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Tagged: Star Trek

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 13, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery “The Brightest Star”

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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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 29, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager “Tsunkatse”

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…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 12, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery “Calypso”

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…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 16, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Runaway"

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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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Oct 11, 2018

Star Trek "Catspaw"

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…

· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2018

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

In an unprecedented step for the Star Trek franchise, it’s been announced that Sir Patrick Stewart will trek through the stars once again in a new series about the further adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was a natural choice…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jun 7, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager "Unforgettable"

If you’ve been following my recent Voyager recaps, you may have noticed I’ve been trying to spread the snark around a bit. So far, I’ve recapped a Neelix episode, a Tom Paris episode, a Janeway episode, and a Harry Kim…

· by Rob Kirchgassner · May 22, 2018

Battle of the Nerd Comedies: Free Enterprise (1999) vs. Fanboys (2009)

A short while back, I wrote an article comparing the documentaries Trekkies and The People vs. George Lucas. These movies looked at the appeal and devoted followings of Star Trek and Star Wars, the two most famous series in…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 18, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager “Favorite Son”

My return to recapping bad Star Trek: Voyager episodes continues with the third season episode “Favorite Son”, which shows Voyager encountering a planet of women who are out to lure unsuspecting men into a deadly trap. Yes, it’s another instance…

· by Nathan Kerner · Mar 12, 2018

Can we stop using the word "reboot"?

Looking at this year’s slate of movie reboots (including Death Wish, Tomb Raider, Venom, Robin Hood: Origins, and Mary Poppins Returns) made me come to a realization: Someday, Disney is going to reboot Star Wars…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 7, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager “11:59”

So Star Trek: Discovery finally ended its hit-or-miss first season last month, which means I’m free to return to recapping terrible episodes of Voyager. Lucky me? My best guess is that the fifth season episode “11:59”, which originally aired…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Will You Take My Hand?"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery traveled to the Mirror Universe and lost a captain but gained an empress, and Mirror Georgiou made no secret of how she considered Saru’s race to be nothing more than chattel. Tyler…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 5, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "The War Without, the War Within"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Lt. Ash Tyler was really the Klingon known as Voq, Son of None, with Ash Tyler’s psyche grafted over his own, and L’Rell was the only one who could treat him. In the Mirror…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 29, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "What's Past is Prologue"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Discovery crossed over into the Mirror Universe, where Georgiou is the Terran emperor. Stamets met Mirror Stamets, who’s evil and he’s somehow corrupted the mycelial network. The Discovery is on its way to rendezvous…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 23, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Vaulting Ambition"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery crossed over into the Mirror Universe, where Burnham and Lorca went undercover as their Terran counterparts to get info about the Defiant, the last Federation starship to cross over. Tyler realized that…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 15, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "The Wolf Inside"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The whole damn ship ended up in the Mirror Universe, prompting Lorca to transform it into the “ISS Discovery”, under the command of Captain Tilly. Spore-jumping to a parallel universe turned Stamets into a…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 9, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery “Despite Yourself”

Last half-season on Star Trek: Discovery: The USS Discovery became the Federation’s secret weapon in the war against the Klingons, thanks to a spore-powered drive that allows them to be anywhere in the galaxy in an instant. Captain Lorca…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 28, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager “Alice”

My recaps of bad Star Trek: Voyager episodes continue with season six’s “Alice”, one of those utterly predictable Voyager episodes that foreshadows its plot so heavily that by two minutes in, we already know exactly how the whole damn plot…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Dec 21, 2017

Star Trek "Dagger of the Mind"

In the franchise’s entire 51-year history, there’s only been one Star Trek episode of any of the six series that’s been holiday-themed. That episode was the original series’ “Catspaw”, which was the first episode filmed for the show’s second season,…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 5, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager "Elogium"

Being in the middle of a long mid-season break before Star Trek: Discovery returns, I figured what better time to recap episodes of previous Star Trek shows to fill the void? Like, say, Voyager? I won’t lie; the news…