“Your humanity was beautiful.” – Burnham Previously on… Star Trek?! Holy shit, that’s the TOS logo and music, and these are clips from “The Cage” and I am freaking out. And even the way this is edited is so 1960s,…
Let me paint for you, briefly, a portrait of a child. This child is young, no more than 10. Questions of identity, gender, and purpose are still well into his future. He spends most of his day failing: failing school,…
“I’m sorry, sir. You know how I get around violations of causality.” – Ensign Sylvia Tilly In lieu of a “previously on” segment, we open this episode with a personal log from Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). I’m beginning to think…
Our coverage of Star Trek Discovery at New York Comic Con 2018 continues with more roundtable interviews from the Press Room… Sonequa Martin-Green So, we’re getting ready to embark on Season 2. A year ago, we were talking about Season…
From the Publisher: Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou that…
All die-hard Star Trek fans have a memory of the first time their mind was blown by something in the franchise. Perhaps it was bearing witness to the first interracial kiss on television, or seeing an actor of your race…
T’Pol has always been a character who is criticized harshly; in fact, I often wonder if she would have received such backlash if she had been on a more beloved series, like The Next Generation or even Voyager. Deanna Troi…
Many people identify with Leonard Nimoy’s beloved portrayal of the half-human, half-Vulcan. As his son Adam’s recent documentary For the Love of Spock relates, many fans relate in a literal sense to his mixed heritage. Others relate to the Enterprise’s…