Tag: Anson Mount
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Children of the Comet”
“Sometimes, Mr. Spock, things go so badly, you just have to laugh.” Now this is more like it. A few weeks ago, I had ended my association with Second Union after the editor informed me he did not intend to publish my review of the Strange New Worlds pilot episode. He thought I was unnecessarily…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “New Eden”
“If you’re telling me that this ship can skip across the universe on a highway made of mushrooms, I kind of have to go on faith.” “New Eden” owes as much to the Voyager episode, “False Profits” (with less “hilarious” results), as it does to The Next Generation’s “Who Watches The Watchers.” Both episodes deal…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Brother”
“This is the power of math, people!” Let’s be honest. There’s only one reason anybody would be interested in continuing to watch Star Trek: Discovery, and it has nothing to do with this assortment of characters, nor Burnham, nor Georgiou, nor visual effects, battle scenes, or Klingon sex. It’s about the promise of Spock. Spock.…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Strange New Worlds”
“Hit it.”* SPOILERS ABOUND! BEWARE! If you remove all of the random details of “Strange New Worlds,” the pilot episode of the eponymous series (this latest entry into the Star Trek franchise), and concentrate on the story alone, this is not a terrible episode. A planet in a first contact situation is revealed to have…
Misadventures in Blissville 