Voyager not only broke the mold of previous series of Star Trek for introducing the first woman captain as a lead, but had several important female friendships throughout the series – Captain Janeway and B’Elanna Torres, who bonded over their…
At the end of Ace Week, guest Anna Kelly of Lambda Quadrant joins us to talk about asexual and aromantic spectrum identities and experiences, how they’re reflected in media (or not), and the Star Trek characters often interpreted as aspec.…
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…
Michael Burnham was the first human to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. Uhura was the only Black woman on the Bridge of the Enterprise. Worf was the first Klingon and Nog the first Ferengi to serve in Starfleet. Many marginalized…
We last saw Picard (Patrick Stewart) unconscious on the clinic table. Now we see him in a tux, on a spaceship, with a fiery sun burning outside. He’s being psychoanalyzed by an exasperated counselor (James Callis), who asks him to…
The episode opens with Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) on the ground, bleeding from the mouth. 34 minutes earlier Picard and Tallinn (Orla Brady) are waiting in the security line for the gala looking absolutely gorgeous. He clearly keeps seeing Laris…
It’s a Jonathan Frakes-directed episode! Only 41 minutes though, boo. The pre-credits scene bounces back and forth between an astronaut in distress, and Picard (Patrick Stewart) getting to know not-Laris (Orla Brady), AKA The Supervisor AKA Tallinn. While the astronaut…