Fringe (season 1)
{5/5} “The advances of science — which is supposed to expand our knowledge of the universe — will, if not carefully controlled, destroy the world as we know it… Our technological ambitions have not only driven us to the brink of catastrophe, the catastrophe has already begun.” FBI Agent Olivia Dunham joins the Fringe Division, […]
Edge of Tomorrow
{5/5} “What I am about to tell you sounds crazy. But you have to listen to me. Your very lives depend on it. You see, this isn’t the first time.” An alien race called the Mimics has invaded Earth. Major Cage, whose specialty is communications and not fighting, is forced to participate in an attack […]
Emperor
{4.5/5} “Agrippina had seen Gaul; she knew what the future would hold. From this beginning the roads would spread across the country like ivy over a wall, bifurcating and firing off their straight-line segments, until every corner of the land was reached. Messages would flash along the roads fast as thought, and the next time […]
Blasphemy
{5/5} “Lockwood had known all along that he would find the answer by asking Kate. He’d been hired not because he was some brilliant ex-CIA agent turned PI, but because he just happened to have dated a certain woman twelve years ago. He should’ve walked out on Lockwood when he had the chance. But he’d […]
Star Trek TNG: The Body Electric
{4.5/5} “Once, in the Andromeda galaxy, I met eleven alternate-timeline versions of myself and had to persuade them to let me collapse our shared quantum-probability waveform to avoid a temporal paradox. You don’t know what ‘awkward’ means until you’ve persuaded eleven copies of yourself to let themselves be erased from existence while you get to […]
Star Trek TNG: Silent Weapons
{4.5/5} “There was still much to be done on Orion, Konar knew. Before it was over, he and Hain would be called upon to accomplish a feat without precedent in local history, one that would send political aftershocks throughout all of known space. And despite the enormity of what they had been asked to do, […]
Star Trek TNG: The Persistence of Memory
{5/5} “Even if they reached B-4 before the inevitable collapse of his positronic matrix, he wasn’t sure he could bring himself to erase Data’s memory engrams from the android’s brain. He knew that doing so was the only way to prevent the android’s mental disintegration, which would result in the irretrievable corruption of Data’s engrams […]
Cargo
{4/5} “Our changes to the planet’s ecosystem caused unforeseen consequences.” In the 23rd century everyone has moved off Earth. The wealthy have moved to Rhea and everyone else lives on space stations. Laura is a doctor — she signs up to work on a cargo ship in order to make enough money to join her […]
The Fountains of Paradise
{4/5} “Even now, it was impossible to realize the full meaning of the coming revolution. For the first time, space itself would become as accessible as any point on the surface of the familiar earth. In a few more decades, if the average man wanted to spend a weekend on the moon, he could afford […]
Star Trek: First Frontier
{4.5/5} “Oya was a thinker and most of her life she had lived with the stigma of that. The Clan could be more brilliant, pound for pound, than Terrans or Romulans or Orions or anyone else, but instinct had always overwhelmed them. Most of their science had been borrowed, kept alive by types such as […]