Star Trek Reviews
Star Trek Reviews
News Star Trek 60th Anniversary A Gorn Head, Kirk's Tunic and 60 Years of Star Trek
Ben Stiller hosted William Shatner on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con for Star Trek's 60th anniversary. The Enemy Within, Arena, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Wrath of Khan, and a Gorn head from Stiller's own collection.
October 10, 2026 →
News Star Trek: Starfleet Academy March 2027, Bill Nighy, and a Sophomore Year
I was in the Empire Stage for the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Starfleet Academy season two has a date, two new guest stars, a new cadet and a theme. Here's everything they said.
October 10, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Original Series Finally Got Its Finale
Two Uhuras, a time ripple, and a bridge that has already been struck. The season 4 finale is not the show finally becoming serious. It is All Good Things, built for the one ship that never got an ending.
September 24, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gimmick Episode Is the Real Star Trek
Everybody spent the season calling these episodes gimmicks. Go count the original series. The fantastical hour is not the detour, it is the spine, and this one gets spent on the only person on that bridge whose ending nobody has written.
September 18, 2026 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Two Weeks of Handing Somebody Else the Check
I almost turned off episode 7, and then a man opened a cookbook in a bar. Two hours, two weeks, one move: the show keeps running up a bill and sliding it to somebody else.
September 15, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Night Scotty Became Scotty
A bottle episode that reaches back forty-two years to build Montgomery Scott, and then puts him in the B slot. A craft read on Strange New Worlds season 4.
August 27, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Puppet Episode Is the Most Important Hour of This Era
Six months of build, a hired puppeteer crew, and a standing set that still had to shoot every other week. Everyone is arguing about whether SNW should have done the puppet episode. The better question is why anybody would bother.
August 20, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Hangover in Space Has an Empty Chair Problem
The jokes land, Foley's great, Pike's tattoo is a gift, so why does SNW's comedy episode still feel like it's wrestling the show it lives in? A craft read on season 4, episode 3.
August 6, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Scary vs. Empty Is the Wrong Fight
Star Trek handed an episode to a real horror director and got out of her way. A craft read on season 4, episode 2, from a reviewer who does not do horror and got got anyway.
July 30, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Retcon Is Not the Point, the Translator Is
The biggest canon swing in 60 years of Star Trek might be the least interesting thing in this episode. A craft read on the season 4 premiere, the widower scene, and why the tonal chaos critique doesn't hold.
July 23, 2026 →
Reacts Star Trek: Strange New Worlds When a Season Starts Looking Like an Audition Tape
Pike, Spock, Kirk, a release date, ten episodes: this should be modern Trek's easy win. So why does the season 4 marketing feel like it's selling a future nobody has actually ordered?
June 24, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Why Moving One Episode Would Have Transformed the Whole Season
The better version of Starfleet Academy was already in there. Move the episode 9 rupture to episode 3 and five other systems start working almost automatically.
March 23, 2026 →
4/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Rubicon Exposes a Season Built on Borrowed Weight
The season one finale is all payoff with nothing underneath it, and once you ask what the payoff is paying off, the whole season's structure gives way.
March 16, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Emotional Checks This Season Never Wrote
The penultimate episode finally works in one storyline, and the moment it does, you can see exactly why so much of the rest of the season hasn't. A structural read on "300th Night."
March 7, 2026 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Season's Most Frustrating Almost
The best episode of the season so far hangs its entire emotional weight on the Doctor, and it still can't decide whether it earned that weight or borrowed it from Voyager.
February 27, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starfleet Academy Debate: Kirk Cheated a Test, Genesis Broke Starfleet, and Why That Matters
Genesis is not young Kirk all over again. One of them changed the rules of a simulation. The other falsified her way into the Academy and powered up a warp core to cover it. Those are not the same category of action.
February 24, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Command Rot and the Leadership Test the Show Refused to Take
A cadet commits fraud inside Starfleet's command pipeline, a prince walks away from a throne, and somehow none of it is allowed to land. A breakdown of the hour where the show blinked.
February 21, 2026 →
9.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Furies Bring Real Stakes and the Show Finally Becomes Star Trek
A competent enemy, clear geography, earned sacrifice, and real cost. After five weeks of critique, this is the episode that made me stop reviewing and start watching.
February 13, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Average Is Worse Than Bad
An episode built on Sisko's legacy left me feeling oddly empty, and the reason exposes how this show behaves when it gets uncomfortable.
February 6, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Legacy Klingons Can't Carry the Weight This Show Refuses to Hold
Vox in Excelso is the strongest episode of the season, and that's exactly the problem. A production audit of how Starfleet Academy references Klingon weight without ever carrying it.
January 31, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Why Season 4 Must Choose Between Science Fiction and Performing Star Trek
A pre-flight check on three seasons of Strange New Worlds, one standard for judging every episode, and the question of whether the show can still carry the torch.
January 26, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is This Show Fixing or Failing Trek?
