Previously: Spock had contact with the Red Angel, who came from the future and showed him the end of all life in the galaxy. Culber died and was resurrected but no longer had feelings for Stamets. Airiam got possessed by…
Previously: Pike and Vyler’s shuttle got hit by a squid-like probe from the future that downloaded all of Discovery’s data. Lt. Airiam, the robot-like bridge officer, got infected with nefarious programming which was symbolized by three red lights flashing in…
Previously: Well, this is different; this week, the “previously on” clips all come from “The Cage”, the original Star Trek pilot. I’m going out on a limb and guessing this is the first time in Star Trek history that the…
Previously: For the first time since the pilot, there are no “previously on” clips this episode, and instead Burnham’s obligatory voiceover catches us up on what we missed: Saru saw the Red Angel, it was wearing an “exosuit made of…
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Previously: Section 31 was on the hunt for Spock, who had a psychic connection to the mysterious signals across the galaxy which presage the arrival of the Red Angel. Dr. Culber was killed, but then resurrected in the mycelial network.…
Previously: Mirror Georgiou recruited Voq/Tyler AKA Vyler into Section 31. Lt. Spock was wanted for the murder of his doctors. Tilly started to see the ghost of her junior high classmate May, who turned out to be a “multidimensional fungal…
Previously: Discovery was out to track down the source of “seven signals” that seem to foretell appearances of the Red Angel. Spock knew about the signals months before they were detected, which in some way led to him voluntarily committing…
Previously: Michael Burnham fell in love for the very first time with Lt. Ash Tyler, a man who—whoops—turned out to be a surgically-altered Klingon sleeper agent better known as Voq the Torchbearer. Together with his Klingon lover L’Rell,…
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Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Captain Christopher Pike arrived to take command of the Discovery, due to the detection of mysterious “red bursts” all throughout the galaxy that need investigating. But instead of a Red Burst, Discovery found an…
Last season on Star Trek: Discovery: Michael Burnham’s mutiny aboard the USS Shenzhou led to the death of her captain Philippa Georgiou, though not to the protracted war with the Klingons that followed, but everybody blamed her for it…
And finally, we come to the last of the four Short Treks released on CBS All Access in anticipation of the second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. My initial viewing of “The Escape Artist” was honestly a bit…
It’s time for another installment of Short Treks, AKA the mini-episodes of Star Trek: Discovery being released monthly in the lead-up to January’s season premiere. And unlike the previous two Short Treks, “Runaway” and “Calypso”, the synopsis for “The Brightest…
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One of the charms of Xena: Warrior Princess, as well as its progenitor Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, is how episodes could alternate from charming romps to dark dramas. This episode certainly falls into the former category, since (as…
As I continue my look back at Star Trek: Voyager, I’ve been focusing mainly on the terrible episodes, but I have to admit that this current episode really isn’t all that terrible. In fact, for anyone who was watching…
Here we go with another installment of Short Treks, the mini-episodes that are being released only on CBS All Access to help build anticipation for January’s season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. And I feel like the trailer for…
To build up hype for January’s second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access will be posting a series of “Short Treks” over the next few months. These are basically the service’s latest attempt to drag the…
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October is here again, and for many, that means the start of Halloween season. So why not look at the only episode in Star Trek franchise history that was an actual Halloween episode? This is the reason “Catspaw”, actually the…
I’ve noted before that, despite being a spin-off of another show, Xena: Warrior Princess didn’t take long to become the syndicated ratings champion of the 1990s as Star Trek: The Next Generation had been before it. There were many reasons…
As I noted in my previous recap, the third season of Lois & Clark began promisingly by surprising the viewers in the best possible way. In this case, it was Lois responding to Clark’s marriage proposal by revealing that she…
By the end of its second season, Lois & Clark was becoming more of a ratings hit. One reason for this was that the title characters were starting to become more romantic with each other by this point. The only…
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