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6.1.5 Tracks Are Shale That Novans Have Agreed Upon
Terra Nova This is an episode with an awful lot to say. So much, in fact, that it comes up with a whole new way of saying things. ...
Ric Crossman
Oct 12, 202111 min read
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5.1.5 Fantastic Voyager
The Cloud An obvious title, I realise. Mine, I mean, though I can’t believe anyone involved with this episode feels proud they gave it a...
Ric Crossman
Oct 10, 202116 min read
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4.1.5 "Freedom To Starve Ain't No Freedom"
Captive Pursuit We open on an employee complaining to the station commander about her working life. A brief introduction to the questions...
Ric Crossman
Oct 7, 202110 min read
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3.1.5 "You Just Did Just What I Thought You Were Gonna Do"
Where No One Has Gone Before Come on in. That’s right. Come on in and get out of that cold. You must be half frozen. Let me take that...
Ric Crossman
Oct 5, 202112 min read
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2.1.5 You Cannot Be Serious
More Tribbles, More Troubles David Gerrold’s sequel to his own classic is an interesting beast. It has a reputation as an uncomplicated...
Ric Crossman
Oct 3, 20216 min read
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1.1.5 The Power Set
The Enemy Within (Content warning: discussion of sexual assault) It started out as one of those rare, wonderful days that promises quiet....
Ric Crossman
Sep 30, 202116 min read
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6.1.4 Junior 2: Junior Goes To Space
Unexpected (Content warning: Discussions of violation of consent in a sci-fi context.) Well. Yikes, innit? The nicest thing I can find...
Ric Crossman
Sep 28, 20219 min read
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5.1.4 "Leave Me Breathless"
Phage More like “Phailge”, right peeps? Actually, that’s probably unfair – a cheap shot I thought too groan-inducing to resist as an...
Ric Crossman
Sep 26, 202110 min read
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4.1.4 "Once Again, The Communication Process Has Broken Down"
Babel “Babel” feels like DS9‘s first misstep. It’s not particularly a bad episode – bits of it are rather good, in fact. The issue lies...
Ric Crossman
Sep 23, 20218 min read
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3.1.4 Make Ferenginar Great Again
The Last Outpost I originally wrote this essay on the 9th of November, 2016. Donald Trump had been announced as the next President of the...
Ric Crossman
Sep 21, 20219 min read
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2.1.4 "And After The Spanking..."
The Lorelei Signal Best worst-episode-ever ever? “The Lorelei Signal” has the occasional beautiful island, but getting to them means...
Ric Crossman
Sep 19, 20217 min read
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1.1.4 Booze-Ups And Breakdowns
The Naked Time It feels like it’s too early for this. Mostly, anyway. Is It That Time Already? “The Naked Time”, quite clearly, is...
Ric Crossman
Sep 16, 20218 min read
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6.1.3 Trip's Trip Trips Trip
Strange New World This is a nice episode. That’s not me damning with faint praise. Niceness is a badly undervalued quality. Almost all...
Ric Crossman
Sep 14, 20218 min read
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5.1.3 Worlds Of Fantasy And Horror #1 pp85-92
Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...
Ric Crossman
Sep 12, 202110 min read
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4.1.3 Three Threes Make Nine
A Man Alone Intro Once again, Deep Space Nine has to push back against TNG‘s mistakes. The appalling flood of clueless racism that swept...
Ric Crossman
Sep 9, 202120 min read
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3.1.3 Starship Diplomacy
Code Of Honor I will not bury the lede. “Code Of Honor” is a steaming racist mess. Bottom place of everything ever is pretty much...
Ric Crossman
Sep 7, 202110 min read
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2.1.3 "You Fool, It's Antimatter"
One Of Our Planets Is Missing "Ooopim”, as the kids are already calling it, is a slightly frustrating episode. It isn’t actually bad in...
Ric Crossman
Sep 5, 20217 min read
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1.1.3 Slaying God
Where No Man Has Gone Before It’s the second pilot! By which I mean this was the second attempt to get a green light after “The Cage” was...
Ric Crossman
Sep 2, 202113 min read
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6.1.2 Kidnapped By Jerks (The Sluggy Sluggo Story)
Fight Or Flight “Fight Or Flight” is a frustrating beast. Perhaps not as frustrating as an alien slug going on hunger-strike just because...
Ric Crossman
Aug 31, 20219 min read
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5.1.2 "School's Out For EVER!"
Parallax Perception is a tricky thing. Sometimes you’re sure you’re moving forward when all you’re doing is circling back around....
Ric Crossman
Aug 29, 202112 min read
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