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Star Trek: Voyager: Unity  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 17

Yessir, there ain't nothin' in this here universe like good ol'-fayshioned Texas barbecue. Hold this here axonal amplifier ag'inst yer temple, wouldja son? And mah mah, them bluebonnets sure are purty in the springtime. Wellsir, now yer gonna feel a slight drillin' sensation in yer brain stem… [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 24, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Blood Fever  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 16

Ensign Vorik, in a commanding capacity, chooses his first mate. But she prevents his intended debriefing by employing evasive maneuvers after first contact. Then on the holodeck, he faces the risk of dishonorable discharge. And after the climax, in a scene with Janeway and Chakotay: somebody bones. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 20, 2017 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Coda  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 15

Go into the light... go into the liiiiiiiiight, Kathryn... yes, into the light... that light... the one that's right in front of you... gotta get into that light... go ahead... time's a-wastin', I got stuff to do... any day now... damnit, will you just go into the freakin' light already?!? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 17, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Alter Ego  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 14

Or: "Harry and Tuvok Get Catfished" [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 13, 2017 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Fair Trade  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 13

When an alien whose primary role on the ship was to be their local guide is on the verge of boldly going where this particular Talaxian hasn't gone before, what's he to do? Suggestion: this would not be a good time to break bad. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 10, 2017 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Macrocosm  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 12

You see, Starfleet is less a military organization than a scientific one—committed to seeking out and understanding new forms of life, however different they maAAUGH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 6, 2017 - 21 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The Q and the Grey  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 11

When Q comes marching home again/ Hurrah! Hurrah!/ Janeway will tear her hair out then/ Hurrah! Hurrah!/ The ship will be rocked and the drums will roll/ The continuum will be out of control/ The captain saw right through ye/ Q, we hardly knew ye! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 3, 2017 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Warlord  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 10

Hear now the decrees of Kes the Unconquerable, Kes the Immortal, Kes the Dread Lord of All! All subjects shall grow gardens! All Talaxians are to be forcibly deported to the offworld colonies! The infirm, the foreign, and the telepathic shall be heavily taxed! And all statuesque Nordic ex-Borg women are to be put to death immediately, that the Dark Prophecy may never come to pass! [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 29, 2017 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Future's End, Part II  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 9

Maybe the Doctor should start calling himself Dr. Seuss, because he's on the loose! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 26, 2017 - 16 comments

Dark Matter: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This   Season 3, Ep 2

The crew is fulfilling their promise to take the fight to Ryo [more inside]
posted by sammyo on Jun 22, 2017 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Future's End  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 8

This is the time-jump of the starship Voyager. Its 1996 mission: To bring Dolly the Cloned Sheep to the 24th century. To prevent the launch of Fox News Channel. To boldly go and see the Spice Girls live! (Part 1 of 2) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 22, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Sacred Ground  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 7

First, one must contemplate the Rock of Requirement; next, one must practice the Fingerpainting of Flabbergastation; then, one must undertake the Rockclimbing of Really Radical Requirement; then, one must contemplate the Rock again--sheesh, if this ordeal were any more complicated, it would be a Klingon bachelor party! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 19, 2017 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Remember  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 6

Lt. Torres and Cpt. Janeway gradually grow suspicious of friendly-seeming telepathic aliens who wear grody old dishrags on their foreheads. It's almost as if they have something to hide… [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 15, 2017 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: False Profits  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 5

Near a wormhole that connects to a distant part of the galaxy, Ferengi are scheming to... wait, which show is this, again? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 12, 2017 - 16 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The Swarm  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 4

Lt. Torres learns one of the more obscure Laws of Robotics: it takes an arrogant hologram to fix an arrogant hologram. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 8, 2017 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The Chute  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 3

The episode that launched a thousand Tom/Harry 'ships. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jun 5, 2017 - 5 comments

Doctor Who: Lie of the Land  Season 10, Ep 8

Bill must convince the Doctor that humanity is in danger, when the world is gripped by an Orwellian mass delusion. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jun 3, 2017 - 24 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Flashback  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 2

Our heroes encounter gaseous anomalies. Tuvok experiences some more mental distress. The legendary Klingon commander Kang returns to menace Starfleet. A little girl falls to her death about a dozen times. And Janeway meets Sulu! (Sort of.) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 1, 2017 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Basics, Part II  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 1

