*****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…
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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,…
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…
Log entry for Star Trek Las Vegas 2022, aka “The 56-Year Mission”…
The Search for Space? The annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, renamed ‘the 56-Year Mission’ due to a lost license with Paramount/CBS, has returned to Las Vegas, has returned to the strip, but in a different venue this year–Bally’s Hotel and Casino–due to the refurbishment of its traditional host, The Rio, just down the…
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”…