Star Trek: The Star to Every Wandering
{5/5} “He had loved Edith as he had loved no other woman, either before or after. For the most part, he had found fulfillment each day that he’d been able to step onto the bridge of the Enterprise or the Enterprise-A as its commanding officer, and he still felt that there had been something special […]
Star Trek: Crucible — The Fire and the Rose
{5/5} “‘Edith,’ Jim whispered. Spock felt as though he’d been stabbed. All of the emotions he’d been experiencing in recent days, and all the way back to his second encounter with the Guardian, even back to his first encounter, came charging back. He could focus on only one thought: What have I done?” Star Trek: […]
Star Trek: Crucible — Provenance of Shadows
{5/5} “All McCoy could do now would be to attempt to make this world, this altered Earth, a better place. It would never evolve into the world he had known, but it still existed, right here, right now. He could mourn his former life and the universe he’d once known, but it would do no […]
Love, Death & Robots (season 1)
{5/5} “You’ve seen one postapocalyptic city, you’ve seen them all.” Love, Death & Robots season 1, aired in 2019 In “Three Robots” 3 robots are on tour learning about extinct humans. In “Suits” some farmers have mechanized suits because they occasionally have to battle giant insects that break through their perimeter. In “Beyond the Aquila […]
Alien 40th anniversary short films
{4.5/5} “The organism… it has a unique replication cycle.” To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alien, 6 short films were released. Here they are: Alien: Containment — directed by Chris Reading Alien: Specimen — directed by Kelsey Taylor Alien: Ore — directed by Kailey Spear & Sam Spear Alien: Alone — directed by Noah Miller […]
Seveneves
{5/5} “A common error in etiquette, among people who had only recently arrived at Izzy, was to talk about Earth as a place that it was possible to go back to. As if this were a temporary mission like all of the previous ones. Dinah said nothing. Markus would realize his mistake, if he hadn’t […]
Star Trek: Discovery (season 2)
{4.5/5} “The Starfleet manual offers no regulatory guidelines for interactions between humans with Klingons grafted to their bones and a ship’s doctor returned from the dead.” Star Trek: Discovery season 2, aired in 2019 The Enterprise is out of commission. Captain Pike comes aboard the Discovery to take over as captain in order to investigate […]
Star Trek (season 1)
{4.5/5} “I wouldn’t want to slow the wheels of progress… But then on the other hand, I wouldn’t want those wheels to run over my client in their unbridled haste.” — Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law Star Trek season 1, aired in 1966-67 When the Starship Enterprise goes through the barrier at the edge […]
Star Trek: New Visions
{4/5} “The freedom to be who we are. To express our humanity, each in our own unique way! This is what our Federation of Planets believes.” Star Trek: New Visions (8 volumes), written & photomontaged by John Byrne, published in 2013-19 When the Enterprise receives a signal from Delta Vega, Captain Kirk knows that his […]
Star Trek: New Earth — Challenger
{4.5/5} “Most captains didn’t keep the same people around them for decades, or even a few years. Fame had awarded him that. He and his merry band were an asset to Starfleet when they were together, not apart. Starfleet had never enacted its commonsense right to reassign.” Star Trek: New Earth — Challenger by Diane […]