Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

The Corbomite Maneuver offers one of the earliest examples of first contact in Star Trek. The episode is infamous for its Balok puppet, an image that would appear in the closing credits of the show ...

Balok is one of the earliest characters in Star Trek, played by the unique Clint Howard. Howard would return in both Deep Space Nine and Discovery, making him one of the only actors from the Original ...