Except Mickey Rourke.

Thank you. Almost every Starfleet captain in TOS besides Kirk was either amoral, insane, or both. I thought it was kind of brilliant to explore how the crew of a ship with that kind of skipper would handle it. (Also interesting—other than Lorca, none of the main cast are bridge officers. Another perspective Trek…

You’re 100% right. Neither is the first story to have adolescents in a death-match run by an oppressive dystopian regime (Stephen King’s The Long Walk predates both of them by decades) and they’re completely different works besides.

A real mixed bag of titles there. A couple of really great episodes, and a few...not very great episodes.

From the ground up, you can tell this whole book was designed not just to sit in the hobby store next to the TSR and Chaosium products where the gamer nerds were likely to pass it by, but in your local mall bookstore, hoping to entice some school-aged fan of the movies who’d never seen a d20 but had plenty of…

That’s a great explanation, but there is one objective measure of time on GOT: the age of Gilly’s baby. I don’t think he looks older than a year and a half, but it’s not impossible he’s just a very small toddler.

50 lbs, not kg. So more like 23 kg.

In fairness, these are mostly modern terms we use to keep different historical sword types straight. So now we realize the longsword, bastard sword, and hand-and-a-half sword are referring to basically the same weapon, and the one-handed arming/”knight” sword is something different. (A “broadsword” usually refers to a…

For a more cyberpunk feel, check out some synthwave, a genre that aims to recreate the hacker/neon-noir/modern horror vibe of 80s films. Carpenter Brut and Perturbator are my faves, but there’s tonnes more out there. Most of this stuff is pretty high tempo and high energy.

... Egyptian gods, the Golden Fleece, extraterrestrial devices...

Well, if it’s a college library, it’s probably Library of Congress Classification sort.

Probably not, but the man definitely deserves a steady paycheque.

It’s the only run I’ve read! And we wouldn’t have The Authority or Planetary without it.

I agree the man was hardly a saint and his birthplace shouldn’t be treated like the manger in Bethlehem or something. It’s a house being rented out a few days for a crappy movie, not a shrine.

The obsolescence whiplash is nuts, though. Logan’s Run won an Oscar for Best Special Effects, and the very next year Star Wars came out and made everything that came before it look so cheap and dated.

Nailed it. It’s hard to still be engaged by the works that burned the house down 30 years ago when their successors have only been playing in the ashes ever since*.

Apparently the pilot will air on CTV, and the rest of the episodes on Space. Everything later streams on Crave.

As a Canadian if I can just give my money directly to CBS I’m on board. Anything to keep another nickel out of Bell Media’s hands.

Nailed it. Up to that point, it’s not flawless, but it’s easily on track to a spot in the top 5 of Trek films. After that moment it’s just bad idea after bad idea and just throws away half the themes that were set up at the beginning.

That’s a great summary!