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Red Matter Rampage in Star Trek: Nero

This four-part comic mini-series, focusing on the 2009 Star Trek film’s antagonist, was produced by the creators of Star Trek: Countdown. It’s therefore similar, featuring vibrant art, fairly strong character

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The Animated Series’ “The Infinite Vulcan” in Review

Owing to budgetary limitations, Chekov wasn’t included in the cast of characters which transitioned from The Original Series to The Animated Series, instead replaced by Arex at the navigation station.

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Lower Decks’ “Caves” in Review

How often in the franchise have starship crew members been trapped in a cave set on Stage 16? And we know how Lower Decks loves to homage the Berman era….

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The Animated Series’ “The Survivor” in Review

Seeing only this episode’s title, one might be fooled into thinking it’s the TNG episode “The Survivors”. It’s about an alien trying to fool the Enterprise crew. When it comes

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Star Trek: Holo-ween, Issue 2 in Review

This second issue follows up on issue 1’s climax that saw a partly Borg version of Redjac, from the TOS episode “Wolf in the Fold”, wreaking havoc on the crew

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Lower Decks’ “A Few Badgeys More” in Review

Hang onto your backups! In this episode, we have AI threats a-go-go aboard the Cerritos… with a host of returning electronic villains. Summary In the Kalla System, a Drookmani ship

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Star Trek: Countdown in Review

This four-issue IDW comic prequels the 2009 Star Trek film, follows Star Trek: The Next Generation (particularly relevant to “Unification II” and Star Trek Nemesis), but conflicts with Star Trek:

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Sir Patrick Stewart’s Making It So

The only time I opt for the audio version of a book is if it is a memoir narrated by the author. After listening to all thirty-one hours of Sir

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Star Trek: Holo-ween, Issue 1 in Review

In this debut issue of a new four-part TNG comics mini-series by IDW, fear starts to consume the Enterprise-D. Is this issue bloody fang-tastic? Summary In her log, Counselor Deanna

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The Animated Series’ “More Tribbles, More Troubles” in Review

Here’s a sequel to “The Trouble with Tribbles”. Does it measure up to its enormously popular progenitor? Are there any tribbles — I mean troubles — with this episode? Let’s

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