Adama (Edward James Olmos) attempts to deal with the loss of twenty-four ships to Roslin’s (Mary McDonnell) religious ploy, leading them to Kobol, where they await Sarbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and the Arrow of Apollo. Home is a two-part story whose first episode debuted on 19 August, 2005. It was written by David Eick. A number…
Tag: training exercise
Stargate SG-1 (2002) – Proving Ground, and 48 Hours
When SG-1 is sidelined and O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is injured, a group of young SGC recruits will have to take action and retake Stargate Command- with some help and guidance from O’Neill. Written by Ronald Wilkerson this episode first debuted on 8 March, 2002. The episode opens with training exercises that re-introduces us to…
Angel Has Fallen (2019) – Ric Roman Waugh
This time it’s personal. The second sequel in the ‘Has Fallen’ series is probably the worst of the bunch and lacks the scope of the first two films, and while there are a couple of interesting action sequences there’s nothing matching the scale of the previous entries. Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) is now the president, there’s…
Southern Comfort (1981) – Walter Hill
Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine star alongside Peter Coyote, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, Alan Autry, T.K. Carter, Les Lannom, Lewis Smith and Brion James in this gritty action thriller that finds a squad of nine National Guardsmen fighting for their lives in the Louisiana Bayou in what was supposed to be just a training exercise….
Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru (1989) – Julia Ecklar
With a framing story set after the events of The Motion Picture, but with the uniforms introduced in The Wrath of Khan, so sometime during the second big mission, The Kobayashi Maru is more a collection of short stories as each member in a damaged shuttle tells a tale of their encounter with the famous…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – The Way of the Warrior
Station log: stardate 49011.4 Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe pen the fourth season opener that sees Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) settle into his iconic look, and the Enterprise’s Worf (Micheal Dorn) joining the crew. With an original broadcast date of 2 October, 1995, the season opened with a Klingon fleet arriving at Deep…
The Mind Reels 