Stuart Webb
@inflatabledalek
Who, Trek, Bond, Transformers and Kamen Rider nerd. Has spent a decade writing about Transformers comics, with my current big project being @revisitation.bsky.social, looking at each IDW issue in order:
#TrekADay Galaxy's Child! Where the real Leah Brahms comes aboard, so you'd expect if be maybe be a lesson in not being a weird stalker of women you don't know. But it's written by Maurice "Harassed Gates McFadden off the show" Hurley, so...
They're letting Rila Fukushima interact with other actors this week!
Teo episode 2! Oh thank fuck, those turned out to be arms, I thought last week this was a kaiju with big naturals.
Highly trained specialist Riker using his dick to get out of trouble. Though "I'll call you next time I pass through this star system" is very funny.
She played 4 characters over a decade, but this is by far the best Carolyn Seymour role in Trek.
#TrekADay First Contact... not that one. For a gimmick episode (basically, the UFO scare where it's humans buzzing aliens and told almost entirely from their POV) it's surprisingly important to the franchise, setting out all the rules for... well, First Contact.
A Toku show that gives its women characters awesome shit with no need for caveats. See, Zeztz, it can be done!
Today on Z, Yuka is frustrated government bureaucracy is slowing down her latest murder machine.
Look, I know there's all sorts of issues with how she's written coming up, but she'll never not be awesome. Though shooting Chase in the face probably counts as homophobia.
Yeah, I'd be kicking walls if even my own brother was all "You need to smile more and get a proper boyfriend."
His season 2 episode I had to switch to the Spanish blu, and for some reason it's the second Spanish blu ray on this rewatch that didn't work on the bedroom player but did in the living room. Not going to judge what it might be about considering Cigarette Burns wasn't literally about cigarettes.
This week's John Carpenter is a double bill of his Masters of Horror episodes, starting with almost a sequel to In The Mouth of Madness, about a film that sends you mad if you see it. Not a hugely famous cast (at the time, Norman Reedus went on to bigger things), but spotted B'Etor in the credits.
"Why yes, I always hold objects in front of my perfectly normal belly."
They're trying very hard to hide McFadden's pregnancy but, boy is she glowing.
The central premise of "What happened in the 30 seconds everyone was passed out and what dodgy shit was Data up to? is a bit too soon after Brothers, really.
Next up is Clues, an episode where the internal logic is also a bit crap, but it's a lot more fun. Starting with the last time the show did Dixon Hill, largely for a very indulgent but very funny Guinan bit.
The amount of effort put into reconciling the Klingon devil with a line in the original series that Klingons have no devil.
Ardra (who was a guy in the Phase II version) is also just straight up written as "Q but we outright say she wants to fuck Picard" and is very boring.
#TrekADay double bill! Starting with Devil's Due, the other Phase II script put into production, and one that doesn't really working because a shyster faking Q like powers is pretty pointless when you've got Q. Hilariously silly opening Scrooge scene though. In an episode that aired in February.
I'm not sure what's funnier, them flat out saying it's Jugglus Juggler this early, or Haruki not noticing his boss' hair changing, or that he has superhuman strength and teleportation powers.