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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 […]
The initial two episodes into Star Trek: Picard have made one thing crystal clear: The series will live and die on the strength of Patrick Stewart’s performance. Considering how Picard-heavy these two episodes have been, that hasn’t exactly been a problem for the series. In fact, I’d consider it quite the strength. But when the […]
After watching the previews for Star Trek: Picard, I was wary as to just what the series would be about. It appeared to be more concerned with rehashing the greatest hits of Jean-Luc Picard’s time in the Trek universe and less with charting a new story. Hell, there was a giant cube spaceship that looked […]
I suspect many of you haven’t heard of Another Life, Netflix’s attempt at a gritty, complex sci-fi series that dropped on the same weekend as the final season of Orange is the New Black. I honestly hadn’t heard about it until I signed into Netflix and saw that Katee Sackoff (best known for her stellar […]
After posting my thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery at the start of its second season, I said I would keep watching, hoping that things might turn out better than the mess that occurred with the show’s first season (although I didn’t hold out much hope that I would be a Discovery convert come the end […]
I was raised on Star Trek. I’ve watched every series (save Enterprise) from beginning to end (yup, even Voyager). While I wouldn’t call myself a Trekkie, I do think I know enough about Trek to be able to decide if a series is worthy of the moniker and the history that has come before it. […]