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A replay of the ST:VI courtroom scene, this time with Archer as the defendant, Duras’s progenitor as witness and a Martok stand-in as defending attorney. This plus a trip to Rura Penthe!

You’ll love it. . .it’s BLISS!

Non-corporeal floaty things inhabit our friends – at first, we think they are nice, then we learn they are not. Meh.

Adventure! Intrigue! Excitement!

Archer & Trip thrown onto Ben-Hur like prison ships bound for certain doom. Just as their names are cleared, there is a prisoner revolt. Now what do our boys do? They play each sides, then ultimately save everyone – even the obnoxious li’l space pansy with the fishing lures on his neck.

Awesome.

The Enterprise runs afoul of a TARDIS!

Kind’ve a fun epsiode with lots of nutso sci-fi thrown at you, but really drops off at the end. Bully for seeing (okay, hearing) the Tholians again.

Jeffrey Combs and the Andorians are back – and he’s brought this giantess with him.

Archer once again lays diplomat between the Vulcans and the Blueskins. This time, Ambassador Soval isn’t a total douche.

1/2

A really solid episode of full-frontal Trek, rubbing your face in the hung up attitudes of close-minded people.

T’Pol’s run-in with a mind-melder has left her with a social disease, of sorts, and the dickheads in charge of Vulcan are ready to let her and her kind rot.

This change in Vulcan’s backstory is the one thing I can not accept in Enterprise’s re-writing of history. I understand evolution, but this much change in a few generations for such an advanced species just makes no sense.

The B-Story, of course, is one of Phlox’s wives all hot for Trip. Denobula seems a very fun place!

This is another stranded on the planet’s surface episode with its roots in The Galileo Seven or Enemy Mine, I dunno, various Bewitched episodes where they get stuck in a meat locker. Still, it’s great, though, because Trip is (mostly) great and there are a few unexpected twists on the way to its inevitable conclusion.

Recommended.

I really really enjoyed watching this after drinking.

Read my A-Team review on UGO.com/

This prequel to Alan Moore’s Top 10 doesn’t come anywhere close to the brilliance of the original – or of the sidequel Smax, but it is still tremendously fun to return to Neopolis. There are a few moments here and there of Moore really firing and spitting out ideas as wonderful as anything else in his canon.

Very soon, I think, I will just break and announce I am reading anything with Moore’s name on it. He’s that good.

A great trade paperback put out just before Blackest Night that is a must for fans.

It is Geoff Johns’ GL mixed-tape, essentially, picking out just the stories (going back to Silver Age) that he really digs. Some classic bits I’ve read before, but some deeper cuts, too. Makes for a great collection & Johns’ commentary is (mostly) interesting, too.

This just-concluded arc shows Northlanders has it for establishing tone and getting you in the headspace of brutality and harsh climates.

Story-wise, it doesn’t deliver on its promise, but it is still pretty effing cool to be trapped with this village on the Volga as factions fight for power and one woman fights for survival.

When oh when does the Northlanders movie get announced?

A very inspiring and interesting look at a spontaneously generated market and artform.

You wanna make Palestinian propaganda, fine. . .at least make it well. Make it engaging, not ham-fisted and predictable.

And, try and make a case that’ll get under people’s skin! Is Eminent Domain really the worst thing you could find? They have that at the Jersey Shore! And the big bad Israelis, allowing you to serve injunctions and litigate. The other Middle Eastern nations would just shoot you and be done with it.

Be done with it is about right for this movie.

This is a really bad episode. And, like so many bad ones, it coulda been good. It coulda been about the struggles of the cre coming together under tough circumstances – instead it was some garbage about runaway aliens hiding out on the ship.

I thought this was really funny. You should read my review on UGO.

Good to check in on a mini-arc of a major comic every now and then.

I mostly sunk my teeth into this because Ursa and General Zod were in it. Frankly, since I don’t keep up w/ Superman that much, I wasn’t able to get into it that much. But it looked cool and was (very) fast-paced.

I am going to shock you. I never saw Toy Story 2 before. I’m going to shock you again. I thought it was merely okay. I didn’t feel the oomph of the original. Seemed kinda all over the place. Call me crazy.