Well, in prose…haven’t managed to avoid set theory

Some of the TOS spin-off novels from the eighties are explicitly Randian, which is pretty funny.

From his wikipedia page:

In all my years of reading think I’ve only seen nested parentheses once in a book where it was actually the author’s intent to have them—the other handful of times it tended to be remarks from the editor.

It doesn’t strike me as half-heartedly positive but that, even though it is a very good film, IV was also expecting something more.

I remember Rise getting a very good review here, and Tasha Robinson had a cool little thing (on video, IIRC, so probably lost to the sands of time) about watching it as a double feature with Project Nim.

I think the strongly diminishing returns and inability to stick in the broader pop culture universe (the films don’t seem to stick very long in cultural memory, seems to be very little effective merchandising NuTrek-related stuff) means that, if the next series isn’t a success, Trek is probably done except maybe for…

Phipps better be directing some of that Uproxx cash to Laser Age: The Book.

Didn’t they have a report about an interstellar mission playing on the radio in the background in Rise, too? I imagine they eventually want to remake the original, but that’s a cool theory.

It actually took me a while to warm to season four—early on there’s a strange sort of melancholy displacement (as opposed to the usual sort of Farscape displacement) and I have to admit I don’t really care for Grayza, but once it gets moving it’s great.

The only episode of Andromeda I remember had Robert de Lancie and featured something with drug addiction—sci-fi drug drama must be the ultimate de Lancie role. Elementary school me thought it was good, too.

TUSK!

I couldn’t watch it due to bad feelings about all the chimp probably had to put up with very early on. As soon as I saw he’d be playing a big role in the film I went, “Nope, I’ll have a little animal cruelty alarm in my head the whole time and I won’t enjoy any of this.”

I just (or “just,” given that I’m a relatively infrequent commenter now) got a ton of upvotes for old Futurama review comments. I’d assumed it was in anticipation of Kinjapocalypse, but then I checked Netflix this morning and all the original run episodes were gone. Felt like an orphan all excited for rocket-skating…

The actual ending/wrapping up stuff was done wonderfully, to be sure.

How can one not love a show where the baddest mothers in the universe are dependent on orchids?

And thank you, Alasdair, for finally getting me to watch the series! I had trouble with getting too far ahead of reviews when you were writing them regularly—now I’m really wishing I’d spaced them out better so I could better talk about this season.

There’s a big climactic Chrichton-and-wormholes moment near the end that’s awesome but I remember it being otherwise bad, suffering mostly from clearly being a condensation of a season’s worth of story ideas and odd little distracting changes.

How disgusting.

I am very happy this comes up when you (or when I, at least) look up Snow Dogs on Google.