(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
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An adventure five years in the making: Trailer released for Star Trek: Lower Decks final season
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn season five of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks,’ the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing ‘space potholes’ – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…if they didn’t also 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 where no Starfleet person has gone before … Star Trek: Prodigy S1 and S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 1Thanks to the raw viewing immediacy that streaming offers, it doesn’t take much for any would-be watcher of a series to be left far behind, very quickly. There is, simply out, way more content than there are hours in the waking day, and by a considerable Continue Reading
Farewell Star Trek: Discovery – reviews of the final two episodes E9 (“Lagrange Point”) and E10 (“Life, Itself”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 9 “Lagrange Point” What a wild ride the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery is! With their spore-drive nav system not exactly up to code and the Breen hot upon their heels, Discovery has no choice but to jump with the hope that they’ll close enough Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery S5 review: Episodes 5 (“Mirrors”), 6 (“Whistlespeak), 7 (“Erigah”) and 8 (“Labyrinths”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 5: “Mirrors” If you thought getting bounced around centuries of time and space was a LOT for Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of Discovery to put up with “Face the Strange”) and as weird and out there as this season could get, then think Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery S5 review: Episodes 3 (“Jinaal”) and 4 (“Face the Strange”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 3: “Jinaal” While treasure hunts are lots of fun and give a competitively frenetic sheen to birthday parties and even weekends away with friends, they’re not the most efficient way to find things. But then, a party host is not trying to fill a streaming season’s Continue Reading
The beginning of farewell … Star Trek: Discovery S5, E1-2 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Discovery has always been about people and the connections they forge in building a better, more just galactic society. That might seem self evident since surely that is true of all iterations of a franchise that has held sway in the hearts and minds of Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Trek – Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War by Mike Chen and Angel Hernandez
(courtesy Penguin Random House) Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Dog of War by Mike Chen (writer) and Angel Hernandez (art), is one of Continue Reading
It’s time for one last dance with Star Trek: Discovery season 5’s official trailer
(courtesy IMDb (c) Paramount+) SNAPSHOTThe final installment of [Star Trek: Discovery] sees “Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But Continue Reading