Punch It: Writing in Star Trek

Punch It: Writing in Star Trek


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Punch It 94 - Malcolm Reed Redux
November 22, 2018

Star Trek: Enterprise was a great show. Some of its characters were not. We all know the walking void that was Travis Mayweather but what about the lack of personality coming from Malcolm Reed? While we love these actors, we also realize that they...

Punch It 93 - Mr. Janeway's Restaurant
November 15, 2018

What if Janeway was the commander of Deep Space Nine? A few weeks ago we asked about Sisko on Voyager. A few weeks before that we talked about Archer on the 1701-D. This week we discuss what Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would have looked like if...

Punch It 92 - Where's Carol Marcus?
November 08, 2018

Where's Carol Marcus? This week's Punch It started with searching for a story. Where are the gaps? Where are the areas to expand? We began looking in the original series movies but ultimately ended up in the Kelvin universe. Where did Carol...

Punch It 91 - Rethinking Troi
October 25, 2018

Can we treat Troi from Star Trek better than the writers did? That's the main question. Troi is by no means a bad character but she didn't have the best start and even after she was developed, not enough time was devoted to her. Char and Tristan...

Punch It 90 - Sisko on Voyager II
October 18, 2018

What if Sisko was the captain of Voyager? Last week we asked that question and just focused on Caretaker. This week we were able to expand that to his relationships with his crewmates. How would Chakotay work with him? Would he tolerate Neelix?...

Punch It 89 - Sisko on Voyager
October 11, 2018

What if Sisko was the commander of USS Voyager? Star Trek is the perfect testing ground for "What if?" questions. Last episode we discussed what Star Trek: The Next Generation would have looked like if Jonathan Archer was the captain of the 1701-D....

Punch It 88 - Archer on the 1701-D
September 27, 2018

What would Star Trek: The Next Generation have looked like if it was captained by Jonathan Archer? We love our "what if?" scenarios on Punch It and this is one of our more exciting ones. If Archer existed in the 24th century and captained the...

Punch It 87 - Guilty Pleasures
September 20, 2018

What makes a Star Trek episode a guilty pleasure? We all have them but some are easier to admit than others. Are we convinced that an episode is bad because of peer pressure? Or deep down do we know it's bad but we just don't care? Is it the premise,...

Punch It 86 - These are the Voyages Redux
September 13, 2018

We tackle rewriting Star Trek: Enterprise's series finale: These are the Voyages This is not a beloved episode of Trek. Some say it's hated on too much but you'll never hear "I love this! What a great ending!" Enterprise was robbed of further seasons...

Punch It 85 - Attached Redux
September 06, 2018

We take a fan suggestion and rewrite Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Attached" on-the-fly We often take fan suggestions and we got a lot of them via Twitter just a few days before this recording. There were so many great ones but one stood out...