Friday, February 24, 2023

Picard, Season 3: Disengage

 Picard, Season 3
"Disengage"
Aired: February 23, 2023
22 of 30 produced
22 of 30 released

Introduction

The Final Frontier gets a lot dumber and far more graphically violent.

 Timepieces used to contain a metal spring that slowly unwound.... SCOTT!!!!!

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Enterprise, Season 4: Daedelus

Enterprise, Season 4
"Daedelus"
Airdate: January 14, 2005
85 of 97 produced
85 of 97 aired

Introduction

Enterprise is visited by preeminent transporter physicist and inventor Emory Erickson, who wishes to test a radical new transport technology. Or does he?

 

  The.... script.... just won't... materialize!

 

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Enterprise, Season 4: Kir'Shara

Enterprise, Season 4
"Kir'Shara"
Airdate: December 3, 2004
84 of 97 produced
84 of 97 aired

Introduction

Archer races to deliver the Kir'Shara to the Vulcan capital before the High Command starts a war against Andoria.

 

Wait, wait, let me just adjust the brightness and turn off motion smoothing...

 

 

Friday, February 17, 2023

Picard, Season 3: The Next Generation

Picard, Season 3
"The Next Generation"
Aired: February 16, 2023
21 of 30 produced
21 of 30 released

Introduction

Well, here we go again, God willing for the last time. Picard receives a distress call one day before retirement from an old flame, Doctor Beverly Crusher.

Pictured: The best thing in the episode.


Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Picard Season 2 Bitch Session

Against the advice and best efforts of those who care for me, I have finished Picard Season 2 in advance of the new incoming insult season in the next few weeks. I had previously been able to slog my way, over the course of several months, up to the beginning of episode 7. So I was already reasonably aware of the season's deficiencies as a story. On the one hand, it started faster than Season 1, in that the first two episodes introduced a fascist alternate universe that was actually reasonably interesting. Then, when they reached 2024, things bogged down and got both boring and infuriating very quickly.

The show is even more incomprehensible than the poster!


Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Enterprise, Season 4: Awakening

Enterprise, Season 4
"Awakening"
Airdate: November 26, 2004
83 of 97 produced
83 of 97 aired

Introduction

Archer must deal with the alien presence within his mind, and search a long lost Vulcan artifact in the midst of an aerial bombardment.

Turn around, bright eyes!
 

 

 

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Enterprise, Season 4: The Forge

Enterprise, Season 4
"The Forge"
Airdate: November 19, 2004
82 of 97 produced
82 of 97 aired

Introduction

An attack on the Earth Embassy on Vulcan precipitates a search for a mysterious sect of Vulcan dissidents by the Enterprise.


Vulcan, pictured 5 years before it gained a moon in 2009.