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This article contains mild spoilers for "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 5.

In "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 5, episode 2, "Shades of Green" (October 24, 2024), Lieutenant Boimler (Jack Quaid) has been assigned to command a team of ensigns as they collect and dispose of all the physical money on the planet Targalus IX. The planet recently acquired replicators and transporters, instantly pushing it into a post-scarcity utopia. Boimler and his fellow Starfleet officers are pleased to help, as the Federation has always been a post-capitalist society.

In a not-very-surprising wrinkle, though, not all the Targalians are happy with the change. Many of the once-rich are resentful that the fall of the plutocratic system robbed them of their influence in the world. As a result, some Targalian separatists kidnap Boimler's team and cease their money destruction. The kidnapping was poorly timed, however, as Boimler, making a bold and uncharacteristic command decision, let his team...

(Welcome to Yesterday's Enterprises, a series where we explore every corner of the vast "Star Trek" universe. In this edition: What does "A Matter of Perspective" say about Riker's sexual politics?)

As a commander, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was, in the original "Star Trek" series, something of a level-headed, military-minded leader. Although the character eventually gained a pop culture reputation of being a ladies' man and a regular violator of the Prime Directive, when it comes to his command style, Kirk was often depicted as clear-thinking, serious, and unwilling to accept guff from anyone, even itinerant gods and omnipotent aliens. He approached problems with the eye of a tactician. Very occasionally, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) or Scotty (James Doohan) would take control of the Enterprise, and audiences would see how their command styles greatly differed from Kirk's. Spock pursued problems logically, but needed to learn to accept input from his follow officers.

Review James Hunt 25 Oct 2013 - 07:14

A war game goes awry and Armin Shimerman pops up in this week's Star Trek: Tng look-back...

This review contains spoilers.

2.20 Peak Performance

The Enterprise welcomes on board a Zakdorn strategist named Sirma Kolrami, a snooty, arrogant man who appears to be a cross between Hans Moleman and Kim Jong Il. Although Picard and Riker protest the exercise, he's here to oversee a war game between Picard and Riker to help Starfleet evaluate its crew in light of the Borg threat.

Learning that Kolrami is a master of the game Strategema, Riker challenges him to a match, fully aware that he'll lose. Despite the support of the crew, Riker is thrashed, much to Pulaski's annoyance.

Riker is given command of the Hathaway, a beat-up starship that's barely functioning, and allowed to assemble a crew of 40. With Data excluded, Riker picks Worf, La Forge, Wesley (eh?...

Out of all the episodes in seven seasons of Tales From the Crypt, this particular entry, ‘The Switch,’ feels less like an episode of the titular show and rather more like a twisted moral play. It’s a play about the vain and how changing yourself for someone isn’t necessarily the right nor best thing to do. If anything, the ending resembles something akin to “Gift of the Magi.” Most episodes are just desserts episodes as is this entry, but in this episode, it twists the formula in that it’s the good guy that gets it in the end (although he doesn’t die) and the rotten people that have it better off in the end (and they usually die).

The thing about this episode that differentiates itself from others, is that it isn’t particularly scary or violent, in fact it’s relatively bloodless other than a...

FEARnet has acquired the Tales from the Crypt horror series and set it for an October 5th release date. Deadline reports that the some 93 episodes produced will play in order, starting with the first season and ending in the final seventh season, airing from 10 p.m. until midnight Et. FEARnet's version being run is the edited one since HBO ran the unedited version, which itself can be found on VOD starting October 10th. The first Tales from the Crypt aired in 1989, and ran until 1996, with various names in the mix including John Kassir, Roy Brocksmith, Miguel Ferrer, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Ironside, Joe Pantoliano, William Sadler and Marshall Bell among others.

FEARnet has acquired the Tales from the Crypt horror series and set it for an October 5th release date. Deadline reports that the some 93 episodes produced will play in order, starting with the first season and ending in the final seventh season, airing from 10 p.m. until midnight Et. FEARnet's version being run is the edited one since HBO ran the unedited version, which itself can be found on VOD starting October 10th. The first Tales from the Crypt aired in 1989, and ran until 1996, with various names in the mix including John Kassir, Roy Brocksmith, Miguel Ferrer, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Ironside, Joe Pantoliano, William Sadler and Marshall Bell among others.

There's a lot to love in "Super 8," not the least of which is the fairly spoilery viral clip that was released yesterday, detailing the monster at the center of the film.

"Super 8" is far from the first movie to create an informational video to catch audiences up to speed on the film's central premise. In fact, it's turned out to be something of a sci-fi staple. Everything from "Jurassic Park" to "Wall-e" has seemingly incorporated some element of these retro, potentially viral informational clips as a means to educate their viewers on the background of their films.

After the jump, we've picked five of our favorite videos-within-movies and detail why they've stuck with us for so long.

Mr. DNA, "Jurassic Park"

There's something inherently charming about this super simplified look at how the scientists over at Jurassic Park created their dinosaurs. It sure made science class seem a...

Considering that production on the Total Recall remake will begin on Monday, it isn’t a huge surprise that a lot of casting has been underway recently. We told you last night about both Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale being confirmed as the two female leads, while Bill Nighy will be playing a resistance leader. EW now informs us of another addition to the cast, John Cho.

The Harold & Kumar and Star Trek actor will be joining the movie in a role described as “McClane, the smooth-talking rep for the mind-messing company that tempts Colin Farrell’s Douglas Quaid to implant fantastic memories into his brain.” This sounds awfully familiar; if you’ll recall, the original movie had a character named Dr. Edgemar, played by Roy Brocksmith. He was the lead researcher and main spokesman for Rekall, the company that created the procedure central to that film’s plot. To me,...