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Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel becomes a six part BBC series with A24 producing, and the pedigree alone makes this one of 2027’s most interesting bets. The premise: a secret government department rescues people from history, and a civil servant named…
Section 31 is the worst Star Trek movie ever released, a distinction that required effort in a franchise that produced The Final Frontier. Michelle Yeoh’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou, the magnificent sadist who was the best thing about Discovery, gets her…
The best of the Kelvin trilogy, and the one that understood what made the cast click. Justin Lin took over directing and, with Simon Pegg co writing, ditched the Earth shaking stakes for a survival story: the Enterprise is shredded…
Into Darkness is the most handsome Trek film and the most dishonest one. The surface is spectacular: a volcano rescue and a London bombing open the film with real verve, Benedict Cumberbatch’s John Harrison is a mesmerizing presence, all velvet…
The reboot that should not have worked, worked. J.J. Abrams took the most venerable property in science fiction, cast a young ensemble in icons older than they are, and used a time travel plot to justify starting the universe over:…
The film that killed the Next Generation era is a grim, derivative slog that fundamentally misunderstands its own cast. Nemesis grafts Wrath of Khan’s bones onto a Wrath of Khan inferior plot: a clone of Picard named Shinzon has seized…
Insurrection feels like a two part episode that got a theatrical budget and never noticed. The Enterprise crew rebels against Starfleet orders to protect the Ba’ku, six hundred people on a planet whose rings emit radiation that reverses aging, from…
The best Next Generation film by a parsec, and one of the best Treks of any era. First Contact sends the Enterprise E back in time to stop the Borg from assimilating the Earth of 2063, the night before humanity’s…
The handoff film between two Enterprise crews is a movie at war with itself, one story trying to retire a legend while another sets up the next generation on film. Generations opens with a bravura prologue, Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov…
The perfect send off for the original crew is a Cold War parable that arrived the week the actual Cold War ended. An ecological catastrophe forces the Klingon Empire to sue for peace, and Kirk, whose son was murdered by…