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Ryan North writing Star Trek: Lower Decks feels like such a natural fit. Can Lower Decks survive the move from rapid-fire animation to comics? Ryan North’s first volume proves it mostly can — and understands why the series works. 7.5/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-lo...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His fire has no heat, his food has no taste, and his courtroom has no justice. William Campbell’s Trelane is the reason I keep enjoying “The Squire of Gothos”, even when its plotting tests my patience. My review: 7/10. boldlytrek.com/the-squire-o...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, Strange New Worlds remembers what it does best. Two Uhuras, a temporal mystery, and proper Trek. 8/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-st...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Could be my favourite Strange New Worlds Episode yet.

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christina Chong is phenomenal, the production design is gorgeous, but is Strange New Worlds relying too heavily on its own gimmicks? My review of “Once La’an a Time”. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/once-laan-a-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Data spent years trying to become more human. His real journey was learning what made Data, Data. Was Data ever really trying to become human, or was he learning how to become himself? New Character Spotlight: Data. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/data-android...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Galileo Seven” gives Spock his first real test of command, and I think its argument is more interesting than simply “logic versus emotion”. Spock is often right. The problem is that being right and being an effective leader are not the same thing. boldlytrek.com/the-galileo-... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been working my way through @trekranks.com and I’m up to ep126. Properly good-natured Trek chat from people who clearly love the thing. If you’re ever short of a guest, I’d be very happy to jump on and talk Trek with you 😉. I run BoldlyTrek, and always have an opinion on anything Star Trek. 🖖

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reeger has the rank. Kirk has the conscience. “Orders of Magnitude” gives us some great Kirk — 7.5/10. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/strange-new-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s a great Pike story buried in this soap-opera gimmick. It just takes far too long to reach it. 3/10. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/like-chronit...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s a great Pike story buried in this soap-opera gimmick. It just takes far too long to reach it. 3/10. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/like-chronit...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Star Trek: The Last Starship, Vol. 1 is ambitious, messy, thoughtful, and occasionally brilliant. Kirk gets the headlines. Wowie Carter gets the heart of the book. 7.5/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-th...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Kirk needs a holiday. Unfortunately, his holiday can read his mind. My review of TOS “Shore Leave” — 7.5/10. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That’s why Harry works so well against Star Trek’s optimism. A better society can offer rehabilitation and another chance. It still can’t make someone choose to become better. boldlytrek.com/harry-mudd-can-he-ev…

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Off-Hour” proves the experiment works when it serves the story. Tense, grounded, proper Trek. 8.5/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/strange-new-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Harry Mudd learns from everything. He just never improves. Every arrest, escape, humiliation, and second chance teaches him something — usually how to become better at remaining Harry Mudd. boldlytrek.com/harry-mudd-can-he-ev…

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Voyager made it home in “Endgame”. Homecoming finally gives its crew time to arrive. 8/10. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-vo... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The cast are excellent, the puppetry is technically remarkable, and there is some very good character writing underneath all the felt. But I found the episode horrible to watch, and the ending only made that worse. 4/10 boldlytrek.com/level-five-t... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What does someone actually do in Starfleet? The uniforms make it look simple. The closer you look at the Enterprise-D, Deep Space 9 and people like Miles O’Brien, the messier and more interesting Starfleet becomes. New long-form editorial on BoldlyTrek. boldlytrek.com/what-do-peop... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“A Case of Chiaroscuro” looks like another Strange New Worlds gimmick episode, but there is a proper Star Trek story underneath it about occupation, resistance, and when following the rules stops being enough. 7.5/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/strange-new-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Karidian has spent 20 years pretending to be somebody else. He is not the only one. “The Conscience of the King” turns Enterprise into a stage for guilt, revenge, trauma, and the identities people construct when the truth becomes impossible to carry. 8/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Balance of Terror” gives Star Trek something it had largely lacked until this point. A genuine political adversary. Kirk and the Romulan commander never even learn each other’s names, yet by the end they understand one another remarkably well. #StarTrek 9/10 boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Harry Mudd survives arrests, androids, Klingons, Stella, Starfleet, and his own spectacularly poor judgement. He learns from all of it too. He just applies every lesson to remaining Harry Mudd. My new Character Spotlight. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/harry-mudd-c...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spock mind melds with a houseplant. Una sings Bonnie Tyler in Klingon. Scotty spends part of the episode dressed as a Mugato. This episode was great for most parts but I had some real issues with “Human Best Friend”. Review of SNW S04E03 7/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-st...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The horror works, the atmosphere is outstanding, and Paul Wesley finally gets some genuinely fresh material as Kirk. As a horror story, it’s excellent. As Star Trek, I wanted more curiosity. ★ 6.5/10 boldlytrek.com/star-trek-st... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Valles Marineris” brings Strange New Worlds back with ancient Mars, prehistoric Earth, a vanished fifth planet, and a moral dilemma that the episode never quite gives enough room to breathe. #StarTrek Ambitious, messy, and visually impressive. 7.5/10. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-st...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The tricorder is one of Star Trek’s cleverest inventions, not because it knows everything, but because it represents a discipline: observe first, gather evidence, and only then decide what to do. #StarTrek My new Technology Spotlight: boldlytrek.com/tricorder

