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Michael W. Rickard II

Book Review: "Star Trek the Newspaper Strip Volume 1."

Michael Rickard II

"'Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner.' You Don't Have to Be

People sometimes ridicule actors and actresses when they decide to produce a song and/or album. After all, what do they know about music?...

Michael Rickard II

"Murder Was the Case: How NBC Killed 'Star Trek.'"

Much has been written over the last fifty or so years about Star Trek, the show that died in the ratings, but bounced back in...

Michael Rickard II

“Science Fiction and Fantasy Films: Overlap in the Undiscovered Country”

Science fiction and fantasy films have individual defining characteristics but they also have characteristics that overlap between them....

Michael Rickard II

Winter 2016 edition of "Jack Lord's Hair."

The Winter 2016 edition of my web magazine Jack Lord's Hair is now online, continuing a look back at the 50th year anniversary of Gene...

Michael W Rickard II

Star Trek: The Show That Almost Didn't Make It. Part Two.

Roddenberry scrambled to put together a new pilot that would make it into a series. Unfortunately, the show’s star Jeffrey Hunter opted...