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Ric Crossman
Mar 8, 202212 min read
5.1 What We'd Left Behind
Voyager Season 1 Retrospective For a show about the future, Voyager is surprisingly tied up in the past. Take Five Let’s take an unusual...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 3, 202213 min read
5.1.15 The Punching Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Learning Curve As it turns out, we haven’t learned a damn thing. Cheesy Fun “Learning Curve” is one of those episodes that makes me...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 17, 202211 min read
5.1.14 Oppenheimer
Jetrel What follows are testimonials from survivors of the nuclear attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. I beg the...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 3, 202213 min read
5.1.13 The Frenemy Within
Faces A dame of two halves. Face/Off (Yes OF COURSE I used that as a subheading I have no shame shut up.) Not hard to see how this...
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Ric Crossman
Jan 20, 20228 min read
5.1.12 The Ghost In You
Cathexis The Case of the Unappreciated Whodunnit. “Don’t Be Real, Be Postmodern” “Cathexis” is another episode that doesn’t have a...
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Ric Crossman
Jan 6, 202213 min read
5.1.11 Stockholm Syndrome
Heroes And Demons Oh good. It’s another holodeck malfunction. The Boxes Of Delight It’s easy to read that as sarcasm, I’m sure. Actually,...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 21, 202111 min read
5.1.10 Eat, Betray, Love
State Of Flux The problem with promise is that sooner or later, that promise has to be honoured. These Maquis In The Marquee “State Of...
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Ric Crossman
Dec 7, 202116 min read
5.1.9 The Pleasure Principle
Prime Factors Shh, don’t worry. No need to be scared. It was bound to happen sometime, with a franchise that flirts with science as often...
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Ric Crossman
Nov 23, 202117 min read
5.1.8 "You Really HAVE Gone Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Emanations Right then. Death, the Star Trek way. Strip Search/Strip Mine At heart, “Emanations” is a story which displays two different...
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Ric Crossman
Nov 9, 202110 min read
5.1.7 Dead Man's Mirror
Ex Post Facto Right, then. Noir Trek. As Alan Partridge once said, “Ask yourself two questions: how and why?”. The Big Gamble We can...
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Ric Crossman
Oct 26, 202115 min read
5.1.6 Galaxy Of Worms (Bonus Post)
Geometric Probability In "Eye Of The Needle" Look. We all have our issues. We all have our obsessions. There was never any way I was...
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Ric Crossman
Oct 24, 202111 min read
5.1.6 The Time Tunnel
Eye Of The Needle Ah. Star Trek reaching back into its own past. Where have I seen that before? To do the same myself, however, allow me...
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Ric Crossman
Oct 10, 202116 min read
5.1.5 Fantastic Voyager
The Cloud An obvious title, I realise. Mine, I mean, though I can’t believe anyone involved with this episode feels proud they gave it a...
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Ric Crossman
Sep 26, 202110 min read
5.1.4 "Leave Me Breathless"
Phage More like “Phailge”, right peeps? Actually, that’s probably unfair – a cheap shot I thought too groan-inducing to resist as an...
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Ric Crossman
Sep 12, 202110 min read
5.1.3 Worlds Of Fantasy And Horror #1 pp85-92
Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...
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Ric Crossman
Aug 29, 202112 min read
5.1.2 "School's Out For EVER!"
Parallax Perception is a tricky thing. Sometimes you’re sure you’re moving forward when all you’re doing is circling back around....
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Ric Crossman
Aug 15, 20219 min read
5.1.1 "...Because We Can't Find Reverse"
Caretaker Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Starfleet officer and a survivor of Cardassian rule walk into bar. Then an...
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