Today’s Reviews: Splitting attention on Prodigy
There’s a split emphasis between the Voyager crew and the former Protostar crew as season 2 of Prodigy progresses: It’s a joy to spend more time with Janeway and the […]
Today’s Reviews: Prodigy boldly going again
Star Trek Prodigy is back, and in style: Far more sophisticated than its ‘grown-up’ stablemate Below Decks, Prodigy never patronises its viewers, merely takes its time to explain the show’s […]
Giamatti joins Hunter for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Paul Giamatti is joining Holly Hunter for the new Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy. Hunter has been cast as the captain and chancellor of the Academy, with Giamatti playing the […]
Today’s Reviews: Discovery ended
The final voyage of the USS Discovery is now streaming – but is it a classic Trek finale? An unremarkable and familiar set of story beats to play out a […]
Today’s Reviews: Setting the stage
The finale of Star Trek Discovery is just days away and the penultimate episode sets the scene well: It’s a fun hour, with the whole team acting in synchronicity, aided […]
Today’s Reviews: Breen there, done that
The 8th episode of Discovery’s final season sees things continue to develop well: Maintaining the high quality established in the previous episode, this is another satisfying development of the season’s […]
Today’s Reviews: Breen and gone
Discovery’s latest episode starts moving things towards the endgame: Discovery shifts up a gear and addresses the main storyline head-on, making for an exciting hour and the sense of a […]
Today’s Reviews: Prime Directive Discovery
There’s another look at the Prime Directive in the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery: It’s a solid idea, but you just know it’s going to be broken when it’s […]
Today’s Reviews: Mirrors for Discovery
The latest episode of Star Trek Discovery sees the final season reach its mid point: There’s nothing wrong here, but nothing memorable either Click here to read Nick Joy’s full […]
Today’s Reviews: Time travelling Discovery
A familar Star Trek trope gets an airing this week: What I’m enjoying most about this season is Callum Keith Rennie’s Rayner, whose belligerent attitude is completely at odds with […]
More changes for Star Trek
Lower Decks will conclude with its fifth season later this year; Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth run. “It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build […]
Today’s Reviews: Slipping the pace for Discovery
The third episode of the final season of Star Trek Discovery loses some of the pace: The energy from the opener is waning week on week Click here to read […]
Today’s Reviews: Let’s Fly
The second episode of Discovery’s final season sees Saru’s last mission as First Officer: It’s not as big an episode as the season opener, and is probably closer to what […]
Today’s Reviews: A fun Disco launch
The new final series of Star Trek Discovery begins today and the first episode is fun: It’s a breezy hour, with an exciting action sequence involving two starships. Click here […]
Punking Seven of Nine
David Mack’s new novel Firewall chronicles the story of Seven of Nine between Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Picard, and punk rock has a major influence on both book […]
Today’s Reviews: Seven’s Voyage
A new Star Trek novel charts Seven of Nine’s journey from Voyager to Picard: Firewall isn’t just a good Star Trek novel – it’s a masterful exploration of the dynamics of self-discovery, deconstruction, […]
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