Sir Sam Neill: A Tribute
A fan's tribute to Sam Neill, who died on July 13, 2026. Reilly, Ace of Spies, Jurassic Park and Event Horizon earn him a place here, and he always struck me as a genuinely nice person.
Tag: Science Fiction (Page 2)
Artificial IntelligenceThe Adolescence of P-1
A student writes a program designed to stay alive, then abandons it. The program does not stop. Thomas J. Ryan described a computer worm years before anyone had the word.
1970sColossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Review
I have watched this more times than is defensible. A film about a computer, a requirements document and a mountain, and the machine is never once broken.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 7 – The Flawed
The seventh tier of the science fiction ranking. Kubrick, Spielberg, Nolan and Niccol, plus the films whose best idea arrived and was never used again.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 8 – The Failures
The final tier of the science fiction ranking, including the negatives. Scott, Nolan, Zemeckis and Cameron, plus the most expensive failures the genre has produced.
1990sStar Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) Review
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rates 10 and above on the rewatch scale and is the best series the franchise has produced. It is also the most underrated rating in Trek history. A station instead of a ship, a military…
2010sStar Trek: Discovery (2017-2024) Review
Star Trek: Discovery rates minus 10 on the rewatch scale. Every episode across five seasons rates a 1 or less. It had fifty years of lore, a guaranteed audience and an unlimited budget, and it is a pile of shit…
2000sStar Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005) Review
Star Trek: Enterprise rates 4 for its first two seasons and 8 for its last two. A completely mixed bag that spent two years not knowing what it was, committed to a serialized arc in season three, became the show…
2020sStar Trek: Lower Decks (2020-2024) Review
Star Trek: Lower Decks rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mediocre, and a good try. A genuinely clever premise, the most stable production in modern Star Trek, and a show whose comic style and comic content are…
2020sStar Trek: Picard (2020-2023) Review
Star Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
2020sStar Trek: Prodigy (2021-2024) Review
Star Trek: Prodigy carries no rating here because I have not watched it, and barely knew it existed. That turns out to be the point. Its second season holds a perfect hundred percent with critics and ninety-six with audiences, and…
2020sStar Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026) Review
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…