Trektember: The Wolf Inside | Star Trek: Discovery
“Even the light is different…the cosmos has lost its brilliance. And everywhere I turn, there’s fear.” —Michael Burnham Star Trek is, at its core, about identity: identity as a society, identity as a species, identity as an individual. And since…
Trektember: Into the Fold | The Orville
Recap On a trip to a play planet for children, Dr. Finn, her sons Ty and Marcus, and Isaac are drawn into a spatial fold (a spatial anomaly that is a fold in spacetime) and crash land on a moon,…
Trektember: Despite Yourself | Star Trek: Discovery
Recap Discovery is not where she’s supposed to be. Having perfected the Klingon cloak-breaking algorithm, the crew initiate a spore-jump to Starbase 46. The information they possess could help win the war. But something goes wrong and they find themselves…
Trektember: Majority Rule | The Orville
Nothing says classic science fiction television quite like an obvious moral allegory, right? A close second would be the whole thing where you pretend a single city represents the culture of an entire planet. You gotta love it. These things…
Trektember: Into the Forest I Go | Star Trek: Discovery
This was the first episode where, for me, the Klingon scenes weren’t insufferable. Their speech finally sounded like language and actual communication rather than ceremonial correcting and positioning. It’s a too-common mistake made by shows set in cultures of deep…
Trektember: Krill | The Orville
This is the episode that brought me back to The Orvile after what I saw as a shockingly dull, unfunny and vacuous first episode made it the lowest of priorities for me. Here I saw what Seth MacFarlane was really…
Trektember: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | Star Trek: Discovery
“We are born afraid, we Kelpiens. It’s how we survive. As such, my whole life, I have never known a moment without fear. The freedom of it…not one moment. Until Pahvo.” —Saru Sometimes it takes a monster’s mouth to express…
Trektember: Pria | The Orville
The Economy of Redemption Storytellers and philosophers of nearly every century have speculated about the wondrous “second-chance” scenario, wherein a doomed individual or group is presented with a new lease on their legacy and future. The Orville – which frequently…
Trektember: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad | Star Trek: Discovery
Read enough articles about Star Trek: Discovery, and you’ll start to see a repetitive phrase: “this is the first episode that really felt like Star Trek to me.” We’ve even had a couple of variations on that verbal “time loop”…
Trektember: If the Stars Should Appear | The Orville
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God! —Ralph Waldo Emerson I wasn’t familiar with Emerson’s quote before I…