Categories
Farscape Season 3

Eat Me

FarscapeAboard a Transport Pod in need of refueling and repair, Crichton, Chiana, D’Argo and Jool encounter an older, diseased Leviathan named Rovhu. Moya has missed their scheduled rendezvous to pursue a distress call from Talyn – and eventually finds the warship badly damaged warship and her captain in a coma. All the four on the Pod know is that they need to dock sooner rather than later, so they decide to board Rovhu. They soon discover the ship has been overrun by scavengers that use the ship, its Pilot, and even themselves as food sources. A greater threat is Kaarvok, a fellow with an appetite for brains who appears to kill both Chiana and D’Argo. In truth, Kaarvok has the capability to “twin” people, creating identical genetic copies. Over time, the process causes degradation, explaining the primitive states of the other scavengers. But for now, that means there’s still a living Chiana and D’Argo, and the four Moyans need no persuading to find a way off this Leviathan from hell.

Order the DVDswritten by Matt Ford
directed by Ian Watson
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), Shane Briant (Kaarvok), Lisa Griffiths (Belima)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

Send In The Clones

Xena: Warrior PrincessThree people are watching clips of Xena and discussing the show when they receive a call. It’s Alexis, and she tells them that she’s just completed work on the clones of Xena and Gabrielle. She asks them to bring along the clips they have compiled so that they can jump-start the memories of the clones. At the lab, Alexis allows them to go through one session of clips. She doesn’t want to overload the clones. But after they’ve left the lab, someone comes in and disconnects Gabrielle from the video feed – and puts in a disk of evil Xena clips.

Order the DVDswritten by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Charlie Haskell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Claire Stansfield (Alexis Los Alamos / Alti), Allison Wall (Clea, rabid Gabrielle fan), Polly Baigent (Polly, rabid Xena fan), Ian Hughes (Mac, rabid Joxer fan), Jennifer Rucker (Police Officer #1), Elizabeth Hawthorne (Newscaster Sandy Radford)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Season 07 Star Trek Voyager

Friendship One

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: For the first time in seven years, the starship Voyager receives specific orders from Starfleet. The crew is to track down a 22nd century unmanned space probe which was last tracked in the vicinity of Voyager’s current position. The probes last known location is discovered, but to Janeway’s horror, its technology was analyzed by a Delta Quadrant race which reverse-engineered it – and used it to create potent weapons of mass destruction. Janeway must find a way to make reparations for an unforseeable mistake made before the Federation’s Prime Directive existed – and when her away team become hostages, they may pay the ultimate price for mistakes made before the Federation’s non-interference directive existed.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Taylor
story by Michael Taylor & Bryan Fuller
directed by Mike Vejar
music by

Guest Cast: Josh Clark (Lt. Carey), John Prosky (Otrin), Peter Dennis (Admiral Hendricks), Bari Hochwald (Brin), Ashley Edner (Yun), Ken Land (Verin), John Rosenfeld (Technician #1), Wendy Speake (Technician #2), David Ghilardi (Alien Lieutenant)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

The Last Of The Centaurs

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle are in a marketplace when Ephiny appears to Gabrielle. She tells her that her son, Xenan, is in trouble. A man nearby holds up a wanted poster with Xenan’s picture on it. Lord Belach is looking for bounty hunters to capture or kill Xenan. Xena decides to go see him and offer her services. When they arrive at Lord Belach’s castle, Xena discovers that he is the son of Borias and he looks just like his father. Belach tells them that Xenan kidnapped his daughter. Without telling him who she is, Xena offers to join the search. Ephiny guides her friends to where her son is hiding. There they learn the real reason Nicha left with Xenan.

Order the DVDswritten by Joel Metzger
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Danielle Cormack (Ephiny), Marton Csokas (Boris / Lord Belach), Hamish Hector-Taylor (Xenan), Katrina Devine (Nicha), Margaret-Mary Hollins (Madra), Kim Michalis (Natassa)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Season 07 Star Trek Voyager

Natural Law

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A survey mission comes to an unexpected end when a shuttle carrying Chakotay and Seven encounters a powerful energy barrier surrounding a primitive world. The shuttle is nearly destroyed, and Chakotay suffers major injuries on impact. Worse, the barrier prevents any contact with Voyager, so help isn’t on the way. Seven and Chakotay discover that the inhabitants of this world are not only intelligent, but imitative – after first seeing Chakotay, they tattoo themselves in a fashion similar to the first officer’s facial ornamentation. But the primitives’ behavior extends beyond the superficial. Chakotay and Seven worry that they may begin to understand, even duplicate, the technology of Voyager’s shuttle. Seven sets about on a more determined effort to lower the barrier preventing Voyager from finding them. When she succeeds, only to find that someone else has been waiting for the barrier to come down so they can land, it appears that the tainting of the planet’s indigenous people has only just begun.