Salty Trekker, Danny Dorknight and Lore joined me to fight about episode 3. We agreed the plant was the most Star Trek thing the show has done, and then spent the rest of the night arguing about whether anything in it was earned.
January 24, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Right Lesson, Solved Way Too Fast
Episode 3 finally reaches for a real Star Trek solution and lets the cadets solve their own problem. Then it sprints past the discomfort that would have made the solution mean something.
January 22, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Overproduction Smothers the Story
I waited a day before recording, because I finished the premiere knowing something wasn't lining up and I didn't trust myself yet to say what it was. It turned out I wasn't reacting to the story. I was reacting to the way the show puts itself together.
January 16, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Really Good Ending to a Really Rough Season
"New Life and New Civilizations" brings the Vezda back, closes a pile of dangling threads, and writes a main character out with a lifetime in minutes. The gamble mostly pays off, even if the season around it didn't.
September 13, 2025 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Passable, But Definitely Derivative
Season 3 keeps going back to the well of the original series, and Terrarium is the clearest example yet. A functional episode built on a tired trope, executed better elsewhere.
September 4, 2025 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Absurd Episode This Show Has Aired
Four crew members go full Vulcan overnight and the crisis is solved in ten minutes flat. A review with two scores, because the critic and the fan did not walk out of this one agreeing.
August 30, 2025 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Answer Is Fine, The Question Is the Problem
SNW builds an entire episode out of an in-universe documentary, and it mostly works. Then one very modern word falls out of a 23rd century mouth and knocks the whole thing sideways.
August 21, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Kirk Sits in the Chair and Starts to Belong There
The Enterprise gets swallowed whole, Kirk gets the captain's seat on the Farragut, and the show does for him what it's already done for Scotty, Spock and Uhura. A first-blush review of the hour where he starts to earn the chair.
August 14, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Classic Star Trek Hour in a Long Time
A dead civilization, an ancient temple, and one bright-eyed ensign who looks into a glowing orb. This is the first Strange New Worlds in a long time that felt like a TOS episode, and it earns an 8 out of 10.
August 9, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 4 Review: The Holodeck Is an Anachronism and the Writing Got Lazy
A fun murder mystery with the greatest Shatner impression ever, built on a holodeck that looks exactly like the one from The Next Generation and breaks down the exact same way. That's the problem.
July 31, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Saved Her Life and Didn't Trust Her Choice
Pike and M'Benga fly into forbidden Klingon space for a flower, and what they find is moss zombies, a Klingon with a grudge, and a knife duel on a roof. Top tier Trek horror that ends on a betrayal dressed as love.
July 26, 2025 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Premiere Review: A Perfect Part Two and the Most Original Series Hour Yet
Hegemony, Part II drops you right back into the Gorn fight and resolves it the way a Star Trek two-parter is supposed to. Then Wedding Bell Blues turns 180 degrees into a Trelane wedding comedy cut straight from the original series template.
July 19, 2025 →
4/10 Reviews Star Trek: Section 31 Section 31 Review: It Tells You a Story and Never Shows It to You
There are so many things wrong with Section 31, and none of them are what everybody else has a problem with. I saw the vision in the first thirty minutes. It's just bad storytelling.
January 26, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Series Finale Review: One Perfect Ending and One Big Mistake
The Lower Decks series finale stuck the landing hard. Ransom gets the chair, Boimler and Mariner share a job, Starbase 80 finally matters, and the only thing I'd take back is Rutherford's eye.
January 13, 2025 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Evil Harry Kim, Curzon Dax, and a Boimler Who Hates the Multiverse
Two episodes in one sitting. Upper Decks follows the senior staff through one overbooked day, and the penultimate episode fills a Section 31 ship with cameos and lets a Boimler say what we all think about the multiverse.
December 19, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Shape War, a Floppy Lightning Bolt, and Boimler Cussing at Dr. T'Ana
Starfleet mediates between a race of glowing circles and a race of glowing cubes, Zeus's granddaughter joins the crew on her sixth ship, and Boimler tries to earn a nickname the hard way.
November 21, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Starbase 80 Review: The Zombie Episode That Should've Aired on Halloween
The Cerritos limps into the one starbase Mariner is terrified of, and the crew starts turning into space zombies. It's the most fun Lower Decks has had so far, and it's a solid 8.
November 14, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Farewell to Farms Is the Best Klingon Episode Yet
A Farewell to Farms pushes the main cast into the back seat and spends its time on Klingon ritual, bloodwine and a planet of food critics. It's probably the better episode of the season.
November 8, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Giant D20, a Runaway Admiral, and Mariner's Weird Breakup
Mariner broke up with Jennifer by walking past her in a bar, Boimler gets scared out of his mind by a man with no hands, and a nanite blob turns into a rolling D20. An 8 out of 10.
