Time Trap
{2.5/5} “Yeah, we’ve got a lot to talk about.” Time Trap, released in 2018 Professor Hopper is looking for his parents, who disappeared decades ago. He finds their van, and goes looking in a cave. A couple of days later a pair of his students and their friends go looking for him. When they find […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Rosetta
{4.5/5} “What is going to happen when we meet up with an alien race that doesn’t have two arms and two legs and doesn’t think like we do, doesn’t organize concepts the way we do?” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rosetta by Dave Stern, published in 2006 The Enterprise comes across aliens who make it clear […]
Star Trek TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic
{4.5/5} “It’s a sad truth, and one with no consolation to it, that someone must always be the last casualty of a war. All too often it’s an even more unfortunate truth that the last casualty of a war occurs after the armistice has been signed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Indistinguishable from Magic […]
Star Trek: Enterprise (season 4)
{5/5} “My targ won’t even recognize me.” Star Trek: Enterprise season 4, aired in 2003-04 A group of genetically engineered humans has commandeered a Klingon ship and rescued the man they think of as their father, Arik Soong. Meanwhile, when T’Pol returns to Vulcan she finds her ex-betrothed still wants to marry her. When Trip […]
Okja
{4/5} “I admire your conviction, Silver, but your pallid complexion concerns me.” Okja, released in 2017 Mija and her superpig Okja have been inseparable for the last 10 years. Now Mirando, the company that genetically engineered superpigs, is taking Okja back. The whole point of superpigs, according to Mirando, is for them to be food […]
Next Gen
{4/5} “What a team we make. A broken robot and a broken little girl.” Next Gen, released in 2018 Mai is a teenager who is always angry. Her mom pays more attention to her robot than to her, and her dad is gone. She comes across a robot that’s different than others — it seems […]
Cloud Atlas
{5/5} “I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.” Cloud Atlas, released in 2012 In 1849 an escaped slave stows away on a boat, revealing himself to a lawyer who he believes is a good man — unbeknownst to the lawyer, his doctor is trying to kill him to get his money. In 1973 a […]
Crosstalk
{4.5/5} “Marie Claire thought he spent too much time on his smartphone (and not enough listening to her fret about Maeve), Kathleen thought he was too rich and good-looking to still be single and therefore had to be hiding something, and even Maeve, who usually sided with Briddey in family debates, had made a face […]
Counting Heads
{4.5/5} “Bogdan dismissed the bee and continued his stroll along the arcade yelling ‘Desist, desist’ every few meters. The bees weren’t the only annoyance. There were more hollyholo sims than real people, and they cleverly tried to lure him into their public melodramas by asking him for directions to this or that building.” Counting Heads […]
Star Trek: Enterprise (season 3)
{4.5/5} “‘We keep doing each other favours.’ ‘Isn’t that how alliances are born?’” — Archer & Shran Star Trek: Enterprise season 3, aired in 2003-04 The Xindi attacked Earth and killed millions, and they will be back. Silik’s friend from the future told Archer that the Xindi found out that humans destroyed their world 400 […]