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The absurdity of the situation is staging a fact-finding inquiry into Data’s personhood several years after his graduation from Starfleet Academy and subsequent assignment to the Enterprise-D as a commissioned officer. Did Starfleet hand out commissions to their equipment? Was there a...

Ahem, would now be a good time to remind people the courtroom drama at the center of “Measure of the Man” — ie one of Trek’s best episodes — doesn’t make any sense, either? (and it totally doesn’t matter)

I'm tempted to put together a list of 1970s films. You've got the first crop of contemporary summer blockbusters like Star Wars and Jaws and a regular Murderer's Row of near-perfect 'little' films like The Conversation and films from great directors at the peak of their careers (Nashville, The...

Why do I suddenly hear Asia's "The Final Countdown"?

Realism. Are you really sure you want it?

Nothing like a subtle and realistic legal procedural episode of Star Trek. Loved it!

So bad at grifting!

I’m finally finishing Butler’s Parable of the Talents, the second Earthseed novel. It’s doing nothing to improve my mood. That whole “Make America Great Again” thing was kinda prescient, eh?

Because in the US it’s on Paramount+ and there too many streaming services for the market to support. I hear Evil is good, but other than that Paramount doesn’t have much outside of a few movies. The sad thing most of these services have legitimately great shows. Apple has several. Heck...

I really want Paramount to license Star Trek out to another service.

The villa is on fire.

I think part of it is very simple: the film industries in Japan and Hong Kong exported a lot of media to the West that was cheap to license and got dumped on syndicated television staring in the (late) 1960s. Speed Racer, Godzilla, Shaw Brothers martial arts movies, etc. That was the beginning...

Is it lazy writing to cast a White Jesus? Inquiring theologians want to know!

It's not a question of the quality of the writing, more of the themes and tone. Discovery, in particular, feels like a product of the contemporary culture of empathy, in the same way the original show was clearly a product of the Cold War era. Being openly emotional is normalized (in the same...

Peacock Plus (or whatever the Hell it’s called) comes with my Comcast package, so I’ve seen the first 3 episodes. As god is my witness, I have no idea what to make of it yet, other than the lead actress is excellent and it kinda reminds me of a 90s cult miniseries called Wild Palms. I’m going...

People younger than the average ENWorld poster. (I still like it, though)

The Orville ends up being an effective homage to both TNG and DS9. To be fair, I don’t think many people saw that coming!

That was delightful. Was it just me, or was there a bit of The Princess Bride in the tone, as well as the obvious MCU influence? And the chunky dragon kinda deserves an Oscar for best comedy in CGI.

I’m rationalizing my inevitable purchase of this later today by reminding myself had I gotten off my tuchus and seen it in a theater that serves liquor as originally planned, it would have cost more than $25.

A bar fight, with Fireball.