Pages Tagged “Star Trek”
Reviews
- Justice (ST:TNG, Season 1) ★☆☆☆☆ Some old TV shows are better than you remember. Planet of the Jogging Bimbos…isn’t.
- Paradise The ST:DS9 episode “Paradise” tries to make a point about self-reliance without technology, but misses the mark by not actually showing any benefits.
- Star Trek (2009 Movie) ★★★★☆
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1 ★★★★☆ Star Trek with the pace of Farscape, weaving through existing lore and focused on one crew member’s quest for redemption.
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 ★★★☆☆ The stand-alone episodes are good, and the Burnham/Spock family dynamics, but the main arc gets really frustrating in the second half.
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3 ★★★★☆ I liked Season 3 a lot better than season 2. It finally got to be its own Trek. And they did some really interesting things with the future of the 'verse and how the Discovery crew adapted to it.
- Star Trek: Lower Decks ★★★★★ Hilarious self-parody of TNG-era Star Trek. Funny on its own, but even better if you know the shows it’s riffing on.
- Star Trek: Picard - Season 1 ★★★☆☆ I have mixed feelings about the first season of Picard. But later seasons have given me a new appreciation for it.
- Star Trek: Picard - Season 2 ★★★☆☆ Hard to pin down, with a weird start, then a few good time travel episodes, before throwing in not just the kitchen sink but everything in the sink.
- Star Trek: Picard - Season 3 ★★☆☆☆ If season one was like The Last Jedi, this is The Rise of Skywalker, complete with gratuitously resurrected villains, young characters freaking out about their genetics, a family/found family theme that only sort of makes sense, and a galactic-level threat that can only be defeated by taking out that one resurrected villain.
- Star Trek: Section 31 ★★☆☆☆ As a Star Trek pilot it’s merely OK. As a stand-alone movie, it’s a mess. It could have been retooled as a good heist film, but wasn’t.
- Subspace Rhapsody ★★★★☆ The first time through my reaction was: OK, that was fun. The second time I really appreciated the way it was put together and immediately went looking for the soundtrack.
Blog Posts
- The Ferengi are the ones in suits
Tonight, our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch (on DVD) is up to “Bar Association”, the episode in which Rom leads all of Quark’s employees on a strike to demand better working conditions. I swear I didn’t time this intentionally, but it seems appropriate! Ferengi workers donât want to stop the exploitation. We want to […]
- Catching up on Recent Trek
We ended up not watching Star Trek: Discovery when it launched because we didn’t want to add another streaming service at the time. Same with Picard. Sometime during the last two years we ended up adding Paramount+ (or whatever it was called at the time) for some reason, and earlier this year we decided to […]
- Whale Call
We watched Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home last night. It holds up better than I thought it would. At the end, I found myself trying to imagine the conversation between the whales and the probe. Probably something like this: — Hey! We’re still here! Or, we’re back, anyway! — Oh, good! What happened to […]
- Time Gate
When did they install the Guardian of Forever at this park?
- Glass, Steel, Rails and Wildflowers: A Walk in Manhattan Beach
Lately whenever I take my car in for maintenance, I end up taking the car-free morning away from home as an excuse to walk down to the Manhattan Beach Pier. The last time was right after a Halloween storm, which was gorgeous, but this time it was a gloomy morning, and I took the opportunity […]
- I knew those looked familiar!
These are the voyages of the starship Epinephrine. Please help support its continuing mission.
- Car Trek
License plate spotted today: âËâ¦TREK11
- Cynicism in DS9 vs. B5
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, Accession, an ancient Bajoran ship comes out of the wormhole with a single passenger who claims HE is the Emissary of the Prophets.
- Links! Alarms, Ghosts of History, Firefly Trek, WW2 Star Wars & More
Hazards of too many alarms; Merging historical and modern photos; Computer lightning safety; Allergies, Star Wars as World War II; Firefly as Star Trek, SMBC’s Logogeneplex.
- Pon Farr Perfume
In honor of Valentine’s Day, check out this bizarre sight we found at (of all places) Borders a while back: Yes, it’s Star Trek perfume inspired by the Vulcan mating urge. But, wait, there’s more! Apparently, they want you to believe that Starfleet Medical has isolated the factor that made Captain James T. Kirk a […]
- Southcoast of Borg
We are South Coast Plaza of Borg. You will be overstimulated! After only 20 minutes at the mall on Saturday, I was already feeling overwhelmed.
- Competing Clanks
Standing in the movie theater lobby, listening to competing CLANKing from Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation.
- Cyborgs: Terminator Salvation and Surrogates
Finally got out to see Terminator: Salvation at the second-run theater. It was a passable action flick, though a bit overblown and tedious at times. I thought it was better than T3: Rise of the Machines, at least. T3 was too caught up in repeating the first two movies (a Terminator is sent back in […]
- Casablanca…IN SPACE!
Babylon 5 has been described as Casablanca in space, so it was weird to catch an episode of Deep Space Nine that really *was* Casablanca in space.
- Star Trek: Experiencing Seismic Activity
Sunday’s earthquake hit while we were watching the new Star Trek movie. It actually fit with the movie surprisingly well. Also: what I liked and didn’t.
- Talk About “Engaging” the Borg
Star Trek meets reality: when we registered at Robinson’s May for our wedding five years ago, the barcode scanner was called a phaser.
- Cardassian Reality TV
Every time I hear an ad for “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” It sounds like “Keeping Up With the Cardassians” Does the Star Trek universe have reality shows?
- La Mancha
Home from seeing Brent Spiner in Man of La Mancha. Very good. Update: Here’s a friend’s review of the production.
- Picard’s Pills
Just got spam from “Patrick Stewart” for body-part enlargement. Reminded of that one SNL sketch with the cake shop.
- Exit stage left, pursued by a Claire.
Yeah sure, Heroes X-Men blah blah blah, but wait, there’s more. I’m getting a distinct vibe from the latest episode that has less to do with mutants than with good TV. This makes me very happy, all the more because I didn’t pick up on it until the third-to-last ep of the season. Of course, […]
- The Trill of the Chase
Some recent bizarre-but-true spam subjects: Dinky $ch001girl$ of the universe Obviously trying to avoid keyword filters (not that it helped), but come on—“dinky?” When was the last time you saw that applied to a person? And what exactly is a “schoolgirl of the universe?” It sounds like a new anime series or something, with schoolgirls […]
- Only in Vegas
You know the routine. We can’t pass up a bizarre image without taking a photo and posting some sort of comment. Not even on vacations. The drive to Las Vegas from southern California is simple: make your way to the 15, head north, and keep going until you get blinded by the neon. The â […]
- Klingon Honor Roll
You’ve all seen those bumper stickers that say things like, “My child was an honor student at XYZ school.” You’ve probably seen parodies like “My child can beat up your honor student.” But have you seen the Klingon version? Sorry about the phone resolution: it reads, “My child has more honor than your child.” And […]
- Trekking to the fridge
If the original Star Trek is Classic Trek, ST:TNG is New Trek, and Deep Space Nine is Diet Cherry Trek, what kinds of soda are Voyager and Enterprise?
- Green Lantern Madness!
Yesterday I was trying to explain to Katie the furor that erupted back when DC replaced Green Lantern Hal Jordan with Kyle Rayner. I came up with this analogy: Imagine that a new Star Trek series begins with Captain Picard going insane, killing off the entire crew of the Enterprise, and destroying all of Starfleet […]
- Borg: The Musical
I dreamed I went to an audition for Borg: The Musical. I swear, it was messed up enough for Something Positive.