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Movie: Predator
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Collective Rewatch Season 6, Ep 16
♫ When your cube looks kind of weird and you wish that you weren't there / Just disable your ocular scanning graft and you can be anywhere / I like diagnostics! / I like romance! / I like astrophysics! / I like non-leather pants! ♫ [more inside]
Movie: Scanners
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Tsunkatse Rewatch Season 6, Ep 15
"When America's smackdown hero takes on Voyager's battlestar babe, worlds will collide!" Are you not entertained? [more inside]
Babylon 5: Points of Departure Season 2, Ep 1
[exposition, the episode] Goodbye Sinclair; hello Sheridan. Sheridan, previously the only Earth Force commanding officer responsible for taking down a Minbari ship during the war, has been assigned to Babylon 5 as Sinclair. A rogue Minbari warship is on the loose. Lennier reveals a secret. "I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate." [more inside]
The City and the City: miniseries Season 1, Ep 0
Two cities with a dangerous and volatile relationship. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Memorial Rewatch Season 6, Ep 14
From Burbank Studios, it's the Colgate Toothpaste Nakan Massacre Hour! This week's special guests: the crew of the starship Voyager! [more inside]
Babylon 5: Chrysalis Rewatch Season 1, Ep 22
The Centauri and the Narn bicker about the ownership of an outpost, and one side takes decisive action. Delenn takes an irreversible step, after consulting with Kosh. Garibaldi's informant is killed and he wants to find out why. "And so it begins." [more inside]
Babylon 5: Chrysalis First Watch Season 1, Ep 22
The Centauri and the Narn bicker about the ownership of an outpost, and one side takes decisive action. Delenn takes an irreversible step, after consulting with Kosh. Garibaldi's informant is killed and he wants to find out why. "And so it begins." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Virtuoso Rewatch Season 6, Ep 13
Solo amore/ Quando fuggeva lontano/ Speri invano ma non torni più./ Speri invano ma non torna più. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Blink of an Eye Rewatch Season 6, Ep 12
Attention! The Prefect of Audiovisual Programming has decreed that the latest iteration of The Skyship Chronicles must be fit for retransmission in random sequence; therefore, heavily-serialized plotlines are officially forbidden. And it will have not one, not two, but FIVE cute kids. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Fair Haven Rewatch Season 6, Ep 11
[stuck between Trekkifying an old Irish joke and filking "Fairytale of New York"] OK, the crew goes to a stereotypical Irish village on the holodeck, and it starts raining, and there's this guy who's just standing out in the rain, and Tuvok goes, "Illogical." The pub owner says, "Don't mind him, he's Paddy O'Furniture." OK, so I went with the joke, sue me. [more inside]
Babylon 5: The Quality of Mercy Season 1, Ep 21
[minor arc] Dr. Franklin discovers an illegal medical establishment in Downbelow, which is stepping on the toes of his mildly-less-illegal medical establishment in Downbelow. Meanwhile, Lennier and Londo go out for drinks and a murderer is sentenced to the "death of personality." "I'm perfectly happy to inconvenience myself for your benefit. [...] Here my friend, here you will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5. Also its spleen, its kidneys--a veritable parade of internal organs." [more inside]
Movie: Avatar
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. [more inside]
Babylon 5: Babylon Square Season 1, Ep 20
[major arc] Babylon 4 reappears after vanishing four years ago. The Grey Council meets. "Summoned, I come. In Valen's name, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Pathfinder Rewatch Season 6, Ep 10
"I'll hold the beast off!" Seoni cried as she stepped up to the dragon, her staff flaring with defensive fire. Merisiel looked to the hulking… uh, hang on [shuffles index cards] combat maneuver defense? Um, these must be for a different— wait, since when do I even use index cards? [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Voyager Conspiracy Rewatch Season 6, Ep 9
Tricobalt explosives can't destroy tetryon reactors--CARETAKER WAS AN INSIDE JOB [more inside]
