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David A McIntee is a writer and historian who has written for properties such as Doctor Who, Star Wars, Final Destination, and Stargate, as well as having written several adventures in the Star Trek franchise for Pocket Books. He has contributed many pieces to the magazines Star Trek Explorer (née Star Trek Magazine) and Star Trek Communicator, as well as having written nonfiction books about Star Trek: Voyager.

Discovery’s “Life, Itself” in Review

The quest for the secrets of creating and restoring life itself (hence the episode title) reaches its conclusion in the final episode of Discovery. Does it stick the landing? Well…

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Discovery’s “Lagrange Point” in Review

In this penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the season-long hunt for the Progenitor technology closes in on its goal. But will it be the Breen or Discovery that manages

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Discovery’s “Labyrinths” in Review

Following “Erigah”, Moll and the Breen are still in hot pursuit of the Progenitor technology. Meanwhile, Michael and the crew of Discovery visit the Eternal Gallery and Archive to find

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Discovery’s “Erigah” in Review

After the Prime Suggestion cringe-fest that was “Whistlespeak”, Moll and L’ak are back, as are the Breen and their backstory. Log Entry Rendezvousing with the USS Locherer, Discovery’s crew are

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Discovery’s “Whistlespeak” in Review

After the previous episode turned out to be a bottle show, Michael Burnham leads her crew into a cross-country marathon. Log Entry Doctor Kovich tells Burnham that the USS Locherer

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Discovery’s “Mirrors” in Review

Given how linked into the Mirror Universe mythology Discovery has been all along, what should we expect here? Log Entry Discovery is scanning the area of space from which Moll

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Discovery’s “Jinaal” in Review

The two-part opener having ended with the finding of a 3D artefact and the location of another clue — not Betazed but Trill — Star Trek: Discovery embarks on the

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Discovery’s “Under the Twin Moons” in Review

This second episode aired along with the first installment of Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth season, “Red Directive”, as a double header. This is something that’s becoming a standard in sci-fi

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Discovery’s “Red Directive” in Review

Two years after the Season 4 finale split Michael and Book up by sending Book to jail for sabotaging (correctly, as it turned out) Starfleet’s attempt to destroy the Anomaly

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Deep Space Nine’s “Emissary” in Review

An astonishing thirty-one years ago, we saw the beginning of a series that’s actually quite different than how we now think of Deep Space Nine. How does it hold up

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