******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery is available for streaming, and “All Is Possible” focuses on trust and personal growth as we see Ni’Var (formerly Vulcan) tepidly questioning whether it should rejoin the Federation, and Lt. Tilly placed in command of Adira and a group of Starfleet cadets on a “routine…
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Star Trek: Discovery, S4.2; “Anomaly” is all about the characters…
*******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!******** Better Late Than Never… In the wake of last week’s announcement that Netflix would no longer be distributing Star Trek: Discovery in foreign markets (an announcement unfortunately timed right after the Destination London Star Trek convention, and only two days before Season 4’s debut in North America), Paramount+ and PlutoTV have reached…
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” features a cast for the future’s past…
Forgive me if this column is a bit briefer than usual, but I’m recovering from hand surgery and my typing speed is down to a crawl, so apologies in advance if I let the graphics and videos do most of the heavy lifting on this one! *****SOME SPECULATIVE SPOILERS***** “We’ve just finished 18 months redesigning…
All Our Yesterdays: My reviews of the “Star Trek” movies…
Now that I’ve reviewed all of the Star Trek movies for this column, the collector-nerd part of me wants them on one convenient, easy-to-find shelf for easier perusal. So this column will act as a one-stop ‘box set’ for my 13 Star Trek movie reviews, from “The Motion Picture” to “Beyond.” With Star Trek celebrating…
Star Trek going forward: ‘Tomorrow isn’t Yesterday’–nor should it be…
Not Yesterday’s Enterprise. This is one of those columns I wish I didn’t have to write, but I wanted to make a one-stop column addressing much of the simmering, seething anger I see online for just about any Star Trek made beyond 2005—or beyond 1987, for some. For as long as I can remember, each…
Star Trek: Lower Decks makes “Second Contact” with its first episode…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** A new Star Trek animated series (the first since 1974) has debuted on CBS-All Access this week. Created by Mike McMahan (“Rick and Morty”), “Star Trek: Lower Decks” is a look at the crew members who work at the less glamorous jobs within Star Trek’s fictional Starfleet; the ones who fix replicators,…
At-home projection: How I learned to love my movie collection all over again…
The Early Years… Viewing movies at home is hardly a new thing; the technology has been commonplace for around 40 years now. But I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t common at all. In fact, for most of my childhood, up until about age of 16 or so (circa 1983), television was, in my…
In what ‘frame of mind’ do you watch “Star Trek”?
Meet the Virtual Family. Star Trek has been (“and always shall be”) a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and for the foreseeable future. To varying degrees, I enjoy the show in all of its incarnations, past and present. I’m as old as The Original Series (both of us debuted…
The case for a possible Captain Pike “Star Trek” series…
****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Captain Christopher Pike. With Star Trek: Picard on hiatus and Star Trek: Discovery‘s 3rd season slated to return (sometime?) this year, I thought it might be a good opportunity to explore the prospects for a possible new Star Trek series, headlined by none other than Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter/Bruce Greenwood/Anson Mount), the…
The legacy of a beloved satire is explored in “Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary” (2019)…
Never Give Up… I’ll admit that in the wake of the seemingly never-ending bad news regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic, my urge to write about sci-fi entertainment has been somewhat diminished lately. But while perusing social media, I ran across a video recommendation from Mike Okuda (who, along with wife Denise, was Star Trek’s…
Star Trek: Picard, S1.10: “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2″ delivers on the promise…
*****GIANT BORG CUBE-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** The 10th and final episode of Star Trek: Picard’s first season, “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2” (Written by Michael Chabon and directed by Akiva Goldsman) has been released via CBS-All Access (AmazonPrime overseas), and it wraps up the freshman season’s arc in a satisfying, very Star Trek-way. The finale is a fascinating rumination on…
Star Trek: Picard, S1.9: “Et in Arcadia Ego,” Part 1” takes a familiar descent…
*****BORG CUBE-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Taking a brief break from our shared collective anxieties over the COVID-19 pandemic gripping the world right now, the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Picard’s first season, “Et in Arcadia Ego” Part 1 is now streaming on CBS-AA (you know you’re in for some heavy s#!t when they Latin up the title). Written by…