Haven’t posted a custom in a while, and since its Father’s Day Captain Picard Day, I figured this one would be appropriate: Captain Jean-Luc Picard as he appears in the 1996 highly acclaimed Star...[See More]

007 has no shortage of henchmen that he has to deal with. From Odd Job to Jaws to Red Grant, to name a few, the second heavy can be as formidable as the main baddie. In SKYFALL we meet Patrice, the...[See More]

One of my favorite parts of SKYFALL is the introduction of Miss Moneypenny. First presented as an agent in the field assisting 007, “Eve” as she is first known, has to make a tough call at the...[See More]

Raoul Silva may be the most enigmatic of Bond villains since Doctor No. Perhaps more so: he isn’t even named until well after his first appearance over halfway through the movie. A former MI6 agent...[See More]

After Quantum of Solace, the Bond franchise took a financially imposed hiatus of four years. His return in 2012s SKYFALL pulled out all the stops, returning the franchise to its roots, while creating...[See More]

Tanner is a minor Bond character that dates back to the earliest 007 novels by Ian Fleming. He’s been played by three actors since 1981s For Your Eyes Only, as a replacement for Bernard Lee’s “M” who...[See More]

Mysterious and elusive, Mr. White (as he I known in the first two Craig Bonds) is an enforcer for the international terrorist group QUANTUM, which we later find is a subsidiary of SPECTRE in the film...[See More]

It’s commonplace in the James Bond franchise for characters such as Moneypenny, Q and M to be carried over from film to film despite the actor playing Bond being traded out. The most profound impact...[See More]

Camille is a Bond girl in the most classic of cases- meaning that she cleaves more towards the heroines of the books than of the films. She isn’t sexualized to the same degree that many before her...[See More]

Dominic Greene is the middling villain in the second Daniel Craig Bond film: the middling Quantum of Solace. The film was hampered by the 2007 writer’s strike, but that couldn’t account for the less...[See More]

Felix Leiter has been with the Bond series since it’s inception, and over the course of the nearly sixty year film franchise has been played by seven actors, the latest being Geoffrey Wright. He’s...[See More]

Vesper Lynd is one of the most influential women in the James Bond franchise first appearing in the 1953 novel Casino Royale. Her influence is expanded upon in the Craig films as she is referenced in...[See More]

The first Bond villain (in the books at least) LeChiffre is actually significantly different from page to screen. In the book he is a corpulent middle aged man, but as he is assayed by Mads...[See More]

Daniel Craig was the most unlikely choice for James Bond in 2006. There had just been a hugely popular run (if not critical hits) by Pierce Brosnan, so a 5’11” blonde Bond was a little out of left...[See More]

The original inhabitants of Altamid were long gone by the time Krall/Edison crashed there, but they left their technology. Krall turned their mining drones into foot soldiers that lead his invasion...[See More]

SPOILER ALERT Krall is the despotic ruler of the small planet of Altamid. He is a mysterious alien who attacks the starship Enterprise in an attempt to recover an ancient alien artifact called the...[See More]

Jaylah, the alien woman Scotty encounters on Altamid, is based on the character that Jennifer Lawrence played in the film Winter’s Bone. Her name itself is a play on “JLaw” Lawrence’s nickname in the...[See More]

I’ve said before that Chekov is one of my least favorite Star Trek characters, but again, in Star Trek Beyond, they use him so well: teaming him up with Captain Kirk as they try to reconnect with the...[See More]

In Star Trek Beyond, Uhura and Sulu and trapped with the crew when they are taken captive by the mysterious and dangerous Krall, who rules the tiny planet of Altamid with vengeful brutality. These...[See More]

One of the MVPs of Star Trek Beyond is Simon Pegg’s Scotty. He first encounters Jay’lah on Altamid, who leads him to her “home”: the missing USS Franklin which will be the crew’s salvation and their...[See More]

Part of the fun of Star Trek has always been the banter between Spock and Doctor McCoy. In Star Trek Beyond, the two are stranded on an alien planet together we get our most extensive exploration of...[See More]

Part of the plot of Star Trek Beyond involves the discovery of the lost starship, the USS Franklin, which went missing nearly 100 years before the events of the film. During the crew’s attempt to...[See More]

With bigger budgets and a broader storytelling scope, the Star Trek reboots could take some chances with costuming. The third entry in the “Kelvin Universe” 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, went to the...[See More]

Star Trek the Motion Picture (or “motionless picture” as an old friend of mine used to call it) featured the Enterprise crew in new sleek uniforms in neutral colors such as grey, taupe and white. One...[See More]

Ensign Pavel Chekov has always been my least favorite character in Star Trek. Added in the second season, Chekov was designed to capitalize on the “Davy Jones” heartthrobs of the 1960s in the hopes...[See More]

In the first Star Trek in 2009, Scotty had a tiny sidekick alien when we first meet him in exile on Delta Vega. By the end of the film, Keenser, had become a full member of the engineering crew of...[See More]

Star Trek Into Darkness began playing even further with different kinds of Starfleet uniforms for the Enterprise crew. One of the more interesting ones is the “Shuttle jumpsuit” that crew members...[See More]

Not quite the oldest adversaries in Star Trek (that honor belongs to the Romulans) the Klingons are certainly the most recognizable and popular aliens in the entire series. Since their first...[See More]

One of the more interesting and exciting elements of Star Trek into Darkness was the introduction of Admiral Marcus, the head of Starfleet. Played with flinty nonchalance by the underrated Peter...[See More]

Originally played by American actress Bibi Besch in Wrath of Khan, the character of Carol Marcus was retconned in 2013s Star Trek into Darkness as a young British Starfleet scientist/Kirk love...[See More]