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It’s rare that an episode of television can both make me laugh, freak me out with some really great horror elements, and make me tear up – all within the confines of an hour. But that’s precisely what the great “Lost in Translation” managed to do, all while also giving us a great Uhura-centric episode […]
What a string of episodes Strange New Worlds has churned out in the first half of their second season. And wow, what a hell of an episode “Charades” was. The trope of a half-human/half-alien losing their alien side isn’t new to Star Trek (Voyager had B’Elanna Torres split into two beings early in its run), […]
What’s it going to take to get Ortegas her own standalone episode? Because every time she – and by extension, actress Melissa Navia – was on screen in “Among the Lotus Eaters,” the episode went from a messy slog to a fun, tight race against time to save the Enterprise from certain doom. But when […]
No Trek series is ever truly a Trek series until they do a time travel episode*. So, Strange New Worlds choice to introduce James T. Kirk to the series by sending an alternate future Kirk back to the past with La’an – in an episode that also tackled the always interesting “What happens if you […]
In my previous professional life, I was a practicing attorney. Which means I can be pretty darn harsh on legal stories – in fact, I can almost never manage to watch shows that are all about lawyers because they are often so horribly inaccurate under the guise of making legal practice interesting (spoiler alert: being […]
There’s something almost soothing about watching an episode of Strange New Worlds. The episodic nature of the series is a lovely throwback to an earlier time of television writing – where the main antagonist of an episode is dispatched in a timely fashion, even if threads of an overall, serialized season arc continue tying episode […]
In the end, the season arc for Picard was not up to snuff. The resolution felt rushed. (How are they replacing all the dead older Starfleet members? Did the transporter Borg tech impact anyone who used them on a ship and returned planet-side? Is there still a command structure in Starfleet? Did the young Borg […]
There comes a point in every season of serialized television where the writers have to make a choice on just how to solve the conundrum that has been driving the plot forward until the climactic moment of the season. There’s no right or wrong answer to whatever choice they make. After all, it was the […]
Well, that wasn’t quite the episode I was expecting at this stage of the game for Star Trek: Picard, but it did its job (which was to dispense of our first villain and move the story a step closer to resolving the main conflict of the season – what’s going to happen at Frontier Day). […]
Oh god. Poor Tuvok. For some reason, until that reveal – and the rather graphic description of just what torture Tuvok was being forced to endure – the true danger of the Changeling infiltration hadn’t really hit me. Sure, they might (read: almost certainly will) try to blow up the Fleet at Frontier Day (along […]