Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus’s Children
{4.5/5} “The captain shook his head, watching the big ship draw closer. Docking wasn’t the way he would have described what was happening. It was more like they were being swallowed whole. Eaten for breakfast.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus’s Children by Dave Stern, published in 2004 Captain Archer has been imprisoned along with the […]
The Assessment
{4.5/5} “Your supporting material, as previously reported, places you in the top 0.1 percentile of citizens.” The Assessment, released in 2024 Mia and Aaryan live near the ocean. Mia grows their own food in a greenhouse, and Aaryan creates virtual pets because there are no more real ones. They have decided they want to have […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus
{4.5/5} “‘I won’t supply you with warp technology… It would significantly alter the balance of power between you and this Sadir. My captain wouldn’t allow that to happen.’ And Trip wouldn’t allow himself to make the same mistake twice.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus by Dave Stern, published in 2003 Captain Archer wants to investigate […]
The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time
{5/5} “On the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.” (from “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury) The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry […]
Interior Chinatown
{4.5/5} “‘What are you doing?’ ‘Loading the truck.’ ‘We’re unloading.’ ‘Are you sure?’” Interior Chinatown, aired in 2024 Willis Wu is a background actor in a TV show. Within the show, he’s working as a waiter — but he wants to do more. He witnesses an abduction. Then a detective comes into the restaurant and […]
The Watchers
{4.5/5} “Try not to die.” The Watchers, released in 2024 Mina’s mother died 15 years ago and she ran away to Ireland. She works in a pet store. The boss asks her to take a bird to a zoo, so she heads out on the road. When her car breaks down in the middle of […]
Andor (season 2)
{5/5} “This makes it worth it. This. Right now. Being with you. Being here at the moment you step into the circle… You made this decision long ago. The Empire cannot win.” Andor season 2, aired in 2025 Cassian steals one of the Empire’s ships, with a little help from an inside woman — it’s […]
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
{4.5/5} “There is nothing to be done about it. It just is. And we have to deal with it, or not. In this respect we are no different than the dinosaurs who looked up in the sky sixty-five million years ago and saw the meteor bearing down on them. What we might think or believe […]
Suburgatory (season 3)
{4.5/5} “And how are all your favourite sports teams doing?” — Lisa, to George Suburgatory season 3, aired in 2014 Tessa is spending time with her mom, but then her mom leaves again. She’s actually happy to see her dad, who gives her surprising news — he thinks they should move back to New York. […]
A Brightness Long Ago
{5/5} “Since Mylasia, Adria thought, she was also someone who had killed a man. Uberto had been vicious, she kept telling herself. Had deserved his death. She was aware, however, that Folco might have wanted the count of Mylasia killed even had he been pious and benign.” A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, […]