Star Trek: The Latter Fire
{4.5/5} “We are captains, and with command comes the implicit truth that we must balance lives against lives, with each order we give… I have done so in the past and I carry the scar that does not heal. I do not need to ask you if you have done the same. I know you […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. 2018 wasn’t quite as amazing a year for movies as 2017 but there were still a bunch of great ones. Year Winner Runner Ups 2018 A Quiet Place Ant-Man and the Wasp Avengers: Infinity War Black Panther Deadpool 2 Incredibles 2 […]
Star Trek ENT: Patterns of Interference
{4.5/5} “Do we presume we have the right — and the wisdom — to intervene in the lives of other beings we may not fully understand? Or do we default to granting them the same primacy over the lives that we insist upon for our own?” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Patterns […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Live by the Code
{5/5} “Mayweather… tried to imagine wanting the experience he’d undergone inside the Ware, believing it was necessary and just. Would it really be so wrong for someone to free him from that condition, that conviction, over his protests? Would he be better off staying inside? He couldn’t believe that.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Uncertain Logic
{4.5/5} “Peace, tolerance, openness to exchange with other species: These ideas create more opportunities, allow individuals more chances to survive and more options to succeed. Therefore, they have an evolutionary advantage over violence, intolerance, oppression — ideas that tend to destroy lives or restrain their opportunities.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Uncertain […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Tower of Babel
{4.5/5} “The Federation’s strength comes from its unity — its ability to set aside its members’ differences in pursuit of their mutual interests. Our respective syndicates will be better able to stand against them if we learn from their example.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett, […]
Source Code
{5/5} “It’s the new me.” Source Code, released in 2011 A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body. He’s on a train and he has 8 minutes to find out who is planning on bombing it. When he fails, he tries again. When he returns to real life he communicates with a woman named Goodwin […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Becky Chambers Record of a Spaceborn Few Karl Schroeder The Million 2017 Mur Lafferty Six Wakes Kameron Hurley The Stars Are Legion 2016 Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds The Medusa Chronicles […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. Year Winner […]
Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas
{4.5/5} “What’s the point of saving history if we don’t save the people in it?” Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas, aired in 2018 Lucy and Wyatt from the future give the team Lucy’s journal in order to help them rescue Rufus. Lucy, Wyatt, Jiya, and Flynn first take the new time machine back to 1848 […]