Tag: Star Trek Review
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Discovery S5E7 – “Erigah” Review
Discovery is getting very close to its finale, so we have another week of posting our thoughts on an episode. Burnham and Discovery meet up with a ship carrying Moll and L’ak who have been arrested from intercepting an SOS. On board Discovery, L’ak is in critical condition. They all proceed back to Starfleet HQ…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek Discovery S5E4 – “Face the Strange” Review
The weekly Discovery report is here with a look at a time-travel episode! Moll and L’ak buy some piece of the puzzle or device that will help them get to the Progenitors’ tech. Discovery gets to the coordinates left from the last crew and just as a time bug that Moll has gotten aboard the…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Discovery S5E3 – “Jinaal” Review
It is time again to venture out with Discovery through its final season. The crew is on the track of finding an ancient device that might be the origin of life in the galaxy. It takes them to Trill where another clue is to be found. A former host of a symbiote holds the knowledge,…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Discovery S5E1&2 – “Red Directive” and “Under the Twin Moons” Review
Star Trek Discovery is back for the last time! And we get a rare time to compare two episodes in one week. The season starts with a new mission for Discovery with a red directive. Some couriers by the names of Moll and L’ak are racing Discovery to find a very old puzzle box from…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” S4E10 “Old Friends, New Planets” Review
We’ve reached the season finale of Lower Decks! When we last left them, Mariner was beamed aboard Nick Locarno’s ship. We pick up where things left off, and Locarno explains how he has built a Nova Fleet to be independent, and a sort of revenge for getting kicked out of Starfleet. Mariner remembers how he…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” S4E9 “The Inner Fight” Review
It’s time again for the beginning of the end of the season of Lower Decks! This week has Mariner going off the rails on every mission and risking her life in kamikaze style. It has Captain Freeman worried and she devises a mission plan with Boimler, Tendy, Rutherford, and T’Lyn. Boimler, Tendy, and T’Lyn will…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” S4E7 “A Few Badgeys More”
This week’s Lower Decks was packed with returning villains. Badgey has infiltrated Rutherford’s former implant and is taken aboard a salvage ship. He is able to take over the crew and salvage holo-emmitters. The ship encounters a Binar ship that has been attacked by the strange ship that has attacked many others in past episodes.…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” S4E6 – “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place” Review
Here we are with another Lower Decks week, and this is a very crucial episode in Trek history. Ferenginar and the Ferengi are ready to join the Federation. This also comes after the mysterious ship is seen attacking a Ferengi ship. Rom, the Grand Nagus, can’t keep trading actively with the ship and needs more…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” S4E5 – “Empathological Fallacies” Review
We’ve reached another Lower Decks episode so soon! In “Empathological Fallacies,” the Cerritos is escorting a trio of Betazoids to Risa. The three immediately begin their partying, and suck the crew into it as well. In the lounge, chaos ensues and it seems that the three have telepathically influenced the crew to let loose. Meanwhile,…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” – S4E4 “Something Borrowed, Something Green” Review
We are back with another look at the weekly Star Trek offerings, though a little delayed. Something Borrowed, Something Green opens with an Orion ship being attacked by the mysterious ship that has been attacking other ships. Then, Tendi is invited to her sister’s wedding on Orion, and Becket and T’Lyn talk themselves into coming…
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Two Captains Log: “Star Trek: Lower Decks” – S4E3 “In the Cradle of Vexilon” Review
Lower Decks is plowing ahead with the recent promotions of the main characters. Captain Freeman is trying to fix an ancient computer, Vexilon, that regulates the environment of an artificial planet. She starts to upgrade the operating system, but it freezes the computer which causes chaos across the planet. Boimler is on the surface with…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 “Twovix” and “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee” Review
We are back from shore leave with two episodes of Lower Decks! The season begins with some impending promotions, though Boimler is scared in some way over them (typical Boims). The Cerritos has a mission to help with the making of an exhibit out of the decommissioned Voyager which will also showcase all her key…
