I am sleeping so badly this week. And I know part of it's down to ridic anxiety with the world at large. Not even mental health related anxiety, since I really don't think it's irrational to be anxious given the daily news of what's going on. As my dear friend Deb Stanish put it on…
Holodeck Stories of Win!
This week’s Trek post (it’ll stop soon, it will) is about the most reviled genre of Trek story: the Holodeck episode. after copious and diligent research,* there are three main reasons I’ve found that makes this Trek genre beat out even the dreaded One Episode Romance as Worst Trek Genre: 1) It’s considered lazy writing…
Top Ten Star Trek: the Next Generation
I am in the midst of flu. Not serious flu, the sort of flu that makes you feel utterly miserable and your limbs ache and your head floofy, but not actually bad enough that you can’t wander about and complain heartily about your pitiable condition. Anyway, flu, yes. YAY. So it’s making writing a smidgen…
Everything I Thought About the Shiny New Third Doctor Comic
So the lovely folk at Titan have been doing a great and excellent thing and that is making classic Who comics. And I Quite Loved the Fourth Doctor one despite my distrust and confusion re comics, so clearly getting the Third Doctor one was going to happen. It was a very good choice. Everything I…
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The 100 Greatest Starfleet Characters in Star Trek
This year is Star Trek’s fiftieth anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than with a helping of good old-fashioned nerd-rage at an Internet list you don’t agree with? After reading a list of the 100 Most Important Members of Starfleet on Wired, I was cool and collected despite the many egregious errors, not least…
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Game of Thrones 609 Battle of the Bastards and 610 The Winds of Winter
Game of Thrones, remember that? I was doing a super timely review thing after each ep and then thought it would be extra awesome to wait weeks after the final episodes before finishing it off. Yes. I didn't forget. That would be silly. BUT GOSH. If you can remember what happened in the last two…
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The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Encountered in Fallout 4
There I was, just helping out a guy who'd locked his father in an asylum after he got an ancient artifact stuck to his head 400 years ago and lost his grip on reality, when I opened a door and there was this: In the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 4, these bloody monkeys are…
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Game of Thrones 608 No-one
The antipenultimate episode of the season! And, gosh, it was quite good. It really has been a season of Stuff Happening. And that Stuff all ends of feeling rather meaningful as it's been earned with oh-so-many hours of sod all happening week after week. Well, we have suffered, but season six is our prize, yay!…
Game of Thrones 607 The Broken Man
Lovejoy! LOVEJOY'S IN THIS EPISODE! Ah, is there anything Ian McShane can't do? Mostly I'm quite sad at him being this nice guy in this nice community and then they all die. One might possibly argue that I should have suspected Imminent Death given they were decent people who just turned up, but no, I…
Game of Thrones 606 Blood of my Blood
I'm a LITTLE bit behind in Game of Thrones, and this is actually the last episode I've seen. I may have caught a glimpse of a trailer for last week's though and OMG. But, yes, cast your mind back Some Weeks Ago to an episode that couldn't help but be a little bit of a…
