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2023: The Year In Television

With less and less good productions airing on network and cable and moving to the various streaming platforms, that seems to have taken over as my main form of television watching. Now that I work from home full time, I have plenty of time to take in whatever they have to offer. Since we cover the network and cable shows that I watch elsewhere, let’s take a look at the 23 seasons of shows I streamed on eight different platforms this year.

Black Mirror Season Six (Netflix)
The British anthology returns with a five-episode season that started strong, with one of the best episodes of the show’s run, but ended poorly.

Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 16 (Paramount+)
The BAU returns, minus a few key resources, to hunt down the most prolific serial killer they’ve ever faced.

Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon Prime)
Based on the book by Taylor Jenkins Reid, it is the tale of how a garage band from Pittsburgh morphed into the biggest band in the world, and then how it all blew up.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Seasons 6-7 (Netflix)
The Legends see their travels through time and space come to an end.

Dead to Me Season Three (Netflix)
Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini return for one last go-around.

Doctor Who Specials (Disney+)
David Tennant returns and helps Ncuti Gatwa usher in a new era for Doctor Who.

The Flash Season Nine (Netflix)
The show, and the CW’s Arrowverse, winds down with one final go-around.

The Flight Attendant Season Two (HBO Max)
Kaley Cuoco returns for another go-around as the alcoholic flight attendant who also works for the CIA.

Ginny & Georgia Seasons 1-2 (Netflix)
Imagine Gilmore Girls if Lorelai came from nothing and was somewhat amoral and Rory was bi-racial.

How I Met Your Father Season 2 (Hulu)
The second and final season leaves us hanging as to who the father would have been.

The Last Thing He Told Me (Apple TV+)
Jennifer Garner stars in the adaptation of the Laura Dave novel. Continue reading →

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Book 17 (of 52) – Quarantine

Quarantine – John Vornholt

In the fourth entry of the Double Helix series, the artificial virus attacks a planet in the demilitarized zone between the Federation and the Cardassians.  Lt. Tom Riker teams up with a group of the Maquis to try and help, stealing medical supplies from the Federation to help control the outbreak while avoiding the Cardassians, both on the surface and in orbit around the planet.

John Vornholt, whose work I last read in 1998, brings us the appropriately titled Quarantine, focusing on the band of Maquis who would eventually serve on board the USS Voyager.  He brings a new approach to the virus, avoiding the plot overlap from investigating the plague that dragged down some of the earlier efforts in the series.  Unfortunately, Voyager is not really my favorite entry in the Star Trek pantheon and having the focus be on characters from that show tested the limits of my interest.  Now that I am more than half way through the series, I am still cautiously optimistic on where the series is headed and that the payoff of who is behind the creation of these viruses will be worth the journey.

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Book 18 (of 52) – Gods Of Night

Gods Of Night - David Mack

Gods Of Night – David Mack

It has been at least 13 years since I’ve dipped my toe in to the expanded universe that are Star Trek novels.  Recently, the Kindle store had the Destiny trilogy on sale for a good price, so I figured I would try and jump back in and see how things were going.  This trilogy takes place after the events of Star Trek: Insurrection and the end of Star Trek: Voyager.  The Borg have declared war on the Federation, and its up to the Captains Picard, Riker, and Dax to figure out a way to stop them.

Author David Mack (no, not that David Mack) has put together a tale that covers 4 ships over hundreds of years and the mystery of how the NX Columbia, thought lost in the 22nd century, was found marooned on a planet well beyond its reach in the 24th century.  While Erzai Dax and the crew of the USS Aventine try to discover the secrets held within the old craft, William Riker leads the USS Titan to a mysterious world that may just tie in to that mystery.  Meanwhile, the Enterprise tries to keep ahead of the latest Borg invasion while trying to find out how they are getting to Federation space without being discovered.

One of the benefits of the Star Trek reboot is that the novels covering the Next Generation timeline are able to make permanent changes without worrying about the latest film and without hitting the giant reset button at the end of the novel.  So, Riker has his own command, Worf is back on the Enterprise as first officer, Data has been destroyed, and Picard and Dr. Crusher are married.  Similar to the Buffy novels I’ve read over the past few years, it is nice to slip back in to a universe that I enjoyed during my younger days.  This was a good re-introduction and I’m certainly looking forward to the rest of the trilogy to see where things go.