TV Recaps

We recap the Netflix K-Variety series Busted! Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2, which will contain minor spoilers.  The Korean variety show scene is alien...

Episode 10 of Season 3 of Ash vs Evil Dead acts as part two of the penultimate chapter and keeps the non-stop action all the...

Theodore Sturgeon’s Amok Time kicks off season two of Star Trek: The Original Series with a bang. Because of Spock’s immense popularity, season two begins with...

Season 1, episode 27 of Star Trek: The Original Series, The Alternative Factor is not only pretty darned bad, it’s nearly incomprehensible at times. Written by...

In Violet Evergarden Season 1, Episode 5, the anime series picks up where it left off. The lead character goes on another adventure to implement...

The mining operations on Janus VI have been terrorized by something in the dark. It burrows “through solid rock as easily as we move through...

When Lt. Sulu (George Takei) returns to the Enterprise without his partner on the landing party, muttering dazedly about paradise, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) must...

The Earth Outpost on Cestus III is completely destroyed by an unknown alien vessel that struck viciously and then fled. The Enterprise must give chase....

Star Trek – The Squire of Gothos Episode Title “The Squire of Gothos” Episode No. 17 Air Date January 12, 1967 Written By Paul Schneider

First, I’m really excited to start covering The X-Files, because it’s one of those shows whose nostalgia factor is pretty high for me. I just...

Star Trek – Balance of Terror Episode Title Balance of Terror Episode No. 14 Air Date December 15, 1966 Written By Paul Schneider What happened?...

In his final outing as The Doctor, Peter Capaldi meets The First Doctor (David Bradley, in the role, originated by William Hartnell in 1963). Each...

For some reason, Spock redirects the Enterprise to Starbase 11. He then commandeers the Enterprise, kidnaps his horribly injured former captain, and takes him to...

A search for the missing scientist Roger Korby (Michael Strong) brings the Enterprise to Exo III, an all-but-abandoned planet. Beneath the planet’s surface, Kirk and...

Now from a planet out in space There comes a lad not commonplace A’ seeking out his first embrace. He’s saving it for you. Oh,...

Series Title: Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Title: “The Cage” Season: 1 Episode No.: 0 Network: Netflix Air Date: October 4, 1988 (originally unaired)...

In the mid-season finale, Star Trek: Discovery finally coalesced for me into a show that I genuinely like, and that I’m going to miss for...

Not much, if I’m being honest, and what did happen made very little sense. I’m not one to complain about betrayals of Star Trek continuity,...