As Trekkies, most of us would probably agree that there are two aspects of our favorite franchise that set it apart in the world of science fiction. The first is Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic vision of the future. And the…
Two women of color, two hundred years from now, walking across the surface of another planet: when the first trailer for Star Trek: Discovery aired, it painted an image of a future. That image inspired furious online hate, salaciously quoted…
Our whole crew discusses the second half of of the first season of Star Trek: Discovery – both the positive and the problematic. And we speculate just a little bit about Season 2. For our episode on Part 1 of…
From the Publisher: It is 2246, ten years prior to the “Battle at the Binary Stars,” and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it…
Over the past six weeks our crew has been eating up Star Trek: Discovery, and many of you have been following along with Andi’s amazing episode recaps, featuring sassy GIFs by Aaron Reynolds, a.k.a. @swear_trek. But for those of you…
“You judge the creature by its appearance, and by one single incident from its past. Nothing in its biology suggests it would attack, except in self defense. Commander, the creature is an unknown alien. It can only be what it…
“Why are we fighting? We’re Starfleet. We’re explorers, not soldiers.” -Ensign Connor ‘Battle at the Binary Stars’ picks up right where ‘The Vulcan Hello’ left off, with the Klingons surrounding a very lonely looking USS Shenzhou, while the crew is…
Hello, First Time Trek here! When Star Trek: Discovery was first announced I had a lot of people asking me if I was planning on live-tweeting it. Which is a valid question considering I Kool-Aid-manned into the Star Trek fandom…