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Tagged: The Borg

· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 26, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”

Last time on Picard with a Vengeance: Picard watched helplessly as the android woman he saved because her enemies were convinced she was going to usher in the apocalypse ushered in the apocalypse. Dick move there. If I were…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 20, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1”

Last week on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Synths But Were Afraid to Ask: Grizzled, past-his-prime starship captain William Adama Jean-Luc Picard, on the run from a group of genocidal zealots, seeks a lost planet inhabited by…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 14, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Broken Pieces”

Previously on Star Trek Into Oldness: Picard rescued Small Wonder from the Borg Cube, and his heroism inspired Hugh to start a Borg revolution on the cube, which apparently he’d just plain never thought of doing before. Tragically, he…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 24, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Remembrance”

Star Trek may take place in the future, but like all science fiction, it’s really about the present. The original Star Trek was suffused with Kennedyan optimism and a very ’60s faith in the power of science, Western-style democracy, and…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 15, 2019

My hopes for Star Trek: Picard

As most everyone is aware by now, the next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Picard, is set to begin on CBS All Access next year. Like Star Trek: Discovery, it will only be available for viewing on the…