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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.

very Short Treks’ “Skin a Cat” in Review

Newsflash — Star Trek: The Animated Series returns for the first new episode in forty-odd years or so! Not quite. In a fusion reminiscent of the beloved Short Treks intertwined

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Lower Decks’ “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee” in Review

As the fourth season of Lower Decks had a double-bill opener, the second episode was also released on 7th September. So, what of the questions left hanging from “Twovix”? Summary

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Lower Decks’ “Twovix” in Review

Following on from “that Pike thing we aren’t supposed to talk about,” the crew of the USS Cerritos is back in fully animated form, for a fourth season of craziness.

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Hegemony” in Review

After a too-quick season, Strange New Worlds reaches its second season finale. It features a long-teased return of the first season’s big bads, the Gorn… Summary A log entry by

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Subspace Rhapsody” in Review

After top comedy and top drama, fans now hotly await the musical episode. The trailer has provoked a ton of interest, so how does the episode stack up? Summary The

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Under the Cloak of War” in Review

What was all that “shoot up with glowing blue stuff to get Matrix-style bullet-time powers to kick Klingon ass” with M’Benga and Chapel in the season premiere? Well, we’re not

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Those Old Scientists” in Review

This is the long-awaited crossover with animated series Lower Decks. It was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 and given an early debut screening at San Diego Comic-Con 2023. Summary

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Strange New Worlds’ “Lost in Translation” in Review

The “previously on” lead-in is particularly worth bearing in mind this time. A lot of things in the recap tie into this episode. Summary The Enterprise, under newly promoted Fleet

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Charades” in Review

It’s this year’s Comedy Vulcan Episode time… Yeah, that seems to be an actual thing with this series, and again it involves Spock’s arranged engagement to T’Pring requiring attention at

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Strange New Worlds‘ “Among the Lotus Eaters” in Review

Remember when we saw — way back in “The Cage/The Menagerie” — Captain Pike fight a primitive warrior in a flashback to a botched first contact mission on Rigel VII?

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