The latest Star Trek: Lower Decks episode is the curiously named You Say Mugato, I Say Gumato — we explain why and give you the highlights of the episode Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 bubbles along nicely with the latest episode You Say Mugato, I Say Gumato. The story itself is fairly straightforward (see below), but the … >
The Secrets of Det-Sen brings the TARDIS to the Himalayas for a story with the First Doctor, Stephen and Dodo. Set some three hundred years earlier, it serves as a prologue to the Troughton-era story The Abominable Snowmen. The release makes for a Yeti-ful summer with The Web of Fear appearing on Blu-ray, its missing … >
Welcome to the CultBox Podcast roundup for August 2021 Our favourites this month have included… 14 for 14 (The Doctor Who Show Presents…) The ever-entertaining Australian podcast The Doctor Who Show, with its genial hosts Rob and Dave, presents a special episode in reaction to the (not so shocking) revelation that Jodie Whittaker is set … >
Respond To All Calls is the second audio outing for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor at Big Finish. While travelling alone, pre-Rose, these tales see him answering distress calls of different sorts. Unlike the first time-hopping boxset of this range, Ravagers, these are discrete stories with a familiar structure; one story is set in the past, … >
Star Trek: Lower Decks 2:3 We’ll Always Have Tom Paris marks a milestone — 800 episodes and counting for the franchise It’s official (*see below) — with the latest instalment of Star Trek: Lower Decks, there have been 800 televised episodes of Star Trek across various versions of the franchise since 1966. It’s a big number, and … >
The latest monthly release in the Big Finish Torchwood range Empire of Shadows spins the timeline forward into the far-flung future, and flips the spotlight onto a character last heard from in the tenth Doctor TV episode The Satan Pit. Zachary “Zack” Cross Flane was first introduced in the previous series two episode The Impossible … >
The latest Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 episode was Kayshon, His Eyes Open — a great title and (at least one) an Easter Egg as well Season 2 episode 2of Star Trek: Lower Decks brought us a replacement for Boimler (Jack Quaid’s character starts on the USS Titan with Ryker), and the inevitable jostling for position … >
After the Daleks breaks new ground for The Early Adventures, as it continues a story after the Doctor has departed. Picking up directly from The Dalek Invasion of Earth, it follows Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, who was memorably locked out of the TARDIS and forced to start a new life in the ruins of Earth. … >
New Big Finish audiobook The Palluma Project offers another voyage of discovery through Big Finish’s expanding Blake’s 7 universe and, at the same time, the chance to step through an unseen adventure in the established second TV series’ timeline. Writer Tim Gambrell makes use of the more extensive narrative space provided by the audiobook format … >
Star Trek: Lower Decks is back on Prime, and Strange Energies encapsulates the series values perfectly The USS Cerritos is back and the story remind us how season 1 ended. On the Cerritos, Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is her usual would-be maverick self, and her relationship with her mother Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) … >