The “Star Trek: Khan” audio-drama podcast is truly ‘Paradise Lost’…

******PLANET-SIZED SPOILERS!****** “Star Trek: Khan” was conceived as a live-action Paramount+ miniseries that would be written by writer/producer/director Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”) which would chronicle the exile of Star Trek antagonist Khan Noonian Singh and his genetically-engineered ‘augment’ loyalists on the doomed planet of…

AppleTV’s “For All Mankind” season 4; what goes up, must come down…

******ASTEROID-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’d like to reiterate my tremendous love for Ron Moore’s “For All Mankind”; it’s a brilliant alternate-reality series, which repeatedly demonstrates a healthy respect for authentic space science as well.  The characters (past and present) are deeply compelling, with issues of sexism and racism left largely in humanity’s rear-view mirror as it begins…

For All Mankind, S4E2: “Have a Nice Sol” chronicles the Martians…

*****PHOBOS-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I wasn’t planning to do episode-by-episode recap/reviews of entire TV shows anymore (as I used to do with each new episode of Star Trek), because they reduce the overall time I have for other equally compelling topics.  My new modus operandi for this column is to only highlight an interesting episode every now…

AppleTV’s “For All Mankind” kicks off Season 3 with “Polaris,” a high-octane disaster movie in space…

*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Right upfront; “For All Mankind,” co-created and produced by Ronald D. Moore (“Deep Space Nine” the “Battlestar Galactica” reboot) is my favorite science fiction series going on right now. Yes, it has strong competition (“Severance,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”)–this is a great time to be a sci-fi TV fan–but for overall…