October 31, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 5 Premiere Review: Captain Mariner, Blue Orions, and a Lassoed Comet
The final season opens with two episodes that play as two halves of one story. The Cerritos meets a version of itself where Mariner is the captain, and Tendi has to race for her family's entire fortune.
October 24, 2024 →
News Star Trek: Discovery Doug Jones Wasn't Prepared to Be Fearless
Day one of Star Trek Nashville put David Ajala, Doug Jones and Elias Toufexis on one stage for the Discovery panel. Grudge stories, an animation pitch, and the best answer of the day.
September 13, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Season 2 Review: A Love Letter to Voyager, and Everything We Love About Star Trek
I watched all 20 episodes and I'm floored. Prodigy season 2 ties itself into the 25th century, brings back Janeway, Chakotay, the Doctor and Wesley Crusher, and never once forgets to be Star Trek.
July 9, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 1 Premiere Review: I Was Watching It Wrong
I went back to The Vulcan Hello and Battle at the Binary Stars with the eyes I found at the end of season 4. It's Michael Burnham's story, period, and once I stopped asking it to be classic Star Trek, the premiere worked.
June 7, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Series Finale Review: All the Trappings of a Star Trek Ending, None of the Earning
Life, Itself gives Discovery a wedding, a time jump, an admiral and one last mission. I loved the ending, and it still didn't feel earned. The longest running Star Trek series with the fewest episodes ran out of time.
May 30, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 9 Review: Lagrange Point Ends on the Cliffhanger It Needed
Lagrange Point is wall to wall events, with tension so high I caught myself asking what was going on. Burnham being the hero doesn't bother me, the crew trusting Rayner this fast does, and the ending sets up the series finale.
May 23, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 8 Review: Labyrinths Is So Good It Frustrates Me
Burnham gets pulled into her own mind, the Breen show up to the archive making threats, and Labyrinths turns out to be the episode I wish this season had gotten to sooner.
May 16, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 7 Review: Erigah Gets the Show Back on Track
Erigah drags the Breen into the Progenitor chase in a big, bad way, kills off L'ak, and gets Star Trek: Discovery back to the story it's actually telling. Full breakdown and the Know-It-All Index.
May 9, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 6 Review: Whistlespeak's B Plot Is the Better Episode
Whistlespeak is the Prime Directive episode, and it comes with a literal foot race. The A plot is the least interesting thing about it. Burnham's conversation about faith and Dr. Culber's storyline are what save it.
May 2, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Episode 5 Review: Mirrors Finds the ISS Enterprise, and the Plot Starts to Plot
Discovery's fifth episode of the season puts Burnham and Book aboard the ISS Enterprise, hands Moll and L'ak a backstory, and gets a little sloppy on the way to the next clue.
April 25, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery "Face the Strange" Review: A Filler Episode All Day, and That's Not Bad
Discovery season 5 stops its chase for a time travel episode and a bottle episode in the same hour. It's filler, it feels lumped in, and it still kept me engaged the whole way through.
April 18, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Jinaal Review: The Filler Episode That Earns Its Keep
Season 5, episode 3 slows the chase down to lay groundwork on Trill, and one passing line about the Dominion War does more for this world than a graphic ever could. A solid 8.
April 11, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Premiere Review: The Ultimate Callback Is a Space Treasure Hunt
Red Directive and Under the Twin Moons open the final season of Star Trek: Discovery with a hull-surfing chase, the return of Book, and a callback straight out of The Next Generation. The adventure wastes no time.
April 4, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Full Retrospective: A Novel in Chapters, and I Just Now Got It
A season of Star Trek: Discovery is what we used to call a two-part episode, and it took me four seasons to see it. I went back through season 4 with new eyes, and here's what the show, its characters and its legacy look like now.
April 3, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek Shinzon vs Nero, and Why Nero Wins It Two Rounds to One
Shinzon from Star Trek Nemesis against Nero from the 2009 Star Trek, in three rounds. Shinzon's the better mind, Nero's the stronger fighter, and the Narada settles it.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Why Cartwright's Betrayal Takes the Cake
Stefan Ritter asked which of Star Trek's corrupt admirals is my favorite, and why. There's a long shelf to pick from, and my answer goes back to Star Trek IV.
March 5, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek Sci-Fi or Physics Reality?
Physics on Quora asked whether warp speed is possible, how you'd build the ship, and what would go wrong for the crew. By today's standards, no. By tomorrow's, maybe, and the deflector dish is where the trouble starts.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek: Voyager Voyager and B'Elanna Torres: She Was Exactly What She Needed to Be
A viewer asks whether B'Elanna Torres was too Klingon and should have been used to show Latin culture instead. Mr. Know-It-All, who is Puerto Rican and spent years with a Klingon persona, disagrees.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Scotty Wrote the Book O'Brien and Torres Followed
A top three of Starfleet engineers, ranked by who had to do the most with the least. Miles O'Brien at three, B'Elanna Torres at two, and Scotty at number one, with an honorable mention for Geordi La Forge.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Shinzon vs. Nero, and Why Scotty Is Still the Best Engineer
The first Know-It-All Files takes your Star Trek questions: the best corrupt admiral, the top three engineers, whether warp speed is possible, B'Elanna Torres, and a death match where Nero takes Shinzon two rounds to one.
