Love. Love is the most enigmatic of all emotions. There’s endless gradations of love. There’s endless manifestations of love. There’s endless rationalizations of love. Every writer in the history of mankind has scribbled about love, every singer in the history of music has crooned about love, every teenager in the…

Episode 4, “No Win Scenario,” made me sad. For the first time since the CBS reboot of Star Trek in 2017, we got an episode that successfully did what a good Star Trek episode should do: it was exciting, it advanced the plot of the story, it was tied together…

Maybe I was already in a good mood because of THE NEWS, but hey, I really liked this episode! More importantly, I really like the story being told in the first three episodes — now that we finally have a story being told. In episode three. Of ten. A persistent…

So episode 2 happened. …

Y’all know me, I have ideas — and I want them on the record so I can gloat. Raffi’s covert handler It’s Worf. It could be someone else — Moriarty is a big guess online. But don’t overthink it: it’s Worf. Captain Shaw survived Wolf 359

I just finished the first episode of Star Trek Picard season 3 and I keep coming back to the same thought: The best way to watch season 3 is to fully and wholly forget the first two seasons happened. Just start here. Picard is an old, dottering retired Admiral who…

We’ve all seen the hype. Seemingly everyone who got to see the show early has been praising it non-stop. Finally TNG is back! The best Star Trek since Enterprise! Terry Matalas has saved Star Trek! Yayyyy!!!! Ok, cool. The trailers are still dark and moody and aCkTiOn-pAcKeD!1 and Picard is…

In honor of the late, great Nichelle Nichols… Uhura is a badass. Unfortunately, in many ways, her character didn’t do a whole lot on TOS — and especially in the movies. However, whenever she did have something to do, it was usually pretty great. Uhura proved on-screen over and over…

This week’s Top Five was suggested by Dr. Peter Bryan — follow him on twitter Peter Cullen Bryan and marvel at his pop culture analysis. The Klingons are the counterbalance to Those Old Scientists — an authoritarian regime of warriors, beholden to no one but their own honor and the…