Person of Interest (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “Banking is mostly looking clever and wearing the right clothes.” Person of Interest season 1, aired in 2011-12 John beats up some thugs on the subway and catches the interest of Mr. Finch. Although John is homeless Finch understands that he just needs something to do. He has an intriguing proposition for him — […]

Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus’s Children

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{4.5/5} “The captain shook his head, watching the big ship draw closer. Docking wasn’t the way he would have described what was happening. It was more like they were being swallowed whole. Eaten for breakfast.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus’s Children by Dave Stern, published in 2004 Captain Archer has been imprisoned along with the […]

The Assessment

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{4.5/5} “Your supporting material, as previously reported, places you in the top 0.1 percentile of citizens.” The Assessment, released in 2024 Mia and Aaryan live near the ocean. Mia grows their own food in a greenhouse, and Aaryan creates virtual pets because there are no more real ones. They have decided they want to have […]

Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus

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{4.5/5} “‘I won’t supply you with warp technology… It would significantly alter the balance of power between you and this Sadir. My captain wouldn’t allow that to happen.’ And Trip wouldn’t allow himself to make the same mistake twice.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Daedalus by Dave Stern, published in 2003 Captain Archer wants to investigate […]

The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

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{5/5} “On the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.” (from “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury) The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry […]

Andor (season 2)

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{5/5} “This makes it worth it. This. Right now. Being with you. Being here at the moment you step into the circle… You made this decision long ago. The Empire cannot win.” Andor season 2, aired in 2025 Cassian steals one of the Empire’s ships, with a little help from an inside woman — it’s […]

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

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{4.5/5} “There is nothing to be done about it. It just is. And we have to deal with it, or not. In this respect we are no different than the dinosaurs who looked up in the sky sixty-five million years ago and saw the meteor bearing down on them. What we might think or believe […]

Molli and Max in the Future

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{5/5} “I’m a level seven Space Witch now.” Molli and Max in the Future, released in 2023 Max’s ship explodes and he flies into Molli’s ship. Max gives Molli a power crystal in exchange for passage to Megalopolis. They become friends, and they even have a secret handshake. She joins a cult and he becomes […]

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

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{5/5} “We’re not suspicious people.” Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, released in 2020 A man who owns a cafe lives in a room upstairs. He discovers that the monitor in his room is connected to the monitor downstairs in his cafe. The one in his room is 2 minutes in the past. This allows him […]

Radio Free Albemuth

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{3.5/5} “You believing it?… All this, my act… So you bought it too. That’s good, that means I must be doing something right.” Radio Free Albemuth, released in 2010 Nick has been having unusual dreams where he believes a consciousness is speaking to him — it wants him to move to LA, so he does. […]