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by Rick Norwood
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What to watch on TV in June? Nothing at all. Choose a good book and head for the beach. (I recommend the
Long Sun -- Short Sun series by Gene Wolfe, now available in omnibus volumes from SF Book Club. While
you're there, pick up H. Beam Piper's Paratime series omnibus. Tell'em SF Site sent you.)
As you know, both Star Trek and The X-Files are renewed for next season, with a Babylon 5 movie a sure thing and a new series about the Rangers a possibility. The new Star Trek will be titled Enterprise, and will be about a Kirk clone who boldly goes where no man has gone before. It is set in the time between First Contact and "The Cage." The X-Files will have not even cameos by Mulder, but Scully will be in every episode. I hope she has a good au pair. This past month, the season finales of both Star Trek and The X-Files featured the death of a long running character (though not necessarily a major character) and the birth of a new baby. Both were very satisfying. If television were always this good, nobody would have a life. Here are episode guides, capsule reviews, and ratings for the best SF and the best fantasy series on the air.
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Star Trek: Voyager -- Episode Guide | ||
This was, by a wide margin, Star Trek: Voyager's finest season, due largely to the writing of Ken Biller
and Robert Doherty, one or the other of whom worked on more than half the episodes. The excellent use of CGI was also a plus.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
Unimatrix Zero (II) (**) story by Michael Sussman, teleplay by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
 
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