TV #17 of 2024: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3 This season starts out a little slowly, but it certainly hits its stride again by the end, with the episode set on Deep Space Nine and the one with the unexpected return of wayward ensign Peanut Hamper as particular formula-breaking standouts. At its best — …
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TV #13 of 2024: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 1 I went into this latest Star Trek series with fairly low expectations. In addition to being another prequel in a franchise that could stand to be more forward-facing, it is moreover a direct spin-off from the messiest season of Star Trek: Discovery. On paper, …
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TV #11 of 2024: Star Trek: Picard, season 2 Not great, but a noticeable step up from the blandly underwritten chaos of this modern Star Trek show’s first season. Picard’s old superpowered tormentor Q is as maddeningly inscrutable as ever, but bringing him into play as the new big bad for the year is a …
TV #9 of 2024: Star Trek: Discovery, season 4 While this latest season of Star Trek: Discovery may not be quite as bad as its dire second year, which burned through an astonishing degree of terrible impulses, it’s decidedly more creatively bereft. We’re still in the future timeline (where it appears the show will be …
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TV #5 of 2024: Star Trek: Prodigy, season 1 This animated program gets better as its first year goes on, but I remain confused about who exactly the target audience is supposed to be. On the one hand: the tone is fairly YA, the majority of the main characters are young teens (or the alien …
TV #2 of 2024: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2 I’m still not fully vibing with this cartoon’s irreverent tone, but it’s improved enough in this sophomore season that I’m willing to bump my rating up a notch from last time. My biggest issue in the program’s first year was the way the narrative seemed …
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TV #60 of 2023: Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 Discovery’s messy second season ended with the ship jumping far away from the familiar, and this next year quickly confirms that the crew have arrived in the distant future, 900 years after their original era directly preceding TOS. That’s a smart writing choice on a couple …
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TV #58 of 2023: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1 I can’t complain too much about this show. It’s an animated half-hour comedy that, sure, makes me laugh most episodes. But I don’t think it’s really living up to its mission or its potential, at least in this first year. The series takes its name …
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TV #56 of 2023: Star Trek: Picard, season 1 Patrick Stewart seems to be enjoying himself in reprising the title role of this Star Trek sequel series set and produced decades after his time on The Next Generation, but this whole first season is built around a huge miscalculation of what sort of story would …
Book #117 of 2023: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #27) This Star Trek novel was originally published back in the year 2000, soon after the series Deep Space Nine had come to an end. In it, author Andrew J. Robinson writes from …
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