Posts Tagged With: Review

STAR TREK: GENERATIONS is Great (Even if You Don’t Like the Message)

Posted on September 10, 2025 by B.C. Johnson

This week I take on the haters of STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, the very first cinematic adventure of the Enterprise-D and the “Next Generation” crew.

I’m not actually attacking any haters, I don’t mind if you don’t like it. BUT, I do think the movie has been judged unfairly, and it’s actually a masterpiece of messaging. The problem? The message flies in the face of popular franchise (and fan) conventions. Not fan conventions like San Diego Comic Con, I mean, what people expect.

However, the message is an important one. And as I find myself pondering–like Picard–that perhaps I have more days behind me than in front of me, it’s a message I find comforting.

Maybe you will, too. But if you don’t, no refunds.

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Categories: Movies, Review, star trek, TV | Tags: generations, jean luc picard, movies, old school review, Review, sci fi, science-fiction, star trek, star trek generations, television, thematic statement, themes | Leave a comment

“How Can I Help” Added, Take a Look If You’re Cool

Posted on February 13, 2025 by B.C. Johnson

Think me or my books are neat? I’ve created a page to finally answer the question: “How Can I Help?”

Check it out for links to review any of the books, do a testimonial, or spread the word. I basically can’t do this without you, the readers. Please consider taking a moment, even just to leave a star rating somewhere.

Your voice can change my life and help me write more books, and it’s never been more appreciated.

Thank you!! Click on the button below to check it out:

How Can I Help?

Categories: Books, Deadgirl, News, publishing, Review | Tags: author interview, b.c. johnson, bc johnson, books, deadgirl, Review, writing | Leave a comment

Offbeat YA Reviews GRAVEDUST

Posted on September 22, 2024 by B.C. Johnson

The first review is in! Check it out over at Offbeat YA.

“Gravedust is a colossal showdown…a chorus line’s last bow after a terrific performance.” – Roberta R., Offbeat YA

Categories: Books, Deadgirl, Review | Tags: b.c. johnson, deadgirl, gravedust, lucy day, Review, young adult | Leave a comment

Star Trek Picard: Season 2 is Trying to Kill Me

Posted on May 12, 2022 by B.C. Johnson

I’ve never tried to like a show as hard as I’ve tried to like Star Trek: Picard.

Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, was the captain of the Enterprise D and semi-nominal main character of the Star Trek revival The Next Generation in the ’90s. And all subsequent movies, of course, along with the new Star Trek: Picard show available on Streaming Service X That You Don’t Want to Pay For Anymore.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard is one of the founding fathers of my own personal moral framework. If he was a polytheistic deity, his portfolio in my internal Mt. Olympus would be “Leadership, Dignity, and Rationality.”

Put it simply, he’s real important to me.

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Categories: Diary, star trek, TV | Tags: alex kurtzman, guinan, picard, picard season 1, picard season 2, q, Review, star trek, star trek picard | Leave a comment

A Walking Dead Quitter Tries the Mid-Season Finale

Posted on December 15, 2016 by B.C. Johnson

A Walking Dead Quitter Tries the Mid-Season Finale, “Hearts Still Beating.”

Spoilers up to episode 7.8 of “The Walking Dead.”

Today, a former-Walking Dead fan gives the Mid-Season finale a shot and asks the question . . . is it a good time to get back into the show?

Why You Quit, Quitter?

In my last article about AMC’s hit mega-hit “The Walking Dead,” I swore off The Walking Dead Totes 4EVER. The show had gone from “must see, gather around the TV” to “this show can eat roughly 100 dicks” all with the execution of one incredibly dumb and bad cliffhanger, which a panel of multi-discipline scientists concluded to be “the worst.”

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The Wafflers Review of Star Trek: Beyond

Posted on August 6, 2016 by B.C. Johnson

So, I just caught up on the newest entry in the NuTrek saga, and boy was I surprised.

I REALLY took the piss out of this movie when that first, widely-maligned trailer debuted. It seemed like it had been concocted primarily to anger Star Trek fans: rock music, sweet dirt bike jumps, the Enterprise being destroyed IN THE TRAILER, and “from the Director of Fast and Furious.” For me, the only thing that’s fast and furious in Star Trek should be Worf at the helm of the Defiant.

See, it’s a fast ship and he’s angry, so that’s a joke. The joke I just said.

I (and the internet) heaped so much abuse upon the trailer’s back that the writer of the film (and co-star) Simon Pegg had to come out on social media and both A) apologize for the trailer and B) insist that it didn’t truly capture the Trekkian nature of the final film.

So, was Pegg right? Could the director of Fast and Furious make a good Star Trek film?