The most recent incarnation of Star Trek returns tonight—with some familiar names behind the camera.
Category Archives: Star Trek
Twenty-Five Years of Deep Space Nine
By the Prophets! Has it really been a quarter of a century since DS9 debuted?
Giving us a darker, richer, more character-driven series than the previous two incarnations of Star Trek (and most TV Sci-Fi), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine set out on different path and changed the genre forever. By not allowing the characters to warp away from the previous week’s adventure, they were forced to deal with long-term consequences.
The show had its ups and downs. Sure there was “Move Along Home” and “Time’s Orphan” but there was also “The Visitor,” “Duet,” and “In the Pale Moonlight.”
Raise a glass of kanar or bloodwine (2309 vintage, if you please) in toast.
Variety has a great write-up on the series and it’s 25th birthday.
Discovery Review: “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” and “Into the Forest I Go”
The last two episodes take the Discovery where no one has gone before…. And we won’t know where that might be until January.
Star Trek Discover Discussion: “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”
If you desire peace, prepare for war.
Since the mid-season finale (when did that become an expected thing?) falls next week, and this week’s episode might as well have ended with, “To be continued!” we’ll save a full review for next week. Here’s a place for a Discovery discussion….
Star Trek Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
It’s Gormagander Day as someone’s idea of Harry Mudd traps the Discovery in a time-loop in an murder-laden attempt to sell out the Federation to the Klingon Empire.
Strangely enough, it’s also the lightest-toned ep thus far. I fully expected to hear the TOS “funny” music at some point.
Star Trek Discovery: “Lethe”
Off-duty, the crew wear nifty DISCOvery tees.
The apparently brilliant and logical Sarek falls for two traps (Where’s Admiral Ackbar when you need him?), Burnham, Tyler, and Tilly bond on a rescue mission, and Lorca penetrates the upper echelon, and then reveals the precipice on which his sanity stands.
Star Trek: Discovery Gets A Second Season
Apparently enough people are signing up for CBS All Access to warrant a second season of the newest entry in the Star Trek family.
Six episodes in, what do you all think (or are you, like me, waiting until the season wraps and binge it all)?
Star Trek Discovery: “Choose Your Pain”
Burnham and associates face a classic Trek dilemma, and a captive captain encounters a classic Trek character.
“Here’s Mudd in your eye!”
Star Trek: Discovery: “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry”
Discovery isn’t treading water, bear in mind, but many fans remain uncertain whether it will make the grade.
The latest episode features some familiar SF concepts, personality clashes among both humans and Klingons, and a glimpse of the show’s potential.
Star Trek: Discovery Review: “Context is for Kings”
Star Trek: Discovery premiered last week with “Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars.” With the captain [spoiler]dead and our chief protagonist serving a life sentence[/spoiler], the show takes an unexpected route to an expected destination: the U.S.S. Discovery.
Some spoilers follow.