*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Last season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” ended with the USS Enterprise’s first officer, Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), aka “Number One,” being taken into custody by Captain Batel’s security team, once Starfleet got wind of the fact that she was a genetically-engineered Illyrian masquerading as a human (genetic enhancement is forbidden…
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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…
Taking a look at the trailer for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 2…
Return to Tomorrow It’s been a very busy week for Star Trek. First came the announcement of Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh’s return to the franchise in a new Paramount+ movie tentatively-titled “Star Trek: Section 31,” as well as the series finale of “Star Trek: Picard” (more on that one in a future column), and a new…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.10; “A Quality of Mercy” upsets the ‘Balance’…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Rebalancing Balance of Terror. The season one finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) is now streaming, and while the prior two episodes of this 10-episode run (“The Elysian Kingdom” “All Those Who Wonder”) haven’t been quite as solid for me, the rest of the season has been terrific, so I had…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.7: “The Serene Squall” sets sail for space pirate hijinks…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** An avalanche of of new sci-fi content of late (“Severance,” “The Orville: New Horizons”, “For All Mankind”) has prevented me from reviewing the previous Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach,” and while I enjoyed it, I also think it borrowed quite a bit from the late sci-fi…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.5: “Spock Amok” is about insight and breaking a few rules…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’m still unsure if I can logistically review every new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW), as last week proved, when I was too busy covering and participating in the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim. While I did catch S1.4’s “Memento Mori” on my iPad in my hotel room, my take…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.3; “Ghosts of Illyria” shares a few secrets…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Ghosts of Illyria”, is a return to a storytelling device we’ve seen several times in the earliest episodes of new Star Trek series; the ship-wide epidemic. It was done in The Original Series’ (TOS) “The Naked Time,” The Next Generation’s (TNG) “The Naked Now”…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1.2; “Children of the Comet” spotlights a classic character…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** The second episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is available to stream on Paramount+. Written by Henry Alonso Myers, Sarah Tarkoff and directed by Maja Vrvilo, “Children of the Comet” showcases a character we Star Trek fans have known for nearly 56 years; Nyota Uhura (Cecelia Rose Gooding). As originally played by…
Future Redux: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” exits spacedock…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Two years ago, sometime after Star Trek Discovery’s second season finale, I made a case on behalf of other Star Trek fans for a possible Captain Pike “Star Trek” series. Well, two years later, and the powers-that-be at Paramount+ have heard our pleas. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is a reality now, continuing…