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In the past year, various series have premiered on broadcast television and streaming platforms with LGBTQ characters and diverse casts. While there is still progress going forward, as every single major studio had failing, poor, or insufficient ratings for LGBTQ-inclusive films in 2019, according to the recent Studio Responsibility Index released by GLAAD, there were […]
This article will contain spoilers for the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, so turn back now if you do not want to be spoiled. Yes, I know I’m several months late to the party here, but at least I got in. If you’re all familiar with me, you know I’m a Star Trek […]
When Star Trek: Discovery killed off Phillipa Georgiou early in its first season, I was angry. You have someone as talented as Michelle Yeoh on your show and you kill her off? That was the first sign to me that things weren’t quite right with the series in its initial run. When we were introduced […]
Another strong set of episodes from Star Trek: Discovery this time around, albeit two very different types. “Unification III” was a great character showcase for Burnham, providing a long overdue discussion (and resolution) to the continuing conflict between the Vulcan elements of Bunham’s personality and her humanity while laying out her current conundrum regarding her […]
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 […]