As an enthusiastic fan of Lower Decks, I would say Beckett Marinar is probably my favorite character on the show. She’s brash and witty, and she seems to have a pretty exciting backstory that I’d love to hear more about.…
Previously on Star Trek: Prodigy, our crew of child prison escapees masquerading as Starfleet cadets faced their first challenge in the Protostar as they were dragged into the gravity of a dying star. They ended up saving the ship and…
In the highly-anticipated 4th season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, we start off hopping right into action. Booker’s frigate departs Discovery and lands on a planet rich with life. Capt. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) offer…
“The Perfect Mate” (Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 21), is infamous for two things: Famke Janssen guest stars as a powerful psychic mutant almost a decade before doing it in that other franchise, but also, less positively,…
Star Trek stands out among its science fiction contemporaries for its ability to use the genre to touch on dire real-world subjects. Eugenics. Nuclear war. Environmental disaster. The rise and fall of fascist dictatorships. Trek portrays these as wake-up calls…
Watching the Star Trek: Prodigy pilot, I could not help but feel I had heard this story before. I mean this lovingly, as I would for the great sci-fi that manages to handshake lost millennia via the broad strokes of…
Previously on Star Trek: Prodigy: In the two-part season premiere, a rag-tag band of children who have been enslaved by an evil dude called The Diviner escape from their prison/mining colony by stealing a Federation starship called the USS Protostar.…
“I’m not going to stand here and apologize for what I did. You had your duty; I had mine.” -Kasidy Yates, “For the Cause,” Deep Space Nine I am a Black woman. I have never been to prison. I…