The Announcement “Paramount+ today announced it has officially greenlit Star Trek: Section 31 starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh. In this special original movie event for the service, Yeoh will return to her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, a character she first played in Star Trek: Discovery’s first season. In Star Trek: Section 31, Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked…
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“Star Trek: Prodigy” is the franchise’s most unexpected surprise…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Created by Kevin and Alex Hageman and overseen by an Alex Kurtzman-led team of producers, the Paramount+/Nickelodeon coproduction Star Trek: Prodigy (PRO) is a new animated Star Trek series consciously geared towards younger audiences, after the debut of the more adult (and arguably less mature) Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having recently finished 20…
“Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe” sends the boys into a black hole. Huhuhuh … ‘hole’
*****SPOILERS!!***** 1990s Guilty Pleasure Back in late 1993, I remember my sister telling me about a new cartoon series on MTV called “Beavis and Butthead” (1993-1998), which chronicled the misadventures of two aimless, idiotic teenage boys who created all kinds of chaos in between mocking music videos. Before then, I vaguely remembered hearing of Beavis…
New poster for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” epitomizes Roddenberry’s ‘space western’ in a single image…
*****POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS***** Yesterday (as of this writing) a flood of rumors emerged regarding the slew of new Star Trek coming out this year; this month’s return of Star Trek: Discovery (Feb. 10th), the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard (March 3rd), more rumors of the long-gestating Star Trek…
Star Trek: Discovery’s 4th season opens with a “Kobayashi Maru” scenario…
RE: PARAMOUNT+/NETFLIX DECISION I usually post spoiler warnings in most of these columns, but I’m doing so with a vengeance for this new season of Star Trek: Discovery reviews in light of a recent real-life controversy. Star Trek: Discovery, which is seen in the United States on Paramount+, CTV Sci-Fi channel in Canada, and on…
Star Trek: Prodigy S1.3; “Starstruck” finds its space legs…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Okay, I swore I wasn’t going to review every single episode of Paramount+’s new series “Star Trek: Prodigy,” but after last week’s double-length pilot (which had an uncanny “Star Wars Rebels” vibe) I was curious to see how/where the series would go after our heroes escaped from the prison mine and took their…
A Tale of Two Cities: Star Trek’s “City on the Edge of Forever” (1967)…
****GUARDIAN OF FOREVER-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!**** “City on the Edge of Forever” is a highly praised episode of the original Star Trek series (TOS). It’s the episode that usually makes many fan favorites’ list. Is it one of my personal favorites? Yes, absolutely. But could it have been better? That’s debatable. For much of my Star…