TFM (Trek.fm & The 602 Club)

It Feels Like the First Time

“The Enemy Within” 60th-anniversary reflections. As we’ve already learned, you have to be careful what you touch and bring back to the ship when on the landing party. Th

I Can’t Fight This Feeling

Clayface. Creating a franchise on film is a difficult task, we’ve seen many fail over the years, specially in the comic book realm and now one of the latest attempts may

A Web of Deceit

“Damage” 20th-anniversary reflections When we last saw the Enterprise, it was riddled with holes and crewmembers were flying out into space. Five are confirmed dead and

Setting a Course

“The Naked Time” 60th-anniversary reflections. Arriving at Psi 2000 to pick up a team of scientists from the dying planet, the Enterprise finds everyone already dead, fr

A Running Vine

Wildwood. Laika, based just outside of Portland, Oregon has cemented itself as one of the premier claymation studios in the world, with every successive film getting mor

Wrestling With Thoughts on God

“Where No Man Has Gone Before” 60th-anniversary reflections On a mission to the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise recovers the disaster recorder of the SS Valiant, an E

Fleeting Feelings

Spider-Noir. The Spider-Verse movies cracked open the Spider-Man universes, allowing general audiences to experience the plethora of Spider-people that exist in the Marv

#JUSTICEFORHAL

Lanterns. Beginning a new franchise on the big screen can be a very difficult thing to pull off and for DC, over the last 15ish years, it has been a ride on the struggle

Check Yes If You Like Me

“Charlie X” 60th-anniversary reflections While investigating the planet Thasus, the crew of the Antares takes in a young crash survivor who had been stranded alone for 1

In the Key of A Minor

“Tomorrow’s Enterprise” As the Enterprise studies a white hole, the theoretical counterpart of a black hole, Uhura begins hearing strange music. Soon, an energy pulse st

A Herculean Task

Godzilla Minus One. The giant kaiju tormentor of Japan first burst on the big screen in 1954 and since that time has never been far from theaters either in Japan or in t

Gangsta's Paradise

“Initiations” 30th-anniversary reflections While on a solo shuttle trip to perform a quiet ritual for his late father, Chakotay wanders into Kazon-Ogla space and finds h

Manatee Idea Balls

“Once La’an a Time” When the Enterprise comes across what appears to be a flat planet, it’s just the beginning of things that probably shouldn’t exist. The entity that s

It Just Throws You In

Star Trek and “The Man Trap” 60th-anniversary reflections Six decades ago, Gene Roddenberry invited the world on a wagon trail to the stars with a salty start that would

Depth of Performance

“Whispers” 30th-anniversary reflections When Chief O’Brien returns from a security briefing on Parada, he finds everyone on the station acting strangely toward him. Keik

The Frog in the Pot

“Azati Prime” 20th-anniversary reflections It’s been a long road, but the Enterprise finally arrives at Azati Prime, home to the Xindi weapon construction site. While Tr

The Bleak Filter

The Uprising. One of the most popular and longest running genres in film as been the historical epic because dramatizing important parts of our history can be a powerful

Runaround Kirk

“Orders of Magnitude” The Enterprise crew are thrilled to meet a living legend, Admiral Simon Reeger, but excitement soon turns to tension when he commandeers the Enterp

A Slippery Soap

“Like Chronitons through the Hourglass” When the Enterprise again encounters the “cosmic entity” who once staged a wedding for Spock and Chapel, the crew find themselves

The Last Temptation of Aang

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender. There are some animated shows that transcend their genre and become something that defines an entire generation as well as those that co