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Short Treks’ “The Brightest Star” in Review

Do you want to learn more about the Kelpiens? Are you wondering if they were named after their habit of harvesting kelp? While “The Brightest Star” surprisingly implies an affirmative

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The Borg: Are They Truly a Menace?

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance

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Star Trek, Issue #4 in Review

The fourth installment of the IDW Star Trek comic continues the narrative rhythm of the previous three. Whereas two-dimensionality should ideally describe only the art, here emotional insights into a

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John Jackson Miller interview, Part 2

In this second part of my interview with New York Times bestselling author John Jackson Miller, we delve into Pike’s backstory and how Miller has a responsibility to train readers

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Short Treks’ “Runaway” in Review

Unfortunately, the first episode of Star Trek: Short Treks is a bit of a bumpy start. Let’s jump back to October 2018, during the gap between Discovery’s first two seasons,

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Picard’s “Disengage” in Review

The episode “Disengage” acts as more of a bottle show than the previous installment, with minimum sets but maximum drama. It will likely go down in Star Trek history as

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The High Country book review

The following article contains spoilers for the book under review, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. With the launch of a new television series, tie-in books inevitably

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John Jackson Miller interview, Part 1

With the impending launch of his new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel The High Country, l had the pleasure of interviewing author John Jackson Miller. In Part 1 of

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Prodigy’s “Terror Firma” in Review

The previous episode establishes the stakes: Murder Planet vs. Prodigy Kids. The Prodigy six are stranded on a planet which is actually a sentient being that desires to consume all new life for

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Prodigy’s “Dream Catcher” in Review

Star Trek: Prodigy’s first “captain’s log” voiceover opens this episode. Dal is trying the record log as a concession to Hologram Janeway. The hologram, still training who she naïvely assumes are

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