Squiddishly Dot Net
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Liz Barr is an aspiring novelist, occasional con-runner and all-too-frequent blogger. In 2019 she won the Ditmar Award for Best Fan Writer for her Star Trek blogging at squiddishly.net. She has written an embarrassing amount of fan fiction. Squiddishly Dot Net is a blog dedicated to star trek with opinions, reviews and more!
Squiddishly Dot Net
1M ago
It’s time for a Borg civil war, with, uhhhhh, bonus grooming? The problem with “Unimatrix Zero” is that it is trying very, very hard to replicate the success of “The Best of Both Worlds” and “Scorpion”, the third season finales of TNG and Voyager respectively. And instead, it ends up replicating “Descent”, the sixth season ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
2M ago
Neelix babysits, while Janeway maybe accidentally committed a genocide. “The Haunting of Deck 12” is a perfectly nice episode. It’s a small story, a bottle episode by any definition: no new sets, a lot of recycled special effects, the only guest stars are recurring characters. It’s a pleasant way to spend 45 minutes. Which makes ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
2M ago
Somehow the Doctor manages to spend more time in the alpha quadrant than literally any other character in this show. A few weeks ago, I remarked that it was interesting that the Doctor seemed very invested in Icheb making a connection with his biological family, given that the Doctor himself doesn’t come from an organic ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
3M ago
When I was 17, I wished on a monkey’s paw that Voyager would bring back Kes, and this is the result. “Fury” is a good title for this episode, because the first and only time I watched it, I was so infuriated by its character assassination of Kes that I blocked out all other details ..read more
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3M ago
B’Elanna has to beta a random’s Voyager fic. Star Trek has always been self-consciously steeped in theatre. TOS, unable to depend on special effects to tell a story, relied heavily on dialogue — not to mention monologues. More than one TNG episode let Patrick Stewart let loose with some Shakespeare. The theatricality is still present ..read more
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3M ago
You’ve heard of the Nigerian prince scam? Well, here’s the stranded Federation starship scam. “Live Fast and Prosper” is a very slight, silly episode with nothing to say. I love it. A lot of this comes down to Kaitlin Hopkins, who is so charismatic as “Captain Janeway” that I was ready to give her my ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
3M ago
The worst Starfleet officers in the Delta Quadrant go on an adventure. Remember Voyager’s first season finale, in which a group of former Maquis are underperforming in their new jobs and have to pull their socks up? It was a perfectly okay bit of Star Trek, if underwhelming as a season finale. It gave us ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
4M ago
It turns out that Icheb’s parents are even worse at this than Seven of Nine. I really need to spend less time on Reddit. I know because this is what’s in my head right now: AITA for not wanting my foster son to return to his birth parents? I (26F) have been caring for my ..read more
Squiddishly Dot Net
4M ago
It’s a Mary Sue story, and that’s okay. Again. Remember last season’s episode “Latent Image“? Beloved ensign’s death causes the Doctor to have a breakdown? I don’t know about you, but I always confuse “Ashes to Ashes” and “Latent Image”. To the point where I started typing a spiel about the history of the Mary ..read more
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4M ago
Voyager encounters a Borg cube inhabited solely by assimilated children. No, wait, come back! By rights, this should be the episode where I’m finally persuaded that Voyager really did “ruin” the Borg. Borg kids? What’s next, an assimilated dog? The joke’s on the haters, though, because “Collective” is actually … good. Let’s break down why ..read more