March 4, 2024 →
News Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Cleans Up at the Astras, and Shatner Wants to Know Where Kirk Went
Picard season three cleaned up at the Astra Awards, Terry Matalas won for writing, and Jeri Ryan won too. If that doesn't scream Star Trek: Legacy, nothing does. Plus William Shatner, Paramount+, and a captain missing from the picture.
January 10, 2024 →
8.0/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks "Old Friends, New Planets" Review: A Paywall on a Genesis Device and a Planet Named Locarno
The season 4 finale brings back Nick Locarno, Sito and Wil Wheaton, borrows its nebula from Wrath of Khan, and ends with the Ferengi charging two bars of latinum to disarm a bomb.
November 2, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: The Inner Fight Finally Explains Why Mariner Won't Take the Promotion
The penultimate episode of season four reaches back to two Next Generation episodes, brings back Nick Locarno, and gives Mariner the one reason she's never wanted to be more than an ensign.
October 26, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Caves Review: A Bottle Episode Where Every Planet Has the Same Cave
Season 4 Episode 8 traps the lower deckers in a cave with carnivorous moss and makes them trade cave stories to get out. It's a bottle episode, a joke about Paramount's old cave set, and a callback to the very first episode.
October 19, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 7 Review: A Few Badgeys More Is the One I Finally Liked
Season 4 has been a little lackluster. Then Badgey splits himself into three, Peanut Hamper turns out to mean her parole speech, and AGIMUS finally gives up what's happening to those ships.
October 12, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 6 Review: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place Is All Subplots
Rom is Grand Nagus, the Ferengi built a Dominion War memorial to lost profits, and there's no main plot holding any of it together. A fun episode in a season that's taking its time.
October 5, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 5 Review: Empathological Fallacies Gives Lady Spock Her Episode
T'Lyn saved her last ship by trusting her instincts and got punished for it. Empathological Fallacies puts her at the center, and it's a real improvement on last week.
September 28, 2023 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation The Next Generation Encounter at Farpoint Review: The Pilot, Reviewed Like It's 1987
Thirty-six years to the day after Encounter at Farpoint aired, I reviewed the Next Generation pilot the way I would've at eight years old. Then I gave it the score it earns today.
September 28, 2023 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks 'Something Borrowed, Something Green' Review: Orion Is the Bright Spot, the B Plot Is the Slump
Tendi goes home to Orion for a wedding and the show finally digs into her family. Back on the Cerritos, two guys dress up as Mark Twain and an alien eats a bonsai tree. I gave it a six.
September 21, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 3 Review: In the Cradle of Vexilon Sells You Boimler and Hands You Three Stories
Boimler leads his first away mission, Captain Freeman reboots a computer that hasn't had an update in six million years, and the new lieutenants get stuck scanning isolinear chips. A fun one, and an 8 from both of us.
September 14, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Premiere Review: Twovix, a Bone-Eating Moopsy, and the Same Gags Four Seasons In
Two episodes to open season four. A walk down Voyager memory lane, promotions for almost everybody, and a cute little creature that will suck the bones right out of you. Two episodes, two numbers.
September 7, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Recap: Psychic Landmines, Section 31, and a Fleet of Texas Class Ships Gone Wrong
All ten episodes of Lower Decks season three in one sitting, from Captain Freeman's trial to the Texas class fleet turning on Starfleet. Everything you need before season four.
September 5, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Pike, Riker and a Deep Space Nine Convert
It's Mrs. Know-It-All's first Star Trek Day, so we sat down with the questions I'd been posting all day. Who takes command, which Enterprise wore it best, who's your doctor, and how one tribble double feature got her hooked on Deep Space Nine.
August 25, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds They Did the To Be Continued, and It Worked
The season 2 finale ends on the one thing every Star Trek fan remembers hating, a to be continued. The Gorn, the wreck of the Cayuga, a very clever Scotsman, and a cliffhanger that comes in a close second to The Best of Both Worlds.
August 10, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Musical Is Where You Draw the Line?
Everybody came out of the gate calling the musical episode a gimmick. It was fun, it explains itself, it follows its own rules, and it moves every plot on the ship forward.
August 3, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Star Trek Story With No High Road
A Klingon ambassador comes aboard the Enterprise, and M'Benga, Chapel and Ortegas have to sit at dinner with the war they never left. A much darker hour of Star Trek, and it's a good one.
July 27, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Crossover Is Us Meeting Our Heroes
Boimler and Mariner fall out of a cartoon and onto Pike's Enterprise, and the Lower Decks crossover turns out to be the most reverential hour Strange New Worlds has made. A 10 out of 10, and it made me want to rewatch Enterprise.