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Menagerie takes Star Trek's failed pilot, cuts it apart, and turns it into history. What starts as a production shortcut becomes a story about Spock's loyalty, Pike's suffering, and when reality itself stops feeling like enough. #StarTrek My review: boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Vulcans have spent sixty years being described as Star Trek’s logical species. I think we’ve been looking at them slightly wrong. My latest Race Spotlight asks whether logic is really their nature, or the discipline required to survive everything underneath it. 🖖 boldlytrek.com/the-vulcans-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Corbomite Maneuver: the first thing TOS made after being greenlit, and the episode where Star Trek worked out what it believed. Kirk bluffs an all-powerful alien, wins, then turns round to help it back up. Still my favourite hour of the show. #StarTrek New review: boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The Constitution-class was not Starfleet’s most powerful ship. It was its most hopeful one. New Ship Spotlight on why the most famous silhouette in Star Trek is really an argument about optimism, and what it says about the Federation that built it. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/constitution...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Klingon honour is the most quoted thing about the Klingons. It's also the thing they're worst at living up to. New Race Spotlight: the gap between what the Empire preaches and what it actually does. Are they living by a code, or wearing one? #Startrek boldlytrek.com/the-klingons...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everyone files Spock as the unemotional one. He's the opposite, ever feeling a dam under pressure. New BoldlyTrek Character Spotlight on the half-Vulcan who belonged to neither shore, and learned to become the bridge itself. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/spock-a-brid...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our TOS rewatch reaches Dagger of the Mind. A plastic dome with a light in it becomes one of the scariest things TOS ever made, on one bleak idea: a machine that doesn’t hurt you, it empties you. Shame nobody worked out what the villain wanted. 7/10 #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Fandom wasn't always something you scrolled. It used to arrive through the letterbox. I'm making a Star Trek fanzine, by fans, for fans. Issue Zero late 2026. Readers, writers, artists, and letter writers welcome: boldlytrek.com/fanzine/ #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What Makes Star Trek, Star Trek? Strip away the Enterprise, the uniforms, the familiar faces. Keep every one of them and remove only the ideas underneath. One of those is still Star Trek. The other is just cosplay with a budget. #StarTrek New editorial: boldlytrek.com/what-makes-s...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New on BoldlyTrek: my "Miri" review. One of Season One's strongest premises, a duplicate Earth and children who never grow up, and it still never becomes the classic it should have been. Good, frustratingly short of great. #StarTrek  7/10 boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Seven chapters into Star Trek: Stargazers and I think I’ve found the problem, and it isn’t the romance or the cast. You could lift the Deep Space 9 setting out of it entirely and barely notice. New on BoldlyTrek. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/i-read-the-f...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@idwpublishing.com ‘s art book never pretends the optimistic flagship and rogue stolen ship were same show, that’s its smartest move. Creator commentary finally delivers the written history I keep asking these books for. The cover gallery runs a touch long. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/the-art-of-s...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Gorn began as a lesson about not mistaking your enemy for a monster. Then Strange New Worlds turned them into one. New Race Spotlight, from Kirk’s mercy in “Arena” to the horror of “All Those Who Wander”. #StarTrek boldlytrek.com/the-gorn-peo...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK / Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Mirror War Vol. 1 (IDW) / Mirror Picard building an armada to restore the Terran Empire. The concept is irresistible. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-th... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK / What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S01E07) / Robert Bloch asks whether you can strip out the messy parts of a person and still have a person. The ideas are genuinely sharp. The pacing is not. 7/10. / boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK Mudd's Women (S01E06) The "space hookers" read has buried what this episode actually is. Roger C. Carmel arrives fully formed, the placebo twist earns its moral, and the contradictions are the whole point. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-to... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks (IDW) @idwpublishing.com first Trek art book is a 344-page record of how the Cerritos got built, skate nacelles and all. The roads-not-taken character designs alone make the first hundred pages worth exploring. 8/10. boldlytrek.com/the-art-of-s...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The original Borg were frightening because nobody was in charge. New on BoldlyTrek: what happened to them once somebody was. The Borg Queen: Did She Save the Borg, or Ruin Them? (Character Spotlight) boldlytrek.com/the-borg-que... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New on BoldlyTrek Star Trek: Holo-ween — A Halloween Special You Can Enjoy Without Quite Admiring Review - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-ho... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

NEW ON BOLDLYTREK Star Trek: Red Shirts Cantwell turns the franchise’s oldest joke into institutional critique. The formal craft is genuinely impressive. The bleakness is relentless. I admire it more than I love it. boldlytrek.com/star-trek-re... #StarTrek

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Ferengi weren't satirising greed. They were satirising the stories we tell to justify it. boldlytrek.com/the-ferengi-...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Made by people working from publicity photos and a vague outline. The result is Trek in silhouette: the shape is right, some of the ideas are genuinely good, the characters are slightly wrong in ways you can’t quite articulate. 7/10 - boldlytrek.com/star-trek-go...

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BoldlyTrek @boldlytrek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Why the debate about Star Trek’s non-canonical novels misses the point, and what we’re actually looking for when we ask whether stories matter - boldlytrek.com/why-i-cant-m... #StarTrek

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