The third season of The X-Files comes to an end with Talitha Cumi which unearths some Mulder family secrets while advancing the series’ mythology arc. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter from a story he developed with David Duchovny. It first aired on 17 May, 1996. When a shooting at a fast…
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The X-Files (1996) – Quagmire, and Wetwired
Kim Newton takes on one of my favourite subjects in this week’s X-files, the episode features some additional work by Darin Morgan and brings lake monsters into the realm of our two FBI agents, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). The episode first debuted on 3 May, 1996, and featured the final appearance of…
Star Trek: Voyager (1996) – Resolutions, and Basics: Part I
Captain’s log: stardate 49690.1 Jeri Taylor pens this episode that first aired on 13 May, 1996. Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her First Officer, Chakotay (Robert Beltran) have contracted an incurable disease, which forces the Voyager to leave them behind, with Tuvok (Tim Russ) in command to discover a cure. They are left behind on…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – To the Death, and The Quickening
Station log: stardate 49904.2 LeVar Burton directs this episode with a script by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. It first debuted on 13 May, 1996. A devastating attack by Jem’Hadar renegades destroys one of the station’s docking pylons in a raid, and Sisko (Avery Brooks) leads his crew aboard the Defiant in pursuit….
Star Trek: Voyager (1996) -The Thaw, and Tuvix
Captain’s log: stardate unknown Joe Menosky pens this episode from a story by Richard Gadas. It first aired on 29 April, 1996. The Voyager, still continuing its homeward journey comes across a planet that seems to have suffered some disaster, but there are still life signs, from a group in stasis. Unfortunately, when an away…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996) – The Muse, and For the Cause
Station log: stardate unknown Rene Echevarria writes the script for this episode form a story by Echevarria and Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It originally aired on 29 April, 1996. Honestly, I knew this one was gonna be a little bad. I think Lwaxanna Troi (Barrett Roddenberry) has overstayed her welcome as a character. This time she…
Doctor Who (Paul McGann) – The Movie
Seven years after Sylvester McCoy’s last story, Survival, a weird co-production involving Fox television and the BBC, introduced Paul McGann as the Doctor when McCoy regenerated into him after being shot in San Francisco (actually Vancouver), at the end of the 20th century. The story is deeply flawed, conflicts with canon in a number of…
The Mind Reels 