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First Contact: ‘The First Duty’ Season 5 Episode 19

October 26, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

The Enterprise heads to Earth so Picard can deliver the commencement address to Starfleet Academy, but before they arrive, they receive news that Wesley has been involved in an accident during flight training which means we get to have one of those trial episodes.

Recap: Shrinking 2×03 – “ Psychological Something-ism”

October 25, 2024 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

This week (seemingly at least) wraps up Grace’s plot for good, likely to make (more) room for “Double D” aka the drunk driver that killed Tia. The DA drops charges, she feels too guilty to

Recap: Shrinking 2×02 – “I Love Pain”

October 18, 2024 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

Let me start off by saying that I am very confused that a lot of the critics writing on this new season of Shrinking call it a “hangout” sitcom/series – both good and bad reviews

Recap: Shrinking Season 2×01 – “Jimmying”

October 16, 2024 Sabrina Mittermeier Comments Off

Previously on… Back in what feels like a different life, I covered Season 1 of Shrinking while spending 2 months in a day clinic for depression and burnout. It was exactly what I needed. I

The saga sell remembered: the lost art of TV’s opening narrations

September 27, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

“Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were

Star Trek: The state of the Federation

September 8, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

As Star Trek Day 2024 arrives (that’s the day that the first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC back in 1966) we take a look at the state of the franchise and it where’s

First Contact: ‘Cause and Effect’ Season 5 Episode 18

July 9, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

‘Cause and Effect’ is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation all about a time loop. A time loop? Yes, a time loop.

Buck Rogers Burger Station: remembering Glasgow’s lost restaurant

June 23, 2024 Iain Hepburn Comments Off

Did you know that Glasgow once had a restuarant based on Buck Rogers? Buck Rogers Burger Station opened on Queen Street in 1982.

Steven Moffat interview: ‘Nine and a Half Months’ – Coupling’s finale at 20

June 17, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Coupling, the popular BBC Two sitcom written by Steven Moffat, came to an end 20 years ago with the 28th and final episode, ‘Nine and a Half Months’ airing on 14th June 2004. The show

First Contact: ‘The Outcast’ Season 5 Episode 17

June 5, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

The Enterprise is called in to render assistance to the J’naii after one of their shuttles disappears down a weird space hole.