July 24, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Uhura Works the Case Like an Auditory Sherlock Holmes
Season 2, episode 6 hands the hour to Ensign Uhura and lets her reason her way through a first contact nobody else can hear. A little messy in some bits, but the parts that hit, hit well.
July 20, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Canon Is a Rope, and Spock and Chapel Just Tied a Knot in It
Spock wakes up fully human the day before his Vulcan engagement dinner, and the hour turns into the best look at Vulcan and human culture in years. A respectable 7, and a kiss that doesn't break anything.
July 13, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Goes Back to Rigel VII to Clean Up His Own Mess
Season 2, episode 4 sends Pike back to the planet from "The Cage," takes everybody's memory away, and lets Erica Ortegas remind the whole ship who flies it. Fun, campy, and writing between the lines of the original series.
July 6, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode That Finally Explains the Eugenics Wars
La'an gets thrown into a timeline where Kirk captains the Enterprise for the United Earth Fleet, then into present day Canada, and the show uses the trip to hand us the best explanation yet for why 1992 came and went without Khan.
June 29, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Courtroom Episode We Were Waiting For
The trial of Una Chin-Riley is a dry courtroom hour that plays like a heist, built out of original series design and a civil rights lawyer the galaxy already knows by name.
June 22, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Time-Honored Tradition of Stealing the Enterprise Starts Here
Pike leaves for three days, tells Spock not to break anything, and Spock steals the ship. The season 2 premiere brings back the Klingons, hands Carol Kane a character she can chew on, and points Spock straight at the man he has to become.
June 15, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Objectively Successful? The Record Says Yes
Good is a matter of opinion, so I'm taking it out. Viewership, critical reception, awards, money and representation: on paper, Star Trek: Discovery was a successful show, and I didn't even like the first two seasons.
May 24, 2023 →
News Real Talk Where I've Been, and What's Next
Since the end of Star Trek: Picard Season 3 we've had to move out fast and my day job got liquidated. Here's the whole story, and what's coming to the channel next.
May 20, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 10 Review: The Last Generation Sticks the Landing, Even With a Button I Didn't Need
The Enterprise-D is the cavalry, the Borg are scarier than I thought they could get, and the finale sticks the landing. I didn't need the Enterprise-G rename and I didn't need Q. Season three is still perfect.
April 20, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 9 Review: Vox Is Everything I Didn't Know I Wanted
Vox brings back the Borg, turns Starfleet into the collective, and puts the old crew back on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. I'm a mess, and it's a 10.
April 13, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 8 Review: Surrender Is Everything I've Wanted
Vadic takes the bridge, Data hands Lore every memory he's got, and the whole crew finally sits down at one conference table. Surrender came super close to blowing my socks off.
April 6, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 7 Review: Dominion Leaves the Titan on Its Own
Dominion gives us Captain Tuvok, Vadic's origin, a Picard darker than I've ever seen him, and Geordi finally saying the thing to Data. Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for a birthday review.
March 30, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 6 Review: The Bounty Is the Most Star Trek Episode You'll Ever See
Commodore Geordi La Forge is on deck, the Fleet Museum is a victory lap through Star Trek's history, and Brent Spiner comes back as something brand new. The Bounty fires on all thrusters.
March 23, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 5 Review: Imposters Brings Ro Laren Back and Hands Them the Titan
Imposters opens like a Star Trek movie, brings Ro Laren back for a conversation thirty years in the making, and turns the Titan into a ship on the run. Changelings can pass the blood test now, and nowhere's safe.
March 16, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek Why Q Died, Why Spock Left Vulcan, and Uhura's First Name
Five Star Trek questions pulled off the internet and answered: why an immortal Q dies in Picard, why Vulcan let Spock serve in Starfleet, where Nyota came from, whether Kirk was wrong about Lincoln, and why the Romulans traded away the cloak.
March 9, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 4 Review: No Win Scenario Gives Star Trek Its Competency Back
No Win Scenario puts a bridge crew in a room to workshop a problem, hands Picard the conn, and makes Captain Shaw the MVP. Star Trek's competency is back, and it's a solid 9.
March 9, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Why the Romulans Traded Cloaking Tech for the D7 Class Design
The Romulans handed the Klingons the cloaking device for a few ships, and it looks like a terrible deal until you remember they were stuck at sublight. I wouldn't judge them too harshly for it.
March 9, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek The Most Dangerous Species in Star Trek Is Us
Four Star Trek questions pulled from across the internet: the most dangerous alien species, why away teams don't carry personal shields, whether Klingons are really stronger than humans, and where Section 31 actually sits inside Starfleet.
March 7, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Seventeen Seconds Puts the Dominion on the Bingo Card
Seventeen Seconds plays cat and mouse in a nebula that isn't a nebula, hands the Titan to Riker, and confirms changelings are involved. Who called the Dominion? This guy.
