LOWER DECKS: SEASON 2, EPISODE 8 This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks, a Starfleet Drill Instructor with ulterior motives arrives on the Cerritos to test the crew. The Lower Deckers and the senior staff switch roles and as one might expect, things don’t go as they all hoped. The Borg, the Mirror Universe, and…
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A review of Lower Decks’ “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” In this episode Aaron and Jessie revieweth “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.” This showeth has’t all, evil computers, Ren faire runneth space ships and Star Trek legend Jeff’ry Combs! So, grabeth a torch and thy most wondrous medieval garb and joineth us on the adventure! And we…
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Three Black Women Who Speak Truth to Power The SyFy Sistas look at the special relationship Captain Jean-Luc Picard maintains with three amazing Black women; Guinan, the El-Aurian bartender from his days on the Enterprise-D, Lily Sloane from his temporal incursion in the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996), and Raffaela (Raffi) Musiker, XO during…
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Surely anomaly consolidation day is better than having to deal with eight hours of Zoom meetings, right? It’s hard to believe that we’re more than halfway through season 2 of Lower Decks! This week, we chat about “The Spy Humongous,” which we feel isn’t too bad of an episode (but not the best either). Things…
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A Review of Lower Decks’ The Spy Humongous In this episode Aaron and Jessie review The Spy Humongous; They examine how you can subvert classic sitcom tropes, the importance of a makeover, and revel in the call back to Armus, the skin of evil…well maybe not as evil as a hot taffy, honey, shrimp, soda,…
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TNG: SEASON 1, EPISODE 24 In this episode, the Enterprise starts to experience strange repeats in time, leading them to a scientist who is married to Picard’s ex. Matthew and Ruthie discuss their relationship to regret, the challenge of making choices, and the feeling of being trapped between multiple dimensions. Main Cover art by Nathan…
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LOWER DECKS: SEASON 2, EPISODE 7 This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks, it turns out that Chief Engineer Billups is actually a prince and is next in line to become ruler of his people! And he is a virgin. And he doesn’t want the job. Who would have thought?? He and Rutherford go over…
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A review of Lower Decks’ An Embarrassment of Dooplers This week Infinite Trek’s Brandi Jackola joins the Drawn to Trek team to review and An Embarrassment of Dooplers! We discuss reasons why the Dooplers may have evolved to duplicate, why there are corrupt security officers on Starbase 25 and we return to difference between the…
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A review of Lower Decks’ Mugato, Gumato You say Mugato I say Gumato! You say Or-ee-on, I say Orion!Mugato, Gumato, Or-ee-on, Orion! Let’s call the whole thing…not really our favorite episode, but we’re still having fun! This week Aaron and Jessie review Mugato, Gumato an episode with some fun parts, some gross parts and some…
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Plagues, ills, viruses, and diseases in the Star Trek Universe PoliTreks closes out the discussion on diseases in Star Trek with guest host Che. They discuss the DS9 episodes Babel, Quickening, the Enterprise episode Stigma, and the Voyager episode Scientific Method. What did you think of this episode? Please let us know about your thoughts…
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