While growing up, Azula often asked about Ula of the Forest Green, the great-grandmother she never knew, Mother of Tetachee. Lore says very little about her origin. Where she came from was a mystery even to U-Dan-Ada, the elder.
A Panther at birth, one of three, maturing after learning to hunt with her mother and brethren, [...]

People who subscribe to karma usually define it as good or bad and think of resolution as the culmination of a particular karma. If viewed as a cause and effect relationship or as an energy with corporeal impact, its interpretation will usually be affected first by how one defines “resolution”.
Most causes have multiple effects, [...]

My mind was adrift as I meditated on the flame of the lit candle in the room. It was the third door that led to the Valley of Tondo, an archway into another place of existence, another dimension that had appeared before me when I first encountered the secret of Itnahsiv. I had discovered that [...]

Assuming that time is the only relevant factor, most escape thinking about the inevitable by living in the present. Aging sets in. Life becomes increasingly cramped as the space of movement becomes more restricted by boundaries. Sounds muffled as if submerged, indistinct, unclear from all directions. Light sensed, periodic brightness perceived then muted quietly, subtle [...]

As my lists of the worst Star Trek-TNG episodes expand from previous posts (see below), it’s time to balance the scales and give high praise to those forty-seven minute stories that captured the very best glimpse of the Twenty Fourth Century envisioned by Gene Roddenberry.
The creation, development and outcome of the Borg storyline which began [...]

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, C. Everett Koop, a religious pro-life conservative, came to the office of Surgeon General in 1982 as a noted, highly respected pediatric surgeon. Despite little power, he became the most influential spokesman on many issues impacting the health of the American public by succeeding to transform the office of Surgeon [...]

In the new and vibrant version of The Incredible Hulk, Edward Norton does a fine job portraying Bruce Banner, physicist on the run working in a soda bottle factory in the slums of Brazil. His attempts to learn Portuguese, take breathing lessons, use C’hi to control his anger and look for the [...]

“There was once a very lovely, very frightened girl. She lived alone except for a nameless cat.”
These immortal words, first etched on paper by George Peppard on his manual typewriter in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, a 1961 movie, when he hears the guitar from the fire-escape on the floor below. Opening the window, looking down, he [...]

When Physicist Bruce Banner is exposed to a lethal dose of gamma radiation, an incredible transformation begins rewriting his DNA into a giant raging monster whose skin was originally conceived as gray. Another creation of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962, whose Marvel Universe developed almost simultaneously in creative urge triggered [...]