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Two Captains Shore Leave: Star Trek: The Animated Series – “One of Our Planets is Missing” Review
The “shore leave” is almost at an end as Lower Decks is set to return soon. But, we take a look at another Animated Series episode where the Enterprise encounters a giant space cloud that seems to consume whole planets! The cloud begins to go after an inhabited planet, and will destroy it in 4…
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Two Captains Shore Leave: Star Trek: The Animated Series – “Yesteryear” Review
As we wait for the next season premiere for a Star Trek show, we are looking at Star Trek: The Animated Series and giving our takes on the episodes. This week is “Yesteryear” which focuses on Spock. The episode begins with Kirk and an away team emerging from The Guardian, which has let them go…
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Two Captains Shore Leave: “Star Trek: The Animated Series” S1E1 – “Beyond the Farthest Star” Review
While there’s a break between Star Trek shows, we thought we’d take a look at some past episodes of Star Trek fame. Shore Leave is going to explore the strange world of the Animated Series on a weekly basis. We’ll watch an episode a week in between new series, and give some reviews Two Captains…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E10 “Hegemony” Review
We are at the season finale of Strange New Worlds and it’s been quite the ride. The episode jumps right into some action as Captain Batel and the Cayuga crew are helping a colony near Gorn space. Nurse Chapel is also assisting on the planet. Pike and Batel are communicating, but their chat is cut…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – S2E9 – “Subspace Rhapsody” Review
The rumored and anticipated musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has arrived! The Enterprise is seeing if they can use a subspace rift to help boost subspace communications. Lt. Kirk arrives on the ship to shadow Number One. Then, when Spock and Uhura experiment with sending music into the rift, a shockwave hits…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – “Those Old Scientists” & “Under the Cloak of War” Review
It has been a while since we’ve had two episodes to review within a week, but Strange New Worlds has released two following one premier at San Diego Comic Con! “Those Old Scientists” The long awaited crossover episode featured the Lower Decks cast in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford are…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – S3E6 – “Lost in Translation” Review
Here we go with another week of Strange New Worlds and some familiarity is coming together. Captain Pike has been promoted to fleet captain, though mostly in charge of a project to accumulate ship fuel in a nebula. The Enterprise is helping get the station ready, but Uhura is hearing a strange noise and not…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – S2E5 – “Charades” Review
Strange New Worlds is plugging along and this week’s episode focuses on Spock. The Enterprise is exploring a moon near Vulcan, Kerkhov, which was home to an ancient and advanced civilization. Pike allows the crew to have some downtime. Spock spends time in many ways, including preparing for his engagement dinner. Nurse Christine Chapel and…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S2E4 – “Among the Lotus Eaters” Review
It’s time, once again, for our thoughts on the Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode of the week. In “Among the Lotus Eaters,” the Enterprise must clean up a mess made on Rigel VII. Previously they had, apparently, contaminated a planet before it had warp capability. Now the inhabitants have established a society around Starfleet.…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S3E3 “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
It’s time again for another review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. This week, Lt. Singh travels back in time after encountering an apparent time agent. But, it is because there is a time variance that she is immune to after grabbing the device the agent gives her. She is aboard the Enterprise, but Captain…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S2E2 – “Ad Astra Per Aspera” Review
We are back with another Strange New Worlds review and this time the gangs all here in the episode. Una AKA Number One is about to go to trial for being a genetically modified person. Captain Pike goes to recruit council from an old friend of Una’s, Neera. She reluctantly agrees to help implying that…
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Two Captains Log: Star Trek Strange New Worlds – S2E1 – “The Broken Circle” Review
We are back with a new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. We begin right where season one left off with Number One been arrested. The Enterprise is in space dock and Captain Pike is off to try to get Number One free. He leaves Spock in charge, but Spock is dealing with emotions…
