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Star Trek: Discovery continued its strong run with two very different episodes that served distinct, but important, roles in establishing the series in its new time and place. With “Die Trying,” the series grounded itself in the 32nd century world of the Federation, providing us a quick, but clear, primer as to what life is […]
In the interest of time, I will be reviewing Star Trek: Discovery on a biweekly schedule, covering two episodes at a time. If there’s a particularly momentous episode that calls for a single review, I will break the schedule to cover it, but covering two episodes at a time will allow me to link together […]
Huh. That’s my general reaction to the two-part third season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. While some of the show’s problems have been alleviated by the 900+ year time jump to the future, the series still relies too much on style over substance when it matters the most. First the good: Discovery continues to have […]
So, over the course of this extremely uneven debut season for Star Trek: Picard, I’ve spent a lot of time writing about ways in which the series didn’t work. And, frankly, I didn’t love doing that. What I wanted to spend these ten weeks doing was reveling in how wonderful it was to have Patrick […]
Well, I think it’s clear that subtlety is not Star Trek: Picard‘s strong suit. “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1” was yet another example of the series changing the game with little to no narrative framework to support it, while also opting to tell us everything rather than take the time to show us these […]
Well, that was largely anti-climactic, wasn’t it? After an entire season musing about the origin of the attack on Mars – an attack that shattered the Romulan people, ended the Federation’s synthetic research, and broke one Jean-Luc Picard – we found out that it was a splinter sect of the Tal Shiar that decided they […]
After last week’s weighty (but fun) outing, Star Trek: Picard decided it was time to finally start pushing it’s relatively thin narrative forward at warp speed with the plot-packed “The Impossible Box.” After spending half the season talking about saving Soji and the extreme difficulty such a rescue attempt would present, that was shockingly simple, […]
A sentence I never thought I would write: I want to see a Seven of Nine spin-off series ASAP, CBS All Access. Holy hell, was that great hour of television. This is the kind of episode I was expecting when Star Trek: Discovery launched: dark, moralistically murky, but still fun. It’s what I hoped to […]
Ok. That was more like it. While Picard certainly still has some growing pains to work through (more on that later), “Absolute Candor” was the most complete episode of the series to date, managing to integrate the Narek/Soji/Rizzo piece of the story into the much more robust Picard elements to satisfying effect. I actually found […]
After last week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard, I said that the series would live and die on the ability of the cast to perform at the same high level as Patrick Stewart. “The End is the Beginning” once again drove this point home, as every actor who shared a scene with Stewart rose to […]