• Discovery – caught between a Spock and a hard place…

    Michael heads back to Vulcan in search of answers and clues to where Spock may be and find the answers closer to home than she realised. But will that revelation mean she has no choice but to involve Section 31 and what will be the cost? Meanwhile, back on...
  • Homeland Insecurities: ‘Enemy Within’ survives without due processing…

    Three years ago, a series of attacks resulted in the deaths of the most successful terrorist-hunting operatives working at the CIA and implicated their boss Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) who had given up their identities to one of the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ Mikhail Vassily Tal. Arrested and branded one...
  • Whiskey’s Cavalier Attitude: ABC’s spy-show is lite-beverage…

    Will Chase (Scott Foley) is one of the FBI’s top agents, but even his colleagues are getting somewhat frustrated with his inability to get over the recent break-up of his engagement. Chase might be able to run, jump and handle bad guys with extreme prejudice, but at the moment...
  • Discovery’s ‘Sound of Thunder’ causes some prime directive rumbles…

    When another ‘Red Angel’ signal is located, the crew is mystified that it appears to be above Saru (Doug Jones) homeworld of Kaminar.  As seen in ‘The Brightest Star‘, Saru had left years before and as the society was a pre-warp world, he could never go home again.  But...
  • Heilraiser: Does ‘Overlord’ let the Third Reich One In?

    June 1944 and as Allied Forces get ready for D-Day, a team of soldiers have been tasked with taking down an important transmitter deep in the French countryside.  When their plane is shot down, Corporal, Ford (Wyatt Russell) reminds his few survivors how much depends on the decisions they make...
  • Imperfect, but Trek discovers Stranger Things and the power of love…

    Spock’s shuttle is located but when it’s brought back on board, the pilot is not who the crew expect it to be – and even when they make their mark, Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) cannot reveal the full truth to her Captain.  But the search for the fugitive Vulcan will...
  • Star Trek: Discovery – Lost in Translation, Found in Character…

    While warping in pursuit of what they believe to be Spock’s fugitive ship, the Discovery is suddenly yanked out of warp and finds itself held in place by an object that looks like a dying star. However there’s clearly less obvious forces at work when the universal translator stops...
  • Hanna: An Ingenue Hope comes in from the cold…

    It is 2003 and Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman) breaks into a medical facility in Romania, managing to exit with a young baby girl – and several dead guards in his wake. As he and the baby’s mother flee, they are pursued by all the forces that Marissa (Mireille Enos)...
  • TYPE 40: Rebranding and Regenerating ‘Doctor Who’…

    The new Doctor was certainly a notable shift gender-wise… but there were also some more profound tweaks for Doctor Who this past season. You can hear more of Kyle Wagner, Kevin Reitzel and guest John Mosby’s musings on the subject in the latest edition of the Type 40 Podcast…...
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