Star Trek: Discovery Episode 8 If you want peace, prepare for war. That’s the translation of the Latin title of tonight’s Star Trek: Discovery. Perhaps a better title might have been: You can’t be neutral on a moving starship — something Saru learned the hard way in a riveting, thematically-complex episode that had these characters finally, you know, discovering something. “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” saw Burnham, Tyler, and Saru (#DreamTeam) on their very own away mission, exploring a planet called Pahvo (a half-Pandora, half-Fraggle Rock type planet) in hopes of using its natural vibrations to create a sonar capable of finding cloaked Klingon ships....

It’s Spock time! In “Unification III,” Star Trek: Discovery has continued a story that The Next Generation began in 1991. And, in doing so, the series has created an episode of Trek that is both nostalgic as hell and also forward-facing and new. Back before we even knew what Discovery would be like, we were told Michael Burnham was Spock’s adoptive sister. And now, Spock’s sister has come home! From TNG vibes to sweet nods to the reboot films, to a lot of references to Spock, here’s all the Easter eggs and shout-outs we caught in Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3, Episode 7, “Unification III....

Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 11 After a couple of episodes where it felt like nothing much actually happened, Star Trek: Discovery bounces back with an hour that, though it somehow still manages to put off first contact with Unknown Species 10-C for another week, at least gets the ship and its crew back to its science mission roots in their attempt to learn more about the mysterious race. (Also, Saru and T’Rina are 100% going on a holodeck date!...

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Return Date Premiere date: currently airing In October 2021, Paramount+ launched Star Trek: Prodigy, a CG-animated series developed in partnership with Nickelodeon Animation Studios that “follow[s] a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.” It is currently in the source of the first half of its 10-episode Season 1A, with the finale airing on Thursday, February 3rd....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 9 If you had to pick one Star Trek thing to represent the entire franchise and put that piece of media on a Golden Record, would you select an excellent Trek movie or a fantastic Trek episode? This division is at the heart of “Crisis Point,” a brazen episode of Lower Decks that brings a fresh perspective to the basic differences between Trek movies and Trek episodes....

The third episode of Lower Decks Season 2 has, in its title, an Easter egg to the TNG episode “We’ll Always Have Paris.” It is not anyone’s favorite episode of The Next Generation, but it’s possible that “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris,” will be your favorite episode of Lower Decks. Well, that depends on how much you love Star Trek: Voyager and not having complicated questions answered, ever. Genesis devices to Delta Quadrant madness, different kinds of Orions, and several Worf shout-outs, here’s every Easter egg and reference we caught in Lower Decks Season 2, Episode 3....

Given the fact that many Voyager characters have made their return in either the form of holograms or, in the case of Tom Paris, a commemorative plate on Lower Decks, it seems like the Doctor would be an ideal character to show up on a modern Trek series. After all, the Doctor doesn’t die or age (a point used to great effect on several Voyager eps) and even if actor Robert Picardo is visibly older than the last time he played the role, producers managed to work around Brent Spiner’s aging for his return as Data....

Back in the Ewok village on Endor, Luke asks Leia if she has any memory of her mother in hopes of learning something about his own. “Just a little bit. She died when I was very young,” Leia says, but what exactly does she remember? “Just images really, feelings. She was very beautiful, kind, but sad.” It’s then that Luke reveals the truth about their family. After an initial moment of shock, Leia replies that she’s somehow always known that Luke was her brother (we assume through their Force connection)....

Stargirl Episode 6 Throughout Stargirl season 2, there’s been a looming puppet master in the darkness. Working through the mysterious Black Diamond wielded by Cindy Burman (Meg DeLacy), Eclipso has been helping the teen put together a new iteration of the Injustice Society of America. But in a shocking–or not so shocking–twist this week, Eclipso finally revealed his hand. The nefarious demonic creature had been playing Cindy all along. His aim was to use Stargirl’s staff to free himself, meaning he could live outside of possessing Cindy Burman....

The identity of Vecna is one of the most closely guarded secrets of Stranger Things season 4, but the big reveal in the midseason finale is less about the name behind the creature and more about the origin story of Eleven and the opening of the Upside Down, a central mystery of the show. Although many gaps will have to be filled in with speculation, let’s take a closer look at exactly what we know and don’t know about this season’s “big bad....

