(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Novels based on the characters in TV shows or movies either go one of two ways – they absolutely nail the characters and evoke a perfect sense of time and place that makes the story feel like a televisual sprung to life on the page or Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review: “Shuttle to Kenfori”, “A Space Adventure Hour” and “Through the Lense of Time” (S3, E3-5)
(courtesy IMP Awards) “Shuttle to Kenfori” Zombies! Yes, my friends, zombies! Granted Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a little late to the party on this one, but when it’s executed with as much as this episode, you can forgive their tardiness. In this case, the zombies, though Dr M’Benga Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review: “Hegemony, Part II” and “Wedding Bell Blues” (S3, E1-2)
(courtesy IMP awards) One of the things, of many, which I have loved about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) from the very start is its embrace of genre-hopping, a willingness to be darkly serious one week and goofily quirky the next. The Original Series (TOS) and Next Generation (NG), Continue Reading
Stranger and stranger indeed: The entertaining trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Season 3, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of Season 2’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit Continue Reading
So many SDCC2024 trailers! ST: Strange New Worlds S3, ST: Section 31, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2, Doctor Who + ST: Lower Decks S5
(via Shutterstock) San Diego Comic Con is one of the biggest events on the world pop culture calendar. Bestriding the zeitgeist like multi-headed entertainment colossus, SDCC has a ton of news and previews and sets the tone for much of the next year’s releases and buzz. SDCC 2024 was no Continue Reading
Boldly going in narratively different directions: Star Trek – Strange New Worlds S2, E 6 (“Lost in Translation”) and E7 (“Those Old Scientists”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the thing I have always loved about Star Trek is its capacity for endlessly diverse and vibrantly creative storytelling. Much like the people and worlds that populate it, the franchise is possessed of the ability to be a searing drama in one episode, indicting a Continue Reading
Something’s in the air: Strange New Worlds drops a dazzlingly adventurous S2 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to Continue Reading
Technicolour future adventure: Character posters and teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2
SNAPSHOTThe Strange New Worlds team is already hyping up Season Two. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman promises that it will be “bigger and better” than Season One, while his fellow co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers describes it as “Season One on steroids.” Mount teases that Season Two will take “bigger swings” and explore even more genres than Season One Continue Reading
The frontier awaits again: Thoughts on Strange New Worlds (S1, E 6-10)
Anytime you talk about fate, it feels incredibly, oppressively, inescapably final. Some may see a comfort in the surely of preordained circumstance, but for many of us, what we will be, if it not left up to the exciting possibilities of self-determination, feels like a noose around the neck, cuffs Continue Reading