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29 Oct

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 3 Review: People of Earth

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This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 3 If you were expecting the Discovery’s return to Earth to become a major plot point in Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, then keep guessing. The show makes a clever and unexpected narrative decision by, upon reuniting our wayward travelers with Michael, almost immediately bringing the crew of the Discovery to Starfleet’s (former) home planet, only for them to find very few answers or comforts there. It’s a bold move, one that tells the crew and the viewers that, while Earth may have been at the…
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29 Oct

Discovery Season 3’s Latest Twist is Straight Out Of Star Trek: Insurrection

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3. In Star Trek: The Original Series, the USS Enterprise never once visited a contemporary version of Earth. Yes, the crew often time-traveled to Earth of the past, but going to the 23rd century of Earth was totally passé. Obviously, the Trek franchise has visited future versions of Earth a ton since then, but in the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3—“People of Earth”—the Trek franchise seems to split the difference. Yes, this episode is about checking out what Earth is like in the 32nd Century, but…
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23 Oct

Did Star Trek: Discovery Just Tease the Michelle Yeoh Section 31 Spinoff?

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Perhaps the crewmember of the USS Discovery who is the most out-of-place in the 32nd Century is the one person who isn’t a member of Starfleet. Michelle Yeoh’s Commander Philippa Georgiou has now changed her own status-quo twice during the run of Star Trek: Discovery. Because she’s not actually from “our” Prime Universe, this is the second time—that we know of—that she’s been yanked into a complex new reality, starkly different than the one she’s used to. And one line from Georgiou in Discovery Season 3, Episode 2, could actually establish the idea that when it comes to hopping around…
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22 Oct

Did Star Trek: Discovery Just Reveal Season 3’s Big Mystery?

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2. Other than Deep Space Nine and elements of Enterprise Season 3, the Star Trek series that cracked serialized storytelling for the Final Frontier was Star Trek: Discovery. And as anyone who has watched TV since 2003 can tell you: season-long mysteries often work best when they’re not actually what you thought they were. In Discovery Season 1, two major twists hinged on secret identities, a concept which was semi-repeated in Season 2 when guessing the identity of “the Red Angel” became the focus of nearly every episode.  But,…
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22 Oct

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 2 Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2. You can read our review of the episode here. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Naked Time,” Scotty famously told Captain Kirk that “I can’t change the laws of physics.” The physics Scotty was talking about applied more to the science fiction rules of how the Enterprise’s warp engines work than real physics, but within Trek a larger point still stands: When it comes to outer space technology, Trek likes to keep its made-up physics fairly consistent. And, even though Discovery is now nine centuries…
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16 Oct

Where Did Star Trek: Discovery Travel to Get Those Gorgeous Shots of Hima?

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Star Trek doesn’t need exotic filming locations to tell a good science fiction story. For decades, this show survived mostly on sound stages and, like most TV series, that’s still where much of its production takes place. However, a few international shoots never hurt a show, right? While the bulk of Star Trek: Discovery films in Toronto, Canada (so, technically abroad for us yankees), the series has occasionally left North America to get some gorgeous shots of other corners of the universe. In Season 1, production traveled to Jordan for the series pilot, using the country’s deserts to film the…
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16 Oct

Is There More to Star Trek: Discovery’s Cat Than Meets the Eye?

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for the Season 3 premiere. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Assignment: Earth,” Spock briefly takes care of Gary Seven’s cast Isis, and admits that he finds himself “strangely drawn to it.” In TNG, Data had his cat, Spot. In Enterprise, Captain Archer had his Beagle, Porthos. In Picard, Jean-Luc traded his fish for a pit bull named Number One. Kirk had a dog named Butler in Generations, and Janeway talked about how much she missed Irish setter, Mollie, in Voyager.  And now, the great pet tradition in Star Trek is…
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10 Oct

A Discovery of Witches Season 2 Trailer Centers Elizabethan Magic

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This A Discovery of Witches article contains spoilers for the ending of Season 1. A Discovery of Witches, like Outlander, is one of the few big-budget genre TV shows that is also unabashedly romance. Based on the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, the screen adaptation follows Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer), a historian and witch who, after discovering a bewitched manuscript in Oxford’s Bodelian Library, is pulled further into a world of magic and danger she has been trying to avoid since she was young. In the process, she meets and falls in love with geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont…
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08 Oct

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and News

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is almost here! We may be waiting a long time for some of our favorite TV shows to come back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but, thankfully, Star Trek: Discovery is not one of them. The cast and crew finished production on the upcoming third season well before the coronavirus hit, which means we’ll be getting new episodes of the Trek show soon. The cast was just on hand at NYCC to tease next week’s Season 3 debut with a sneak peek at the episode’s opening minutes. Check it out… Here’s everything we know about…
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08 Sep

New Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Trailer Arrives

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Today is September 8, the 54th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series on NBC-TV back in 1966. To celebrate that milestone, CBS All Access has launched Star Trek Day, featuring marathons of episodes from all the Trek shows as well as online panels featuring cast and crew members from all nine shows in the Trek universe. With Star Trek: Discovery being the franchise’s current flagship series, it only makes sense that today would also feature the launch of another full trailer for the show’s third season. And here it is! The trailer was introduced by series…
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02 Sep

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Will Introduce Transgender and Non-Binary Characters

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Since the 1960s, Star Trek has been lauded for breaking boundaries when it comes to representation on television. That said, it wasn’t until the 21st century that Star Trek specifically included gay and lesbian characters. But now, the franchise will continue its mission to represent the entire human spectrum in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3. CBS has announced that two new characters in Discovery Season 3 will be non-binary and transgender, respectively. Here are the details on this fantastic, forward-thinking news, and what it might mean for the show’s third season. The two new actors joining Star Trek: Discovery Season…
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07 Aug

A Discovery of Witches Series 2 Confirmed to Air in January 2021

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Despite the delays caused by the industry-wide COVID-19 shutdown, A Discovery of Witches fans had been crossing their fingers for a late 2020 release date for series two. That’s not quite going to happen, but the wait isn’t going to be much longer. On August the 6th, Sky confirmed on Twitter that the new series will arrive in January 2021. Here’s the official Tweet confirming the news: CONFIRMED: #ADiscoveryOfWitches Series 2. January 2021.Matthew and Diana will be timewalking on to #SkyOne and @NOWTV in the UK, following soon after on @sundance_now & @Shudder in the US. Be prepared… pic.twitter.com/f8XvvgDPxc— Sky…
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27 Jul

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Gets October Release Date

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We’ve been waiting for news on the Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 release date for what feels like forever, and now we have it! CBS just announced that the third season of the science fiction show will be coming to CBS All-Access on Thursday, October 15th. New installments of the 13-episode season will be released on a weekly basis via the subscription service. It’s been more than a year since the last episode of Star Trek: Discovery. The Season 2 finale aired back in April 2019, and saw the Discovery jump 950 years into the future, leaving everything and everyone…
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27 Jul

Don’t Look Deeper: Catherine Hardwicke on Self-Discovery via the Turing Test

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For a series called Don’t Look Deeper, Quibi’s sci-fi offering challenges its own title in the opening scene, in which teenager Aisha (Madeline’s Madeline’s Helena Howard) digs into her arm to find the truth beneath her skin. It’s a grisly sequence that mirrors a scene in Alex Garland’s 2014 film Ex Machina, except that Aisha is a biracial young woman, doubting her own personhood, not a white man; and her story takes place in 7-to-10-minute chunks totaling the length of a feature film. This short-form serialized storytelling is a hallmark of the new streaming service, originally intended for commuters and…
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23 Jul

Marjane Satrapi on Madame Curie: ‘Don’t Blame the Scientist’ for the Discovery

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Madame Curie was part of Marjane Satrapi’s life well before Radioactive came along. In fact, she cannot remember a time when she didn’t know of Marie Curie, the Polish-French scientist who discovered two new elements on the periodic table, became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and coined the term “radioactivity” for the type of energy she hypothesized was emanating from the atom. It’s that kind of legacy Satrapi’s mother made sure her daughter was aware of while growing up in 1970s Tehran—a role model who, despite the disadvantages of living in the 19th century, could change the…
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04 Dec

Star Trek: Discovery – Season Two

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Recommended This review necessitates an unusually long premise, so bear with me. I'm a lifelong casual fan of the Star Trek franchise, from the original 1966-69 series through The Next Generation and, a bit less so, Deep Space Nine and all the feature films made up to that point. In the minority, I also regard Star Trek Voyager as the best, most daring of the "Next Generation" era shows, but didn't care for Star Trek: Enterprise, as its post 9/11-era teleplays seemed to swing the Star Trek universe hard to the right, in directions that seemed in stark opposition to…
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29 Nov

Star Trek: Discovery – Season One

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Recommended After the slow-burning fizzle of Enterprise during the early 2000s (no doubt a direct result of franchise over-saturation the previous decade), Star Trek smartly stayed off the small screen for a full twelve years. The overwhelming success of all three reboot films in 2009, 2013, and
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