Yet, the very first game that Miyamoto ever designed exclusively for the NES/Famicom console has never been ported to the U.S. In fact, it’s the only game that Miyamoto designed that has never been ported to North America to this day. Anyone familiar with Miyamoto’s history and significance is typically stunned by that information. Sure, Nintendo hasn’t always been the best when it comes to making their classic games readily available, but after all these years, how is it possible that Miyamoto’s first console game has never been ported to North America?...

After officially introducing the concept of The Green, Swamp Thing takes another step forward in building its mythology, which happens to align closely with the comics, by introducing The Rot, aka The Black. Moreover, Alec Holland’s powers continue to grow. This is all a good thing since Marais is tearing itself apart. I applaud this series for not holding back with Swamp Thing’s abilities. I can see a version of the show where things are painfully reserved, but not only is our hero using hallucinogenic spores to appear human, he’s growing fruit, summoning plants from the other side of the world, and even using the flora in Abby’s body to combat The Rot infection....

Concept artist Houston Sharp posted his planned designs for Swamp Thing that he worked on with David Masson for the version of Justice League Dark that was to be directed by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity). As you can see in the dramatically fire-strewn image, seen in full below, the classic character was to manifest in the ensemble film in a form that radically differs from any version we’ve seen—at least in the live-action adaptation arena....

And yet, series after series, we see contestants don the most ridiculous getup to take them through their Taskmaster journeys, including a dressing gown, a safari suit, and an Evil Knievel helmet. And series 14 is no different: three of the contestants – Munya Chawawa, Fern Brady and Dara O’Briain – are sporting particularly impressive themed jumpsuits. The question is: does a special outfit give contestants special powers? The edge over the competition, even?...

The Affair Season 3 Episode 10 “This is not the real Paris.” So here we are at the end of a somewhat controversial season of The Affair. With all of the heavy baggage now out of the way, the season is allowed to have a bit more of a methodical, laid back finale. It was exactly what I was hoping for from such an overly intense season. It’s wonderful that Noah gets to enjoy a dreamy vacation in Paris rather than us get an episode all about Noah freaking out and deconstructing the self-destructive epiphany he had last episode....

The main narrator of The Andy Warhol Diaries is Andy, but not. Along with layered readings by Bill Irwin, Andy’s words are translated by a Warhol-bot, an artificially intelligent vocal algorithm machine which inadvertently highlights how much the art celebrity would have enjoyed the current age of everyday stardom. Warhol was the man who said everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame, and technology and reality TV conspired to make that commonplace....

It’s been nearly a decade since the release of a solo Batman movie, 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, and as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the much-debated conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy, a new standalone film about the Caped Crusader, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, is now in theaters. But meanwhile, in the interregnum between the end of Nolan’s mostly brilliant triptych and what we hope is the beginning of a new series of Batfilms under Reeves’ watch, a different variation of Gotham’s protector showed up in two (or three, or even four, depending on how you look at it) movies between 2016 and 2021....

Does your PC sound like a jet engine taking off when you put it under even mild strain? A loud computer doesn’t just hurt the ears–fans working overtime are a sign that the internals are getting too hot, and that can lead to crashes or even component failure, especially when you’re gaming. Adding more cooling, or improving the cooling solutions you already have, can make a huge difference, especially when it comes to your precious CPU....

The horror…the horror…of Raymond Reddington’s bald head in the first episode of this season’s The Blacklist. It may be just a few more passes of the razor than the tight shadow of fuzz fans have grown accustomed to over the previous eight years, but its effect is eerily similar to our first sighting of the tragic hero turned madman, Colonel Kurtz, from the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola classic: Apocalypse Now....

Producer Jason Blum recently revealed to Den of Geek that David Gordon Green was writing a sequel to the seminal 1973 horror movie which would “be like David’s Halloween sequel,” referencing the 2018 reboot that ignored all the previous Halloween follow-ups and acted as a definitive follow-up to the 1978 original. That movie has since been spun off into a full fledged trilogy, including this October’s Halloween Kills. At the time, it was an open question whether that meant Green’s The Exorcist would ignore the other Exorcist sequels and prequels released between 1977 and 2005....