A staple of the "Star Trek" franchise since its earliest days is its inclusion of imaginative extraterrestrial characters. Whether as members of Starfleet vessels or villains-of-the-week, the ...

"Star Trek" is a staple of pop culture. Much of its visuals and iconography, as well as its characters and fictional technology, have become part of the culture at large. From Captain Kirk to the ...

Star Trek Season 1 did introduce some pretty iconic villains; there’s a prototype Q called Tremayne, and who can forget the ...

To understand this new power, you first have to get to grips with the distant future of the Star Trek timeline. The 31st and 32nd centuries were a tragic time, with a mysterious cosmic event called ...

Alien: Earth just pulled off one of the best fakeouts in recent TV history. After kicking off the Alien prequel series by introducing an entire crew of Weyland-Yutani employees aboard a ship called ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...

The demise of Tootles (Kit Young) in Alien: Earth episode 6 is both avoidable and frustrating, but the silver lining is that it allows the show's greatest character to shine. We're talking, of course, ...

This week’s episode recounted the days that led to the Maginot’s crash on Earth. By Sean T. Collins What manner of man becomes a Morrow? I don’t mean a cyborg, though this flashback episode of “Alien: ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. And, as it turns out, in space, nobody can tell if you’re bad at your job, either. At least, that seems to be the premise of Alien: Earth episode 5, in which we ...