******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’ve already written two columns on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ (SNW) third season, with a double-review of its opening episodes “Hegemony Part 2,” and “Wedding Bell Blues,” and I recently did a writeup on the rest of the season to date. Then came the last two episodes, “Terrarium” and “New Life and…
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” third season is boldly going nowhere at maximum warp…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The Promise After a lot of speculation and advocation by fans like myself, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW) debuted in May of 2022 with one of the strongest pilot episodes of the nearly 60-year old Star Trek franchise. The SNW pilot, plainly-titled “Strange New Worlds,” was a tongue-in-cheek redux of director Robert…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins season 3 with “Hegemony Part 2,” and “Wedding Bell Blues”…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After being renewed for its 4th and 5th seasons, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) has debuted the first two episodes of its third season, offering two radically different types of stories; a dark alien invasion drama and a wacky comedy. And if the season trailer we saw in April is any indicator,…
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…
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…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; “The Broken Circle” warps into the second season…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Return to Tomorrow “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW) returns this week with the first of a ten episode second season. The first season of SNW—save for one or two disappointing installments—was one of the strongest seasons of Trek in awhile. The cast is uniformly excellent, and the return to an episodic format…
Seeing 1987’s “The Princess Bride” for the first time … again
*****SHRIEKING EEL-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!****** Last weekend, my wife and I hosted two of our best friends and their 11 year-old son Joshua for a ‘garage theater’ movie night. The movie we chose beforehand was “The Princess Bride”, which, coincidentally turns 35 this year. I have to admit; I’ve always been more a casual fan of…