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03 Jun

Link Tank: Jack Quaid on Lower Decks, Superman, and The Boys Season 3

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Jack Quaid has been slowly invading fandoms. His latest feat? Voicing Superman in HBO Max’s upcoming animated series My Adventures With Superman. “Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks.“ Read more at Inverse. This June marks the 51st anniversary of the first ever pride march in the U.S. Learn some historical facts about Pride Month, and how it came…
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18 May

Link Tank: Twitch to Lower Subscription Prices Based on User Location

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Twitch subscriptions are about to get a lot cheaper for people who don’t live in the United States. “Regardless of where you are in the world, a Tier 1 subscription to a Twitch channel costs $4.99. However, over the next few months that’s set to change, and Twitch subs are getting cheaper for the vast majority of people outside the US. Twitch has announced the introduction of local subscription pricing…” Read more PCMag. A new survey by YouGov shows that some people think they can take on a grizzly bear in a one-on-one fight. “Since many animals never cross paths…
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03 Mar

WandaVision Finale: Should Marvel Fans Lower Their Expectations?

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This article contains spoilers for WandaVision You could say it all started with one Paul William Bettany. Last month, the star of Marvel’s WandaVision got fans’ attention when he started teasing a new character arriving in the MCU spinoff series that had miraculously survived online leaks, which in turn meant that Evan Peters’ “Pietro” Maximoff definitely wasn’t who he was referring to. “There is one character that has not been revealed,” Bettany told Esquire. “And it is very exciting. It is an actor I’ve longed to work with all of my life. We have some amazing scenes together and I…
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09 Oct

Star Trek: Lower Decks Continues What Is Becoming a Trek Season Finale Tradition

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This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Picard. As the enemy starships are closing in, and all hope is lost, our heroes in a battered starship look up, and see that: yes, another ship has just warped in. They’re about to be rescued! Everything is going to be OK!  In Star Trek, we’ve gotten used to this kind of last-minute starship rescue scene, with the most famous example probably being the Enterprise-E coming to the rescue of Worf and the Defiant in Star Trek: First Contact. But, in the Lower Decks Season 1 finale,…
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08 Oct

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 10 Review: No Small Parts

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Since it debuted, Star Trek: Lower Decks has made no bones about being a quirky sequel to The Next Generation. Yes, there are Easter eggs from Deep Space Nine to Enterprise, but the tone and spirit of the show is firmly TNG. And, in the finale episode of its first season, Lower Decks brings back a tradition that TNG arguably perfected: The season finale that makes you love the show ten times more than you already did. The season finale of Lower Decks — “No Small Parts” — is not the best…
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08 Oct

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Finale Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains MAJOR spoilers for the Season 1 finale. In terms of references, if “No Small Parts” was the only episode of Star Trek you’d ever seen, you would have been given a crash course on the entire franchise. Seriously, if you wanted to explain to someone, very quickly, what Star Trek was about, it would probably be easier to just have them watch the 26-minutes of the Star Trek: Lower Decks finale, “No Small Parts.” The Easter eggs and references start with The Original Series and end up with a big shout-out to the…
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01 Oct

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 9 Review: Crisis Point

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 9 If you had to pick one Star Trek thing to represent the entire franchise and put that piece of media on a Golden Record, would you select an excellent Trek movie or a fantastic Trek episode? This division is at the heart of “Crisis Point,” a brazen episode of Lower Decks that brings a fresh perspective to the basic differences between Trek movies and Trek episodes.  And though this episode is startlingly on-the-nose, it paradoxically makes an argument that maybe, the very best of Trek can…
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24 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 8 Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers. If anyone was on the fence as to whether or not the Lower Deckers in Star Trek: Lower Decks were also giant in-universe Star Trek fans, the latest episode, “Veritas,” will reveal the truth. Mariner, Rutherford, Tendi and Boimler know their Trek history better than most real life Trekkies. And to prove it, this episode has more Easter eggs and deep-cuts than (mabye) all the other episodes combined. From discussions about the hair styles of obsecure TNG characters, to some very big homages to a big seen in Star Trek VI, this…
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24 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 8 Review: Veritas

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. One of the reasons Star Trek is is so resilient is that it has the ability to dip into a variety of genres. From whodunnit mystery to gothic romance to several straight-up westerns, Trek is much more than a simple space opera. But, the one genre we sometimes forget that Star Trek freaking loves is the courtroom drama. In the latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the USS Cerritos reminds us that for whatever reason, sometimes the best way to explore the Final Frontier is inside of something…
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24 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Post-Voyager Q Explained

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains minor spoilers for “Veritas.” The voice-cameo of Jon de Lancie as Q in Episode 8 of Lower Decks is easily the series’ biggest callback to Star Trek: The Next Generation yet. In fact, the way Q appears in this episode is very reminiscent of how we think of him in TNG, down to his iconic judge’s robes, and his taunts about “testing humanity.” But, on some level, it feels like Q has actually regressed a bit. He’s still hilarious, but wasn’t he slightly more responsible the last time we saw him in canon?…
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18 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks – Is That an Edosian?!?

