“Get a crew to believe in miracles and they might just give you one.” -Captain Christopher Pike Previously on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – We learned some of La’an Noonien-Singh’s backstory. She was captured by the Gorn at a…
“I am arming us with knowledge.” – Spock This week’s “previously on” we’re reminded of La’an (Christina Chong), shown in flashback, introducing herself to the Captain as merely “La’an Noonien” which is not how it happened. The show very much…
“Just because you receive a message from the future, doesn’t mean you understand it.” – Una Chin-Riley The Enterprise is in the Persephone system so the crew can study an ancient comet, one that’s traveling awfully close to a planet…
“First Contact is just a dream – until one day, it isn’t.” – Una Chin-Riley It’s finally time and I can barely contain my excitement. Here goes… We begin with an alarm blaring in what seems to be a military…
As the gang tries to figure out the “Two Renees” prophecy, Picard (Patrick Stewart) clearly has an epiphany but Tallinn (Orla Brady) tells him “later” and beams them to her place. Tallinn gives them tricorder-ish devices to try to track…
Content note: Suicide mention. Queen Agnes has an army and she’s coming for Picard! She remotely activates La Sirena’s transporter and beams them to the ship. Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Teresa (Sol Rodriguez), and Ricardo (Steve Gutierrez) run for it while…
For a show that presents such an optimistic vision of the future, there sure are a lot of penal colonies in Star Trek. Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes prisons as a “spatial solution to socio-economic problems” – that is, rather…
Where we left off: Queen Agnes (Alison Pill) is on the loose, Kore (Isa Briones) knows that she’s an experiment, Q (John de Lancie) is dangerously unbalanced and unsummonable, and Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) have just been…