Image: Paramount Good news and bad news, Trek fans. The good is that the excellent Strange New Worlds will continue to boldly go for at least more more season beyond its currently filming third. The bad news: another member of Paramount’s current Trek streaming stable is preparing to say goodbye. Sonequa Martin-Green on Prepping for … Read more
Star Trek: Lower Decks has been a riot since its first season, and Tawny Newsome’s Beckett Mariner is a big reason why. Over the course of the show’s four-season run, she’s gone from being a chaotic, self-destructive ensign to…well, still that, but now promoted to a junior grade lieutenant alongside the other Lower Deckers. They’ve … Read more
Back in Star Trek: Lower Decks’ first season three years ago, it took a few episodes in before the show began to explore what it really meant to borrow its entire name and premise from the iconic TNG episode. In the years since, it’s gone on to explore that idea more holistically, but now it’s … Read more
The last time Lower Decks truly surprised me was in season two’s remarkable tri-perspective episode “wej Duj,” a compelling experimental story that examined the plights of lower deckers across all sorts of Star Trek vessels, not just Starfleet. It’s fitting then perhaps that in surprising me this week, it does so by making that episode’s … Read more
Picture: Paramount There’s so much to like in Unusual New Worlds and Decrease Decks’ particular Star Trek crossover, however attending to see Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid convey a few of their chaotic power from the world of animation into the live-action Mariner and Boimler was a spotlight—particularly as a result of that power radiated by … Read more
Screenshot: Paramount Thought you’d had sufficient Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds this week? Suppose once more. To not go away followers who didn’t immediately beam into San Diego Comedian-Con feeling unnoticed at the moment, Paramount has made the shock transfer to drop the most recent episode of the sequence—its extremely anticipated crossover with Star Trek: … Read more