******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” has a teaser trailer (and vague release date) for Season 3…
******POSSIBLE STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** This past week, Paramount+ released a teaser trailer for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW), with a nonspecific summer release. There’s a lot to unpack in this short trailer, which begins with James Kirk (Paul Wesley), Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) and Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) in campy costumes…
No, Star Trek: Discovery hasn’t been ‘erased,’ nor has any other Star Trek…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In light of the wildfire emergencies here in SoCal–the worst of which are about forty-odd minutes northwest of me–I’ve been reluctant to punch out another column just now, in case my electricity is suddenly cut to prevent sparking from fallen power lines. However, since I need the diversion, here goes. For this column,…
“Star Trek: Very Short Treks” (2023) are single-joke shorts that miss more than they hit…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS***** To fans of Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-4) like myself, I was delighted to see the opening of the first of five Star Trek: Very Short Treks unveil recently, as I loved its tongue-in-cheek reimagining of the Paramount+ Star Trek into, which is now rendered in nostalgically cheesy, Filmation-style animation. The short…
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…
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…
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, S2.4: “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,…