March 2, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 2 Review: Disengage and the Worst Kept Secret in Fandom
Disengage has a captain with an attitude problem, a villain with a very big gun, and a reveal about Crusher's kid that got telegraphed from 100 miles away. Then Picard and Crusher look at each other, and I got hit by acting.
February 23, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Mrs. Know-It-All Puts the Emperor in Charge of the Borg
I said the Borg would wipe out the Star Wars universe and that Order 66 nullified the Force. Mrs. Know-It-All saw the clip and came back with deflector shields, the Death Star, Palpatine, and a Borg theory I hadn't thought of.
February 21, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 1 Review: The Next Generation Comes Home
The Picard season three premiere is a warm, comfy blanket: Beverly with a phaser rifle, an old Enterprise-D combadge chirping in the dark, and a new captain on the Titan who's a jerk all day. An excellent start.
February 16, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Why the Borg Want the Klingons and Wouldn't Touch the Kazon
Six Star Trek questions pulled off the internet and answered: the Borg and the Kazon, what the rest of the crew is doing, the Kelvin timeline against the Mirror Universe, Star Trek Beyond, Bread and Circuses, and how Troi made commander.
January 31, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek Why the Transporter Isn't a Med Bay and Why Shuttlecraft Keep Getting Stolen
Seven of the internet's Star Trek questions, answered. The Ferengi Alliance, transporter cloning, Spock and the Kolinahr, Data as a doctor, the Bird-of-Prey in the bay, The Perfect Mate, and those shuttlecraft.
January 13, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Star Trek Questions on Transwarp, the Hundred Changelings and Majel Barrett
Six Star Trek questions pulled from Quora, Reddit and the comment section. Episode counts, where transwarp went, why we only ever met two of the hundred Changelings, every part Majel Barrett played, the swearing, and whether Data was ever Starfleet's property.
January 10, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Supernova Review: The Season 1 Finale Went Way Off the Mark and Came All the Way Home
I held last week's show so I could talk about Supernova Parts 1 and 2 together. The cavalry shows up, Hologram Janeway lies in true Starfleet fashion, and a Nickelodeon series punches me in the gut.
December 29, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 18 Review: Mindwalk Puts Dal in Admiral Janeway's Body
Mindwalk is the body swap episode, a classic Star Trek trope, and Prodigy handles it in a way that's both original and very, very Star Trek. Dal wakes up as Vice Admiral Janeway, and the warp bubble math is something I'd never seen before.
December 15, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Season 1 Episode 17 Review: Ghost in the Machine Traps the Kids in the Holodeck
Prodigy takes its turn at the classic trapped-in-the-holodeck episode, and uses it to show you who these kids are when they're off the clock. Hologram Janeway turns on them, and I have one complaint about how.
December 8, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 15 Review: Masquerade Takes Star Trek Outside the Federation
Masquerade drops the Protostar crew into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where nobody shares Starfleet's fear of genetic augmentation. Dal finds out what he is, Asencia shows what she is, and Admiral Jellico is back.
December 8, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Preludes Review: The Bottle Episode That Turned on a Dime
Episode 16 looked like a regular bottle episode, and I'm not a fan of those. Then Janeway did the math, stormed into the wrong room, and the whole thing turned.
December 8, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek Denobulans, the Borg vs. Species 10-C, and Whether Gravity Affects Warp
Five Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit. Where the Denobulans went, what the Borg would do with Species 10-C, whether Adam Soong caused the Eugenics Wars, whether you need the original series, and what gravity does to warp drive.
November 29, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek Three Janeways, a Holographic Replicator and Why Utopia Is Star Trek
Five Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit. Captain, hologram and Admiral Janeway, whether a portable holo-emitter could build a working replicator, utopian storytelling, a Seven of Nine show, and my last opening night.
November 22, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 14 Review: Crossroads Is the Payoff
Crossroads finally puts Dal face to face with the real Admiral Janeway, brings back the Outrageous Okona, and feels more connected to Star Trek than anything Prodigy has done so far.
November 17, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek The Borg Only Need to Assimilate One Star Destroyer
The entire Star Trek universe against the entire Star Wars canon universe. I'm not even going to talk about the Federation. The Borg assimilate one Star Destroyer and it's over.
November 17, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek The Universal Translator, the Kelvin Timeline and Whether Lore Was Lying
Seven Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit, answered. How everybody understands each other, why I came around on Janeway, who is to blame for the Kelvin timeline, and what happened to the warp 5 speed limit.
November 15, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 13 Review: All the World's a Stage Asks Who's Really Faking It
The Protostar crew answers a distress signal and finds a planet of people calling themselves Starflight. The whole episode is Dal asking whether his crew is faking it the same way, and it's a solid one.
November 11, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Finale Review: The Stars at Night and the One Time Ejecting the Warp Core Works
The California class gets put on trial, an admiral turns out to be dirty, and Shaxs finally gets to eject the warp core. My co-host and I liked this one a lot.
