The Future of Another Timeline
{5/5} “Watching women demure to men in public and suffer the consequences of their abuse in private, it was hard to believe we were at a transition point in history when women’s growing power could unsettle a long-established social order. But change is never linear or obvious. Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires […]
Star Trek: Picard — The Dark Veil
{4.5/5} “For some time, Romulan ships have been coming across anonymous caches of survival resources and material, left near border worlds where the refugees have been relocated. Medicines, replicators, and the like. Deposited there by some unknown benefactors, who have diligently scrubbed out any evidence of their origin. Almost as if a handful of Starfleet […]
DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Be Like a Bird”
I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Be Like a Bird.” Here’s the program: Be Like a Bird — Abbie Betinis One Ruby-throated Moment — Leonard Enns Mid-Winter Songs — Morten Lauridsen * Lament for Pasiphae Like Snow She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Mid-Winter Waking Intercession in Late October Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. […]
Star Trek: Discovery — Wonderlands
{4.5/5} “The enormity of this hit her at last when she transported onto the bridge of what was plainly an old science vessel. Even this far into her own future, something of the basic design remained familiar. The curve of the bridge, the various stations, the captain’s chair. Every console was dark, every system was […]
Star Trek: Discovery (season 4)
{5/5} “We are both justified in our anger. Allowing it to be our focus, however, only prevents us from achieving those things which serve the greater good. It is a struggle, yes, but a worthy one.” — Saru Star Trek: Discovery season 4, aired in 2021-22 Discovery is bringing dilithium to planets that haven’t had […]
Old
{4/5} “My mom might let me Facetime you. Then we can be friends. You can come over to my house and make up stories. Then we can go to the same college together, and become neighbours with mortgages.” Old, released in 2021 Guy and Prisca are on a tropical vacation with their kids, Maddox and […]
News of the World
{5/5} “I guess we both have demons to face, going down this road.” News of the World, released in 2020 Captain Kidd was a soldier in the civil war, and now he goes from town to town reading the news. He’s able to calm the room when people get upset. He comes across a girl […]
World Engines: Creator
{4.5/5} “This… this super Earth in a lifeless Solar System, stuffed with samples of lost life from the real Earth. To show us what we missed? This is clearly a comparative exercise. But I doubt very much it is for our benefit.” World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter, published in 2020 Reid Malenfant and his […]
3rd Rock from the Sun (season 5)
{5/5} “‘We actually lived in a submarine for 2 years.’ ‘Yeah, a yellow one.’” — Tommy & Harry 3rd Rock from the Sun season 5, aired in 1999-2000 Tommy finds that he doesn’t actually like working with his girlfriend Alyssa at the pretzel place. Sally, Harry, and Tommy get it into their heads that they […]
Free Guy
{4.5/5} “Don’t have a good day — have a great day.” Free Guy, released in 2021 Guy works in a bank that gets robbed a lot — he often hangs out with his friend Buddy, who’s the security guard. He’s looking for the girl of his dreams, but he hasn’t met her yet. When he […]