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"Mark" mark II

I stand by my recent assessment that the best episodes of the era are not written by Davies or Moffat. Kate Mara is unimpressed. I’m not excited about the return of Ruby Sunday and her evil boy toy – this Doctor doesn’t need a white savior, and we have too many obnoxious Proud Boy villains already in real life. I’m not a fan of convoluted Moffat-style storylines, as they too often fail to pay…

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Culture shock

You miss things, not being a Brit. I had to look this guy up. Have to say I love the concept. It’s what we were all thinking about Dick Clark. Also: The Doctor finally goes to Africa. African actor, African writer, African setting, African god, and a director of African heritage. It’s about time. Interesting to note that the best episodes of the era so far – possibly barring The Devil’s…

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About fucking time.

It’s still a long wait. Andor is done; DW will soon follow, and the empty weeks will stretch. But inevitably, the day will at long last arrive. Bring it.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING

This. Looks. Batshit. WTF Season 2 got dark: war trauma, memory loss, grief, desperation. It also got silly. This trailer suggests that Season 3 will crank the silly up to 11. “You hang up first.” What is going on here? Some alien influence – Trellane? Holodeck? – tosses the crew into 60s TV. (Very meta, Star Trek.) Pelia wires the Enterprise for analog. New (mostly white) faces abound. Is…

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waiting and waiting and waiting and

Someday we’ll get a release date. For now we have this: Things I hope/expect from S3E1: La’an steps into the leadership role Pike always knew she could fill Sam Kirk’s obscure specialty turns out to be the key to understanding/escaping the Gorn Ortegas saves everyone with Badass Pilot Skills Dr. M’Benga gets to (finally!!) be a doctor. We’re waiting, Strange New Worlds.

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New new Who

It’s no secret I’ve been less than thrilled with the post-13 era. I looked forward to the new Doctor, but I did not want to return to the past. The recurrence of Davies, Tennant, and Moffat underwhelmed, and Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor was never given a chance to properly lead. S2 so far looks like an improvement: In Chibnall’s era, women and people of color behind the scenes opened new storytelling…

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Further:

S2 ended with four Enterprise crew in the line of fire: Three of them appear in the sneak peek. So what happened to Sam? Assuming a consistent timeline, we know Sam Kirk survives Pike’s Enterprise to die on Deneva in 2267. At some point in between, he leaves Starfleet and returns to civilian service. He’s on Earth to see his little brother off on his first command in 2265; the timeline of SNW…

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Sneak peek!

SDCC has provided us with a first look at SNW S3: The Vulcan sitcom seems to be making its seasonal recurrence, following the lunacy of Charades and the startlingly deep storytelling of Spock Amok. This time, Nurse Chapel has modified the Kerkhovian serum from Charades – with urgency, from the look of it – in order to turn herself and her colleagues into temporary Vulcans. Everyone is apparently…

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And another thing...

To follow up on my previous post: the villain in E3 is “thoughts and prayers,” ie America again the villain is E4 is Welsh. I remain curious to see where this goes.

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New Who, take 2

It’s that time again! SPOILER ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! I’ve seen it billed variously as Season 14, Season 40, and Season 1. Whatever it is, it arrived yesterday on D+ to great promotional fanfare and lukewarm response (in my house anyway). We knew going in that 1) the new guy is a charmer, and 2) Russell has George Lucas disease; we were wrong on no counts. Among the symptoms is apparently the…

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Nerd heaven

Melissa Navia answered my questions on Open Pike Night! https://openpike.com/episode/melissa-navia-season-2-interview-oops-alltegas I wasn’t alone. Navia’s ep drew more first-time callers than any other, and she answered all their questions too. She was, as expected, a delight: sharing her dreams, gushing about the Star Trek family, tearing up over fans’ appreciation, telling secrets – this…

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The End, again

I just rewatched Hegemony, and Erica is killing me. “Then we need to think harder.” The Cayuga is debris. Scans for life signs are inconclusive. She put her feelings for Christine aside when another Klingon war was at stake; can she do it again now? “If there’s anyone alive down there, I want to know it.” For the moment, there’s hope – but not much. “I believe it is a Gorn hunter…

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It Begins...

The anticipation, that is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Davy Perez (@davyperez) SNW writer/producer Davy Perez and director Chris Fisher both posted about shooting S3 this week. Perez wrote both S1 appearances of the Gorn, though Henry Alonso Myers is credited with the S2 finale. Fisher is responsible for A Quality of Mercy and the excessively melodramatic Broken Circle. Did…

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Moving on

The Davies/Tennant vanity project is complete. We may now return to our regularly scheduled Doctor Who. Sorry, Tennant fangirls: Gatwa is objectively the sexiest actor ever to play the Doctor. “The Giggle” has a lot of positive elements: creepy dolls, Neil Patrick Harris, Mel Bush, Fifteen in his underwear, Sarah Jane, the Doctor hugging himself, Kate handing out UNIT jobs like candy. It also…

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Bonus features

After the disastrous dinner with Ambassador Dak’Rah, Dr. M’Benga finds his fellow veterans in the lounge. He steps behind the bar, looking ominous. Ortegas, having already put her foot in it once today, looks like she’s expecting another dressing-down from a senior officer. (There’s been no confirmation of his rank, but her expression says it all.) Instead, he pours her – and himself – a…

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Wild Blue

I keep seeing people gush about this episode. It’s a bit like the raves ST: Picard got; I’m left wondering if we’re watching the same show. I mean, it’s fine? Tennant and Tate are a great pair, and this softer version of Ten is nice to see; at the same time, it wasn’t an outstanding story, and the effects looked too much like AI for comfort – especially considering the rumors around the writers’…

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Even more ship stuff

I recently came across this excellent discussion of queer subtext in popular media. It references a show I don’t watch, but the ideas can be applied widely. For example: “The Premise” Many fans long for this pair to have an explicit romantic and/or sexual relationship in canon. I do not expect these fans to get what they want, but at the same time, opportunities for subtext abound. Here are…