The Prime Detective

For nearly a decade, actor Tom Deishley helped bring Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas to life as the imposing Klingon General Motog. Five years after the attraction closed, Deishley was found shot to death in his...

Before season two officially begins, I thought it was time to properly introduce myself. From small-market radio, to more than two decades at CNN and HLN, to my lifelong love of Star Trek, this is the unlikely...

<p >When an American YouTuber illegally lands on North Sentinel Island, home to one of the last uncontacted peoples on Earth, it raises a question Star Trek asked decades ago: just because you can make contact, does...

When an American YouTuber illegally lands on North Sentinel Island, home to one of the last uncontacted peoples on Earth, it raises a question Star Trek asked decades ago: just because you can make contact, does that...

<p ></p> <p >In 2014, twelve-year-olds Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed their friend Payton Leutner nineteen times in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their motive: proving their loyalty to Slender Man, a fictional monster...

<p >The Link Between Quantico, Hannibal Lecter, and Deep Space Nine</p> <p ></p> <p >Trace the evolution of criminal profiling from its gritty origins in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit to its transformation into a...

<p ></p> <p >In Oshawa, Ontario, everyone knew Ken Chopee as “the Star Wars guy.” A lifelong collector of memorabilia, comics, and film artifacts, his identity was built around a galaxy far, far away — until his life...

<p ></p> <p >Jack the Ripper is history’s most famous unsolved murder case. Five victims. Ten weeks. Zero arrests. But in the 1967 Star Trek episode “Wolf in the Fold,” written by Psycho novelist Robert Bloch, the crew...

<p ></p> <p >What does Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation have to do with one of the most notorious cults in American history? More than you’d think.</p> <p >Keith Raniere — the self-styled “Vanguard” behind NXIVM —...

<p ></p> <p >A Star Trek superfan rescues an iconic shuttlecraft from ruin — then gives it away. But his next legendary acquisition, a Wicked Witch hat from The Wizard of Oz, leads somewhere far more complicated: the...

<p >How Star Trek turns nothing into news</p> <p ></p> <p >When a man was arrested in Clearwater, Florida for lewd conduct at a bus stop, it should have been a forgettable local story. Instead, it made national...

<p >A fatal trust, a hidden life, and a case that shook a fandom.</p> <p ></p> <p >Thomas Krider, known as TJ Greene, was a tour guide at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York, where fans from...

<p >“Why did you kill him?”</p> <p >“No reason. I didn’t like the way he looked at me.”</p> <p ></p> <p >It’s the kind of confession that stops an interrogation cold. No jealousy. No rage. No self-defense. Just violence...

<p ></p> <p >Four mysterious letters appear at the bottom of a ransom note left at the scene of one of America’s most infamous unsolved murders: S.B.T.C.</p> <p >Nobody knows what they mean.</p> <p >Religious symbolism...

<p ></p> <p >In February 2009, a would-be robber walked into a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven wielding a bat’leth, a Klingon sword from Star Trek: The Next Generation. No injuries. No arrests. Just a surreal police report, a...