148 posts tagged with sciencefiction by Halloween Jack.
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Star Trek: Voyager: Revulsion Rewatch Season 4, Ep 5
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?" (per Terry Bisson) [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Day of Honor Rewatch Season 4, Ep 3
First, you must eat from the heart of a sanctified targ. Next, you will drink mot'loch from the Grail of Kahless. Then, we wlll sing of your glory earned during the annual cookie sale--oh, crap [drops index cards, grabs phone] Honey? It's me, are you with the Girl Scout troop? Hey, I think we got our index cards mixed up--honey, what's that noise? Are they--oh, no. Honey? Hello? Hello? [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Scorpion, Part II Rewatch Season 4, Ep 1
"I speak for the Borg." -- Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Worst Case Scenario Rewatch Season 3, Ep 25
Even with the improvements in the current version of the game, sometimes it's fun to fire up Voyager 1.0 and give it a whirl, just for a little nostalgia for when things were new and rough around the edges... just watch out for that one end boss that was surprisingly tough to beat. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Origin Rewatch Season 3, Ep 23
A reptilian species makes contact with humanity; although they seem friendly at first, these aliens, with technology far in advance of our own, known as V, have intentions that--wait [scans through index cards quickly, throws them down, picks up another pile]--never mind; here we go. Initially set in 60,000,003 BC in Pangaea, the show centers on the Sinclair family: Earl Sinclair (the father), Fran Sinclair (née Phillips - the mother and Earl's wife), their--damnit. [throws index cards in the air] Dinosaurs. Talkin' dinosaurs, that's what we got here. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Before and After Rewatch Season 3, Ep 21
Out, out, brief candle!/
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/
And then is heard no more. /
Unless the Doctor tries to alter the Ocampan lifespan with a thingymabob;/
Then all bets are off. [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Favorite Son Rewatch Season 3, Ep 20
Is Harry Kim truly the Alien Boy who Lived, the Extraterrestrial Prince that was Promised? But how could it be? If only there were something that would cause him to push back more against this preposterous premise, something that would tie him closer to Voyager, like, say, I dunno, just one lousy promotion... [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Rise Rewatch Season 3, Ep 19
Asteroids are out of control/
Rise above! We're gonna rise above!/
Out of contact with the ship/
Rise above! We're gonna rise above!/
Secret traitor aboard the lift/
Rise above! We're gonna rise above!/
Intuition vs. logic fight/
Rise above! We're gonna rise above!/
Neelix is tired of Tuvok's abuse/
Try to stop it; it's no use!/ [more inside]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Chute Rewatch Season 3, Ep 3
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]
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]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Thaw Rewatch Season 2, Ep 23
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]
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]
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: 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: 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: Tattoo Rewatch Season 2, Ep 9
Star Trek: Voyager: Parturition Rewatch Season 2, Ep 7
AKA The Spaghetti Incident. [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: 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: 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: 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: Cathexis Rewatch Season 1, Ep 13
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Field of Fire Rewatch Season 7, Ep 13
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prodigal Daughter Rewatch Season 7, Ep 11
A missing Chief O'Brien, a dead woman with Orion Syndicate connections, and a very dysfunctional family all combine to raise one compelling, urgent question: will Ezri get a halfway-decent character arc before the series ends? [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Covenant Rewatch Season 7, Ep 9
HELP WANTED: Growing Pah-wraith cult looking for a dynamic, charismatic leader to lead it into communion with the Pah-wraiths in the Celestial Temple. Belief in the ultimate triumph of the Pah-wraiths over the Prophets necessary, actual experience being possessed by a Pah-wraith preferred. Flexible morals OK. Please note: we are an equal opportunity employer, so it is not necessary for you to be a Bajoran. Please direct inquiries and resumes to: provisional government, Empok Nor. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Once More Unto the Breach Rewatch Season 7, Ep 7
I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
--From the works of the greatest playwright of the Klingon Empire, William Shakespeare [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Chrysalis Rewatch Season 7, Ep 5
The Jack Pack is back! And this time they're there to prompt Dr. Bashir to attempt a cure for Sarina's near-catatonia. I'm sure that everything will go fine and that, especially, we won't see a repeat of "Melora" in which Bashir has a problem with keeping a strict firewall between his professional responsibilities and personal needs... damnit, Julian. [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Afterimage Rewatch Season 7, Ep 3
There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar/Great expectations, everybody's watching you/People you meet, they all seem to know you/Even your old friends treat you like you're something new/Ezri come lately, the new kid in town/Everybody loves you, so don't let them down... [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Image in the Sand Rewatch Season 7, Ep 1
Three months have passed, and Kira's a colonel, Worf is sad, Damar is hittin' the sauce, the Prophets are MIA, the Pah-wraiths have their own cult, the Romulans are acting oddly friendly, and Sisko's still washing clams. What do the Romulans really want, who's that woman from Sisko's vision, who's the other woman who seems to know Sisko even though he's never met her, will Jadzia make it to Sto'Vo'Kor, and what's up with the baseball? [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Sound of Her Voice Rewatch Season 6, Ep 25
The crew of the Defiant get to know a marooned Starfleet captain over subspace radio as they race against time to save her life... but they get a surprise once they reach her. And Quark struggles to answer the really important question about Kira and Odo's relationship: how does he make a profit off of it? [more inside]