TV #46 of 2025: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 3 I enjoyed the first two seasons of this Discovery spinoff / TOS prequel immensely, but have unfortunately found this third year to constitute a significant step down. The show still occasionally manages to fire on all cylinders — both 3×6 “The Selat Who Ate …
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Movie #1 of 2025: Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) This spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery had a complicated production history, beginning life as an intended sister series to that show and Strange New Worlds before getting derailed by COVID-19 delays and ultimately scaled back to the form of a TV movie with some potential room …
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TV #51 of 2024: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5 I’ve never quite loved this cartoon, but I’ve come to appreciate its place in the Star Trek canon, which it regularly comments upon with the most lovingly esoteric references imaginable. (In one episode this season, for instance, a Klingon gets cut off in traffic and …
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TV #37 of 2024: Star Trek: Prodigy, season 2 A thoroughly excellent time-travel adventure, and probably the best season-over-season improvement in all of Star Trek. The debut year of this animated program was endearing but clunky, with an unclear intended audience and a disappointing incorporation of its Delta Quadrant setting. However, the show improved as …
Stop the clock! Eight years after I decided on a whim to start watching the Star Trek franchise from the very beginning, I’ve finally done it. I’ve seen all of Star Trek now. And because this is how my brain works, I’ll give you my subjective ranking of the various shows, by tier. TIER 1: …
TV #29 of 2024: Star Trek: Very Short Treks, season 1 These five digital shorts are silly and explicitly non-canonical, but I’d say they’re worth checking out for Star Trek diehards, especially given the minimal time commitment (about 18 minutes for the entire run, which you can find in this official YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLufIO1FTWFz_8X1Tmh3BAlJpqNadViR-E). Commissioned …
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TV #27 of 2024: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4 Still a loving and satisfyingly funny low-stakes riff on the Star Trek franchise, but not quite as tight a production as the last couple seasons (especially following the phenomenal crossover “Those Old Scientists” on Strange New Worlds). There’s an overarching storyline involving ships of various …
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TV #25 of 2024: Star Trek: Discovery, season 5 In theory, the impulse to revisit the ancient race of alien progenitors from a memorable episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is a fine one for the modern franchise to explore (if sort of an odd fit for Discovery, which began as a direct TOS …
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TV #23 of 2024: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2 The second year of this TOS prequel and technical Discovery spinoff isn’t flawless, but I’m comfortable saying it’s the single best season of Star Trek we’ve gotten since Deep Space Nine went off the air a quarter-century ago. The first run of Strange New …
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TV #19 of 2024: Star Trek: Picard, season 3 The first two seasons of this Star Trek: The Next Generation sequel were generally at their strongest in those moments that reunited the cast of the original show, which is probably why this last year goes ahead and makes it a full-fledged reunion. As before, there’s …
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