Stargate: Atlantis (2006) – Inferno, and Allies

The penultimate episode of season two finds Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and his team discovering that some new possible allies not only have ancient tech, they may have an ancient warship. Inferno was written by Carl Binder and debuted on 3 March, 2006. While McKay (David Hewlett) helps Norina (Brandy Ledford) with the planetary defense shield,…

Stargate: Atlantis (2004) – Home, and The Storm

Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie wrote Home, which debuted on 10 September, 2004. Sheppard’s (Joe Flanigan) team travel to a mist-enshrouded world, but when they dial the gate to go back to Atlantis, McKay (David Hewlett) makes the discovery that there’s enough energy in the mist field to allow them to dial home. McKay and…

Star Trek: Picard – Firewall (2024) – David Mack

Author David Mack delivers a fast-paced adventure that documents Seven of Nine’s life following Voyager’s return to Earth, and how she ended up working with the Fenris Rangers in Firewall, a Star Trek: Picard novel available on 27 February from Simon & Schuster Canada. Tying itself in with the established canon of not only Star…

The Expanse (2017) – Home, and Paradigm Shift

Eros has moved and is now on a direct course for Earth. And, somehow, it’s speeding up. The Rocinante pursues while its crew, and Miller (Thomas Jane), who is still on Eros, try to find a way to stop it in Home. Written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, this episode first aired on 22…

Quantum Leap: The Wall (1994) – Ashley McConnell

Ashley McConnell turns in another Quantum Leap novel, and except for a quick moment when we are given another limbo moment for Sam between leaps it is a really powerful tale about domestic abuse, alcoholism and breaking the cycle. Sam leaps into Missy, a six-year-old girl (something that couldn’t have been pulled off believably in…

Star Trek: Picard – Last Best Hope (2020) – Una McCormack

It has been a while since I slipped into a Star Trek novel. I’m still back on The Original Series, and the last one I read was 1995’s The Ashes of Eden, the first novel that introduced the Shatner-Verse version of Trek novels. But I was eager to see how the newer novels tied in…

Dunkirk (2017) – Christopher Nolan

When I saw Dunkirk in IMAX this summer, I came out of the theatre with a one word review, “Wow.” Now Christopher Nolan’s brilliant retelling of the British evacuation from Dunkirk comes home on blu-ray and DVD thanks to Warner Brothers. Running at a taut hour and forty five minutes (Nolan’s shortest film since Following),…