Jean Lorrah, who had previously penned Survivors for The Next Generation book series delivered the first Giant Novel in the Star Trek line. Once again, it focuses on Data. Sure Data was an interesting character, but the rest of the Enterprise-D crew gets the short-shrift in this story. But that may be a blessing for…
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Alien: Earth (2025) – Neverland
Disney did me a huge favor and sent me the first six episodes of their new Alien: Earth series to take a look at. I only watched one. And let me tell you, it’s not because I hated it. Oh no. I knew I could sit there and easily devour all six episodes that they…
Monday Musings – The Movie Tie-In Saga
I’ve always been an avid reader. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t have at least one book on the go. And, I loved my movies. When I was a kid all the way up through the end of high school I was a devout fan of the movie tie-in book….
Alien: Out of the Shadows (2014) – Tim Lebbon
It’s been a long time since I picked up an Alien novel. I dug the Alien 3 novel based on the original script by William Gibson, and before that I read Alan Dean Foster’s adaptation of Aliens bach when it first came out. But I was eager to dig into the universe again, I was…
The Visitor (1979) – Giulio Paradisi
The Visitor is a bizarre, so bad it comes around to be good sci-fi/horror film that is just bizarre. Its happenings are so strange, you can’t take your eyes off the screen, and like I said, it’s so bad, it’s actually good, in a really bad way. Aliens are fighting on the planet Earth. At…
Farscape (2001) – Self Inflicted Wounds: Part 1 (Could’a, Would’a, Should’a), and Part 2 (Wait for the Wheel)
Zhaan (Virgina Hey) is dying, she needs to get to a planet that has an environment she can survive in. But on the way, Moya detects a wormhole but before Crichton (Ben Browder) takes off to investigate, a cluster of ships emerge, and one of them joins with Moya mid-starburst. Self Inflicted Wounds is a…
Stargate SG-1 (2003) – Disclosure, and Forsaken
It doesn’t happen often in this series, but I think we were due for one. It’s the SG-1 clip show! A framing story, written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, sees Hammond (Don S. Davis) and Major Davis (Colin Cunningham) briefing representatives from other governments. They are revealing the existence of the Stargate program to…
Farscape (1999) – Durka Returns, and A Human Reaction
The Farscape universe expands again as we are introduced to the Nebari, Chiana (Gigi Edgley)! Durka Returns first aired on 13 August, 1999 and was written by Grant McAloon. When Moya starbursts and accidentally collides with a small craft, Aeryn (Claudia Black), Crichton (Ben Browder), Zhaan (Virginia Hey), D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe) and Rygel (voiced by…
Stargate SG-1 (2000) – Small Victories, and The Other Side
Season four got underway on 30 June, 2000 with Small Victories, which continues the story started in the season three finale with the Replicators! Written by Robert C. Cooper, the episode picks up shortly after the end of the finale, with a Replicator. It boards a Soviet sub, and begins to wreck havoc. The only…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – The Devil You Know, and Foothold
Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) drinks the blood of Kali as Apophis (Peter Williams) tortures her with her memories in an attempt to find a way to escape Sokar’s (David Palffy) hell-planet, Netu. Picking up where the last episode left us, The Devil You Know was written by Robert C. Cooper this episode first debuted on…
The Mind Reels 