Review: Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Ends And Trek Limps Toward The Future
‘Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2’– Ep#214 — Pictured (l-r): Samora Smallwood as Lt. Amin; Ethan Peck as Spock; Rebecca Romijn as Number One; Anson Mount as Captain Pike of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Russ Martin/CBS ©2018 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Review: Star […]
Star Trek: Discovery — My Red Angel Issues.
Star Trek: Discovery continues to offer the best looking Star Trek ever, but the writing continues to take the show where no Star Trek has gone before. Star Trek was built on a foundation of hard science fiction, not the magic of fantasy. Star Trek TOS occasionally touched on fantasy: […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2—The Review So Far
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2—The Review So Far Leading into Star Trek: Discovery Season 2…As we left the intrepid U.S.S. Discovery it had received a distress call. That call came from Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his U.S.S. Enterprise. Where We Have Landed So Far It turns out the […]
Star Trek: Discovery Beams Up Ethan Peck as the New Spock
Star Trek: Discovery beams up Ethan Peck as the New Spock Star Trek: Discovery has announced that Ethan Peck as will join the cast as Spock. Peck will be the third official “Spock,” the half human, half Vulcan Science Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. His predecessors were Leonard Nimoy and […]
Star Trek: Discovery and Keeping Big Lies Straight
Star Trek: Discovery and Keeping Big Lies Straight When people tell big lies that run over long periods, they rationalize. They may try to find a break point that allows them to come clean, but they miss it and go on to pile myth atop myth. Story arcs in television […]
5 Things That Went Wrong with ‘Star Trek: Discovery’
Had Star Trek: Discovery not been created as part of the Star Trek franchise, it probably would have made an interesting new show that would have taken the place of more recently departed dark Sci-Fi like Battlestar Galactica. But because it was Star Trek, and because it pre-dated TOS, the […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Thankfully Goes Where Star Trek Has Gone Before
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review After several attempts to reinvent Star Trek for a new generation of viewers, the Paramount team finally decided to accept people loved the original Star Trek for a reason, and that reason does not require reinvention. Enter Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Star Trek’s equation […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Modern Star Trek Problem
When the Starship Enterprise launched on its maiden voyage on September 8, 1966, it launched without precedent, without canon, and without expectations (except perhaps from Gene Roddenberry and the network executives). Star Trek fulfilled its mission to boldly go where no one has gone before. Until a decade after its […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks Loud, Annoying, and Promising
When a franchise meets a certain level of complexity, canon goes out the window. With Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek finally not only bent canon, it completely blew through it. The animated series from Rick and Morty creator Mike McMahan takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek poke into Gene Roddenberry’s world. […]
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before Review: Picard Season 1 brings back one of Star Trek’s iconic characters. Patrick Steward does justice to Picard, but the show, like all the new Treks, fails to both inspire and create a cohesive worldview that explains how […]