DOA On TV Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Alias

 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds "Off Hours"

 

If it were that sort of show, Off Hours would be a disaster of the week type episode.   The Enterprise is sucked into a slipstream worm hole that will cause the ship to accelerate to a point beyond warp speed, that would, by hour's end, disintegrate the Enterprise. 

Of course most systems are down and staff are isolated in various pockets of the ship trying to survive.

The prominent pair stuck together are Nurse Chapel and Dr. M'Benga.  When the ship enters the wormhole a lab table crushes M'Benga against a column, almost cutting him in half.  He can't feel his legs, but otherwise he seems stunned rather than dying, which he is.  It's up to Chapel to find a way to save her old friend, and she will do anything to accomplish the impossible.

 

Alias Pilot

 

Alias aired from 2001 to 2006.  Now on Hulu, it features Jennifer Garner as a college student with a secret life as a spy.  Sydney Bristow carries on both lives with confidence and fearlessness.  She's highly intelligent, but can really fight and defend herself.  Seeing her knock out one bad guy after another with a kick to the head is pretty great. 

In her college life, she's going to get married. She makes the mistake of telling her fiance about her secret life, and then, spoiler, he'd dead, killed in a very messy manor.  

After that, she rebels, or tries to rebel against her employers.   She hasn't the confidence she once has in the pilot as she can't function with her grief and anger and hatred towards her employers for killing the man she loves. 

I've never watched the show before and have only seen Garner in commercials  (and a Marvel movie I can't think of).   She's incredible in this show.  It's well worth continuing to watch it.

 

Saturday Puzzles A Maze for 8 30 26

 Nothing to see here!

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 8 22 26 Fallen Phrase

 Ponderings about authorship are always a good topic, right?  

George Sand  Histoire de Ma Vie

 

 

 

Five Things Friday 8/28/26

 August is almost over, yay! Relentless heat and drought. My poor garden. Hopefully September won’t be all about the weather.

Mary's Recipes 8/27/26

 We are nearing the end of the recipe box!  After today's recipes, there are only twelve recipes left in the box.  I will post them six at a time rather than five because I like nice round numbers.  On the last post I will link to the first post in the series, which was written Thanksgiving 2025.  You can start all over!

Here's Mary in a cotton field in 2015.  What a vibrant lady.  She officially turns 90 this year, and barely seems a day over 80. Love, love that woman.

 

 

DOA on TV Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Lanterns

 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds  S4 Ep 5  Level 5 Transporter Accident

 

 Novice engineer Scotty attempts to beat an old rival's transporter distance record by sending a puppet across space farther than has been done before.  The truly awful looking puppet somehow messes up the transporter buffers and sends a wave throughout the ship that changes every single person into a puppet.

Spock, who was on a shuttle mission when this occurs, is the only crew member who is able to use the ships controls because he was unaffected by the accident.  The fuzzy little puppet fingers everyone else is now sporting make no impression on touchpads, and they call on him constantly from all over the ship to help them.

As if that isn't bad enough, a crew of Orion pirates comes upon the somewhat disabled Enterprise and decides to take advantage. 

Every person in their puppet form are just great versions of themselves.  My favorites were Una and La'an  who tried to throw themselves full force into a physical fight with the invaders, only to be tossed aside like toys, and a surprising T'Pring who was logical until she decided chaos would be more effective in these circumstances.

I'm loving the season so far.

 

Lanterns HBO Max   Pilot

 

Promoted as party buddy cop show, part mystery, the Lanterns first episode brought Hal Jordan and John Stewart to Nebraska to solve a small town mystery possibly involving aliens.

The two aren't partners, really, in this first episode, as Hal Jordan hasn't accepted that he should step aside for John, so he hasn't taught him anything.   He torments him with the ring, letting him use it to save himself from a car crash, but making him walk miles to catch up with Jordan.

I loved John's character from the first scene where he's thrilled to see his hero being interviewed on TV.  It's hard to see how that great, brave kid got mixed up with the cynic Jordan is in the current day.   

There are only eight episodes airing on Sunday nights at nine.  I'm hoping lots of backstory is filled in and that there is a redemption arc for Hal who really needs one. 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Fallen Phrase

 I really had to dig around in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for something to use this time around.  Surely I haven't used all of the good stuff?

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the August Crossword

 I was going to add a collage of pictures to jazz things up, but I thought the clues were so simple that it would be a giveaway in case anything did stump you!

 

 

Five Things Friday 8/21/26

 A few cool days and how easy it is to ease towards fall and winter.  While the official Dog Days are over, we aren’t fooled, are we?  Keep those ice cube trays full!

Mary's Recipes 8/20/26

 Mary at our wedding!