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…

This week’s Star Trek Top Five was suggested by John Siuntres — go check out his excellent award-winning podcast WordBalloon wherever you get your podcast fix. Criteria: TOS Crew. Not main cast. Impact beyond one episode. That leaves out some notable names like Nurse Chapel, who is basically a main character at times, and episode-centric characters like Bailey and…

Why does Zombie Trek even exist? — The Star Trek Discovery finale was last night. It was boring and self-indulgent and plagiaristic and Burnham is a terrible captain. The big internet buzz is that Stacey Abrams was the president of Earth because the producers have no idea they’re making Star Trek and not Family Guy. …

“The wind howls; the sun rises alone…” The whole world has lost itself in the smoldering haze. The global pandemic, as such as it exists in the form of keyboard-pounding blowhards, moral-panicking bureaucrats, and a boorish reverence for ineptitude, has simply illuminated and made tangible the fissures once manageable through…

When did mid-season finales become a thing? Is it to give the CGI guys more time? Or is it to keep you subscribed to Paramount for an extra month? Why does NuTrek make any of the decisions they make? The world wonders… FIVE THINGS I HATE ABOUT THIS EPISODE The…

Remember: Black Alert is when all the blue lights come on. Burnham opens the episode “thinking about family” as she builds a family tree and we get reminded of all the idiocy that happened in the first three seasons. Burnham is determined to fly into the wake of the DMA…

The DMA is back and uh-oh it’s man-made!!! NuTrek is obsessed with galaxy-destroying events. It’s boring. The DMA is boring. No plot twist can save it. Name-dropping Iconians, the Metrons, or Q can’t save it. Not even a guest spot by Sadavir Errinwright dropping hilarious one-liners and making Saru scream…

Writers Alan McElroy and Eric Robbins manage to add Star Trek into a Discovery episode with the most basic of tools: an opening Captain’s log!!! How refreshing is that? It’s mind-boggling to think that a log intro isn’t standard on this show. What a joke. Anyway, once again they push…

I don’t know Olatunde Osunsanmi. I couldn’t pick him out of a crowd. But I do know that he directs a lot of episodes of Star Trek Discovery. He’s even an Executive Producer now, along with like 21 other people. And what I also know is that every time he…