The holodeck often provides great chances for the characters to explore their inner fantasies and the writers to explore the characters’ lives outside of their jobs, yet there is something very striking about the early holodeck episodes—how very Caucasian the…
With his debut, swinging a phaser to protect his mother in the last minutes of Star Trek: Picard’s third season premiere, I loved Jack Crusher on sight. Just as I loved Beverly when I met her swinging a phaser to…
From the Publisher: An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route, sudden tragedy strikes…
Previously on Star Trek Picard: The Borg passed genetic material to Jack through Locutus/Picard, and teamed up with the Changelings to put that genetic sequence into everyone in Starfleet via the transporter systems. Jack went off to find the Borg…
While the main plot of the Voyager episode “Flashback” is about Tuvok mind melding with Janeway to work through a repressed memory, the episode also highlights a friendship that could have developed two characters who were underserved in The Original…
Previously on Star Trek Picard: Our heroes on the Titan were finally able to destroy Vadic and the Shrike, and gather, once more, around a conference table. Jack’s had been having visions, which Beverly diagnosed as Irumodic Syndrome, inherited from…
As Picard airs its last episodes, fans are saying goodbye to beloved characters, yet one of the most important—Tasha Yar—is missing from the series except as a fleeting image in Data’s memory. Even though she originally died in the…
Previously on Star Trek Picard: Riker was captured by Vadic at Daystrom Station, and discovered that she’s also holding Deanna. The personalities of Data and Lore were battling for control of the Soong golem, and dropping the partition between them…