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Lower Decks “Fully Dilated” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:00:54 +0000

Penis, bums, and willies, or are we just saying the double entendres are not intentional in an episode called “Fully Dilated”? Directed by Megan Lloyd again, I know before I see more than a minute of the episode that we’re going to get pretty solid direction from the former storyboard artist. From a name we know to a writing assistant we don’t, Andrew Mueth takes the helm…

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Lower Decks “Of Gods and Angels” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:00:02 +0000

So what exactly happened to Captain Carrol? Directed by Brandon Williams, this is his penultimate episode before we cover “Fissure Quest” towards the end of Lower Decks. I’ve previously covered what Williams has done in his other episode of the season, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel.” This episode was written by “Dos Cerritos” and “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee” writer Aaron Burdette. Once again…

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Lower Decks “Starbase 80?!” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:00:52 +0000

Right, someone needs to get the razors out now, it is getting more than ridiculous. Back once again with the renegade master, Bob Suarez, this is his penultimate episode as director, previously working on Big Mouth and Solar Opposites, as well as previously being a storyboard artist for Daria in seasons 3-5. While previously being an assistant to Mike McMahan here in season 2, and an assistant to…

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Lower Decks “A Farewell to Farms” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:00:55 +0000

Do you have no humanity? There is no need to get a man out of his bed for Sto’vo’kor. Directed by “Dos Cerritos” director Megan Lloyd, there isn’t much to say about her directorial career given she’s only ever done Lower Decks. While story editor and writer Diana Tay writes her first and I believe only episode for Lower Decks. Something she’s used to as she’s written one episode for Pen15…

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Lower Decks “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:00:23 +0000

The Best Exotic Heart of Darkness Hotel. Directed by former storyboard artist, Brandon Williams, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” is his fourth of five stories directed by him. With prior work on the 2017 reboot of Wacky Races, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, and a lot of work on Solar Opposites. Williams also appears in several reviews of Lower Decks (his episodes) for The 7th Rule…

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Lower Decks “Shades of Green” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:00:59 +0000

Come on, roll daddy some double sixes and let this war continue. I’m next on the ICC’s list, aren’t I? Directed by Bob Suarez, best known to us for directing multiple episodes across four of the five seasons, including “Something Borrowed, Something Green.” This time the writing credit goes to Keith Foglesong, a newbie to the realm of Trek to this point, but has worked on other shows…

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Lower Decks “Dos Cerritos” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:02 +0000

I’ll regret this if something is found, but to quote Toryn Green: “Leave the memories alone, don’t change a thing.” Directed by Megan Lloyd, Lloyd is best known for directing three pretty good episodes (that I might have been hard on) last season, including “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee.” The same episode was written by Aaron Burdette, the sole writer this time out with “Dos Cerritos.

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Star Trek: Picard “Nepenthe” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:00:27 +0000

Living in the woods with Marina Sirtis and in your garden you’ve a stone wood-fired pizza oven? Living the dream, living the damn dream Riker, living the dream. Written by Chabon and Sam Humphrey, “Nepenthe” is the only writing credit for Samantha though as I keep having to mention, she’s another connection to the S.W.A.T. reboot. So is director Douglas Aarniokoski, mostly known as a second unit…

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Star Trek: Picard “The Impossible Box” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:00:54 +0000

If his name isn’t Narek by his own admission, it must be Evil Spock. After last week’s piece of terrible Star Trek, which I’m still reserved to even call it that, “The Impossible Box” has editor Nick Zayas helming the story that actually gets us into the more interesting parts of that mystery box of a woman. With Frakes leaving the directorial chair (we’ll see him again) for the season…

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Star Trek: Picard “Stardust City Rag” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:00:36 +0000

Yippie, garish costume design by drugs fired out of a shotgun. The first episode not to be written by Chabon, “Stardust City Rag” is written by Kirsten Beyer, and she’s only ever written for Star Trek, though sadly that also means she’s a big part of Discovery. Aside from maybe getting a cease and desist letter from WWE for the use of Stardust, she also wrote one of the good episodes of Strange…

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