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The puppet episode. An episode I suspect many fans were waiting for, if only to see if lightning could strike twice and Strange New Worlds could turn in two really strong unique genre episodes (the first, of course, being the shockingly good musical episode back in season two). Alas, this round of pushing the boundaries […]
I’ve watched a shockingly large number of noir-based TV shows in the last several months. It must be a current writing trend. And, as someone who finds noir to be generally fun, I’m certainly not complaining. That being said, aside from the fun use of black and white – especially Uhura mentioning that it’s hard […]
Now, that was a fun, albeit pretty light in terms of any real story*, episode. As a fan of Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia is great and deserves more to do), I’m always happy when the writers remember that she exists and let her take center stage (even if that’s only happened a grand total of […]
Now that’s more like it. What an episode. Easily one of the best in the entire series up to this point. As those who watched AppleTV+’s hit Widow’s Bay this spring know, it’s not easy to craft an effective horror episode. You have to balance legitimate scares – having creepy ghouls walking in the background […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of time travel Star Trek stories. Sure, you occasionally get a truly great one like “City on the Edge of Forever” in The Original Series, but more often than not, they end up like this one. A device to twist a historical moment in time into something that our […]
After I finished watching the fourth season premiere of Strange New Worlds, I will admit that I got nervous. This is how they’re opening the penultimate season of the show? And after a third season that was more miss than hit, it didn’t bode well for what was to come. After all, we still had […]
Now that we’ve reached the end of Starfleet Academy’s first season, I wanted to take a minute to talk about where the show ended up after a bit of a rocky beginning. In my initial review of the season, I had only seen the first six episodes – three of which I really didn’t care […]
Despite what you might have heard or deduced from that truly unfortunate poster Paramount released late last year, I’m here to tell you that Starfleet Academy is not a bad show. It’s also not a good show. It’s actually a very frustrating show with some serious tonal issues, particularly in early episodes. But when it’s […]
We’ve known since day one of Strange New Worlds that the story of Captain Christopher Pike was a tragedy. So, much of what he does within his personal life is shaped by that knowledge – from how he chooses to mentor his crew to his relationship with Marie. And while very few people know about […]
As someone who has been harping on my desire for an Ortegas standalone episode – one that addresses the lingering trauma from her encounter with the Gorn in the season premiere – you’d think I’d be over the moon about this episode. And yes, I did enjoy it for both what it was attempting to […]