In Strange New World: Ghosts of Illyria, the team arrives at Hedamate 9, a former Illyrian colony. The Illyrians were an alien species that practiced Genetic Modification (illegal within the Federation - a result of the Eugenics Wars). On the planet, the crew is trying to investigate what happened
In this week's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Children of the Comet, the episode opens with Cadet Uhura on her way to dinner at the Captain’s table. She’s suffering some hazing at the hands of her colleagues - showing up in a dress uniform to a casual event. At dinner,
In Star Trek: Picard - Farewell, we find ourselves at Chateau Picard as the team tries to decipher Juratti’s cryptic message and launch plans to save the Europa mission. Tallinn distributes tricorder devices to the team and transports inside of mission control - with Jean-Luc as a stow-away!
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.
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there