Order the DVDsteleplay by James Kahn
story by Kenneth Biller & James Kahn
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Paul Sandman (Healer), Autumn Reeser (Girl), Robert Curtis Brown (Ambassador), Neil Vipond (Kleg), Ivar Brogger (Barus)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

When Fates Collide

Xena: Warrior PrincessJulius Caesar has escaped from the underworld and chained the Fates. Thinking it unfair that he ended up in Tartarus and Xena continues to live on with Gabrielle, he has decided to change a past mistake he made with the warrior. The Fates try to talk him out of it, but he’s determined and cuts her life thread just where he wants it and reinserts it back into the loom.

In this new reality, Caesar is Emperor of Rome and discussing matters with an aide when Brutus appears. He tells Caesar that Lao Ma has sent emissaries with a treaty. As they turn to enter the palace to greet the emissaries, a lone warrior on horseback arrives at the gate. The warrior easily disables the guard and shoots arrows toward Caesar and Brutus – and reveals herself to be Xena.

Order the DVDswritten by Kathrine Fugate
directed by John Fawcett
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Karl Urban (Julius Caesar), David Franklin (Brutus), Claire Stansfield (Alti), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Elizabeth Pendegrast (Atropos), Leah Mizrahi (Clotho), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Adrian Kwan (Emissary #1), David Tomison Passmore (Male Actor), Debbie Newby (Female Actor)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Season 07 Star Trek Voyager

Homestead

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 54868.6: A First Contact Day celebration – commemorating the anniversary of humanity’s first encounter with the Vulcans – is interrupted by an unexpected discovery. A colony of Talaxians has been detected living on a barren asteroid. Neelix is eager to visit them, as he may never get to see another of his own kind as Voyager speeds toward the Alpha Quadrant. But when the Talaxians greet the away team – including Neelix – with disdain for their weapons and “violent” way of life, the reunion doesn’t go as planned. Neelix discovers that the Talaxians have been mining the asteroid for aliens who are practically using them as slave labor – and who intend to dispose of the colony by destroying the asteroid. Neelix attempts to persuade his fellow Talaxians that this situation warrants abandoning their traditionally pacifist stance on conflict, and even helps them strike the first blow against their overseers. But this is merely the opening volley in what is likely to be an ongoing fight – and Neelix may have to leave Voyager in order to continue helping his people.

Order the DVDswritten by Raf Green
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Rob Labelle (Oxilon), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Julianne Christie (Dexa), Ian Meltzer (Brax), John Kenton Shull (Nacona), Christian R. Conrad (Miner)

Original title: Destiny

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

Many Happy Returns

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle are on a mission to deliver the helmet of Hermes to Thebes, when they come across zealots about to sacrifice a young woman. They fight the zealots, but unfortunately the rope that is linked to the chute the woman is laying on has come free from the base. She is sent over the cliff to the sea below. Xena leaps over the cliff after her, and using the helmet, she catches the girl and flies her to safety. The young woman believes that a god has just saved her and thanks Xena. When the warrior explains that she isn’t a god, the girl is angry that Xena ruined her sacrifice. The warrior and the bard are surprised by her reaction. Gabrielle thinks that maybe the way to get through to Genia is to introduce her to Aphrodite.

Order the DVDswritten by Liz Friedman and Vanessa Place
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Katie Stuart (Genia), Hori Ahipene (Ferragus), Taungaroa Emile (Frankus), Lathan Gaines (Zarat), Ross Duncan (Lagot)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Season 07 Star Trek Voyager

Renaissance Man

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 54890.7: Captain Janeway and the Doctor take the Delta Flyer to a medical conference, but when Janeway returns she orders Chakotay to prepare to eject Voyager’s warp core…and giving another, more disturbing order, to find an M-class planet suitable for colonization in the Delta Quadrant. Unwilling to accept that the captain is abandoning Voyager’s homeward journey without any explanation, Chakotay confronts her after more suspicious orders are given. Just as Chakotay realizes that Janeway has been replaced by a lookalike, the first officer is attacked and rendered unconscious. More suspicious orders are given to the crew, and Chakotay is also impersonated. But could the saboteur be one of Voyager’s own?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Phyllis Strong & Mike Sussman
story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Andy Milder (Nar), Wayne Thomas Yorke (Zet), Alexander Enberg (Vorik), David Sparrow (Alien/Doctor), Tarik Ergin (Tactical), J.R. Quinonez (Overlooker/Doctor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Categories
5th Doctor

