Today’s Reviews: Full marks for the Academy
Halfway through their first season, and Starfleet Academy gets its first full marks for an episode: Written by Kenneth Lin and Kiley Rosseter, this excellent episode starts to deliver on […]
Analysing Monarch’s latest manifesto (video)
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters was enormous fun and every trailer for the second season has made Alasdair Stuart more excited for it. Here’s what he spotted in the last one. […]
Time to Boldly Go… Figure
A new book is on the way from Roundel Books, covering the worlds of Star Trek figures. Roundel Books Publishing are now running a kickstarter for the next generation of […]
Today’s Reviews: Delving into the past
There are no spoilers in our review of the nostalgia-tinged latest episode of Starfleet Academy: It’s a curious episode, where your knowledge of legacy Trek will add another level of […]
Today’s Reviews: Old school Trek
The latest Starfleet Academy instalment revives memories of old-school Trek: It’s more than an origin story because it takes a sticky moral quandary, throws in some humour and dresses it […]
Today’s Reviews: Conforming and confirming?
The third episode of Starfleet Academy seems more what people anticipated / feared the series would be: I’m hoping that this slight story by Alex Taub and Kiley Rossetter is […]
Today’s Reviews: Starfleet Academy shines
The opening episodes of Starfleet Academy give the latest part of the franchise a strong start: The main thrust of the story just feels like good, old-school Trek, with smart […]
McCoy and Sulu cast for Strange New Worlds
The producers of Strange New Worlds have often said that the show is designed to lead into the first year of James T. Kirk as Captain of the Enterprise, and […]
Today’s Reviews: Khan triumphant?
The final episode of Star Trek Khan is a fitting finale: It’s almost impossible to do what this season has done. It tells a complete, coherent story that doesn’t just […]
A very different Star Trek
Alasdair Stuart prepares to boldly go… With the fourth Kelvinverse movie possibly, finally, dead for the last time, Star Trek has been looking a little muted recently. Strange New Worlds’ […]
Today’s Reviews: The Truth is Out There
Catching up with the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Khan… We’re barrelling into the endgame this week and it’s all about prejudice being called out Click here to read Alasdair […]
Today’s Reviews: To the Death
The pre-penultimate episode of Khan sees the other key event the series has to cover: It’s a nicely handled, if operatic moment, using their shared love of poetry and a […]
Today’s Reviews: The Quality of Leadership
Last week’s episode of Khan saw two differing styles of leadership: One is a closed fist; one is an open hand. Neither are entirely right and that sudden grey area […]
Starfleet Academy opens on January 15 (video)
At the New York Comic Con Star Trek panel, the full trailer and launch date were revealed for the next series, Starfleet Academy. The series will premiere with two episodes […]
Continuing the Picard saga
Dayton Ward’s new Star Trek novel will fill in some of the gaps in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard. To Defy Fate, arriving in April 2026, is set […]
Today’s Reviews: Tragedy for Khan
We knew it was coming – but there’s far more to Ceti Alpha VI than we believed… A surprising, and still very good, episode of what’s shaping up to be […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi! 