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Tag: Discovery

My 20 Favorite Treks of 2020

Any year in which it was possible to make a TOP TWENTY list of new Star Trek can’t have been all bad, right?

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“Not all tests are announced”: Coming of Age (TNG) vs. Ask Not (Short Treks)

Picard and Pike appear to be in trouble, while Wesley Crusher and Thira Sidhu get the Kobayashi Maru treatment.

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“Keep your freaky to yourself”: The Forsaken (DS9) vs. Q & A (Short Treks)

Elevator troubles lead to awkward moments for Odo, Lwaxana Troi, Spock, and Number One.

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“We can be heroes”: Ephraim and Dot (Short Treks) vs. Children of Mars (Short Treks)

2019 ends and 2020 begins with very different Short Treks, which tell surprisingly similar stories while exploring new sides of Star Trek.

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“He was an idiot”: More Tribbles, More Troubles (Animated Series) vs. The Trouble with Edward (Short Treks)

Tribbles return, in an episode of The Animated Series, and in a Short Trek that only feels animated.

Read More “He was an idiot”: More Tribbles, More Troubles (Animated Series) vs. The Trouble with Edward (Short Treks)

“Previously, on Star Trek”: The Menagerie (Original Series) vs. If Memory Serves (Discovery)

The Original Series revisits its original, unaired pilot episode … and half a century later, so does Discovery.

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“Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)

We look at the evolution of Harry Mudd, as Captain Kirk outsmarts yet another artificial intelligence, and Mudd outsmarts everyone.

Read More “Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)

“The Great Balance is a lie”: A Taste of Armageddon (Original Series) vs. The Sound of Thunder (Discovery)

Prime Directive? What Prime Directive? Kirk and Saru each take the law into their own hands.

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“Flame the dark true salt”: Babel (Deep Space 9) vs. An Obol for Charon (Discovery)

A failure to communicate could be fatal for Saru, and for everyone on board Deep Space Nine.

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“My place is no longer here”: First Contact (TNG) vs. The Brightest Star (Short Treks)

It’s first contact with new life, from the new life’s point of view.

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