October 27, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 11 Review: Asylum Turns a Starfleet Welcome Into a Trap
The Protostar crew finally reaches a Starfleet base, gets welcomed with open arms, and the ship they flew in on turns the whole station against them. A 7 out of context, an 8 if you've seen the first ten.
October 27, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 309 Review: Trusted Sources Sends Mariner to Starbase 80
A reporter comes aboard the Cerritos, the captain tries to hide everything, and the one officer who said something good about the ship is the one who gets shipped out. An 8 on the Know-It-All Index.
October 20, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 307 Review: Peanut Hamper Is the Worst, and She Got the Whole Episode
A Mathematically Perfect Redemption leaves the Cerritos behind and follows Peanut Hamper to a planet of bird people, a wedding and a con. It's a weird one, and it still works.
October 6, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 306 Review: Hear All, Trust Nothing Goes Back to Deep Space Nine
The Cerritos docks at Deep Space Nine, Kira and Quark come back with their original voices, Tendi remembers she was raised by pirates, and Mariner solves a room full of panic attacks with a phaser.
September 29, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Room for Growth, Reflections, and Bold Boimler on the Rise
Two episodes in one sitting. Room for Growth sends the lower deckers through the guts of the ship for a room on deck one, and Reflections gives Rutherford's implant a story and lets Boimler flip a table.
September 22, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Mining the Mind's Mines and the Sister Ship Switch That Doesn't Add Up
The Cerritos gets laughed at by its own sister ship for a whole episode, and then the show wants you to believe they were fans the entire time. My co-host and I both land on the same number.
September 8, 2022 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Bold Boimler Says Yes to Being Hunted in The Least Dangerous Game
Season 3, Episode 2 opens on Klingon Dungeons and Dragons, sends Mariner skydiving off a space elevator, and lets Boimler agree to be hunted through the Cerritos. A fun one that does its job.
September 1, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Grounded Puts Boimler on a Raisin Vineyard
Grounded picks up with Captain Freeman arrested for bombing the Pakled homeworld, then spends its time on Earth: a raisin vineyard, Sisko's, Ketracel White hot sauce and a Zefram Cochrane theme park.
August 27, 2022 →
News Star Trek Picard's Enterprises, Lower Decks and a Strange New Worlds Crossover
I watched the whole Star Trek panel out of San Diego Comic Con. The Next Generation cast is back for Picard season three, Lower Decks is crashing Strange New Worlds, and three more Star Trek shows are in development.
July 28, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Balance of Terror With Pike in the Chair
The season 1 finale drops Pike seven years into a future where he dodges the accident, puts him in the captain's chair for Balance of Terror, and shows him what it costs Spock. Kirk showed up, too. I called it.
July 7, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Our Very First Star Trek 10 Out of 10
Episode 9 is a straight horror story with the Gorn, it costs the Enterprise its chief engineer and its chief of security in one hour, and I didn't bump into a single thing I'd change.
June 30, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Magic Entity Episode, Done Right
The Enterprise turns into a bedtime story and only two people aboard know it. A fun fantasy romp with one of the most powerful endings of the season, and one thing I wish it had shown me sooner.
June 23, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Space Pirates, Amok Time and the Glory of Star Trek V
Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for Trek Talk Tuesday. We break down The Serene Squall and Captain Angel, I make her watch Amok Time and Star Trek V, and the comment section corrects me on Long John Silver.
June 22, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where Strange New Worlds Found Its Voice
Pike meets an old flame, a child volunteers to carry a whole planet's suffering, and Mrs. Know-It-All has feelings about it. I couldn't find a flaw in this one.
June 18, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pirates Are Gonna Pirate, and Sybok Is Coming
A humanitarian run to the edge of Federation space turns into a pirate takeover, a fake doctor turns out to be the captain, and the ransom is a name out of Star Trek V. A fun hour, a traditional one, and a 7.
June 17, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where the Show Found Its Own Voice
Pike's past walks onto the Enterprise, a holy child gets plugged into a machine, and Star Trek asks whether a whole society's prosperity is worth one kid's suffering. The first hour where Strange New Worlds really stepped into its own.
June 9, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds 'Spock Amok' Review: The Body Swap a Lesser Show Would Have Milked
Mrs. Know-It-All joins Trek Talk Tuesdays for Spock Amok. The body swap stays secondary, the costumes go up a level, your comments get read live, and we go frame by frame on next week's trailer.
June 9, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Hemmer Earned His Moment, La'an Got Hers Too Quick
Trek Talk Tuesday with Mrs. Know-It-All on the submarine episode: La'an's abrupt shift, Hemmer's top marks for Uhura, the comments, the Spock Amok trailer, and a call about Kirk in the chair.
May 31, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ghosts of Illyria, La'an's Khan Problem and the Gorn on the Way
Your comments on Ghosts of Illyria, worked through one at a time: two kinds of Illyrians, the shuttlecraft nobody thought of, whether tying La'an to Khan makes Star Trek smaller, and the Memento Mori trailer.
