The Orville is back and better than ever with all sorts of new newness. New aesthetics, new crew members, new aliens, new tragedies and triumphs to flesh out, and even a new little tramp stamp, New Horizons, courtesy of Hulu. As the episode opens, we see the Orville ship getting…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is A Brilliant And Exciting Blend Of Old And New Trek That Will Make The Most Jaded Trekkie Smile
It’s the best of both worlds. Beautifully bright, updated visuals and iconic characters are brought to life by incredibly talented modern-day actors with all of the sci-fi drama, introspection, and humor you could ask for. The first episode begins with Captain Pike going through some stuff. Deep stuff. Ignoring his…
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Picard Series Finale Closes Several Doors And Then Blows Several Wide Open
Series finales are always difficult because no matter what, you’re going to upset a whole lot of people and hear about it for the next month. Hopefully, Farewell will leave more than a few fans happy and looking forward to an amazing season 3 because it’s pretty special. With Queen…
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Showtime Series The Man Who Fell To Earth Is An Intelligent, Visually Compelling And Thought Provoking Re-imaging Of Nicolas Roeg’s And David Bowie’s Cult Phenom
How it started. Photo courtesy of Movieweb. com Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Faraday and Naomie Harris as Justin Falls, this new take on The Man Who Fell To Earth is the perfect, modern-day retelling of this unbelievable tale. Faraday crashes into Earth and, when his body finishes mimicking the body…
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With Its Complexity And Intricately Woven Story Line Picard Episode 8 Mercy Is Sci-Fi At Some Of Its Finest
Within the limits of Mercy lies an unabridged look at the metamorphosis happening between Agnes and The Queen. While the Queen (with Jurati stuck inside) is compulsively looking to assimilate and get a jump start on her weird hobby of collecting sentient beings for companionship, long walks on the beach,…
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Strange New Worlds Episode 4 Memento Mori Introduces Us To A Gorn That Are The Stuff Of Nightmares To Come
During an observation of Starfleet’s Remembrance Day, a day where crew members don pins of past ships they’ve served aboard that have lost corps members in the line of duty, the Enterprise is ambushed by the terrifyingly evil Gorn, a predatory alien species whose sole purpose seems to be to…
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Amazon’s Night Sky Brings The Wonder And Drama Of Space Exploration To Our Doorsteps
Be still my beating heart and let me enjoy this solitude with you. Until a strange kid covered in someone else’s blood drops into this room and says…nothing, he says nothing and things get a bit weird. All photos courtesy of Night Sky’s IMDb. The story revolves around Frank and…
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Stardock Releases Sci-Fi Game Galactic Civilizations IV
Stardock Releases Sci-Fi Game Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock released Galactic Civilizations IV today. The newest installment of the award-winning space 4X strategy sandbox game series takes the best of what its predecessors had to offer and adds many new features. As the all-powerful leader of a spacefaring civilization, players seek out new…
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Picard Episode 9 Hide And Seek Wonderfully Illuminates The Battle For The Mind
As we dive into episode 9 the clocking is running out on the Borg’s campaign to jumpstart their assimilation of, well, the entire universe and Picard is to blame. Actually, he seems to be the bane of quite a few existences, including Dr. Soong, whose undying obsession with a legacy…
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Monsters Run Amok in Episode Seven Of Star Trek: Picard
So here we are, all dressed up and with no one to assimilate with. I’d also like to point out that being assimilated means that sure, you hear voices and you’re not exactly in control of the original you, but holy cow you’re wardrobe choices become the stuff fashion legends…