Punch It: Writing in Star Trek

Gilmore Girls Season 5 Writing Analysis We've done this 4 times before and we still have more to do and we couldn't be happier. Char is continuing her first-time watch of Gilmore Girls and she is knee deep in Stars Hallow. A lot happened this season...

Part II of our Star Trek: Nemesis Rewrite Last week we postulated what could have been better with Star Trek: Nemesis. Turns out that a whole lot could have been improved. We set the stage and gave the story some bones but we weren't even close to...

Rewriting Star Trek: Nemesis This topic was suggested to us after we decided to tackle Star Trek: The Next Generation's premiere episode "Encounter at Farpoint". We thought it had an agreeable symmetry to it and so we soldiered on with this herculean...

Part II of our rewrite of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Premiere We finish what we start here on Punch It and so here is Part II of our Encounter at Farpoint rewrite. This section focuses heavily on Q and what his game is. Does he still put...

What if Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 2017? Encounter at Farpoint is the worst of all of the Star Trek openers. There, I said it. It might have worked in 1987 in order to continue the series but boy does it not hold up today. Star Trek:...

What would a sequel to Tron: Legacy look like? There are rumors of a reboot of Tron starring Jared Leto but sadly a Tron: Legacy sequel is most likely dead. Or should I say derezzed? Char just saw Tron for the first time as well as Tron: Legacy and...

Gilmore Girls Season 4 Where you lead, I will follow. Here we are again and it's season four of this great and dynamic show. Char is going through the show for the first time and Tristan is on watch 99.  We've reviewed the writing/direction of the...

John and Tristan write a Star Wars standalone on-the-fly Char is out this week and so it is up to John and Tristan to write a Star Wars movie on-the-fly. This is not like the show's fictional sequel to the original 1977 film. This is a self-contained...

Some of our favorite fictional female characters They make up over half of our population but yet don't come close to that when it comes to representation in the media. Everyone in the world is related to one and knows them but for some reason, they...

Our continued story of the Enterprise-C and her crew Last week we explored what a prequel Star Trek show could look like if it was focused on the Enterprise-C. We fleshed out the show's mission statement as well as her captain, Rachel Garret. We...