“Just because you receive a message from the future, doesn’t mean you understand it.” – Una Chin-Riley The Enterprise is in the Persephone system so the crew can study an ancient comet, one that’s traveling awfully close to a planet…
“First Contact is just a dream – until one day, it isn’t.” – Una Chin-Riley It’s finally time and I can barely contain my excitement. Here goes… We begin with an alarm blaring in what seems to be a military…
As the gang tries to figure out the “Two Renees” prophecy, Picard (Patrick Stewart) clearly has an epiphany but Tallinn (Orla Brady) tells him “later” and beams them to her place. Tallinn gives them tricorder-ish devices to try to track…
Content note: Suicide mention. Queen Agnes has an army and she’s coming for Picard! She remotely activates La Sirena’s transporter and beams them to the ship. Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Teresa (Sol Rodriguez), and Ricardo (Steve Gutierrez) run for it while…
For a show that presents such an optimistic vision of the future, there sure are a lot of penal colonies in Star Trek. Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes prisons as a “spatial solution to socio-economic problems” – that is, rather…
Where we left off: Queen Agnes (Alison Pill) is on the loose, Kore (Isa Briones) knows that she’s an experiment, Q (John de Lancie) is dangerously unbalanced and unsummonable, and Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) have just been…
We last saw Picard (Patrick Stewart) unconscious on the clinic table. Now we see him in a tux, on a spaceship, with a fiery sun burning outside. He’s being psychoanalyzed by an exasperated counselor (James Callis), who asks him to…
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Discovery Season 4 Season four of Discovery was, for the most part, excellent. We had a first contact unlike any we’ve seen before. We saw Michael killing it as captain and Tilly thriving at Starfleet Academy.…