Star Trek: Discovery

Discovery Review

There was a moment while watching Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 13 when I suddenly imagined that this is what Game of Thrones would look like in space. After all, suddenly we have swords and emperors and moon-doors (oh my!), and with disrupter fire all over the place, people are being zapped out of existence about as quickly as George R.R. Martin tends to off his fans' favorites. The writers worked a lot of exposition into the dialogue, which tended to slow the pace (... more

Discovery Review

It may have taken us until Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 11, but the series finally managed to make me cheer out loud. We can finally stop pretending to like Tyler and Sarek with a goatee and ... oh my god... EMPEROR GEORGIOU?!? It may be because I never watched the Star Trek Enterprise Mirror Universe arc, but I freakin' LOVE learning about the Terran Empire. There's something so... straightforward about a culture so completely, unblinkingly, unapologetica... more

Discovery Season 3 Episode 12 Review

As someone who really dislikes cliffhangers, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 12 kind of burns my butt as it's really The Empire Strikes Back-esque second act to a THREE-part finale. It's well-written, well-paced, and even manages to pull a few surprises out of the proverbial hat, or -- more accurately, in this case -- the DOT-23 repair drones. But it comes in hot in the immediate aftermath of Osyraa's pirate takeover of Discovery and leaves us with Osyraa still in command... more

'Star Trek: Discovery' Makes Franchise History With First Trans, Non-Binary Characters

In a first for the “Star Trek” franchise, characters who are gender non-binary and transgender will appear on the third season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” CBS All Access announced on Wednesday. Ian Alexander (“The OA”) will play Gray, a trans man who has spent his life as a Trill planning to be a host for a symbiotic alien species that lives in different hosts over its lifetime. Newcomer Blu del Barrio will play Adira, a non-binary character wh... more

Star Trek: Discovery: Season Three; CBS All Access Sets Premiere Date

CBS All Access is taking subscribers back to the final frontier in October. The streaming service has announced that season three of the Star Trek: Discovery TV series will launch on Thursday, October 15th. There will be 13 episodes this time around — the first and second seasons had 15 and 14 episodes, respectively. New third season installments will be released each Thursday. Here’s a press release with some additional details about seas... more

'Silence of the Lambs' Sequel Series Is Officially a Go at CBS

Fans of Silence of the Lambs are going to be well fed this TV season. CBS has officially picked up Clarice, a sequel series to the 1991 film. The show is currently set to debut during the 2020-2021 TV season. The new series stars Rebecca Breeds (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) as Clarice Starling, famously portraye... more