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After completing the updates of my Voyager reviews, I am now revisiting Enterprise. All of these reviews were written when the episodes first aired, and over the past 25 years my views on many of them may have changed. So let us start with the pilot episode, "Broken Bow".

Some Star Trek TV series fill the entire screen, some are letterboxed, and the classic ones need pillarboxing. A new article investigates The Evolution of Screen Ratios in Star Trek, summarizes the formats, points out oddities and discusses the technical and artistic reasons.

For decades, Star Trek productions have relied on physical matte paintings, many of which have become iconic. A new article shows Notable Matte Paintings in Classic Star Trek and how they were used and re-used on screen. It places special focus on the contributions of Albert Whitlock, Syd Dutton and Robert Stromberg, artists whose original pieces appeared in Heritage Auctions between 2019 and 2021. Tell me in the comments which is your favorite!

Less than two months to go. Everything is ready at EAS for recaps and reviews of Strange New Worlds season 4, which will begin with "Valles Marineris" on July 23.