Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opens with Captain Pike (Anson Mount) staying in a snowy cabin in Montana, on leave with a lovely young Starfleet Captain. He’s pulling an impersonation of Grizzly Adams while pondering his return to command. He’s haunted by what he saw while serving on
In Star Trek: Picard - Hide & Seek we find ourselves on La Sirena. Rios evacuates the Doctor and her son as the Borg soldiers and Juratti board the ship. They meet up with the rest of the crew who begin to plan to retake the ship but are quickly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of Borg who begin
In Star Trek: Picard - Mercy, the cold open is of a boy, running in the woods terrified. He trips and is confronted by two Vulcans. We then flash to Picard and Guinan in a room with the agent who arrested them at the end of the last episode. He asks them directly if they are extraterrestrials.
Star Trek: Picard - Monsters is primarily an exploration of Picard’s subconscious. It opens with Jean-Luc sitting on a ship in a therapy session. He’s hostile to the therapist, not wanting to open up. We learn that Picard has claustrophobia, striking as he lives his life encased in a ship. In
The cold open Star Trek: Picard - Two For One begins with Jean-Luc on the ground, unconscious. It’s clear that something is very, very wrong. We then jump back to “34 minutes earlier” to Picard in evening wear with Tallinn at the gala. He and Tallinn chat briefly about Laris,
In this week's episode of Star Trek: Picard - Fly Me To The Moon, Picard finds himself with the Watcher who is not Laris (although they look identical). Her name is Talon. She tells Picard that she has a single purpose, to watch and guard a single individual: Renée Picard; Jean-Luc’s
"The Debut" turns a comedy that pokes fun at the sincerity of the local stage and elevates it to a fascinating character study of a woman on the edge. While still being hilarious.
Netflix's animated adaptation of AJ Dungo's graphic novel is a gorgeous and deeply moving love story that reminds us that grief never truly disappears, but neither does the love we carry for those we've lost. Last night, I had the opportunity to watch Netflix's new animated film In Waves, directed
The Apothecary Diaries thickens up the plot with some serious family and political drama in Ep. 51 "Let Them Eat Cake". Students of history will readily recognize that title as the most infamously apocryphal line Marie Antoinette spoke just before the French Revolution came calling, indicating her