All the Treks (as of 2023) reviewed

Asking someone to put Star Treks in rank order is a bit like asking someone to choose their best friend.

Dax is dead. Long live Dax

Here we go again. Way back in the dim and distant, I took the plunge and bought an iPhone. It was a 3 (or a 3G as they called it at the time). A 4S, 5S and 7 later, and here we are again.

ST: DIS 3×02: I-Yensch, You-Yensch

Last week we had what I felt was a TNG mixed with ST: Beyond episode. It was brilliant, and since I’ve watched it again I still like everything that went down. Now we get to the follow-up.

ST: DIS 3×01: The more things change, the more they stay the same

Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!Here be SPOILERS for Star Trek Discovery series 3 episode 1! I sat down the other night and rewatched the two-parter of Star Trek Discovery that ended season two, just so I would remember where we were all up to. And do you know what? It made me miss ST: DIS all

Sisko was right about baseball

Ben Sisko – Commander and then Captain in Starfleet during the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine years, in an effort to explain linear time to an alien race, compared it to a baseball game. His reasoning was that you never know what can happen next in life – humans are resigned to being stuck on

Dual Permanence

Object permanence is knowing that objects continue to exist whether you can see them or not (or notice them with any of the senses). Young kids don’t have this yet, which is why they think Peek-A-Boo is the greatest thing ever. As you get older, you develop new ways of displaying object (or abstract) permanence

On endings

No spoilers here, but I need to take stock of all the things I’m losing, or have lost, in the TV and film world. Supernatural With the news that season 15 would be its last, this show has spiralled out of the singular fandom, charities and help groups it had and erupted into world domination;

Star Trek Discovery – What if?

It’s time for some fanfiction. Because there was this time, and then there was this time… Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Vulcan Rated T/Teen & Up for some naughty language, some violence and conduct unbecoming, and maybe a frying pan. Summary: In the dying moments of S01xE15, the Discovery is ordered

Star Trek Discovery 1×15 – a season finale and a half

Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Here be SPOILERS for Star Trek Discovery series 1 episode 15! Where do we start with this episode, Will You Take My Hand? Ceti eels, bread and circuses, Trills and Betazoids – it was all in here. Double-crosses – the first Prime Directive moment? – familiar actors, Orions, Qo’noS markets and

Star Trek Discovery 1×14 – Don’t Care Was Made to Care

Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Here be SPOILERS for Star Trek Discovery series 1 episode 14! Let us climb down from the heady heights of episode 13 for just a moment: Mirror!Lorca is dead, Cornwell is convinced Prime!Lorca was probably killed shortly after ending up in the Mirror Universe, and Emperor Pippa has been kidnapped and