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1 Beckett Mariner and Michael Burnham, two good people, good at their jobs, who’ve guided us on some glorious Star Trek adventures for the past five-and-a-bit months. Image: CBS Star Trek has appeared on CBS All Access, delivering us Discovery. A lot happened in nearly half a year of boldly going, but looking back, all I can think about was how refreshing it was to watch people enjoy being good at their jobs. Advertisement Even in its most devil-may-care days, Star Trek has always kind of ...

Typically, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure book is all about creating a world for your heroes to go on epic campaigns—detailing the vast settings of places like Eberron or Icewind Dale, or setting up cities like Waterdeep or even the Magic: The Gatheringland of Ravnica. While its newest adventure revisits a classic D&D location, it’s doing so to bring something new, and shorter, to the tabletop. Advertisement Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth Edition, Candlekeep Mysteries. Named for the infamo...

Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston and Valarie Pettiford). There’s even some Game of Thrones essence thanks to the casting of Owen Teale—who played Jon Snow’s Night’s Watch nemesis Ser Alliser Thorne—as villainous witch Peter Knox. By the end of season one, Diana and Matthew have pissed off enough influential creatures that the plot  must dip into the fantasy Filofax and call up Outlander, sending the couple back in time (conveniently, “timewalking” is one of Diana’s newfound abil...

Discovery’s third season finale. Screenshot: CBS Star Trek: Discovery was a big one for Michael Burnham. She had to retake the Discovery from the villain of the season, try to stop some of her closest friends from dying of radiation, and prevent kickstarting a galaxy-wide cataclysm—just to name a few of her recent exploits. But its culmination was a long time coming for the character...even if the show wanted to push against it a little. Advertisement Speaking to TV Line recently about th...

The Bacta War. Image: Paul Youll/Del Rey In 2023, Patty Jenkins will deliver (pending future ramifications of the world in which we live) Rogue Squadron, the next major theatrical release in the Star Wars saga: a tale of the bravest squadron of pilots in the galaxy far, far away. The Rogues have a long history within canon and a longer one out of it—and although Jenkins has made it clear her movie is not a direct adaptation of their adventures, here’s some characters we’d love to see am...

J.R.R. Tolkien crafted one of the most incredible fantasy worlds we’ve ever read, seen, or experienced, and we can thank his son Christopher Tolkien for his role in safeguarding the gift that is The Lord of the Rings. Christopher Tolkien spent decades as the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate and became the definitive voice and scholar of Tolkien lore (no surprise, seeing as how he grew up with the stories of Bilbo Baggins and The Lord of the Rings). Advertisement It’s because...

Wonder Woman 1984 is almost as long as it is long-awaited, but overall it's a highly enjoyable experience, with strong direction by Patty Jenkins, a wonderful score by Hans Zimmer, and standout performances by star Gal Gadot and villain Pedro Pascal.

The Expanse's Captain James Holden has not always been as certain about his place in the universe as he is now. With season five in full swing, we caught up with actor Steven Strait to talk more about Holden’s evolution over the years.

Image: CBS Beckett Mariner spends much of Lower Decks’ first season struggling to reconcile the disaffected, sarcastically “cool” persona she projects with her earnest desire to be the best Starfleet officer she can be for her friends and family aboard the Cerritos. That conflict becomes a bit more literal in the show’s excellent pastiche of Star Trek’s cinematic history when at its climax, Mariner—who’s cast herself as the Khan-esque villain in a holodeck movie about the Cerr...

One of the standout characters of The Expanse's fifth season is Amos Burton, who returns to Earth to face his past and must then confront an uncertain future, too. We talked to actor Wes Chatham about the relationships that helped shape Amos' journey.