May 28, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gorn Set a Trap and Pike Trusted His Ship
The Gorn finally show up, and they never say a word. Episode 4 is a cat and mouse game in a gas cloud, a second straight La'an hour, and one torpedo that got some lazy writing.
May 26, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Number One Is Not Who You Think She Is
A contagion that travels on light takes the Enterprise crew down one by one, and the only person left standing is the one hiding the biggest secret on the ship. A really good hour, and one dummy away from a 9.
May 19, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek I Never Saw the Khan Twist Coming, and It's Still Somebody's First Khan
Trek Talk Tuesdays, two topics. Strange New Worlds is doing character episodes the way early Next Generation did, and the trailer for episode three looks like The Naked Time. Then the anniversary of Star Trek Into Darkness, and why I rolled with a twist I begged the movie not to make.
May 17, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Best of Classic Trek Returns
Episode 2 hands the hour to a cadet who isn't sure she belongs in Starfleet, parks a temple on a comet, and ends on something science can't explain. That's the original series, and I enjoyed the heck out of it.
May 12, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 1 Review: I Was Part of the Crowd Poo-Pooing It
I trashed Star Trek: Discovery sight unseen, then watched season 1 when it was over. With four seasons to look back from, here's where it lands now, by way of Picard season 2 and the Strange New Worlds premiere.
May 10, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Review: I Loved It, and Nothing New Can Take My Star Trek Away
Star Trek: Picard season two is over and I've heard a lot of hate about it. I enjoyed it immensely. Here's where I think the series is going, what turning him into Robo Picard cost, and why everybody onboards somewhere.
May 10, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I Think We're Getting the Gorn
The series premiere gave me chills the second Pike said the words, and the season trailer that ran after it has me calling my shots: the Gorn this year, and Kirk in the chair down the road.
May 10, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Finale Review: They Landed This Particular Bird
I've been worried about how Picard season two was going to land. The finale has rough parts and one very contrived piece of plot, and it still gives Q and Picard the goodbye that thirty years of history earned.
May 5, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finally, the Trek We Deserve
The pilot puts Pike back in the chair with ten years on the clock, shows a planet its own future, and lets three officers sit in a room and debate. It's episodic Star Trek, and I've missed it.
May 5, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 1 Review: We Finally Found Out What Came Next
The Next Generation was my Star Trek, and Nemesis was how we went out. Picard season one is contrived in places and I liked it anyway, from the card game with Data to an ending that wrapped things up a little too neatly.
May 3, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 9 Review: The Borg Queen Changes Tactics, and It's Only Logical
Hide and Seek puts Picard's childhood memories in order, shows what really happened to his mother, and has Jurati talk the Borg Queen out of conquering. Brisk, cohesive, and much better than last week.
April 28, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard 'Mercy' Review: A Good Episode That Can't Find Its Speed
Mercy isn't a bad episode of Star Trek: Picard, but it has trouble finding its speed. Q is fading, Jurati is drinking car batteries, an FBI agent meets his Vulcans, and the last five minutes give you whiplash.
April 21, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Picard's Darkest Secret and the Truth About His Mother
Monsters sends Tallinn into Picard's subconscious to wake him from a coma, and what she finds there is the full memory the season has been flashing back to. A classic Next Generation move, a little neat and a little quick, and I still liked it.
April 14, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Episode 6 Review: Two of One Runs the Europa Heist and Puts Picard Under Soong's Car
Jonathan Frakes directs a flashback hour at the Europa gala. The Borg Queen takes the wheel, Picard talks Renée off the ledge, and Dr. Soong's daughter finds out what she is.
April 7, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 5 Review: "Fly Me to the Moon" Puts the Season Back on Track
Q finds a new target in Dr. Adam Soong, Jurati pays for her deal with the Borg Queen, and Jonathan Frakes directs the hour that gets this season moving again after last week's mess.
March 31, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Watcher Lets the B Plot Take Over
Watcher is a balancing act between Picard hunting for Guinan and a stolen police car tearing through Los Angeles, and the car chase wins. My least favorite episode of the season so far.
March 24, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 3 Review: Agnes Hacks the Borg Queen, and Elnor Doesn't Make It
Assimilation moves so fast it felt like a 30 minute episode. Elnor dies, the Borg Queen takes the ship through a slingshot around the sun, and Agnes Jurati steals from the Queen's own head. Plus my problem with how Star Trek looks at Los Angeles.
March 17, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Penance and the Timeline Q Broke
Penance drops Picard into the year 2400 of a timeline Q has changed, with Romulan slaves in the house and skulls in the trophy room. It's rough for Star Trek, and I liked it a lot.
March 10, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Borg, Q, and a Bold New Voyage
A former Starfleet fan club commander on the Picard season 2 premiere: a Borg Queen who stuns instead of kills, a mission briefing straight out of The Next Generation, and John de Lancie back as Q.
March 3, 2022 →