Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 4)
{5/5} “This ship is outdated and smells like Borg.” — T’Lyn, on the USS Voyager Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, aired in 2023 When the USS Voyager is being prepared to be a museum the crew of the Cerritos visits and they find it’s still a dangerous place. Mariner, Boimler, and Tendi all get […]
Star Trek: Very Short Treks
{1.5/5} Star Trek: Very Short Treks, aired in 2023 This is a series of 5 short animated videos that were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Three of them will make you frown and two will make you smile. The 1st 3 videos are all distasteful in different ways. […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season 2)
{5/5} “In the mystery and vastness of space, we might not just satisfy our curiosity, our need for exploration, but that in it we might each also find salvation.” — Una Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, aired in 2023 While the Enterprise is in spacedock, Captain Pike leaves to find a laywer for […]
Star Trek: SNW — The High Country
{4.5/5} “Pike did his best to respond to Cyrus like an out-of-towner and not an offworlder, but he couldn’t help but be fascinated by this long-lost twin culture, separated at birth and by four hundred very different years. The town’s infrastructure was the work of volunteers using donated goods. Want, when it existed, lasted only […]
Star Trek: DS9 — I, the Constable
{4.5/5} “Leeta leaned over and whispered into one of her mother-in-law’s lobes: ‘He’s a shape-shifter, Moogie.’ ‘Oh,’ Ishka said. Followed by ‘Oh! Of course! Silly me!’ as comprehension flooded her wrinkled features. ‘That’s very convenient, Odo! What a shame you can’t teach that skill to others. You could make a considerable profit.’” Star Trek: Deep […]
Star Trek: DS9 — Rules of Accusation
{4.5/5} “Quark shrugged. ‘It’s traditional. No Ferengi would be caught dead at a party where he didn’t have to bribe the host to gain attendance.’ He showed her a sample invitation. Neatly printed at the bottom were the initials RSVP, followed by a long string of numbers. ‘This,’ he explained, ‘means Response Signifies Vault Payment.’” […]
DS9: Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found)
{4.5/5} “Children and adults alike are happiest when the moisture falls in a warm and steady wave. So are the clado, in fact. That’s when their song reaches its most soothing tones, prompting Ferengi spirits — and, more important, Ferengi portfolios — to rise precipitously.” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Lust’s Latinum Lost (and […]
Star Trek: Gateways — What Lay Beyond
{4.5/5} “It had felt good to be passionate about something, to want to fight for a cause that was so obviously the right one. The sensation Seven felt inside was an exquisite, heady one. She understood now why revolutionaries were so often willing to give their lives for what they believed in.” (from “In the […]
Star Trek: Gateways — Cold Wars
{4.5/5} “‘No, Admiral. Returning the girl planetside is the option I do not have. Everything else is negotiable.’ ‘This isn’t,’ Jellico said firmly. ‘Commander Burgoyne… arrest Captain Calhoun.’” Star Trek: New Frontier — Gateways: Cold Wars by Peter David, published in 2001 Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the Excalibur has been ordered into Thallonian space because […]
Star Trek: Gateways — No Man’s Land
{4.5/5} “I had thought that actually traversing No Man’s Land would be the true challenge, but I am now starting to believe that we will encounter more difficulties simply getting along with the rest of this odd caravan. Last night, it was the Todanians. Tonight we have the Hirogen.” Star Trek: Voyager — Gateways: No […]