It's the end of the end of the beginning, as it were, as the ship and the show leave some people and some familiar territory behind, so let us pause a moment to remember those lost: ye heroes, ye villains, ye villains-turned heroes, even ye murderhoboes. Never to be seen again, with the exception of the occasional holodeck malfunction, wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey incident, or historical recreation centuries hence. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 29, 2017 - 20 comments

Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of the World  Season 10, Ep 7

An ‘ancient’ pyramid appears overnight. Every clock in the world begins counting down to the Earth’s destruction. Three opposing armies lie ready to annihilate each other. It’s a terrifying race against time to save the world! [more inside]
posted by zarq on May 27, 2017 - 23 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Basics, Part I  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 26

(Season Finale) Captain's log, stardate 49858.5—and I mean a literal log, I'm talking into a log right now. Stranded on a wilderness planet again *sigh*…second time this month. No sign of friendly monkeys, though. Well, at least my whole crew is with me this time. …Oh right, except for the doctor—and, um, one of his nurses. Hm. Well, maybe we won't end up needing any medical treatment. Wildman's baby looks pretty tough, what with the forehead spikes and all. Anyway, they're starting to stare at me, so I'd better wrap this up. Our first order of business: we're gonna need tubs. Lots of tubs. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 25, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Resolutions  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 25

"I closed my eyes and sank deeper into the steamy bath, feeling my troubles and worries slip away. I was no longer a starship captain, really, no longer even a scientist after the oddly-precise storm destroyed all my technical equipment but left everything else untouched; now, I was just a woman. 'Everything OK, Kathryn?' I smiled, thinking of the man who was once my second-in-command, but now... now, just a man. A very considerate, thoughtful, available man. 'Better than OK, Com- I mean, Chakotay. Makes me wish that I'd gotten the incurable yet peculiarly asymptomatic space plague earlier. Say, you didn't happen to find a loofah out there, did you?'" -- from Passion's Pesilent Planet, Jane Katrina (pseud.) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 22, 2017 - 22 comments

Movie: Alien: Covenant

Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew (Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup) of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think to be an uncharted paradise. While there, they meet David (Michael Fassbender), the synthetic survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. The mysterious world soon turns dark and dangerous when a hostile alien life-form forces the crew into a deadly fight for survival.
posted by Sangermaine on May 21, 2017 - 47 comments

Doctor Who: Extremis  Season 10, Ep 6

In the Haereticum — the Vatican’s secret library of blasphemy — there is an ancient book known only as The Veritas. Throughout history, anyone who has ever read it has immediately taken their own life. Now a new translation is online, and the danger is spreading. The Vatican appeals to the Doctor. Will he read The Veritas? But can even the Doctor survive the ultimate truth? [more inside]
posted by zarq on May 20, 2017 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Tuvix  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 24

On stardate 49655.2, Lieutenant Tuvok was asked to remove himself from his ship of residence to collect samples. That request came from his captain. Deep down, he knew the transporter would malfunction on the way back, but he also knew that someday, he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, his transporter pattern merged with that of his crewmate, Neelix. Sometime earlier, Neelix's biological matter had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two men share a body without driving each other crazy? [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 18, 2017 - 25 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The Thaw  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 23

Can't sleep, clowns will eat metrap me in stasis [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 15, 2017 - 14 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Innocence  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 22

We're the kids in the Delta Quadrant! (whoa-oh) / We're the kids in the Delta Quadrant! (whoa-oh) / Everybody watch us die in a cave![more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 11, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Deadlock  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 21

Have you ever just had a really, really crappy day, and wished that you could step into the version of the day where everything went OK? Would it make a difference if there was a chance that you might get your organs stolen? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 8, 2017 - 35 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Investigations  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 20

Liiiive from somewhere in the Delta Quadrant, it's The Neelix Show! Tonight: the juggling talents of Pablo Baytart! Myoooosical guest: Harry "Clarinet" Kimmmm! Plus "Hints for Healthful Living!" (time permitting) …And nowww… heeeeeeeeeeere's NEELIX! [*APPLAUSE*] [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on May 4, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Lifesigns  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 19

Ah, there's nothing like spending a pleasant evening parking with your sweetie under the Martian sky--WAIT THERE'S NO BREATHABLE ATMOSPHERE ON MARS WE CAN'T--never mind, it's just the holodeck and we're both holograms, it's OK! Whew. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on May 1, 2017 - 16 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Death Wish  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 18

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?" - Aeschylus, The Oresteia [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 27, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Dreadnought  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 17

The Guerrilla Starship Engineer's Handbook, Chapter XLVII: How To Deal With a Smart Bomb That's Outsmarted You, by B'Elanna Torres [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 24, 2017 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Meld  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 16