Loups-Garoux

Loups-GarouxThe TARDIS brings the Doctor and Turlough to Rio de Janeiro in the year 2080, just in time for the carnival. During the festivities, both of the time travelers become aware of another presence that seems out of place – something lurking, waiting patiently in the dark as it has done for centuries – something that will draw them both into the center of a battle for dominion over the human race.

Order this CDwritten by Marc Platt
directed by Nicholas Pegg
music by Alistair Lock

Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Elanor Bron (Ileana De Santos), Nicky Henson (Pieter Stubbe), Sarah Gale (Rosa Caiman), Jane Burke (Inez), Burt Kwouk (Dr. Hayashi), David Hankinson (Anton Lichtfuss), Derek Wright (Jorge)

Timeline: between Phantasmagoria and Singularity

LogBook entry and TheatEar review by Earl Green

Categories
Season 07 Star Trek Voyager

Endgame

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager’s sensors detect a possible high concentration of wormholes inside a dense nebula, and Captain Janeway decides to investigate. A near-collision with a Borg cube – obscured from sensors by the nebula’s gases – changes her mind quickly, and Voyager retreats. A temporal rift forms near the ship, and a Starfleet shuttlecraft with armaments decades ahead of Voyager’s own emerges, piloted by a woman who claims to be Janeway from sixteen years in the future. The elder Janeway outlines a daring plan to get the ship home ahead of schedule, using the weapons and armor technology of her shuttle to hold the Borg at bay. Voyager returns to the nebula, where the crew finds one of the Collective’s huge transwarp stations, a nexus point of conduits that lead to every quadrant of the galaxy. Even though there’s a high likelihood that one of those transwarp conduits could take Voyager back home, Captain Janeway orders a retreat over her older self’s protests. The captain sees this as an opportunity to deny the Borg the means to launch future attacks on the Alpha Quadrant – which could leave Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant for years to come.

Stardate not given: On the ten-year anniversary of the starship Voyager’s return to Earth, Admiral Kathryn Janeway looks back bitterly at the tragic costs of the 23-year journey – the death of Seven of Nine, and the effect that death had upon the former Borg’s husband, Commander Chakotay. A reunion of the surviving crew does little to lift the Admiral’s spirits; the Doctor has married, Tom and B’Elanna’s daughter is now a Starfleet officer, Harry Kim is now the captain of the U.S.S. Rhode Island, and Tuvok languishes in a mental institution, his mind wasted away by a neurological condition that could have been corrected had Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant sooner. Admiral Janeway decides to make a risky trip back in time to change history and speed her crew home.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller & Robert Doherty
story by Rick Berman, Kenneth Biller & Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Alice Krige (Borg Queen), Vaughn Armstrong (Korath), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Lisa Locicero (Miral Paris), Miguel Perez (Physician), Grant Garrison (Cadet), Ashley Sierra Hughes (Sabrina), Matthew James Williamson (Klingon), Richard Sarstedt (Starfleet Admiral), Joey Sakata (Engineering Officer), Iris Bahr (Female Cadet)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

Soul Possession

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Joxer are at the edge of a cliff discussing a scroll that she has with her. Joxer thinks they should destroy it, but he can’t tear it. Then he decides that maybe they could disguise it by hiding it within another scroll. Xena approves, then takes both scrolls and stuffs them in a jar, before diving from the cliff into the Ionian sea.

In the present day, C.H.A.K.R.A.M, a group who has been researching Xena and Gabrielle, holds a press conference to talk about a scroll that has been discovered in the Ionian sea. Dr. Fredrick Delaney, who is speaking for the organization, claims that they have proof that Xena was married – to Ares.

Order the DVDswritten by Melissa Blake
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Cast: Renee O’Connor (Mattie), Lucy Lawless (Annie Day / Meg), Ted Raimi (Harry / Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Elizabeth Pendegrast (Atropos), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Leah Mizrahi (Clotho), Jennifer Rucker (Xena Fan #2), Barb Binder (Carly Binding), Michael Saccente (Dr. Frederick Delaney), Lucy Briant (Roxanne Fields), Anne Nordhaus (Xena Fan #1), Campbell Cooley (Random Reporter)

Note: Barb Binder is the webmaster of the Xena fan site, Whoosh!.

