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Category Archives: Star Trek
New Trek Series will star Patrick Stewart as Picard
No, that’s not a headline time-warped from 1986! Stewart has signed on to reprise his iconic role in a a new series. We still have no specific details about the series.
What should the new show be about? And will the Klingons get another redesign?
Star Trek Discovery Review: “Will You Take My Hand?”
The season finale feels a little like Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game. Once again, it moves quickly, and it imparts a kind of direction on the season, towards a more familiar Trek.
Star Trek Discovery: The War Without, The War Within
The Eagles pull an upset victory over the Patriots, as….
Right. Star Trek. Well, once again, we have a show that delivers a good deal of excitement and high production values. In what sense it constitutes a prequel remains an open question, or, perhaps, a question best left ignored forever.
The episode sets up a desperate and, at least, interesting war mission for next week.
We have a place to discuss the episode here. Or, if you prefer, the Super Bowl.
Star Trek Discovery Discussion: “What’s Past Is Prologue”
This week’s episode gives us a couple more twists and great pacing. Some of the central actors give strong performances. I’m hoping, however, that past really is prologue, and the show can get a specific direction.
Maybe we’ll even see some science during the Klingon War.
Star Trek Discovery Discussion: Vaulting Ambition
A major twist– one predicted by many fans, but which I hadn’t given much credence– changes our understanding of the show. This week’s episode features wonkier science than usual, but it boasts some strong performances– and a Trek Shakespearian allusion.
Discussion here.
Star Trek Discovery Review: “The Wolf Inside”
Discovery confirms two fan predictions in a weaker but less grotesque episode than last week’s.
Star Trek Discovery Review: “Despite Yourself”
The most recent incarnation of Star Trek returns tonight—with some familiar names behind the camera.
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.