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Episodes

June 18, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Episode 10 "Life Itself"

It is the end. And the end. And the end! Will Michael find the progenitor's technology? Will Moll be able to bring L'ak back to life? Will Rayner and DISCO be able to hold off the Breen? Will Saru be …

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June 9, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Episode 9 "LaGrange Point"

A race to find the progenitor's tech between Discover and the newly minted Moll's Dreadnaught. DiSCO gets there about a moment before Moll, only to spend a few minutes indulging in wonder get scooped by the Breen. While Michael, Book, …

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June 3, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Episode 8 "Labyrinths"

To the Archive! A beautiful, harry potter-esque, castle-in-the-sky full of books and things. There, Book finds a piece of Kwejian and Michael finds an artifact in Dr. Derex's book Labyrinths of the Mind. When she touches it, she is transported …

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May 28, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Episode 7 "Erigah"

Finally, Moll and L'ak are finally caught. L'ak is still in pretty bad shape after the fisticuffs on the ISS Enterprise. When they are brought to Federation HQ on Discovery, it is just as a "primarch" of the Breen Imperium …

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May 6, 2024

Star Trek Discovery | Season 5 Episode 6 "Whistlespeak"

The penultimate clue to the "progenitor tech" leads Discovery to a pre-warp, pre-industrial world called Halem'no, where the denizens speak via voice *and* a form of "whistlespeak." Michael and Tilly go undercover as Halemnians and have to run a race...

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April 29, 2024

Star Trek Discovery | Season 5 Episode 5 "Mirrors"

Discovery figures out where Moll and L'ak have gone. It was right in front of their faces the whole time! A blinking wormhole made of exotic matter that leads into interdimensional space. No biggie. Michael and Book head in to …

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April 22, 2024

Star Trek Discovery | Season 5 Episode 4 "Face The Strange"

The time is getting VERY *wimey* in this episode of Discovery. Just as the crew heads to the coordinates they got from the ancient Trill host Jinaal scratching their heads at an empty pocket of space, Moll's trap is sprung. …

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April 16, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Episode 3 "Jinaal"

Everyone is simply trying to settle in. Book is settling in as a "consultant" on Discovery as they hunt down the map pieces to the Progenitors' "treasure." First Officer Raynor (nee Captain of the Antares) is trying integrate with the …

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April 15, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Episode 2 "Under Twin Moons"

The hunt is on for the hiding place of the Progenitors' tech. The couriers/outlaws Moll and L'ak have a head start on the Federation — but the Federation has DISCO! Captain Burnham is excited be off on an adventure to …

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April 8, 2024

Star Trek Discovery | Season 5 Episode 1 "Red Directive"

The opening episode to Star Trek: Discovery's final season has EVERYTHING. There's phaser fights and fisticuffs, hover-bike chases, love burgeoning, love quickening, and love fading — hell, there's Soong style android with a love of speech pathology....

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Aug. 14, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 10 ”Hegemony”

It is the finale. It is a Gorn attack. It is Captain Marie Betel down on a planet with 5000 colonists and the USS Cayuga blown to bits in orbit (save a healthy chunk of saucer section and a single …

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Aug. 7, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 9 ”Subspace Rhapsody”

In a *literally* musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the folks on the Enterprise throw themselves into the the thick of it. Singing? Check. Dancing? Check? Harmony and counterpoint and a big cast number? CHECK. It is very possible that …

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Aug. 1, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 8 ”Under The Cloak o…

In a very special episode of Strange New Worlds, a very special guest is on board the ship: former Klingon warlord turned Federation diplomat Dak'Rah. While he may charm a lot of folks on board with his mild-mannered temperament and …

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July 31, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 7 ”Those Old Scienti…

An accidental portaling causes Ensign Boimler, of the USS Cerritos, to travel back in time to Pike's Enterprise. Boimler is ecstatic to meet his heroes, but they are more concerned with him not screwing up the timeline. An attempt to …

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July 24, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 6 ”Lost In Translati…

Just a regular ol' deuterium mining operation in Bannon's nebula on the edge of Gorn space. Pike is made fleet captain over the refinery and the USS Farragut as they try to get things online securing a future refuel hub …

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July 17, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 5 ”Charades”

Just a cute little episode in which Spock and Chapel head down to a moon of Vulcan, inexplicably live through a shuttle crash, and Spock is changed (by advanced beings on the far side of a tear in spacetime) into …

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July 9, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 3 Episode 4 ”Among The Lotus E…

Well. It's a bronze age planet where an officer thought to be KIA years back has actually given the locals Starfleet tech and made himself king. Also, he is bitter because he was left behind by the Enterprise. Also there …

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July 3, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 3 Episode 3 ”Tomorrow, Tomorro…

How would you feel about a La'an episode? Like *just* La'an, you know, chief security officer dealing with her job, her demons, her heritage, her past? That's a yes, isn't it?!Now, what if we told you we would do that …

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June 26, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 2 ”AdAstra Per Asper…

It is one of the mightiest of all Trek tropes: a court case! Full with all the pomp and drama of courtroom procedurals. Stodgy judges, tense side bars, esteemed witnesses and surprise cross-examinations, and even a delightful micro-mystery running th...

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June 17, 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Episode 1 ”The Broken Circle”

Set Phasers returns to run down the new season of Strange New Worlds!! And we begin... Enterprise is in space dock at Starbase 1. Pike is taking some personal days to find a lawyer (maybe?) to help Una Chin-Riley get …

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April 24, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E10 ”The Last Generation”

It's over. It's all over. And it's so hard to say goodbye! But before that, Picard et al have to save his son from the clutches of a vengeful Borg Queen [in a giant borg cube on Jupiter] *and* save …

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April 17, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E9 ”Vóx”

The truth is out about Jack -- he's Borg, baby! That's how he's been able to mysteriously control other people (for better or worse). Upon discovering this about himself, Jack absconds on a shuttle to a mysterious place in space …

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April 10, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E8 ”Surrender”

Vadic has control of the USS Titan and she is planning to off bridge-crew members every ten minutes if Jack doesn't turn himself over. It springs many desperate plans into motion. Among them, trying to wake Data up to take …

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April 3, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E7 ”Dominion”

A "bottle" episode, as they say. The action takes place primarily on the Titan. With Picard et al, realizing that their backs are against the wall and no one can help them, allow Vadic and the Shrike to find them. …

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