what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “It’s like — what are the odds we’re the only ship in the quadrant, right? Surely there’s someone else nearby who can help and get here quickly — thanks to their standard-issue engines that let them travel at thousands of times the speed of light???” Star Trek: Lower Decks — Warp Your Own Way […]
{5/5} “The way I see it, you’ve got two choices — tell me or kill me.” Salvation season 1, aired in 2017 Liam, a student at MIT, is charting asteroids heading for Earth that other people aren’t looking at. When he finds a big one that’s going to hit in 186 days, he reaches out […]
{5/5} “Now they were ‘free,’ according to the reporter, who also explained that bots would of course never be allowed to join a union, nor open a bank account, nor vote. Bots had the right to sell their labor, which was the important thing. It seemed normal at the time, to be free and not […]
{5/5} “‘I didn’t know you could juggle.’ ‘Neither did I.’ ‘How do you do it?’ ‘It was simply algorithmic tossing.’” — Mariner & T’Lyn Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, aired in 2024 When the Cerritos winds up in an alternate universe they have to work together with slightly different versions of themselves. Tendi is […]
{5/5} “Captain, we’re going to need a bigger landing party.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, aired in 2025 Captain Pike tries to rescue crew members who have been beamed aboard a Gorn ship — meanwhile La’an and the others try to escape on their own. When Christine returns to the Enterprise after 3 […]
{5/5} “If we’re just information, just noise in the system, we might as well be a symphony.” — Root Person of Interest season 5, aired in 2016 Finch has attempted to rescue the machine but it’s now precariously in a briefcase and the battery is losing power. Samaritan is still after Finch, Reese, and Root. […]
{4.5/5} “If anyone else identified it, they would have a riot on their hands. So Dax decided to create one of her own. ‘Drinks on the house!’ she shouted. ‘Rom will take orders.’ A huge cheer went up and extended to the farthest reaches of the bar.” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — The Long […]
{5/5} “Do not put me on a pedestal because I will burn it down.” Wednesday season 2, aired in 2025 After tracking down a serial killer with Thing, Wednesday returns to Nevermore where she is once again rooming with Enid. Pugsley is going there this year too. Wednesday finds that she’s very popular — new […]
{5/5} “A haze of smoke was drifting across my eyes, the sudden crackle of fire. I turned towards the trunk, and Sarkan was there, too, caught in the tree with silver bark trying to devour him, saying, ‘Now, Agnieszka,’” while fire-heart glowed red between his fingers. Instinctively, I half-reached my hand towards him, remembering dread […]
{5/5} “I have only two modes, Jerry. Calm and furious. It’s a rare person that sees the latter and lives to talk about it.” — Finch, pretending to be a tough guy Person of Interest season 4, aired in 2014-15 Shaw doesn’t really like her job as a makeup artist. Finch is a professor teaching […]