The X-Files (season 10)
{4/5} “I believe that you will find all of your answers… and I will be there when you do.” The X-Files season 10, aired in 2016 Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to return to the FBI and the X-Files. They meet someone who’s the opposite of a werewolf — he was a creature, a man […]
The Adjustment Bureau
{5/5} “We… are the people who make sure things happen according to plan.” The Adjustment Bureau, released in 2011 David ran for the senate in New York but lost. On the night of the election he ran into an intriguing woman — a few months later he runs into her again. David finds out her […]
Red Planet Blues
{4.5/5} “Rent tended to be cheap out on the rim, despite being the only place where you could get uninterrupted views of the vast Martian plain — people preferred to live near the center, if they could afford it, so that they could see something human instead of the vast unchanging monotony of the world […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Ascendance
{4.5/5} “Tension and anticipation filled the cockpit around Ghemor, almost as though the Ascendants in the vessels spread out in space behind her had propelled a wave of desperation ahead of them. She understood that many of them believed her, but even if some didn’t, she knew that they all wanted to believe. That was […]
Star Trek: Titan — Sight Unseen
{4.5/5} “We’re going to help set the tone for a Federation that has taken some hard knocks in recent times. Titan isn’t just a starship, she isn’t just a titanium shell keeping a few hundred organic beings live in the darkness. She is the principles we have chosen to abide by.” Star Trek: Titan — […]
Star Trek: DS9 — Sacraments of Fire
{4.5/5} “Being Jem’Hadar had always signified obeisance and obedience to the Founders, and living a soldier’s existence. He could no longer bring himself to practice the former, but he could still attempt the latter. That was why he had elected to turn the scoutship away from the Dominion and towards the distress call’s source. The […]
Star Trek: TNG — Armageddon’s Arrow
{4.5/5} “There were numerous stories and tall tales shared by senior cadets alleging that the simple matter of naming a new vessel ‘Enterprise’ brought with it the jinx of being plagued by all manner of time-based trickery, and that the Federation’s Department of Temporal Investigations even had a special group, ‘Section 1701,’ dedicated to nothing […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
{4.5/5} “You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open.” Star Wars: The Force Awakens, released in 2015 Rey is a scavenger eking out a living on Jakku. Finn is a stormtrooper in the First Order, who lands on Jakku with his unit but then decides to defect. BB-8 is a […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Takedown
{4.5/5} “This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise… Aventine, you are ordered to stand down immediately. I repeat, stand down immediately, or we will fire!” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Takedown by John Jackson Miller, published in 2015 Admiral Riker has been sent to a peace conference that will be attended by […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — The Missing
{4.5/5} “A careful student of other worlds and cultures quickly learns to look beyond the formal face presented to discover what he or she can about the ordinary people — or, even more wisely, the marginal. One learns the true nature of a civilization from the way it treats its sick, weak, and poor.” Star […]