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This article contains Star Trek: Lower Decks spoilers. Because it happens in 2380, Star Trek: Lower Decks is, in theory, a direct sequel to ‘90s era of the franchise. But, spiritually, it sometimes feels like more of a sequel to the first animated Trek series, the 1973 show Star Trek: The Animated Series. So far, Lower Decks has brought back one very obscure shape-shifting alien from that show (the Vendosian in Episode 2) and made references to at least one other, specifically the plant-based aliens the Phylosians in Episode 5. But the throwback alien reference in Star Trek: Lower Decks…
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17 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 7 Review: Much Ado About Boimler

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 7 Unlike the most recent Star Trek shows, one of the appealing things about Star Trek: Lower Decks is that nearly all of its episodes are self-contained. There hasn’t been a season-long mystery to solve, and for the most part, you can watch the episodes totally out of order. That said, there is one nagging mystery that was quietly mentioned in the very first episode, that finally, appears to have been solved. Basically, is Ensign Mariner good at her job on accident or occasionally bad at her…
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10 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 6 — Riker & USS Titan Easter Egg Explained

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This STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS review contains spoilers. Because Star Trek: Lower Decks happens right after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, we know a few things about the TNG crew of the USS Enterprise at this time. For one thing, Picard is still in command of the USS Enterprise-E—at least he will be for the next few years. But, in the latest episode of Lower Decks—“Terminal Provocations”—we also got one roundabout reference to Will Riker, Deanna Troi, and the starship USS Titan. Here’s what the Titan Easter egg at the end of “Terminal Provocations” means, and why it might create yet…
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09 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks to Feature John De Lancie as Q

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During the panel for Star Trek: Lower Decks on Tuesday (September 8) as part of CBS All Access’ Star Trek Day festivities, showrunner Mike McMahan revealed that two legacy Star Trek actors will both make appearances during the second half of the animated series’ premiere season. First, McMahan spilled that John de Lancie will make a brief cameo as Q, the all-powerful, extra-dimensional entity who made his very first appearance on the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Encounter at Farpoint,” back in 1987. De Lancie’s Q became a recurring foil for Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), appearing…
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03 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 5 – All the Easter Eggs and References

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This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 5. This episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks pays tribute to the oldest Trek monster of them all, slips in a few overt references to Enterprise, and even gives us a Geordi La Forge teddy bear. Although Star Trek Day isn’t until next week, on September 8, Star Trek: Lower Decks is paying tribute to the first aired Trek episode of all time by stuffing its latest episode with more references to the franchise than its ever done before. Yes, somehow, “Cupid’s Errant Arrow,” seems to have more shout-outs and…
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03 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks DS9 Flashback Raises Canon Questions

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Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 5, “Cupid’s Errant Arrow.”  In Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 5, “Cupid’s Errant Arrow,” we get our first flashback of this series. This flashback takes us back to very familiar territory, specifically some uniform styles we’ve seen before, and a very familiar space station. But, beyond the novelty factor, what did this scene tell us about Star Trek canon relative to Lower Decks? Here’s what this brief flashback reveals, and what it might mean for a new way to think about Trek canon as a whole. When the Star Trek: Lower Decks…
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03 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 5 Review – Cupid’s Errant Arrow

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 5 Sherlock Holmes once said (while kind of quoting the King James Bible) “there’s nothing new under the sun.” For serious science fiction writers and fans, this tends to be true, too. After all, the website TV Tropes is dominated by sci-fi plot devices for a reason. What has always made Star Trek unique is that it’s dodged the worst kinds of sci-fi plot devices, or, at the very least, made cheesy sci-fi plot devices seem new and interesting? Or…maybe…Star Trek succeeded because it leaned-into some of…
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01 Sep

Is Star Trek: Lower Decks Canon? Here’s How to Settle the Debate

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Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes 1-4. When it comes to heated fandom discussions about what counts and what doesn’t count, relative to “canon,” the only thing more hotly debated than Star Wars canon, is easily, Star Trek canon. Back in the ‘70s, if you dipped into the letters sections of certain fanzines, you’d find people who argued that the third season of The Original Series wasn’t canon because some of the episodes didn’t make sense or were just outright bad. (We’re looking at you, “Spock’s Brain.”) The point is, debating specific aspects of Star Trek as non-canon…
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27 Aug

Star Trek: Lower Decks Haley Joel Osment Cameo Explained

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Although the mother-daughter dynamic between Captain Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) and Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) dominates much of the newest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, you may have noticed a familiar name pop-up in the credits as part of the guest cast. No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. That did say “Haley Joel Osment.” And, yes, he was a huge part of the episode. Here’s what’s up with O’Connell, the guy who wants to ascend to a higher plane of existence… Throughout the episode, Tend (Noël Wells) is obsessed with…
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27 Aug

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 4 Review: Moist Vessel

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 4 When Star Trek: The Next Generation boldly explored the idea of having families onboard the USS Enterprise the series didn’t really know how that was going to play out, other than the fact that Wesley Crusher was going to randomly save the ship every couple of weeks. But, other than Captain Kirk’s son David Marcus in The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock, the Trek franchise has rarely explored what it’s like when adult children work alongside their parents in Starfleet. But in “Moist…
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