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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]
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]
Star Trek: Voyager: Meld Rewatch Season 2, Ep 16
Or, "The One Where Tuvok Finally Murders Neelix" [more inside]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Star Trek: Voyager: Tattoo Rewatch Season 2, Ep 9
Star Trek: Voyager: Persistence of Vision Rewatch Season 2, Ep 8
Or: "A Little Doctor Goes a Long Way" [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Parturition Rewatch Season 2, Ep 7
AKA The Spaghetti Incident. [more inside]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Movie: The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017: Animation
Shorts HD presents a theatrical release of the five Oscar nominees for Best Short Film, Animated, plus three "Highly Commended" animated shorts. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Jetrel Rewatch Season 1, Ep 15
Say what you will about Neelix--he's irritating, bossy, inappropriately possessive and jealous of Kes--but you have to admit this: he had a bad war. A really, really bad war. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Faces Rewatch Season 1, Ep 14
B'Elanna is quite beside herself when, after being captured on an away mission, she has unsettling encounters with a couple of surprisingly familiar faces. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Cathexis Rewatch Season 1, Ep 13
Star Trek: Voyager: Heroes and Demons Rewatch Season 1, Ep 12
Harry Kim fumbles his initiative while LARPing on the Holodeck. Facing a TPK, the group has to rely on the newb—who rolled up a healer with Strength as his dump stat—to finish the module. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: State of Flux Rewatch Season 1, Ep 11
Starfleet captains hate this crewmember's one weird old trick for escaping the Delta Quadrant--their true identity will shock you! (Or not.) [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Prime Factors Rewatch Season 1, Ep 10
Please, come to our planet of pleasure. We ask nothing at all in return. To give you pleasure gives us pleasure. I assure you, ours is a world where nothing can possi-blie go wrong. …PossiBLY go wrong. …That's the first thing that's…ever gone wrong. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Emanations Rewatch Season 1, Ep 9
Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll beam away/
To that home in the Next Emanation, I'll beam away/
I'll beam away, oh glory/
I'll beam away, in the morning/
When I die, Hallelujah by and by/
I'll beam away [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Ex Post Facto Rewatch Season 1, Ep 8
It was a cold night in the bad quadrant. I was playing flyboy for the kid, Kim. Hired hand, that's all. The skies were black with rain on the way down. Nothing I couldn't handle. I brought the kid dirtside to meet some physicist. They got to talking, and before too long, I'm the third nacelle. Get two science guys together? Forget it. I'd just about checked out altogether…when she walked in. Legs like the Pleasure Goddess of Rixx, forehead like a Terran horny toad. It figured. Next thing I know, she's on me like a Denevan neural parasite. And me without an ultraviolet light source. Some luck. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Eye of the Needle Rewatch Season 1, Ep 7
Voyager discovers a wormhole that may lead to the Alpha Quadrant; could this be the way home? [checks Memory Alpha; it's the seventh episode of the first season of seven] Hmm... [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Cloud Rewatch Season 1, Ep 6
The crew of Voyager—afflicted with isolation, professional tensions, and resource depletion—pins its hopes on a perfectly innocent-looking nebula and a reasonably competent-seeming Morale Officer. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Phage Rewatch Season 1, Ep 5
This episode starts off with a very sitcommy bit about Neelix's cooking (which will become a recurring bit), but takes a very hard left turn into horror with the introduction of a strong contender for the title of Trek's Nastiest Villains, the Vidiians. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Time and Again Rewatch Season 1, Ep 4
While investigating a destroyed civilization, Janeway and Paris get trapped in its recent past. Like, uncomfortably recent. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Parallax Rewatch Season 1, Ep 3
Voyager investigates a quantum... singularity... thingy. As you do. The real urgent question is, is B'Elanna going to spend the rest of the series in the brig? Plus, the Doctor is being a little short with his patients. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Caretaker Rewatch Season 1, Ep 1
(Series Premiere) The newly-commissioned U.S.S. Voyager ventures from Federation outpost Deep Space 9 into the Badlands to hunt down a Maquis raider…only to encounter something that, even for the Badlands, is really bad. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: What You Leave Behind Rewatch Season 7, Ep 25
(Series Finale - Part 9 of 9) "To the best crew any captain ever had. This may be the last time we're all together... but no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel a part of us... a very important part--will always remain here... on Deep Space Nine." -- Benjamin Lafayette Sisko. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Dogs of War Rewatch Season 7, Ep 24
(Series Finale - Part 8 of 9) It's nearly the tail end of the war. The Dominion sniffs out rebel bases, yet Damar continues to hound them; Sisko meets a new breed of Defiant; Zek arrives to fetch a new Nagus; and the Bashir/Ezri relationship still gets criticism from Woof Worf. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Extreme Measures* Rewatch Season 7, Ep 23
(Series Finale - Part 7 of 9**) [cover showing Bashir and O'Brien wearing jumpsuits and carrying complicated, incomprehensible pieces of tech; in the background, a brain surrounded by Kirby Dots] The fate of the entire galaxy*** at stake! Bashir and O'Brien brave the hidden depths of the dying mind of the deadliest man in the Federation in a desperate gambit to cure Odo! COULD THIS BE THE END OF... THE EPIC SPACE BROS?!?
