How I Learned to Stop Worrying About ‘Star Trek’ Canon and Enjoy the Big Dumb Mystery
As we are halfway through our return to the 25th Century, we can pretty much settle into the rhythm of
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Raymond Chow
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is Really Worried about Mom and Dad Fighting
Yellow alert! This was still an overall enjoyable episode with a mix of good and somewhat forced character beats. However,
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‘Star Trek: Picard’ — That’s Not How Accents Work
Mercifully, Picard is not hiding the ball. A recurrent problem with a lot of serialized shows is setting up a
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‘Star Trek: Picard’ — Once More Unto the Breach
Star Trek has always wrestled with managing its legacy and the ability to do something new. Fans are always a
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Hard NOC Life 299: All Good ‘Star Trek’ for the Next Generation
In anticipation for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, Keith welcomes his brother Raymond to Hard NOC
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Hard NOC Life 288: ‘Black Adam’ is Panned by… IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT CRITICS THINK
This week, Britney and Dominic are out, so Keith brought in his brother Raymond to review Dwayne Johnson’s first foray
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Hard NOC Life 233: Did ‘Shang-Chi’ Live Up to the Hype?
Now that it’s breaking box office records, Keith, Britney, and Dominic are joined by HK cinema and martial arts movie
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Southern Fried Asian: The Chow Brothers
Southern Fried Asian closes out AAPI Heritage Month by welcoming Keith’s brother, Raymond Chow, to piece together their family’s Southern
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Hard NOC Life: Zoom NOC Life
This week’s Hard NOC Life is the most ambitious crossover event in history as Dominic, Shawn, and Keith welcome a
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NOC Rewind: Marc Bernardin on ‘Batman 89’
Since it’s the 29th anniversary of Tim Burton’s Batman starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton, we’re rewinding back to this classic
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Giving Daredevil its Due
It’s been three weeks since Marvel dropped Daredevil on Netflix, and the nerdosphere is still head over heels for the
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N.O.C. One-Shot: Batman v Superman and What’s Wrong with DC Movies
Stay tuned for a longer conversation between Keith, Raymond, and Jordan Calhoun, from Black Nerd Problems, about all things Daredevil.
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Origins of The N.O.C.: Year One
Believe it or not, today marks the one year anniversary of the official launch of this blog. (While we reposted
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Shadow of the ’89 Batman with Marc Bernardin
As we continue Bat Week here at the NOC, Keith (@the_real_chow) brings on William (@williambwest), Raymond, and special guest Marc
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The World with Pyramids
In a conversation with an acquaintance about The Wind Rises, I told her I was already inclined to love it (and
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Hard N.O.C. Life Rewind: The Walking Dead Returns
This Sunday night at 9pm on AMC, the fourth season of The Walking Dead is set to resume. To prep
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Thoughts on Remaking Jet Li’s Shaolin Temple in 3D
Over the weekend, Deadline reported that Justin Lin, the director single-handedly responsible for sending the Fast & the Furious franchise
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NOCs of the Roundtable: The Darkest Timelines
I guess Bryan Singer has a complex about Marvel movie announcements that aren’t about the X-Men. Back in October, on
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2013: The Year in Review
As we barrel toward the end of the year, we figured it was a good time to go on hiatus
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Wednesday Comics Rewind: The Ideal and the Infinite Batman
When this site was in its early stages, each of the contributors told an “origin” story about how they came
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Head Over Heels for Sleepy Hollow
Before the season started, we did an episode of “Hard N.O.C. Life” in which we talked about the shows we
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Zombies! NOC ‘Em Dead with Angry Asian Man
With The Walking Dead breaking ratings records and topping direct market sales charts, what better time to discuss the undead
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The Ideal and the Infinite Batman, or Why Fractal Narratives Matter
I’m supposed to explain how and why I became a nerd, but I’m currently in the middle of James Gleick’s Chaos:
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