called Spectre. It’s a strange turn for a writer who’s very next project was yet another parable on misplaced … Continue reading →

Happy Thanksgiving, folks. As a little Turkey Day treat I’m putting up the entirety of one of Gene Roddenberry’s most in-depth and possibly last interviews. Done for the Humanist Magazine in 1991, it’s only been available through an obscure Archive.org … Continue reading →