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. And I have to say, […]
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 Trek: Discovery Season 2 Ends […]
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: a planet the fulfills wishes, […]
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 Enterprise had suffered from catastrophic […]
CBS All Access Commits to Two Seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks Animated Series
Fan of Star Trek’s humor? Buckle your launch chairs for Star Trek: Lower Decks. CBS All Access announced on October 25, 2018, that they gave a two-season commitment to Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated comedy from Emmy Award-winner Mike McMahan. McMahan is best known for Rick and Morty and has written the upcoming Harry Mudd-centric […]
A Little New Star Trek on The Way in Star Trek: Short Treks
Star Trek: Short Treks Arrives this October on CBS AllAccess The next episodes of Star Trek: Discovery won’t air until April 2019, but this October CBS AllAccess will launch Star Trek: Short Treks. Short Treks reveal details of four characters that will offer hints and insights into the upcoming Discovery season. Fans will get to […]
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 Zachary Quinto. In Discovery Spock […]
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 follow the same pattern. Decisions […]
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 creators, writers and producers set […]
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 they got from Roddenberry to […]