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Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Impossible Box’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard… In forty minutes of television Picard pilfers classic literature, employs franchise iconography and greases the dramatic wheels with style. Weaving in film homage, touching on past traumas and introducing emotional conflict ‘The Impossible Box’ proves a benchmark episode. Balancing Next Generation film franchise cameos, fan […]

Promo images for Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 6 – ‘The Impossible Box’

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CBS has released a batch of promo images for the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard season 1, entitled ‘The Impossible Box’; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Stardust City Rag’ Picard and the crew track Soji to the Borg cube in Romulan space, resurfacing haunting […]

SDCC: IDW announces landmark Star Trek issue and new miniseries Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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Following the SDCC launch of its epic crossover Star Trek/Green Lantern [read our review here and see a preview here], IDW Publishing has announced two new Star Trek comic book projects for this year, beginning with Star Trek #50 – a special anniversary issue from writer Mike Johnson and artist Tony Shasteen which kicks off […]

Comic Book Preview – Star Trek: Year Five #10

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IDW Publishing releases Star Trek: Year Five #10 this Wednesday, and you can check out a preview of the issue right here; take a look… With Captain Kirk still incapactiated, Spock finds himself trapped between a planet quickly spinning into chaos and a crew at each other’s throats. The end of the original mission is […]

Promo images for Star Trek Picard Season 1 Episode 5 – ‘Stardust City Rag’

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CBS has released eight promo images for tomorrow’s fifth episode of Star Trek: Picard season 1, entitled ‘Stardust City Rag’; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Absolute Candor’ The La Sirena crew begins an unpredictable and lively expedition on Freecloud to search for Bruce Maddox. When […]

Star Trek: Voyager 25th Anniversary Special – Review

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Voyager – 25th Anniversary Special… Is it better to say Star Trek: Voyager is now twenty-five years old or that it’s a quarter of a century old?  What would make us feel a lot less older? Captain Janeway and her crew, aboard the USS Voyager, were flung into the Delta Quadrant […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Absolute Candor’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard… For the first time since Picard premiered things have slowed down. Not so much lacking momentum as treading water, in episode four we are treated to further back story which offers insight rather than progress. Flashbacks are employed to supply context, introduce specific belief systems […]

Promo images for Picard Season 1 Episode 4 – ‘Absolute Candor’

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CBS has released a batch of promo images for tomorrow’s fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard season 1, entitled ‘Absolute Candor’; take a look here… The crew’s journey to Freecloud takes a detour when Picard orders a stop at the planet Vashti, where Picard and Raffi relocated Romulan refugees 14 years earlier. Upon arrival, Picard […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Year Five: Valentine’s Day Special

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Year Five: Valentine’s Day Special… The idea of bringing together Valentine’s Day and Star Trek may, like myself, fill you instantly with sickening dread.  When Star Trek: Year Five: Valentine’s Day Special was dropped through my virtual letterbox, with a love heart in the top left corner of the cover and both […]