*not this movie
**not that Seven of Nine
***well, a big chunk of it, anyway [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tacking Into the Wind Rewatch Season 7, Ep 22
(Series Finale - Part 6 of 9) It is a period of civil war. Rebel Cardassians, striking from a hidden base, will attempt to win their first victory against the evil Dominion. During the battle, Cardassian spies hope to steal the Dominion's ultimate weapon, the BREEN ENERGY DAMPENER, an advanced energy projectile with enough power to disable an entire starship. [more inside]
(Get a) Life After Deep Space Nine
Now that the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch is drawing to a close, we have tossed around some ideas about what Star Trek to cover next in recent threads. Let's organize our thoughts here and hash it out. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: When It Rains... Rewatch Season 7, Ep 21
...it pours... plot twists. The Klingons hold the key to victory over the Dominion, and a canny and judicious leader could use that to hold them at bay until the entire Alliance was ready to join them; unfortunately, the Empire has Gowron. Kira changes her clothes and Garak makes a call. Dukat finds out that when the Pah-wraiths say "for the Kai's eyes only", they mean it. And the only cure for someone's fever (not the sexy kind) isn't more cowbell, and Bashir and O'Brien have to go to the last people (ostensibly) on their side who they want to see to get it. (Series Finale - Part 5 of 9) [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Changing Face of Evil Rewatch Season 7, Ep 20
(Series Finale - Part 4 of 9) The tide of the war turns against the Federation Alliance after a Breen attack on San Francisco and the loss of a strategically important system in Dominion space. Likewise, the Bajor Power Couple experiences a profound—and, naturally, bloody—shift in their relationship. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Strange Bedfellows Rewatch Season 7, Ep 19
(Series Finale - Part 3 of 9) Unfortunately, despite the title, not a bedroom farce (with the deliberate exception of The Power Couple Who Shall Not Be Named), but still plenty to chew on: Martok reveals to Sisko that the real war has just begun, a prisoner is a pain in the neck for Weyoun, Quark pours one out for a homie, Damar considers the man in the mirror (prior to asking him to change his ways), Winn does a heel/even-worse-heel turn, and Worf and Ezri? They're just hangin' out. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 'Til Death Do Us Part Rewatch Season 7, Ep 18
(Series Finale - Part 2 of 9) Sisko knowingly defies the Prophets, but for a good reason. Kai Winn unknowingly defies the Prophets, but for a HORRIBLE ICKY GROSS REASON EW EW EW. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Penumbra Rewatch Season 7, Ep 17
(Series Finale - Part 1 of 9) Sisko puts a ring on it, Worf gets a chance to practice his singing, Dax takes a trip down Memory Lane, the Founder gives Weyoun a piece of her mind, a familiar face gets a different look, a new player enters the game, and Kasidy Yates' future mother-in-law has some bad news. It's the beginning of the end. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges Rewatch Season 7, Ep 16
Bashir attends a medical conference…on Romulus. Naturally, the conference turns out to be more than it seems…but, with Section 31 involved, it turns out to be more than it seems that it seems. …Or is it? [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang Rewatch Season 7, Ep 15
Pretty much everything you need to know about the episode right here:
"Bashir, the drink-doctorer,
Nog, the safecracker,
Dax, the cocktail waitress,
Odo, the bag-man,
Kira, the decoy,
Sisko, the high-roller,
Yates, the victim,
and, of course, Vic.
(O'Brien, the falsely-accused patsy, is not present as he is being strip-searched)" [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Chimera Rewatch Season 7, Ep 14
It's never fun when one of your more socially-underdeveloped relatives comes to where you work and embarrasses you in front of your colleagues. It's even worse when you're changelings. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Field of Fire Rewatch Season 7, Ep 13
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Emperor's New Cloak Rewatch Season 7, Ep 12
Grand Nagus Zek somehow decides that he should go on a trip to the Mirror Universe to explore business opportunities. This probably wasn't one of Moogie's ideas. [more inside]