Star Trek: TNG — Armageddon’s Arrow
{4.5/5} “There were numerous stories and tall tales shared by senior cadets alleging that the simple matter of naming a new vessel ‘Enterprise’ brought with it the jinx of being plagued by all manner of time-based trickery, and that the Federation’s Department of Temporal Investigations even had a special group, ‘Section 1701,’ dedicated to nothing […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
{4.5/5} “You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open.” Star Wars: The Force Awakens, released in 2015 Rey is a scavenger eking out a living on Jakku. Finn is a stormtrooper in the First Order, who lands on Jakku with his unit but then decides to defect. BB-8 is a […]
Scrubs (season 5)
{5/5} “I dole out compliments, at most, once a year and, like a squirrel, you must gather up these acorns of kind words to sustain you for the upcoming cold, sarcastic months.” Scrubs season 5, aired in 2005-06 JD has moved out of the apartment he shared with Turk and Carla. He has a list […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Takedown
{4.5/5} “This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise… Aventine, you are ordered to stand down immediately. I repeat, stand down immediately, or we will fire!” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Takedown by John Jackson Miller, published in 2015 Admiral Riker has been sent to a peace conference that will be attended by […]
Chuck (season 5)
{5/5} “‘Daniel Shaw murdered my father and now he has my wife. He’s gonna wish he never left that prison cell.’ ‘That plan’s kinda vague.’” Chuck season 5, aired in 2011-12 Chuck, Sarah, Casey, and Morgan no longer work for the CIA — they’re spies for hire. But the CIA is still keeping tabs on […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — The Missing
{4.5/5} “A careful student of other worlds and cultures quickly learns to look beyond the formal face presented to discover what he or she can about the ordinary people — or, even more wisely, the marginal. One learns the true nature of a civilization from the way it treats its sick, weak, and poor.” Star […]
Away We Go
{4.5/5} “I want her to have an epic kind of childhood. I want her to run along streams and know how to work a canoe.” Away We Go, released in 2009 Burt and Verona are a happy couple expecting their first child. When Burt’s parents announce that they’re going to live in Belgium for 2 […]
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
{4/5} “Our way of life is under threat from an invisible enemy. One that hovers at our elbow on a daily basis. These enemies are everywhere — undetected, and unstoppable.” Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, released in 2015 A woman wearing her wedding gown kills herself. Later she is seen in the street shooting her husband. […]
Please Give
{4.5/5} “What if we didn’t have dogs with us, and we were doing that? That would be disgusting. But, because we have dogs, it’s normal.” Please Give, released in 2010 Kate and Alex buy furniture from people who have died and resell it for a much higher price. Andra, an acerbic old woman, lives next […]
Anathem
{5/5} “People who couldn’t live without story had been driven into the concents or into jobs like Yul’s. All others had to look somewhere outside of work for a feeling that they were part of a story, which I guessed was why Saeculars were so concerned with sports, and with religion. How else could you […]