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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 been a workplace drama about people who are really into their work. It just so happened that their w...

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 infamous magical library citadel on the Sword Coast, Candlekeep will bring players and dungeon masters n...

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 abilities). In the past, they hope Diana will be able to learn to control her magic without her enemies...

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 the finale, co-showrunner Michelle Paradise discussed the decision to finally give Michael captaincy o...

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 among her cast, as analogs or otherwise. Advertisement Regardless of whether or not Jenkins’