Category: Movies and TV Reviews

The Stars at night are big and bright, especially when the Texas class is committing suicide via independent control. There isn’t much need to recount or set up what we’ve got this time around with Mike McMahan’s “The Stars at Night,” as…

I think I’ve figured out when I believe it is ok to swear in Star Trek, and it seems to be when Picard’s name is being knocked around on the news. Ann Magnuson got to do it in “Maps and Legends,” and…

We’ve had two decent episodes written by women, it must be time to go back to all men for the rest of the season. Ben Rodgers, Ben M Waller, and Mike “Not a Ben” McMahan are taking us home for the next…

Can we stop with all this kink-based character design? Blacksad does it with no shame. Disney’s Zootopia/Zootropolis does it while trying to avoid the weird glances. Zelda does it with less of a wink for the furries, and now Lower Decks has given Rule34…

From the fascist Cardassian occupation to the pseudo-military operation alongside the Bajorian provisional government, and then the eventual full Bajorian operations of what was once called Terok Nor. Ask any fan of the franchise as a whole, the standout of that TNG-led…

Star Trek: Picard‘s third season has a lot of answering to do when Mike McMahan comes knocking. “Reflections” is what I’ve been saying about Lower Decks. It is character-based comedy that sometimes makes fun of the whole franchise. Not only does the…

Did you know that the S in LSD stands for Acid? Sorry, for those that don’t understand the point in making a joke that might tangentially get us into talking about the episode at large, that’s what that is. LSD stands for…

Is it fair to say that Brian D Bradley’s “Mining the Mind’s Mine” is one of the few “duds” of the third season? It is not terrible, but it is one of those attempts at sci-fi horror via hallucinations, similar to The…

Let’s talk about Garrick Bernard’s re-writing of Alien with the wettest man in the 24th century; It always has to be Jack Quaid. Unless we get another in season 4, this is the latest episode from Bernard and maybe his best. Garrick…

Everybody loves Grampa Joe’s Creole restaurant and it is certainly something that made me extremely happy to see. The third and most recent season of Lower Decks is here, soon enough I’ll have to find something else to talk about in 9 weeks unless…