Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season 2)
{5/5} “In the mystery and vastness of space, we might not just satisfy our curiosity, our need for exploration, but that in it we might each also find salvation.” — Una Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, aired in 2023 While the Enterprise is in spacedock, Captain Pike leaves to find a laywer for […]
Artemis
{4.5/5} “You can’t gestate a baby in lunar gravity — it leads to birth defects. And you can’t raise a baby here, anyway. It’s terrible for bone and muscle development. When I moved here I was six years old — that was the minimum age for residency back then. Since then they’ve bumped it up […]
Star Trek: SNW — The High Country
{4.5/5} “Pike did his best to respond to Cyrus like an out-of-towner and not an offworlder, but he couldn’t help but be fascinated by this long-lost twin culture, separated at birth and by four hundred very different years. The town’s infrastructure was the work of volunteers using donated goods. Want, when it existed, lasted only […]
How to Live Safely in a Sci Fi Universe
{4.5/5} “I am a certified network technician for T-Class personal-use chronogrammatical vehicles, and an approved independent affiliate contractor for Time Warner Time, which owns and operates this universe as a spatio-temperal structure and entertainment complex zoned for retail, commercial, and residential use. The job is pretty chill for the most part, although right this moment […]
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
{4/5} “‘Why do you always get to read the top story, Morbo?’ ‘Because viewers trust a deep male voice, and huge throbbing forehead veins.’” Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, released in 2009 Everyone’s having fun at Mars Vegas, which is owned by Amy’s parents. But Fry finds he can hear people’s thoughts, until he […]
Futurama: Bender’s Game
{3.5/5} “I was working in Mom’s laboratories for the third time, after twice before realizing how evil she was and vowing never to work for her again.” Futurama: Bender’s Game, released in 2009 There’s a dark matter shortage, so fuel prices are up. When a couple of guys insult the Planet Express ship, Leela vows […]
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
{4.5/5} “‘Oh I’m sorry. I should have asked what was bothering you. I’ve been kind of preoccupied.’ ‘With what?’ ‘Well, I went to another universe and fell in love with a giant octopus, and now I’m pope of a new religion.’” — Fry & Bender Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, released in 2008 […]
Futurama: Bender’s Big Score
{4/5} “Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly laser instead of deadly slide shows.” — Al Gore’s head Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, released in 2007 After Professor Farnsworth falls prey to an email scam, he finds that aliens have taken over his company. Bender has downloaded a virus so he now obeys the […]
Black Mirror’s “Joan is Awful”
{5/5} “I feel like I’m not the main character in my life story.” Black Mirror season 6 episode 1, aired in 2023 Joan discovers a show called “Joan is Awful” on the streaming service she watches, Streamberry. She is shocked to find that it contains things from her own life — private things that she […]
Robots
{4.5/5} “‘To be honest, I think I preferred you with ice skates on.’ ‘Yeah, well I preferred you when you had glass eyes and a brain powered by Intel.’” Robots, released in 2023 Having a robot that looks exactly like you is illegal, but some people are doing it anyway. Charles has his robot double […]