Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 7 “Much Ado About Boimler” Review Please note: This review does contain spoilers! “Much Ado About Boimler,” a twist on the William Shakespeare play “Much Ado About Nothing,” sees Mr. Starfleet himself sent to The Farm, while the Cerritos’ resident rebellious ensign tackles...
Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 6 “Terminal Provocations” Review Please note: this review does contain spoilers! In an excellent entry of Lower Decks, “Terminal Provocations” gives us a slightly different take on the typical Star Trek trope of holodeck troubles, while the U.S.S. Cerritos tries to secure old...
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Episode 5 “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” *Warning: this review DOES contain spoilers for “Cupid’s Errant Arrow* For a series that has quickly made a name for itself thanks to its breakneck pacing and deep respect for Star Trek, it’s quite the compliment then to say...
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Episode 4 “Moist Vessel” After three consistently funny and smart episodes, Star Trek: Lower Decks hits somewhat of a snag with “Moist Vessel,” an episode about two Starfleet ships working together to shepherd an alien colony vessel into Federation space. While this is an...
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Episode 3 “Temporal Edict” Warning: This review DOES contain spoilers. In the classic The Next Generation episode “Relics,” engineer extraordinaire Montgomery Scott wisely tells Geordi LaForge about how he should over-budget his time working on ship tasks. Scott’s mantra was something like this: Tell the...
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Episode 2 “Envoys” Please note: This review DOES contain spoilers for episode two. Read at your own risk! The second episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks reinforces our assertion that this new animated series headed by Mike McMahan is in good hands, and only a...
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Episode 1 “Second Contact” Note: this review does not contain major spoilers for Lower Decks‘ premiere episode, but instead only makes cursory references to themes or elements of the episode. Consider it safe to read if you haven’t watched it.* Two years after...
An explosion in the Promenade has rocked Deep Space Nine. Odo sets out to find who set up the bomb and what their next target is, while sinister forces linger in the shadows, waiting for just the right moment to strike again. With an unapologetically dark opening, great...
Star Trek: Picard comes full circle in the season finale “Et in Acadia Ego, Part 2,” as Picard, his crew, the Romulans, the synths, and a few other folks reach the climax (or beginning?) of the retired admiral’s journey. It’s a wonderful episode with many standout scenes that will...
Review: the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Picard season 1 “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part I” It’s the beginning of the end, as Picard and crew finally find their way to the mysterious homeworld of Soji, Dahj, and other synthetic beings like her. “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part...
As Star Trek: Picard starts building toward the conclusion of its first season, “Broken Pieces” offers one of the strongest entries yet in the series, thanks to outstanding character moments from nearly the entire main cast, combined with some of the most essential plot revelations yet. The episode begins with...
A reunion 18 years in the making finally graced the television screens of CBS All Access subscribers this week, as “Nepenthe” brings together two of the most popular characters from The Next Generation with their former captain. The return of William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina...
Star Trek: Kirk Fu Manual, an illustrated instruction guide that breaks down some of Kirk's most popular combat moves, pulls you in with humor and keeps you locked down to the floor with originality and fascinating art.
Star Trek: Picard episode 6 “The Impossible Box” review “The Impossible Box” joins the pantheon of excellent Borg-centric Star Trek productions, and more specifically, it faithfully continues Jean-Luc Picard’s character arc regarding his assimilation. Led by both an outstanding Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Del Arco, this episode aptly...
Marking halfway point of the first season of Star Trek: Picard, “Stardust City Rag” proofs to be a dynamic episode that combines both a healthy amount of humor with dark and mature plot beats, all while moving the overall narrative of the series along at a brisk pace....
The journey to Freecloud takes a backseat in “Absolute Candor” as Jean-Luc Picard and crew instead stop at the planet Vashti, a place where Picard formed sentimental ties during the Romulan evacuation. It’s here that we meet the last member of the regular cast, Evan Evagora, who plays...
A chance encounter while on shore leave turns into a love story of a lifetime for James T Kirk. It turns out that finding and keeping love might be harder than star ship battles. Flirtatious banter, phaser-toting action, snappy McCoy/Kirk/Spock chats, heartbreak and an extinction level event all...
Star Trek: Picard – episode 3 review: The gang’s all here! The crew is all together now at the end of the third episode of Star Trek: Picard “The End is the Beginning,” as Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) warps off into space in his quest to find Bruce...
Jean-Luc Picard and his first officer manage to escape the grip of the Romulans on Yuyat Beta, only to discover that his ship, the Verity has been taken over by his cunning captors. All while the supernova looms, imminent, closer and closer to ending millions of lives. Star...
Star Trek: Picard episode 102 “Maps and Legends” Review The mystery that began with last week’s excellent series premiere deepens in “Maps and Legends,” as Jean-Luc Picard begins to take matters into his own hands as he deals with the aftermath of Dahj’s death. Episode two proves to...
Star Trek: Picard episode 101 “Remembrance Review 18 years after his last appearance as the iconic captain in Star Trek: Nemesis, Patrick Stewart, aged like fine wine, returns to the screen as Jean-Luc Picard. It’s a reprisal that has been earnestly marketed as a show very different from...
The first new Star Trek entry of the new decade comes in the form of the eight-minute Short Trek “Children of Mars,” a prequel to the upcoming series Star Trek: Picard. The episode chronicles how two school kids are drawn together because of a disastrous attack on Mars –...
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