Babylon 5: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1 and Part 2 Season 1, Ep 18
[arc episodes] The planet around which Babylon 5 orbits begins to activate long-dormant weapons systems that threaten Babylon 5. Mars colony loses communication with Babylon 5 due to rioting, to Garibaldi's distress. Delenn's old mentor arrives on the station. "Incorrect answer! The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice: the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one. It has been too long, Delenn. You have forgotten your training. Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend Draal." "Not if I live to be a thousand and one." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: One Small Step Rewatch Season 6, Ep 8
My god… It's full of space garbage… [more inside]
Babylon 5: Legacies Season 1, Ep 17
[arc] A Minbari war cruiser arrives to display the body of a fallen Warrior caste leader. Meanwhile, Talia and Ivanova butt heads over the fate of a young telepath... "You talk like a Minbari, Commander! Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Dragon's Teeth Rewatch Season 6, Ep 7
Voyager has one of its strangest encounters yet when it comes across a human serviette wearing a tam o' shanter--wait [peers at index card] sorry, I thought that it said "Nardwuar"--why the heck am I still using index cards in the twenty-first century, anyway? We're getting warp drive in a few decades! [more inside]
Babylon 5: Eyes Season 1, Ep 16
[minor arc episode] Sinclair and his staff are investigated by internal affairs because of the past year events, thanks to Jeffrey "haven't found a rule I wouldn't bend" Sinclair. Meanwhile, Garibaldi and Lennier bond over rebuilding an Old Earth motorcycle. "I must admit, Mr. Garibaldi, I am fascinated by this vehicle. Do you realize that it was a symbol of masculinity in your society at one time?" [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Riddles Rewatch Season 6, Ep 6
What has he got in his Vulcan brainses? [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Alice Rewatch Season 6, Ep 5
We all float down here, Harry!--uh, wait [shuffles index cards] all work and no play makes Kathryn a dull girl--no, that's not right [shuffles them some more] the man in black fled across the quadrant, and the starship followed--damnit [starts looking through them one by one] ah, here we go... [looks up] do we have a "Larry Gene Blanton" here? [more inside]
Babylon 5: Grail Season 1, Ep 15
[standalone, but with a hint to a future plot point] A man seeking the Holy Grail arrives on the station. Meanwhile, a gang boss in Downbelow is somehow wiping the minds of those who oppose him... "But as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back--and the station [Babylon 4] just sort of… wrinkled, twisted like putty, and then just disappeared. The minute I left!" [more inside]
Babylon 5: TKO Season 1, Ep 14
[standalone] Ivanova meets with a Rabbi to deal with her father's death. Meanwhile, an old friend of Garibaldi's arrives on Babylon 5 for an alien-only cage match tournament called the Mutai. "They change. They stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say, 'If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit basket'." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy Rewatch Season 6, Ep 4
Do holograms dream of electric women? [more inside]
Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
When their relationship turns sour, a young couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Barge of the Dead Rewatch Season 6, Ep 3
"What's the hold-up, First Mate?" "Well, captain, we seem to have run aground on... a giant clot." "What the--" "Well, it is a river of blood, sir." [more inside]
Babylon 5: Signs and Portents Season 1, Ep 13
[major arc; the season's titular episode] Mr. Morden asks a question, repeatedly. A Centauri delegation arrives, and cannot prevent the thing which they know will happen (as they deny their fate). "What do you want? [...] And then what?" The spoiler discussion! [more inside]
Babylon 5: Signs and Portents First Watch Season 1, Ep 13
[major arc; the season's titular episode] Mr. Morden asks a question, repeatedly. A Centauri delegation arrives, and cannot prevent the thing which they know will happen (as they deny their fate). "What do you want? [...] And then what?" [more inside]
Movie: Terminator 2
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Survival Instinct Rewatch Season 6, Ep 2
