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The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery, S4E3, “Choose to Live” (written by Terri Hughes Burton and directed by Christopher J Byrne) Star Trek: Discovery has been setting up a lot of storylines in the opening episodes of Season 4. There is the season spanning arc about the gravitational anomaly, the chilly interplay between […] More
The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery, S4E2, “Anomaly” (written by Anne Cofell Saunders & Glenise Mullins and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi) Star Trek: Discovery S4E2, “Anomaly,” follows the pattern that the series has adhered to for much of its run. Following the rollicking and relatively joyful season premiere “Kobayashi Maru” with a more […] More
The following contains spoilers for the season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, S4E1, “Kobayashi Maru” (written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi) When Star Trek: Discovery debuted much of the buzz around the show, and also a large percentage of the criticism of it, was centered around […] More
In a new weekly column called Beyond the Screen, author A. J. Black unpacks what we’re all discussing from the world of cinema and television. This time, he takes a look at the second season of Star Trek: Picard after a brand new trailer… Everything about Star Trek in the modern era, nay the Alex […] More
In honour of Pride Month, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of my favourite TV shows with LGBT representation. It’s incredibly validating to see aspects of your gender identity in a character and extremely important for younger generations to have these, as it opens up conversations, encourages people to learn […] More
We are living on the cusp of a new ‘golden age’ of Star Trek, at least when it comes to the profligacy of content from the Viacom/Paramount owned franchise, but the promise by executives of Star Trek on the air all year round comes with both caveats positive and, unfortunately, negative. April 5th is always […] More
Later this year, Marvel debut their animated series What If…? which explores alternate universe takes on classic Marvel universe stories, but one unlikely to appear is this: what if The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had been the first Disney+ MCU series released? Thanks to Covid-19, like with much else in the world of culture […] More
It’s like something out of a science fiction story, but it’s cold, brutal truth. The Heaven’s Gate cult came to an abrupt, quiet stop in late March of 1997 with a uniformed, well-documented mass suicide. However, over the course of the past 20 years, the 39 lives lost on that day drifted from public consciousness. […] More
S3E13, the third season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, “That Hope Is You, Part 2” brings the whole season to an intensely exciting and emotional conclusion. It also ends in such a way that it could easily serve as a series finale if the circumstances led to the show not being renewed. This would certainly […] More
Star Trek: Discovery S3E12, “There is Tide…” is all about the season-long arcs of the Federation’s dissolution and Osyraa’s manipulation of everyone, with both points seen through the unique lens of Burnham’s passion. There is no real resolution to any of the plot points this week—at the end of the episode everyone is pretty much […] More
Star Trek: Discovery S3E11, “Su’Kal” finally solves the season long mystery of “what caused ‘the burn’?” But the answer is “a Kelpian orphan”, which leaves open a bunch of new questions for the second part of the episode that is still to come. There definitely is a long way to go before the answer given […] More
S3E9 and S3E10 of Star Trek: Discovery together form the two part story “Terra Firma” bringing us back to the Mirror Universe for the first time since Season 1 and also serving as a fitting send off for Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). The focus on the Mirror Universe and the growth of Georgiou, along with […] More
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