Up River was written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, and it first aired on 14 November, 1994. Maurice (Barry Corbin) sends Ed (Darren E. Burrows) up river to find Joel (Rob Morrow) after Maggie (Janine Turner) asked him to move out. And that’s sad, because they seemed on the edge of some serious potential…
Tag: future
Hyperion (1989) – Dan Simmons
Hyperion, an epic tale from Dan Simmons reads like an intergalactic Canterbury Tales. It’s a massive tome that once it got rolling, completely engaged me. A pilgrimage of seven are summoned together to journey to the world of Hyperion. A planet that has a strange mystery at its heart, the time tombs, and a strange…
Stargate SG-1 (2003) – Prophecy, and Full Circle
Oh oh! There are problems for Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec)!While on a mission to a Goa’uld controlled world with the rest of SG-1 he falls ill and is taken from active duty. But not before he has glimpses of the immediate future. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, this episode, the penultimate of season…
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) – Dean Parisot
Bill & Ted came along at just the right time in my life. In 1989, I was a senior in high school, and the characters, their speech, and their general attitudes resonated with me. I joined them on their Excellent Adventure a couple of times in theaters, and in 1991 when they went on a…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – 1969, and Out of Mind
The penultimate episode of season two gives us a little bit of time travel. Written by Brad Wright, one of the showrunners, 1969 first aired on 5 March, 1999. Carter (Amanda Tapping) is updating a gate’s address, working to account for solar gravity, and General Hammond (Don S. Davis) gives Carter a note without a…
Dark Skies (1996) – Inhuman Nature, and Ancient Future
1964 continues to roll on, and John Loengard (Eric Close) and Kim Sayers (Megan Ward) continue their hunt for answers and truth as Bobby Kennedy (James F. Kelly) reveals his longterm plans and what that means for their continued scramble across the country to fight The Hive. This time around, the series explores the cattle…
Klara and the Sun (2021) – Kazuo Ishiguro
I was completely floored by how much I enjoyed Klara and the Sun, a beautiful novel filled with emotion. It is a completely engrossing read and offers perspectives on love, hope, faith, family, and relationships. Klara is an AF, an Artificial Friend, and she spends her day watching the sun, and the people go by…
Deadpool 2 (2018) – David Leitch
Ryan Reynolds returns as the merc with a mouth in Deadpool 2. As funny and as engaging as the first film, this one also throws in a bit of a message, as it’s main villain is the Headmaster (Eddie Marsan) for a reform school for mutants, where they are beaten and abused to drive the…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) – All Those Who Wander, and A Quality of Mercy
All Those Who Wander is the penultimate episode of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and it is determined to make the Gorn the scariest aliens in the Trek universe. Written by Davy Perez, this episode first aired on 30 June, 2022. The Enterprise, which is on a priority mission, receives another…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) – Strange New Worlds, and Children of the Comet
Akiva Goldsman wrote and directed the series opener for Strange New Worlds, which was first broadcast on 5 May, 2022. It had to tie in with the established canon of The Original Series, and what had happened in Star Trek: Discovery during season two. It also riffs on The Day The Earth Stood Still, which…
The Mind Reels 