jeffrey combs
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Lower Decks’ AI Antics Offer a Mathematically Imperfect Redemption
Lower Decks does a lot with its love of story threads and nods to past Star Trek, but when it comes to carving out its own true additions to the trope canon those results are often a little mixed—and, weirdly enough, have so far largely focused on one very specific trope, in the form of…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Gave Us a Happy Ending with Sex and an Evil Computer
A lot of Star Trek: Lower Decks has been about taking classic setups and premises from series past and reframing them or poking holes with loving fun. So it’s rare to see the series riff on not one, but two fun stalwarts of the past and not really play them for laughs — even if…
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A 4400 Rewatch Reveals Just How Influential Its Legacy Is
The CW’s plan to resurrect USA’s 2004 series The 4400 definitely comes across as the network’s latest go at bringing aliens/futurism/superhero drama to television. Presumably, it will happily exist alongside things like the Arrowverse and the Roswell reboot. But since it’s been so long since the original was on air, now seems like the perfect…