In this “high concept” patron special we sat down to interrogate what makes the Federation of TOS and the Federation of the 24th Century different. (First released April 2018.) iTunesGoogle PlayRSS
After we made the decision to abandon “live” weekly Discovery coverage, we promised you a season 1 wrap-up, and we are delivering! iTunes Google Play RSS
In the “midseason finale” of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go”, the USS Discovery makes a breakthrough in the Klingon-Federation war, just as Burnham and Tyler have a breakthrough in their personal lives. Also! What’s our plan for Star Trek: Discovery going forward? iTunes Google Play RSS
After a couple good episodes, Star Trek: Discovery sadly backslides with “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”. The show remembers that it has a metaplot to deal with, so we get yet another grab-bag serialization episode that feels scattershot and broad. Plus! What’s up with the stardates? iTunes Google Play RSS
Have you ever felt like you were repeating the same day over and over? “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” has got you there, as Harcourt Fenton Mudd returns with an elaborate plan to steal the USS Discovery and sell it to the Klingons. iTunes Google Play RSS
After last week, we weren’t expecting much from Star Trek: Discovery, so of course this week the show gives us “Lethe”, an amazing episode that gives us much-needed character development for both Captain Lorca and Michael Burnham. Plus! Where do we get a DISCO t-shirt? iTunes Google Play RSS
In “Choose Your Pain”, Star Trek: Discovery loses us a little bit, just as the USS Discovery loses Ensign Tardigrade. iTunes Google Play RSS
We learn more about the spore drive, get Star Trek: Discovery’s riff on “The Devil in The Dark”, and find out what happened to Captain Georgiou. Plus! Ensign Tardigrade is the best. iTunes Google Play RSS
In “Context Is for Kings”, we meet the USS Discovery, Captain Lorca, Lt. Stamets, and, best of all, Cadet Sylvia Tilly. Nothing else matters. Cadet Sylvia Tilly needs to be retconned into all previous Trek series. Oh yeah, and some other stuff happened about a new way to fly on fungus spores. Wait. What, Star …
Well, it’s finally here: the premiere episodes of the first new Star Trek series since 2001, Star Trek: Discovery. “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars” are less a pilot for a new series and more a prologue, as it sets up the events of the series but doesn’t directly deal with our setting …