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Star Trek: Lower Decks – 04 – Bad Lieutenant
For a show with Lower Decks in the title, there sure is a lot of time spent on the senior officers. And while they’re an equally colorful bunch, I’d…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks – 03 – Buffer Time
While in the turbolift trying to make small talk with the captain, Boimler ends up letting slip two words no senior officer should ever hear: buffer time. Once she…
Star Trek: Lower Decks – 05 – Red(shirt) Herring
This is one of those fast-paced grab-bag episodes where nearly every member of the main cast is given time to shine, yet doesn’t feel overstuffed. We start with…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks – 09 – No Need For Theatrics
Ensign Mariner is in the midst of helping lizard people overthrow their oppressive masters (who also have a habit of eating them) and earnestly thinks she’s finally done…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks – 02 – Sam of All Trades
I recently watched the TNG episode “Time Squared”, which featured a lot of sweet shuttlebay porn. The Enterprise-D’s shuttlebay is gleaming and spotless, but that’s just whe…
Star Trek: Lower Decks – 06 – Not-So-Hollow Pursuits
For its latest not-so-glamorous mission, the Cerritos is in a standoff with alien junk traders attempting to salvage 100-year-old Starfleet debris (you know it’s old when the registries…
Star Trek: Lower Decks – 07 – Boim Us Outta Here!
Tendi has science’d-up the ultimate dog that is more than a dog (a la The Thing and with shades of TNG’s “Aquiel”). Captain Freeman, Ransom and Shaxs go…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks – 08 – Out of the Space Loop
Hoo boy, this was one extra-stuffed, extra-caffeinated episode of Lower Decks! We begin by being thrown into an unknown situation with the core quartet: a sinister dungeon, then an…
Star Trek: Lower Decks — The Misadventures of Mary Sue and Failguy
Also Tech Super Nerd and Manic Pixie Girl. If you somehow haven't noticed, I have a bit of a soft spot for Star Trek. Specifically TNG and…
Star Trek: Lower Decks – 10 (S1 Fin) – Nor Yet Favor to Women of Skill…
If you watched TOS you know about Beta III and how its pre-warp civilization was ruled by computer Landru until Captain Kirk shut it down. Apparently problem solved, but…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is All About Assumptions and the Ass They Make Out of You and Me
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Star Trek: The Enemy Within
There’s a lot to be said about the themes classic Trek tackles, but The Enemy Within is, to my reckoning, one of the first important ones. It’s not…
Star Trek: The Naked Time
I want to know who in Starfleet contacted Kirk and said “Hey, Jim, need you to find a planet that’s about to implode, sit there watching it, get…
Star Trek: Mudd’s Women
The episode opens with the Enterprise in pursuit of a ship through an asteroid field. It is not the Millennium Falcon! I think this is the first time…
Star Trek: Charlie X
When I was a kid, we rented a house in Lavallette NJ. My cousin and I would stay up late to watch Star Trek at 12 midnight, and…
OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #884) Star Trek
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Star Wars Visions First Impressions
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September Bonus Review: Star Trek The Animated Series
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the Star Trek franchise. The original series, Next Generation and Deep Space 9 all hold a special place in my…
Zenshuu. – 01 (First Impressions) – The Animator
Well now, that was fun. Anna Nagase (of Summertime Render) voices animation director Hirose Natsuko, made famous by her tv anime debut, Sukeban Magical Girl Dark Academy. But now she’s…
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Back Arrow: AniTAY First Impressions
The title for this series is a pun on the Japanese word for “dumbass.”
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December Bonus Review #3 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Shachibato! – 01 (First Impressions) – Zzzzzzz
My impressions of Shachibato are…non-existent. Its world is okay-looking but the characters that populate it are so bland and their adventuring is almost offensively lightweight and low stakes.…
Hamefura – 01 (First Impressions) – Avoiding the Inevitable
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Spring 2021 First Impressions: Back From the Vault
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Star Trek: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
We start this episode, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, on a mission to reunite nurse Chapel with her former fiancé, Roger Corby. Ok, maybe the mission was…
OSMcast: Star Trek (2009 Movie) 05-18-2009
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10 Tips & Tricks for Starting Star Trek: Legends
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Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Arguably one of the most unnerving episodes of Classic Trek, Where No Man has Gone Before features Captain James R. Kirk’s school friend, Gary Mitchell. They are so…
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VTuber Legend – 01 (First Impressions) – #WakeUpAwayuki
VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream stars Sakura Ayane clearly having a hell of a good time as the voice of Kokorone…
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Isekai Ojisan – 01 (First Impressions) – SEGAwakening
Isekai Ojisan (Uncle from Another World) starts off efficiently and confidently. Takafumi’s uncle suddenly wakes up after 17 years in a coma. At first his nephew things he’s…
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SSSS.Dynazenon – 01 (First Impressions) – Battle, Go!!
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Gibiate – 01 (First Impressions) – Samurai Pandemico
Okay, this might not seem like the best time for an anime about a goddamn pandemic, but there are times when battling literal monsters seems preferable to the current…
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Ex-Arm – 01 (First Impressions) – NOPE
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Higehiro – 01 (First Impressions) – Inadvertent Guardian
Yoshida had the evening with his attractive co-worker Gotou all planned out in his head. They’d have a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant, and if things went…
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2.5 Dimensional Seduction – 01 (First Impressions)
Okumura Masamune is a 2nd year high schooler and proud otaku who considers the manga/anime character Liliel his waifu and detests 3D girls, until one of them suddenly…
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Second First Impressions – Baccano! 01-02
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After a suitably creepy dream that seems to set the tone, Summertime Render then suddenly seems to stumble, with Ajiro Shinpei waking up with his face all up in a…
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「飛んで来た男にパンツはあるか」 (Tonde Kita Otoko ni Pantsu wa Aru ka) "Do Guys From the Sky Have Undies?" Cowboys & Aliens 2: The Chinese Connection
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The Apothecary Diaries – 01 (First Impressions) – A Big Promotion
Maomao (Yuuki Aoi) lives a simple but fulfilling life in Imperial China as an apothecary, growing medicinal plants, making medicines, and making deliveries to clients in the red-light…
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Call of the Night – 01 (First Impressions) – Carpe Noctem
Now that’s what I’m freakin’ talkin’ about! Call of the Night is a pitch-perfect vampire rom-com from start to finish with a keen understanding of how to set tone and atmosp…
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Takt Op. Destiny – 01 (First Impressions) – Settling the Score
It’s 2047, and music is banned. If it’s ever played, fearsome alien monsters called D2 arrive and fuck shit up. So when young man sits at a lovely…