Larry Young

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Larry Young is a writer: non-fiction, graphic novels, and pop culture criticism. His work has appeared in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, VARIETY, and THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION. A frequent guest on the video podcasts MILLION DOLLAR MAILBOX and WORD BALLOONS, he’s also co-host of SERIOUS STAR TREK and the sister YouTube channel of this website.

Serious Star Trek Podcast

Office Space The Final Frontier

The Crew jabbers on about Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 9, plus whatever comes to mind.

Larry Young - July 1, 2022

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Elysian Kingdom Come

The crew looks at Star Trek Brave New Worlds Season 1 Episode 8: The Elysian Kingdom

Larry Young - June 24, 2022

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A Fine Mess

The SST Crew takes a look at the finer points of diplomacy and intergalactic cuisine. Serious Star Trek is destination viewing for the discriminating...

Larry Young - June 17, 2022

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Serious Star Trek Podcast

Quatloos From Heaven

The crew of the USS Fred Mertz continue their never-ending quest to be disappointed by TV shows.

Larry Young - June 10, 2022

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Television

Strangest Things

Do you guys want them to just let evil win? You’re just not getting the theme of the show you love, I guess.

Larry Young - June 5, 2022

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Babbling

Ensign Crunch

Some writers look back at their early stuff and blanch, but I look back on the stuff I once wrote and marvel how good it came out given the resources and abilities I had available to me at the time.

Larry Young - June 5, 2022

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Collecting

The Nostromo Lives

Unbelievably, the 8-foot filming model for the ALIEN ship was unceremoniously dumped in Bob Burns’ driveway almost thirty years ago.

Larry Young - June 5, 2022

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Movies

Space Matt Damon is Better in This Than Interstellar

Neill Blomkamp’s cyberpunk political allegory Elysium is exactly the kind of movie I used to dream about in the middle of the night on-shift cutting granite in rural Georgia in 1986 as I looked up into the night sky in-between rock loads.

Larry Young - June 5, 2022

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Making

I HATE FAN FICTION

In which a stray comment by EJ Feddes asking me if I was interested in any props from the Lost Auction practically forced me to design a Dharma spacesuit.

Larry Young - June 5, 2022

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