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L.I. Underhill is a media critic and historian specializing in pop culture, with a focus on science fiction (especially Star Trek) and video games. Their projects include a critical history of Star Trek told through the narrative of a war in time, a “heretical” history of The Legend of Zelda series and a literary postmodern reading of Jim Davis' Garfield.

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  1. mwhybark
    December 13, 2013 @ 6:02 am

    Danhauser's site publishes each episode's PSA bumper, in which the intended message for kids is actually spelled out directly.

    http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/OPM.html

    have you considered doing a readang with ADF's

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  2. mwhybark
    December 13, 2013 @ 6:04 am

    fuck, this new comment system is nearly unusable! that sentence fragment did not appear in preview.

    have you considered doing a readalong with ADF's TAS adaptations? I know you are intending to take a look at his ST material overall, hopefully including the records.

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  3. Jacob Nanfito
    December 13, 2013 @ 9:30 am

    Wow, I had no idea those PSA bumpers even existed! I wonder why they aren't included with the episodes on Netflix.

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  4. thepoparena.com
    December 13, 2013 @ 11:22 am

    Because they're fan-made. 😛

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  5. Josh Marsfelder
    December 13, 2013 @ 8:32 pm

    I'll do for Alan Dean Foster what I did for James Blish: A standalone post looking at his overall work, association with Star Trek and the role his novelizations played in the developing fan culture.

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  6. BerserkRL
    December 22, 2013 @ 4:38 pm

    This episode reminds me of Horton Hears a Who, only without Horton.

    Here though we get the other side of children's television: The irritating assumption that it has to be overtly educational to be worthwhile

    I remember the grotesquerie that was inflicted on Galactica 1980 consequent to its airing in an earlier timeslot than its predecessor: Adama and Dr. Zee solemnly informing each other that "without rain, the crops cannot grow."

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  7. BerserkRL
    December 22, 2013 @ 4:39 pm

    Alan Dean Foster is the J. J. Abrams of novelisations.

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