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To Boldly Go Where We've All Gone Before

I just wanted to say, I really enjoyed the first episode of season 3 of Picard. So much so, I'm almost afraid to go on. It feels like the sequel to the series that I've always wanted. Yes, it leads with somewhat pandering nostalgia bait. The characters, the diegetic and non-diegetic elements of the show, all seem to just scream at you: "Remember the theme from First Contact? Remember the Enterprise D? Remember the Enterprise A? Remember Star Trek 2 and 3? And Star Trek 6, I guess? Please remember how much you love Star Trek!" I remember, Picard Season 3. And I'm embarrassed to say how easily your pandering worked on me. How often have we left spacedock with Kirk and the crew? They recreate it here in a way that's charming and fun. The Titan looks like a constitution class Starship. Who cares? Me, I guess! The awkward dinner with Captain Jerk was reminiscent of the dinner in the Undiscovered Country, from which the show seems to be drawing a lot of its inspirat

Why now is the time to pay attention to the cyberpunk genre of fiction

Why Falcon and Winter Soldier can have all my money OR How I gave in and learned to be a comliant Marvel fanboy

Cobra Kai Season 1: A Master Class in Building Empathy

Review: Outside the Wire

RANT: Is Star Wars making too many different TV shows on Disney+?

RANT: A New Dune Movie?

Movie Review: Tenet is some kind of something

Ranting Review: How Rise of Skywalker is both the best and worst of the sequel trilogy