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3.1.15 "Galloping Around The Cosmos Is A Game For The Young"
Too Short A Season “Too Short A Season” presents itself initially as rather cliché. Your standard tale about how reclaiming one’s lost...
Ric Crossman
Feb 27, 20229 min read


2.1.15 Kidnapped By Jerks 2: Sluggo's Revenge
The Eye Of The Beholder "I don't know about you, but my compassion for someone isn't limited to my estimate of their intelligence" - Dr...
Ric Crossman
Feb 24, 20228 min read


1.1.15 "We've Come On Holiday By Mistake!"
Shore Leave Content warning: references to fictional representations of sexual assault. What’s more enjoyable than irony? Enjoying irony...
Ric Crossman
Feb 22, 202215 min read


6.1.14 Too Much Of A Bad Thing
Shadows Of P'Jem Given it was the stated intent of this series when I began it, it’s been rather a long time since I last really compared...
Ric Crossman
Feb 20, 202210 min read


5.1.14 Oppenheimer
Jetrel What follows are testimonials from survivors of the nuclear attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. I beg the...
Ric Crossman
Feb 17, 202211 min read


4.1.14 Russian Toll
Progress The revolutionary struggle doesn’t end the day the palace falls. Major Dilemma “Progress” is another episode that’s hard to...
Ric Crossman
Feb 15, 202213 min read


3.1.14 I Got 1100011 Problems
11001001 “11001001” is not a good episode. It fails on multiple levels. Its character work is counter-productive; we may learn more about...
Ric Crossman
Feb 13, 20229 min read


2.1.14 The Cat That Walked By Himself
The Slaver Weapon The Animated Series brings out the big guns. Copycat You can see how "The Slaver Weapon" worked on paper. This is true...
Ric Crossman
Feb 10, 20229 min read


1.1.14 I Hope The Romulans Love Their Children Too
Balance Of Terror Where can I start here? What course does one set to best approach an object of such immense, reality-warping mass?...
Ric Crossman
Feb 8, 202211 min read


6.1.13 Before They Were Famous
Sleeping Dogs This is a tale of conditions that have no cure. Of infections you can’t fight, and so must wait for them to flare out....
Ric Crossman
Feb 6, 20229 min read


5.1.13 The Frenemy Within
Faces A dame of two halves. Face/Off (Yes OF COURSE I used that as a subheading I have no shame shut up.) Not hard to see how this...
Ric Crossman
Feb 3, 202213 min read


4.1.13 Maps And Legends
The Storyteller "The people and the land are one." It was about time we returned to Bajor. The Widening Gyre I haven’t really talked all...
Ric Crossman
Feb 1, 202210 min read


3.1.13 Men Are From Earth, Women Are From Angel One
Angel One Just when I thought I was out, etc. “Nothing About Us Without Us” I was hoping things could be different here. After a bunch of...
Ric Crossman
Jan 30, 20229 min read


2.1.13 What Waits Below
The Ambergris Element I mean, it’s better than “The Lorelei Signal”. You know. Mostly. Diminishing Returns Looks like we’re going to have...
Ric Crossman
Jan 27, 20227 min read


1.1.13 Theatre Of Blood
The Conscience Of The King A play within a play, within a box. "All The World's A Stage..." It’s difficult to get anywhere with “The...
Ric Crossman
Jan 25, 202212 min read


6.1.12 Primarily, Do No Harm
Dear Doctor Things are going from bad to worse in the 22nd century. From bad to grotesquely appalling, actually. I can’t remember a...
Ric Crossman
Jan 23, 202212 min read


5.1.12 The Ghost In You
Cathexis The Case of the Unappreciated Whodunnit. “Don’t Be Real, Be Postmodern” “Cathexis” is another episode that doesn’t have a...
Ric Crossman
Jan 20, 20228 min read


4.1.12 Pro Nihil Mori
Battle Lines War, huh? What is it good for? Killing recurring characters in order to generate cheap drama, it turns out. The Vengeance...
Ric Crossman
Jan 18, 202212 min read


3.1.12 Lost In Translation
Datalore BLOG FIGHT! Shoulders Of Giants This is the post in which I’m finally going to have to fully acknowledge my debt to Alina...
Ric Crossman
Jan 16, 202210 min read


2.1.12 "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?"
The Time Trap What does it mean to be removed from reality? Strange Geometries Let’s start by discussing this literally. The Delta...
Ric Crossman
Jan 13, 202215 min read
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