Brand new podcast appearance. In the latest episode of Make It So: A Star Trek Picard podcast, I joined host Luke Winch to discuss the most recent Picard tie-in book, The Dark Veil, from James Swallow, which I recently reviewed. This was a really...
All things being equal, the second season of Star Trek: Picard would likely have been airing at the start of 2021, allowing the second tie-in novel The Dark Veil to align with its parent show. Luckily, James Swallow’s tale does not rely too heavily...
Star Trek: Discovery’s third season is both a step forward and, in many ways, a step back for the new era of the Star Trek franchise. Buoyed by the ending of a second season that sent the crew of the Discovery far past the point of any canonical...
As Star Wars and Marvel announce their future plans, A. J. Black discusses the phenomenon of milking the biggest franchises in the world for all they’re worth… Franchise cinema, let’s be honest, can be thrilling. It can transform movie...
Come the end of Star Trek: Discovery’s much anticipated third season premiere, That Hope Is You, I was left wondering if the title referred to protagonist Michael Burnham in more ways than one. As premieres go, this one takes a calculated gamble. In...
Conventional wisdom, ever since the very first Star Trek series in the 1960s, suggests that new shows take three seasons to find themselves. Lower Decks is now the first new Star Trek show to bust that myth. The Next Generation only stopped trying...
Though we may have entered a second possible ‘golden age’ for Star Trek on television, the same cannot be said for the iconic franchise at the movies. Forbes writer and movie critic Scott Mendelson, in a recent article, decried that Paramount’s...
This piece contains spoilers for Season 1 of Star Trek: Picard… How quickly we forget the past. A sentiment deep rooted in the conceptual framework of Star Trek: Picard and, more broadly, how Star Trek fans approach their own franchise...
As Star Trek: Picard begins, with the return of The Next Generation era, I’m going to take a scene by scene look back in the next couple of months about the tenth Star Trek film, Stuart Baird’s Nemesis, from 2002… For such a relentlessly dark film...
As Star Trek: Picard begins, with the return of The Next Generation era, I’m going to take a scene by scene look back in the next couple of months about the tenth Star Trek film, Stuart Baird’s Nemesis, from 2002… The so-called Battle of the Bassen...