"Hey, Seven of Nine! Long time no see! This is gonna be a great opportunity for us to reconnect." [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Equinox, Part II Rewatch Season 6, Ep 1
(Part 2 of 2; discussion of Part 1 is here.) So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Chakotay! Put him in the Comfy Chair! [more inside]
Babylon 5: By Any Means Necessary Season 1, Ep 12
[arc episode] A dock worker is killed in an accident involving a exploding Narn freighter, leading to a strike. Meanwhile, G'Kar needs a plant from the aforementioned Narn freighter for a religious ceremony, but finds that past decision of his has complicated his life... "Oh, why does the universe hate me so?" [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Equinox Rewatch Season 5, Ep 26
(Part 1 of 2; season finale) I'm gonna start my OWN Starfleet! With blackjack! And hookers! …You know what: forget the Starfleet! [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Warhead Rewatch Season 5, Ep 25
"What is my purpose in life?" "To blow up real good." "B-but I wanted to do so much more than that! I want to travel, a-and take some online classes, and--" "But what about the earth-shattering kaboom?" "Oh, OK, then." [more inside]
Babylon 5: Survivors Season 1, Ep 11
[skippable arc episode/almost standalone] Garibaldi's past catches up with him when he is framed for an assassination attempt on the President--and the lead investigator is an old family friend... "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." [more inside]
Babylon 5: Believers Season 1, Ep 10
[standalone] Dr. Franklin locks horns with an alien couple who intend to deny life-saving care for their son based on their religious beliefs--namely, that surgery releases the soul, condemning one to a fate worse than death. "No one knows what is written in the stream until the waters surround him." [more inside]
Babylon 5: Deathwalker Season 1, Ep 9
Na'Toth, G'Kar's aide, has a chance to avenge her family and fulfill her blood debt when the Dilgar woman who tortured and killed her family arrives on Babylon 5. But this woman, Jhda'dur, is prepared to make a deal... Meanwhile, Talia aides Kosh with an unusual negotiation. "Then listen to the music, not the song" and "There is a hole in your mind..." [more inside]
Movie: Gattaca
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. [more inside]
Movie: Waterworld
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Relativity Rewatch Season 5, Ep 24
As she tours her new command—the U.S.S. Voyager—while it's still in drydock, Captain Kathryn Janeway experiences a series of inexplicable anomalies, even before setting out for the Badlands. It seems she'd better … take care. [more inside]
Babylon 5: And the Sky Full of Stars Season 1, Ep 8
[major arc] Two "Knights" kidnap Sinclair and force him to relive his memories of the last battle of the Earth-Minbari war, as they are convinced he is a collaborator or spy. "I know you. I know who you are. I know you." and "What do you want?" [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: 11:59 Rewatch Season 5, Ep 23
Let us go back to the waning days and hours of the twentieth century, when controversy surrounded the construction of the Millennium Gate, a monumental, kilometer-tall building that towered over rural Indiana and--wait, what? [more inside]
Star Trek: Discovery: The War Without, The War Within Season 1, Ep 14
Burnham and the crew are faced with the harsh reality of the war during their absence; Starfleet must use unconventional tactics and sources to take their next action against the Klingons. [more inside]
Altered Carbon: Out of the Past Season 1, Ep 1
Waking up in a new body 250 years after his death, Takeshi Kovacs discovers he's been resurrected to help a titan of industry solve his own murder.
Star Trek: Voyager: Someone to Watch Over Me Rewatch Season 5, Ep 22
What is…kiss? Teach me your Earthling concept of…love… [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Juggernaut Rewatch Season 5, Ep 21
"Somebody set up us the bomb." "All your waste are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time..." [more inside]
Star Trek: Discovery: What's Past Is Prologue Season 1, Ep 13
Lorca plans to move forward with a coup against the Emperor, propelling Burnham to make a quick decision to save not only herself, but the U.S.S. Discovery. [more inside]