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Video Game Spotlight: Shenmue II
“Shenmue II is a great game – and, even more so than its predecessor, is sorely underrated and underappreciated…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 8: Orders of Magnitude
“An action-packed, exciting episode featuring a great ‘badmiral’ as an antagonist…”
Star Trek Turns Sixty!
“Six decades ago, ‘The Man Trap’ graced American television screens…”
Star Trek: Hidden Gems
“How do we determine what is and is not a ‘hidden gem?’”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 7: Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass
“An episode that didn’t know whether it wanted to be silly or serious, tried to be both, and ended up succeeding at neither…”
Melody’s Escape 2: Video Game Review
“Over the past few days, I’ve been having a lot of fun with a game I didn’t even know existed until recently…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 6: Off-Hour
“The second genuinely good episode of the season…”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Re-Watch: Season 1, Episode 22: Skin of Evil
“It was fun to revisit Skin of Evil, even though I wouldn’t necessarily consider it a personal favourite episode…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 5: Level-Five Transporter Accident
“The episode was plagued by ridiculously over-the-top slapstick baddies that came right out of children’s television, a paper-thin, repetitive story that the show has literally already done, and the most pathetic cop-out ending that would earn you a grade F even in a primary school creative writing class…”
Star Trek: Enterprise Episode Re-Watch: Season 1, Episode 7: The Andorian Incident
“It’s one of the episodes that really justifies Enterprise’s prequel setting and place in the timeline…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 4: A Case of Chiaroscuro
“I respect the commitment to the bit…”
Mixtape: Video Game Review
“I was ready for a nostalgic punch to the gut, and Mixtape delivered…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 3: Human Best Friend
“A self-contained Star Trek story that doesn’t take itself too seriously…”
The Mandalorian and Grogu: Film Review
“A boring, trope-laden, aggressively bland film; the cinematic equivalent of jangling keys in front of a baby…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 2: The Griffin Incident
“Star Trek’s best and most terrifying horror story ever…”
Disclosure Day: Film Review
“I’m a sci-fi fan and a Spielberg fan, so I hoped that Disclosure Day would be my kinda thing…”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode Review – Season 4, Episode 1: Valles Marineris
“I hope this week’s overladen, disjointed episode isn’t a harbinger of things to come…”
Star Trek: Voyager – Across The Unknown: DLC Review (Part 1!)
“I gotta say, I’m impressed!”
There’s Still Time To Delay Next-Gen
“Mid-2026 is probably the final opportunity that Xbox and PlayStation will have to make such a decision…”
The Fallout… Fallout
“The next Fallout video game is being taken away from Bethesda…”
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