Star Trek: Picard, S3.10: “The Last Generation” is a sentimental sendoff, slathered in fan service…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The season (and, presumably, series) finale of Star Trek: Picard (PIC), titled “The Last Generation,” has streamed, and I debated whether to do a recap of the entire season, or just a review of the final episode.  Deciding that I didn’t have the energy (or patience) to review all ten, I went with…

Star Trek: Picard, S3.4: “No Win Scenario” gets its ship together…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** After a decent season opener (“The Next Generation”), the second and third episodes (“Disengage,” “Seventeen Seconds” ) of Star Trek: Picard’s third season were in danger of slipping into the same kind of story morass that defined the unsuccessful second season. However, this week’s episode turns near-death “into a fighting chance to live.”…

Star Trek: Picard warps into its third season with “The Next Generation”…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Star Trek: Picard (PIC) has been an uneven ride, to put it mildly. The first season had some interesting ideas, and a (more or less) satisfying conclusion, saddled with a meandering middle section, and some ill-conceived characters (looking at you, Narek and Narissa). What could’ve ended as a decent miniseries pushed its luck…

Three new Star Trek trailers beamed down to New York Comic Con 2022…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** Until last week’s New York Comic Con, there wasn’t a lot of solid news on the Star Trek front, beyond rumors floated on “Star Trek Day,” (September 8th). Then, suddenly, we got three new trailers for upcoming Star Trek. While two of the trailers are little more than teasers, the trailer for season…

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…

Scanning all Star Treks (1966-present)…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** With the annual Star Trek Las Vegas convention (aka “the 56 Year Mission”) right around the corner, I thought this might be a good time to take an overview of the entire televised Star Trek franchise. I’d previously examined all of the Star Trek feature films, so I thought I might explore…

Star Trek: Singing the Body Electric…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD FOR TOS, TNG, PICARD, DISCOVERY***** With apologies to both Walt Whitman and Ray Bradbury, Star Trek’s attitudes on ‘the body electric’ have undergone a paradigm shift from 1966 to 2021. The season one finale of Star Trek: Picard, S1.10: “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2″ saw Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) awakening…

New trailers & teasers beam down for Star Trek’s “First Contact Day”…

*****POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!***** April 5th marks Star Trek’s “First Contact Day”—the fictional future holiday marking the creation of warp drive and ‘first contact’ with the Vulcans in 2063 (42 years away). Not unlike that tumultuous time in Star Trek’s imaginary future, the past year has seen some tremendous challenges as well (a deadly global pandemic, an…