Tag: Star Trek

This week's gimmick is "let's try and write a good episode," and it mostly works. We get some back-to-basics Star Trek — the classic trouble-on-the-planet/trouble-on-the-ship formula,...

I don't want to talk about Star Trek this week, I want to talk about Alf. For those of you whose brains contain useful information...

Everything in space wants to kill you. Recent sci-fi has focused heavily on this idea, as actual scientists (and overreaching hype men like Elon Musk)...

We'll be honest, we've been dreading this one. Strange New Worlds has taken big swings with gimmick episodes before and connected: the partially-animated Lower Decks...

Writing should be the easy part. Not that writing is easy. Anyone who's ever stared at a blank page or a blank screen can tell...

This week's opening sets up a mission to a new planet, something about Pike negotiating a treaty in a civil war, tense, delicate, yadda yadda...

On the surface, Strange New Worlds is a light, upbeat show. Our chummy, immaculately coiffed Captain goes on an adventure with a crew of legacy...

Star Trek is not in a good place. Since last year's terrible season finale, Paramount Plus launched Starfleet Academy and quickly cancelled it (although a...

Ugh. We're not sure what sort of bump the Starship Enterprise hit a month ago, but we've finished out Strange New World's third season with...

One of the joys of Strange New Worlds is that Christopher Pike's Enterprise seems like a nice place to work. Coworkers support each other, gossip...