During season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager there is an episode called ‘Year of Hell’. It’s pretty self-explanatory; everything that can go wrong for the crew aboard the SS Voyager, does go wrong. Unimaginably so. […]
Tag: sci fi
Rogue One: If this is the face of feminism, we have a long way to go
Whilst sitting at home last week, surreptitiously scrolling tumblr with a cup of tea in hand, I stumbled across a set of title-cards for the new Star Wars film, Rogue One. They had been inspired […]
Black Mirror: Season 3 Review
Watching the new series of Black Mirror in one weekend is one really effective way of leaving your psyche in tatters by Sunday evening. However, it is also something really worth doing, even though series […]
Time of the Month: B’ELANNA TORRES (ST: VOYAGER)
Let’s talk about Star Trek: Voyager. I wrote some of my dissertation on Voyager, and I still maintain that it is one of the most progressive series of all time, and certainly one of the […]
#YouCanSeeThemBoth: ‘Sisters’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
This week, I went to the cinema twice. Considering I’ve only been to the cinema four times in the past year (two of those visits were this week), that’s a pretty incredible achievement for me.
X-Files Revival: An Open Letter to Chris Carter
I probably haven’t mentioned this before, but I am a huge fan of ‘The X Files’. Huge. I’ve watched the series through about five times and considering I only started watching it properly in 2013, […]
Daddy Issues: As Told By ‘Interstellar’ & ‘Contact’
You might have noticed that 90s blockbuster Contact (Robert Zemeckis) and recent sci-fi brainteaser ‘Interstellar’ (Christopher Nolan) have quite a bit in common.