The Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 finale really wanted to be epic but was ultimately something of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it did all the things it set out to do; it checked all the boxes on its to-do list—but did it do it in a satisfying way? The final showdown between […] More
It’s odd to think in terms of a two-part finale in a series that’s been as heavily serialized as Star Trek: Discovery has been, but that’s essentially what we have here. “Such Sweet Sorrow” doesn’t cover a whole lot of new ground in terms of action, but it sets the stage for an epic finale and […] More
Everyone knows what The Twilight Zone is, even if some have never even seen an episode of the seminal television show. As with pop-cultural landmarks such as Star Trek, Star Wars, or Seinfeld (just to name a few), the familiar tones of “do dee doo doo, do dee doo doo, do dee doo doo” are […] More
Last week’s episode “The Red Angel” ended with Captain Leland of Section 31 apparently attacked and injected with something by Control—31’s central computer core infected with an advanced future artificial intelligence—and Commander Michael Burnham discovering that the Red Angel is, in fact, her mother, whom she has believed dead for the past 20 years. Star […] More
This week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery—”The Red Angel”—was a doozy. It was heavy on revelations, including two different reveals of the identity of the Red Angel and Section 31’s role in creating it, and Michael Burnham learning the truth of her parents’ deaths and that they worked for Section 31. The episode opens with Airiam’s funeral. […] More
“Project Daedalus”: A shocking, gripping—and quite frankly, rather infuriating—emotional gut-punch of an episode. Star Trek: Discovery has been firing on all nacelles this year, raising the bar with every episode, and this week was no exception. Read on to find out why I found it so good and yet so maddening, but beware: Major Spoiler Ahead. Still […] More
WOW. Okay, I know it’s bad form to lay my cards down before the hand even gets started, whether it’s in poker or a review. But what the heck? WOW. A friend described this episode as “the Trekkest Trek there’s ever been,” and he’s not far wrong. As Stefon would say, “This episode has everything!” “If […] More
After weeks of teasing, the promised occurrence has finally happened: Spock comes to Star Trek: Discovery. But is this the Spock we expected? What we get is a Spock (Ethan Peck) whose mind is broken, seemingly mumbling gibberish and unaware of the world around him. “Light and Shadows”—the seventh episode of Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery, […] More
“Enduring something no one thought possible can be transformative. Perhaps, in feeling less like you were, you are more like who you were meant to become.” A red burst like the ones that the USS Discovery has been investigating this season has appeared over the planet Kaminar—the home planet of Commander Saru (Doug Jones). That’s the starting […] More
This will be my final coverage of Strange Angel Season 1. There was some inevitability that it would end better than it began, having had episodes to stage the strange content. Jack Parsons’s story is unique, though it is not a particularly well-known one. An audience would require some buy-in to fully believe it, short […] More
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