Star Trek V: (Beyond) The Final Frontier?
If you ask any Trekker which is the worst of the original series movies, they’ll tell you Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. In it, Kirk and company’s shore leave (on Earth) is cut short because they’re required to take a very new but underprepared Enterprise 1701- A to Nimbus III, where Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ambassadors have been taken hostage. When they get there, the Enterprise’s crew find the mastermind is Sybok, Spock’s half-brother – a man we never knew existed – and that this has all been a ploy. Sybok has an ability to free people from their psychological and emotional pain, after which they become unquestioningly devoted to…
The Mandalorian and Grogu
The Mandalorian and Grogu has hit the cinemas. The Mandalorian. And Grogu. This is what Disney have reduced the mighty Star Wars franchise to: a guy in a helmet (the actor himself not under the helmet most of the time, and dubbing in his lines later) and a little green puppet. The first season of The Mandalorian was solid but unspectacular and written much like an adventure game. Go here. Do this. Get reward. Now go here. Some episodes, that’s pretty much all the Mandalorian did. The Mandalorian himself wasn’t that interesting a character. They traded off Boba Fett’s mystique to give us somebody similar, but with a more relatable code of ethics. In…