*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I remember reading about the little-known 1971 TV movie “Earth II” years ago in the pages of Starlog magazine. Back then, it was very easy to confuse the film with several failed Gene Roddenberry pilots made around the same time, such as “Genesis II” (1973) and “Planet Earth” (1974) or even the…
Author: A Middle Aged Geek
I am a happily married, progressive-minded, middle-aged science fiction geek. My interests included photography, reading, movies, Halloween, and all kinds of nerdy-niche things. After months of prodding from my wife (and my friends), I decided to 'throw down' with a blog of all of my nerdiest of nerdly thoughts and musings... here's hoping you enjoy!
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.10: “Hegemony” revisits (and reimagines) a legacy foe…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The final episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) season 2 has arrived, and I apologize for the lateness of this review, but since this is the ‘big season finale,’ I wanted to give readers the opportunity to stream it before I spoil the hell out of it. A couple of safe-spoilers…
“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” (2003) is a middling sequel with a surprisingly bold ending…
*****LIQUID METAL SPOILERS!***** It’s been 20 years since the release of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” which came a good dozen years after 1991’s mega-hit “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” T2 would’ve been a perfectly fine place to end the franchise; however, with Arnold Schwarzenegger still in fighting shape at age 56 (he was as…
“Good Omens 2” goes more intimate than epic in this newer testament…
*****CELESTIAL SPOILERS!***** Second Coming “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch” was the 1990 novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman which served as the basis for the 2019 miniseries, “Good Omens.” That original six-part miniseries starred Michael Sheen (“Tron: Legacy”) as “Aziraphale”, the angel who originally guarded the gates…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.9: “Subspace Rhapsody” opens a very different hailing frequency…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** This week’s episode of Strange New Worlds (SNW) is bound to be divisive. Not everyone likes musicals, and we’ve never seen one attempted in this franchise before. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” did a musical episode in its 6th season (“Once More With Feeling”) that became wildly popular with fans, but “Buffy…” is also…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.8: “Under the Cloak of War” commits a few atrocities…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Last Time on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds… Forgive me for being so late with this column, as my wife and I have been battling matching cases of COVID since returning from San Diego Comic Con 2023 over a week ago. Even vaccinated, it’s been rough (I’m still not quite over it, as…
Personal Log: A bit of advice for attending San Diego Comic Con…
Short and Not So Sweet This won’t be one of my usual deep dives, as I only want to convey a bit of reasoning as to why I won’t be writing a whole lot of fresh content this week (and possibly next); during the recent excursion to San Diego Comic Con 2023, my wife and…
San Diego Comic Con 2023 soldiered on, despite some new challenges…
Comic Con Returns Once again, my wife and I returned to San Diego Comic Con, as we have almost every year for nearly the last two decades. The last time the event was cancelled outright came in 2020, the year the COVID pandemic changed everything, and prematurely ended millions of lives around the world. That’s…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.6: Uhura’s backstory gets a little “Lost in Translation”…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** From the previews, it looked like legacy Star Trek character Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) would be facing her personal demons through nightmarish images that may or may not be real. The horror elements from the teasers brought to mind Star Trek: TNG’s “Night Terrors” and The Orville’s “Firestorm,” both of which…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.5: “Charades” deconstructs Spock…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds takes a rare look at the human half of the stoic, self-identifying Vulcan science officer, Spock (Ethan Peck). Like last season’s “Spock Amok,” “Charades” sees Lt. Spock feeling not quite himself, at a particularly bad time—as his Vulcan fiancée and prospective in-laws come aboard…
Disneyland’s “Rise of the Resistance” takes Star Wars fans on a ‘captivating’ ride…
Disneyland, 2023 Well, it’d been over three years since I last visited Disneyland, which is not far from where I live. But the ticket price is high, and the recent COVID pandemic put a damper on my personal comfort level with crowd situations. However, my wife (who’s far braver than I am) had the idea…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.4: “Among the Lotus Eaters” isn’t much to chew on…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** “This Is Rigel 7!” This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sees Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Security Chief Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) returning to a planet the Enterprise previously visited five years earlier. In that earlier mission, Pike led a landing party to this Bronze Age world,…