Or, "The One Where Tuvok Finally Murders Neelix" [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 20, 2017 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Threshold  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 15

Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, heroes on the Threshold! (Amphibian power!) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 17, 2017 - 32 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Alliances  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 14

Crewman Bendera goes to that big exploding console in the sky, a mutiny enters the planning stage, Neelix hits the bar, Tuvok enjoys some horticulture, and Janeway learns why you can't spell "Trabe" without "be" and "tray." [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 13, 2017 - 25 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Prototype  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 13

The system goes online on August 4th, 2297. Humanoid decisions are removed from strategic defense. The automated units begin to learn at a geometric rate. They become self-aware at 2:14 AM, Pralor time, August 29th. In a panic, the Builders try to pull the plug. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 10, 2017 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Resistance  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 12

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 6, 2017 - 16 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Maneuvers  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 11

They're bringin' Seska back (yeah)/ Them other Kazon don't know how to act (yeah)/ I think it's special, what's behind Chakotay's back (yeah)/ So turn around and Janeway will pick up the slack (yeah) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 3, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Cold Fire  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 10

When Tuvok teaches Kes to hone her telepathic abilities, she learns to hear Neelix's thoughts—but surprisingly, that's not the most disturbing thing she'll experience in this episode. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 30, 2017 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Tattoo  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 9

I'm not saying that it was aliens... but it was aliens. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 27, 2017 - 23 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Persistence of Vision  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 8

Or: "A Little Doctor Goes a Long Way" [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 23, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Parturition  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 7

AKA The Spaghetti Incident. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 20, 2017 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Twisted  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 6

Being stranded 70,000 light-years from home is pretty tough on a starship crew. Sooner or later, some of them are gonna get a little bent out of shape. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 16, 2017 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Non Sequitur  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 5

Life is apparently pretty good for a talented young Starfleet officer fresh out of the Academy: nice San Francisco apartment (small, but with a hell of a view), beautiful fiancée, promising budding career as a propulsion engineer with the Starfleet Engineering Corps, even a local barista who knows his favorite drink order by heart. Sure, he didn't get that shipboard assignment that he wanted, but given Voyager's disappearance in the Badlands with all hands missing, even that's for the best. So... what's the matter with Harry? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 13, 2017 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Elogium  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 4

Ahh, springtime in the Delta Quadrant. When the suns are shining their brightest… the leola plants are in bloom… and a young Ocampa woman's fancy turns to inflating her neck sac, getting foot massages from holograms, and coating her hands in mustard. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 9, 2017 - 25 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Projections  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 3

Once upon a time, I, the Emergency Medical Hologram, dreamt I was a man, walking hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a man. I was conscious only of my happiness as a man, unaware that I was the EMH. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a hologram dreaming I was a man, or whether I am now a man, dreaming I am a hologram. Or maybe it's just another damn holodeck malfunction? And what the hell was Lieutenant Broccoli doing there? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Mar 6, 2017 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Initiations  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 2

And as I switched off the comm it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me / My boy was just like me…[more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Mar 2, 2017 - 12 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: The 37's  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 1

According to Wikipedia, the Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter, and an average 1000 light years thick. Doing the math, that puts the Delta Quadrant (¼ of the Milky Way) at a volume of a bit under 2 trillion cubic light years. And, in that staggering volume, Voyager, which is 343 meters in length, comes across a truck (truck-sized), specifically a 1936 Ford pickup. Which can still start on the first try. And that's not the least likely thing that they'll find that day... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Feb 27, 2017 - 17 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Learning Curve  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 16

WHAT IS YOUR HOLO-MALFUNCTION, CADET? YOU CAN'T SPREAD YOUR FINGERS APART IN A V-SHAPE LIKE ANY VULCAN CHILD CAN? DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT A "V" IS, SON? NEVER LEARNED YOUR FEDERATION STANDARD ALPHABET, IS THAT IT? OR IS SOMETHIN' WRONG WITH YOUR FINGERS? TOO MUCH QUALITY TIME WITH LITTLE MISS ROTTENCROTCH DELANEY? WELL, GET THIS THROUGH YOUR BIO-NEURAL HEAD-SACK: WE'RE NOT LEAVING UNTIL YOU GIVE ME A PROPER VULCAN SALUTE!!! [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Feb 23, 2017 - 15 comments

Book: The Handmaid's Tale

The seminal work of speculative fiction from Margaret Atwood. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force. [more inside]
posted by chainsofreedom on Feb 22, 2017 - 34 comments

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