“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…

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, S2.5: “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…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.3: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” allows time for romance…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” may take its title from the Bard’s “Macbeth,” but the story itself solders together elements from many past Treks, including The Original Series’ “City on the Edge of Forever,” “Space Seed” and Star Trek: Enterprise’s “Carpenter Street.” Fortunately, there…

A few words about the unjust cancellation (and removal) of “Star Trek: Prodigy”…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS***** Just as I was thankful to my Paramount+ subscription for last Thursday’s sensational episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ( “Ad Astra Per Aspera” ), I was abruptly blindsided the next day by news that the streaming service was cancelling—and removing—the entirety of “Star Trek: Prodigy” from its platform, despite the fact…