CBS All Access has been airing lots of new Star Trek shows: Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, and Lower Decks, with more to come. Upon the release of each new episode, my reviews of same have been appearing on Tor.com. Unlike my rewatches of TV shows and movies for the site, these aren’t archived on a single index page, so herewith, a guide to the reviews I’ve done to date (regularly updated).
Discovery Season 1:
“We come in peace” — “The Vulcan Hello” & “Battle at the Binary Stars”
“You helped start a war, don’t you want to help me end it?” — “Context is for Kings”
The Spores Must Flow — “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
“This is so fucking cool!” — “Choose Your Pain”
Good Retcons and Bad B-Plots — “Lethe”
Tough Mudder — “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
If You Want Peace, Prepare for War — “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum“
“Everybody comes home” — “Into the Forest I Go”
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side — “Despite Yourself”
“We are still Starfleet” — “The Wolf Inside”
You Can’t Go Back to the Way Things Were — “Vaulting Ambition”
“We will not accept a no-win scenario” — “What’s Past is Prologue”
Moving Forward — “The War Without, the War Within”
A Waterskiing Dog — “Will You Take My Hand?”
We Come in Pieces — First Season Overview
Short Treks Season 1:
“You’re just so clearly over-caffeinated!” — “Runaway”
“What’s a Betty Boop?” — “Calypso”
Looking Up, Looking Down — “The Brightest Star”
Here’s Mudd in Your Eye — “The Escape Artist”
Discovery Season 2:
“Where’s my damn red thing?” — “Brother”
Simple Pleasures Are the Best — “New Eden”
Meanwhile, Back in the Klingon Empire… — “Point of Light”
Space Oddity — “An Obol for Charon”
The Monster at the End of This Episode — “Saints of Imperfection”
“You brought that hope back with you” — “The Sound of Thunder”
Lost and Found — “Light and Shadows”
Old, New, Borrowed, and Red — “If Memory Serves”
Redshirts, Red Angels, and Red Herrings — “Project Daedalus”
Death, Here is Thy Sting — “The Red Angel”
“How long until the universe wins?” — “Perpetual Infinity”
While I Look Around for My Possibility — “Through the Valley of the Shadow”
“Today rocks!” — “Such Sweet Sorrow”
The Director of Your Opponent’s Fate — “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”
Fight for the Future — Second Season Overview
Short Treks Season 2:
Them’s Good Eatin’! — “The Trouble with Edward”
Back to the Drawing Board — “The Girl Who Made the Stars” and “Ephraim and Dot”
School Daze — “Children of Mars”
Picard Season 1:
Back to the Future — “Remembrance”
“For a relic, you’re in excellent shape!” — “Maps and Legends”
“Engage!” — “The End is the Beginning”
Jean-Luc as St. Jude — “Absolute Candor”
Freecloud’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose — “Stardust City Rag”
“Please, my friends, choose to live” — “The Impossible Box”
“Arroz con leche se quiere casar” — “Broken Pieces”
“I noticed a little turbulence” — “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1”
The Picard Maneuver — “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
Regrets, I’ve Had a Few — First Season Overview
Lower Decks Season 1:
About 60% of a Good Episode — “Second Contact”
What Do You Do with a Drunken Klingon? — “Envoys”
“Nobody can stop you from speaking freely!” — “Temporal Edict”
“Why is it taking so long?” — “Moist Vessel”
“That is messed up!” — “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”
Badgieeeeeeeeee! — “Terminal Provocations”
“Can someone give us some context in here please?” — “Veritas”
“Guys, therapy works!” — “Crisis Point”
Badass Pakleds? Badass Pakleds… — “No Small Parts”
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — First Season Overview
Discovery Season 3:
“I am done being reflexively supportive” — “That Hope is You”
The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be — “Far from Home”
“I will trust you to grow through change” — “People of Earth”
“You’re a responsibility hoarder” — “Forget Me Not”
“Your relationship isn’t very professional” — “Die Trying”
“You had me at ‘unsanctioned mission'” — “Scavengers”
Spock’s Legacy — “Unification III”
Moving the Pieces Forward — “The Sanctuary”
“Execute me, Mother!” — “Terra Firma, Part 1”
“There are no spoils from peace” — “Terra Firma, Part 2”
To Be Free, Face Your Deepest Fear — “Su’Kal”
Yipee-Ki-Yay, Michael Burnham! — “There is a Tide…”
“Wanting is not the same as doing” — “That Hope is You, Part 2”
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