• How I Would've Done It,  Inside Entertainment

    Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager is the worst Star Trek show. And by that I don’t mean it’s the fifth-best Star Trek show. I mean it’s just a bad show. And, yes, it’s worse than Star Trek: Enterprise, which wasn’t very good either. But at least Enterprise had some interesting crew and tried to do a few things, although it annoyingly ignored canon at times. Still, that’s better than Star Trek: Voyager, which was an exercise in the writers growing far too comfortable (read: complacent) with the genre and the era.   What Works Interesting premise, flinging the ship and crew seventy thousand light years from Federation space. One query with this…

  • Inside Entertainment,  Reviews

    Exploring Star Trek into Darkness.

    I’m sorry. I just have to go back and give Star Trek into Darkness another punch in the head. The reason? Because people like it, they actually like it, and whilst I understand entertainment is subjective, whilst usually I will respect others’ opinions, as far as this movie goes (with Man of Steel close behind), I can’t. To this end, I’m going to provide a breakdown of Star Trek into Darkness’s teaser to illustrate how moronic it is. The Set-Up Here’s a brief synopsis of the opening: the crew of the Enterprise are trying to stop a volcano from blowing up and wiping out a primitive race on an alien…