Discovery Season 4 Episode 02 “Anomaly” Review After the catastrophic events of the Season 4 Premiere, the show slows down to ask us the question: is Booker okay? The answer to that question isn’t all that surprising, but the magic…
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Discovery Season 4 Premiere Excels
Red Shirt Rejects host Kyle Nelson gives us a review of Star Trek Discovery’s Season Four premiere episode.
Star Trek Discovery Has *Mostly* righted the ship in solid midseason episode
As a TV critic watching Star Trek Discovery has been one of the weirdest experiences of my life (not my real life mind you, just the TV critic life I live in my head). I have always loved Star Trek.…
Star Trek Discovery Review: How to Do a Good Thing Badly
The first episode of the newest Star Trek series has finally graced the small screen. When I say the first episode, I really mean what CBS wanted you to think was two episodes (but I’ll get to that in a…
The Enemy Within: A Daring Trek Episode
“The Enemy Within” is a pretty standard episode for early Trek. It has a great premise, with solid performances by most of the cast, executes on a somewhat interesting premise by subtlety touching on a far more interesting and controversial…
The Naked Time: Why Was This Done Twice?
Finishing this episode was … difficult. It’s full of slapstick moments, life threatening peril, and a complete lack of suspense in between some brilliant character moments. How, exactly, did this episode get made twice?
Where No Man Has Gone Before: A Brilliant Beginning
Star Trek, like any other series, had some ups and downs, but most came right at the beginning. Besides the fact that it took a year to get off the ground, they were forced to go back to the drawing…
Charlie X: The Oedipal God-Child
There is a ton of content packed into this episode. Unlike the previous entry, “The Man Trap” this episode actually takes full use of its fifty minute run time. That being said, it’s not a perfect episode.
The Man Trap: The Monster of the Week Prototype
“The Man Trap” was actually the first episode of Star Trek to air on television, even though it was actually the sixth episode in production, it never the less serves as a great starting point to meet the crew of…
The Cage: What Could Have Been
Star Trek’s original pilot has a sordid and somewhat fabled history in the development of the Trek franchise. The fact of it’s existence isn’t so different from an innumerable amount of pilots out there, but what is unusual is that…