As the year winds down, it seems like a good time to upgrade OOA to a newer version of WordPress so that “blogging as usual” can resume after the New Year.

With this in mind, please note that, starting now, OOA will probably be acting strangely — or may go missing entirely — until the upgrade completes some time over the upcoming week.

Thanks.

My excellent former co-writer and dear friend Michael Reaves and our old buddy Marc Scott Zicree have done something extraordinary with another mutual acquaintance and occasional dinner guest, George Takei.

Today is the last day you can vote at TV Guide’s Online Video Awards for their joint effort in the Star Trek: New Voyages series, World Enough and Time. Please have a look at this skilled labor of love… and take a moment to vote.