On the Star Trek spin-off Deep Space 9, there are these two characters – Dr. Julian Bashir and Leeta, the Bajoran dabo girl – who have a...

“The spot where we’re standing,” said the spunky little guide with her dimples and green eyes and perky tits, “is ten million years old!...

Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...

Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...

The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...

In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...

While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...

ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...

Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...

During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...

Surprisingly, our first revisitation of a popular fanboy debate focuses on a question that really wasn’t asked much back in the first...

I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...

One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...

It would be hard to overstate the impact of Star Trek’s David Gerrold on my writing career. If you’re reading this book at all, you’re...

I He wasn’t alone. At first this realization, triggered by a muffled sneeze in the locker behind him, brought more relief than fear; and...

It’s hard to convey to Millennials, let alone Zoomers, just what it was like growing up in a world where Star Trek was just a single TV...

Two high school friends informed this next great nerd discovery, one that merged my two great lifetime loves: science fiction and the...

It was 1968, I think. I’d have been seven years old. Kennedy’s quest for the moon was well underway, and as young as I was, it somehow...

By Scott Robinson Eager footsteps and loud giggles pushed against the cold, gray stillness that hovered like fog in front of him, and it...

And now, young son, your Uncle Scott is going to guide you across the hazardous terrain of housekeeping. You’re already familiar with the...