Temporal Edict You could stab the sexual tension in the foot with a sword, and apparently that's an entirely fine thing to do. Congratulations, 24th Century tech bros. You've invented hurrying! Office Space In Space "Hurried" might be the word of the day, actually. "Temporal Edict" feels as rushed, and hence as careless, as our heroes are here. It's very much the least impressive of Lower Decks ' first three episodes, and I don't think it would be difficult to argue for it a

The End Is The Beginning They can always tell. This month's question: Just what are the Zhat Vash up to, anyway? Risking a billion Romulans to keep Romulans alive? Let's use the power of triangles to square the circle. Kind of. Mostly, this'll just be me yelling at bigots. Diegetic Eisegesis Somehow, I made it forty-five years and change into this specific mortal coil before I learned the word "eisegesis". This perhaps is more than a little ironic, given what I tend to get u

Spoilers below Well, this is encouraging. The headline result is that "Vitus Reflux" is my least favourite of the three Starfleet Academy episodes we've seen so far. Much of this review, then, is going to be spent thinking about why that is, and why I'm not actually worried about each installment having gripped me less than the one before, but I'm actually more convinced about the future of this show's vision of the future than I was this time last week. A little while back

Context Is For Kings "Say Billy Keikeya was better ONE MORE TIME" A second try at the second try. "Because He Was A Fun Guy" The standard approach for considering this season as touched upon in my essays on "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle At The Binary Stars", is that those opening episodes are best considered separately from the year's broader arc. It's not quite as simple as saying those episodes mark a total disjunction from what follows - Bryan Fuller gets the same story

Strange New World This is a nice episode. That’s not me damning with faint praise. Niceness is a badly undervalued quality. Almost all...

Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...

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...

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...

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...

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...