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Preview of Star Trek: Boldly Go #17

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IDW Publishing releases Star Trek: Boldly Go #17 on Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… “I.D.I.C.” Part 5 of 6! It’s the penultimate chapter of “I.D.I.C.,” the blockbuster Star Trek comics event! Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations has introduced us to myriad versions of the beloved Enterprise […]

Star Trek: The Next Generation goes Through the Mirror this May

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IDW Publishing has announced the upcoming launch of the five-part weekly event series Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror from writers Scott and David Tipton and artists Chris Johnson and J.K. Woodward, which sees the Mirror Universe crew of the Enterprise-D infiltrating Captain Picard’s ship and going head-to-head with their Prime Universe counterparts. […]

Star Trek: Discovery producers discuss the season finale ending and what it means going forward

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Warning: Spoilers for the end of Star Trek: Discovery’s season finale follow… The first season of CBS All Access and Netflix’s Star Trek: Discovery came to an end this week, and the closing moments of the season finale featured a very notable appearance, raising anticipation for what’s to come in season two in 2019. If […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 15 Review – ‘Will You Take My Hand?’

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Alex Moreland reviews Star Trek: Discovery’s season finale… There are no second chances. It’s a simple, understated episode – more of a quiet epilogue than the climactic finale we might have expected. Certainly, it subverts expectations; there’s no explicit mutiny, no restaging of Burnham’s revolt. Indeed, time and time again Discovery opts for more subdued […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Battle Without, and the Battle Within’

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Alex Moreland reviews the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery… “I think the only way we can stop ourselves from becoming like them is to understand the darkness within us and fight it.” It’s worth a word on the title, I think. What it refers to, largely, is obvious. The first part, “The Battle Without”, […]

Preview of Star Trek: New Visions: Isolation

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John Byrne’s Star Trek: New Visions: Isolation is out this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here courtesy of IDW Publishing; check it out… Captain Kirk has found himself all alone on the Enterprise before—but what happens when each individual member of the crew finds themselves in […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 13 Review – ‘What’s Past is Prologue’

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Alex Moreland reviews the thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery season one… “Your lack of vision continues to disappoint me.” In the AV Club’s review of this week’s Star Trek: Discovery, there’s some discussion about what exactly the show is actually about. Certainly, the show doesn’t quite have the same clear premise as its predecessors; […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Wolf Inside’

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Alex Moreland reviews the eleventh episode of  Star Trek: Discovery… Can you hide your heart? Can you bury your decency? Can you continue to pretend to be one of them? Even as, little by little, it kills the person you really are. It’s something that I touched on briefly in my review of last week’s […]

Star Trek: Discovery Series 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Despite Yourself’

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Alex Moreland reviews the midseason premiere of Star Trek: Discovery… Decency is weakness and will get us killed and the lives of everyone on this ship and the Federation are at stake. So you do what you must, whatever you must, to anyone. And so, after a short break, we’re back again. To recap: after […]