Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Asylum
{4.5/5} “What I’m saying is you don’t want to find yourself locked into a particular course of action because of rules. Sometimes, you have to follow your instinct. You work the situation that’s unfolding before you, not look for an example in the book.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Asylum by Una McCormack, published […]
Moonhaven (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You make a better carpenter than a detective.” Moonhaven season 1, aired in 2022 People were sent up to the Moon with an AI to solve humanity’s problems. And they have — they have created a utopia. After 100 years people from the Moon are about to return to Earth to heal the planet. […]
Star Trek: Picard — Firewall
{4.5/5} “‘Help us get the intel we need, and we’ll get your citizenship restored, as well as pull strings with the Starfleet brass to get you the commission yo deserve. With any luck, you’ll be a serving line officer on a capital ship by the end of the year.’ It was a more tempting offer […]
Star Trek: Picard — Second Self
{5/5} “She had not liked him (was it possible to like a Tal Shiar agent?), but their working relationship during the Dominion War had been mutually beneficial. She hadn’t trusted him (was it possible to trust Tal Shiar?), but she had respected him. He’d understood the gray area in which they operated, and how to […]
Star Trek: Picard — Rogue Elements
{4.5/5} “The ship was already freedom, and that was all Rios had wanted in the first place. It was the only reason he had bothered with the Iotians at all. He’d gotten what he wanted from them, and he’d made enough warp jumps to ensure they’d never find him. That was that.” Star Trek: Picard […]
Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes
{4.5/5} “The doctor thought about it for a moment. But would Jim understand? This was a man for whom space was a passion — for McCoy it was an escape. How could Kirk understand that McCoy felt he didn’t belong here and never had?” Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve […]
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (s1)
{4/5} “It’s a trap.” Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy season 1, aired in 2024 Sig and Dev are nerf herders who stumble across an old Jedi temple — they grab a bright piece that looks tempting. Unfortunately that collapses the temple and it was keeping the universe together — now everything is different. Dev […]
Paper Girls (season 1)
{5/5} “‘If that really is future you up there, then maybe she can call someone.’ ‘Who’s she going to call? Time travel 911?’” Paper Girls season 1, aired in 2022 Four girls who deliver newspapers in 1988 band together to fend off some boys. They experience something strange where the sky goes unusual colours, which […]
Star Trek: Section 31
{3/5} “In my universe, there were always plotters. Always a coup. So I built a weapon to end all threats. I called it the Godsend.” Star Trek: Section 31, released in 2024 Philippa Georgiou was ruthless as emperor of the Terran Empire. Decades later she worked, in another universe, for Section 31. Now she’s been […]
The Shattering Peace
{4.5/5} “‘The Conclave citizens have some latent bigotries to work out.’ ‘They don’t like humans?’ ‘No one likes humans,’ Ran said. ‘This is well-known.’” The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi, published in 2025 Humans and aliens are at peace. But part of the deal between Earth, the Colonial Union, and the Conclave was that there […]