Original title: Missing Pieces

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Doctor Who Fan Films

Do You Have A Licence To Save This Planet?

Do You Have A Licence To Save This Planet?

This is a fan-made production whose storyline may be invalidated by later official studio productions.

Story: A crisis looms in time and/or space, and Rassilon tries to summon the greatest Time Lord in history. But he’s busy, so the universe will have to settle for a “chrono-duke” known as the Foot Doctor, who travels through space and/or time in a vehicle that looks like a washing machine. (Understandably, he gets a lot of dirty socks thrown at him.) He arrives on Earth, which is teeming with an invasion force of Cyberons. And an invasion force of Sontarans. And an invasion force of Autons. And probably worse. But the Foot Doctor has an ace up his sleeve – no, not that ace.

written by Paul Ebbs & Gareth Preston
directed by Bill Baggs
music by Mike Neilson and Steve Johnson

Cast: Sylvester McCoy (The Foot Doctor), Mark Donovan (The Salesman), Nigel Fairs (Geoff / The Licensor), Jo Castleton (Gloria), Nigel Peever (Rassilon), Gareth Preston (Delivery Man / Cyberon), Rupert Booth (Sontaran / Auton), Philip T. Robinson (Auton / Cyberon), Paul Griggs (Auton / Cyberon), Paul Ebbs (Cyberon voice), Steve Johnson (Cyberon voice)

Notes: Despite poking much fun at the unlicensed equivalents of the Doctor and the Cybermen, many of the Doctor Who baddies who appear here are licensed, and their creators are credited: the Sontarans and Autons (both created by Robert Holmes), and the Krynoid (created by Robert Banks Stewart).

Review: It’s funny watching Do You Have A Licence To Save This Planet? in retrospect. The whole message of this half-hour send-up of the Doctor Who format – such as it was in the 1980s – and its many easily-pounced-upon foibles is simple: Doctor Who fans don’t need the BBC anymore. Arguably, they don’t even need to license anything from the BBC anymore to make fan films.

Oh, how times have changed.

Categories
Season 6 Xena: Warrior Princess

A Friend In Need – Part 1

Xena: Warrior PrincessGabrielle is thinking about what the future may hold, and Xena says she’s been wondering about that too. She thinks maybe they should head to the land of the Pharaohs for a while. Gabrielle notices that someone is lurking about in the woods around them. Xena says that he’s been there for about a half an hour. They find the man, who is a priest from the land of the rising sun. Kenji tells them that he was sent by Akemi, someone who Xena knew a long time ago. He also tells of a demon, Yodoshi, that killed his fellow priest, and says that Akemi believed that Xena would be able to defeat him. As they sail to Japan, Xena tells Gabrielle the story of how she and Borias met Akemi. When they reach Higuchi, the captain of the ship refuses to go near the village because it’s under siege.

Order the DVDsteleplay by R.J. Stewart
story by Robert Tapert & R.J. Stewart
directed by Robert Tapert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Michelle Ang (Akemi), Marton Csokas (Borias), Mac Jeffery Ong (Kenji), Adrian Brown (Yodoshi), Yvonne Tan (Ayako), Shiori Terada (Miyuki), Venant Wong (Morimoto), Gary Young (Saburo), Trevor Sai-Louie (Kao), Ric Chan (Master Swordsman), Gregor McLennan (Captain), Kazuhiro Muroyama (Harukata)

Original title: Japan Part 1

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Categories
Season 1 Witchblade

Parallax

WitchbladeThe inquiry into the ambush at the Rialto Theater is not looking good for Pezzini – and her prospects of keeping her badge look even worse when the antagonistic Captain Dante is appointed as the head of the homicide department. Evidence involving a bladed weapon at the site of the massacre has turned up, and there are questions about a man who knocked Jake out cold just before the fight – a man who is at this very moment being hunted down by three heavily-armed combatants on motorcycles. After the inquiry session is over, Jake and Pez respond to this duel, only to find that two of the three combatants didn’t make it out of the fight. Pez gives chase to one of them, but loses him after narrowly missing one of his bullets. The trail of evidence eventually leads her to the door of Kenneth Irons, who is also being hunted by the sole surviving assailant of his bodyguard – but will protecting Irons neceessarily be the lesser of two evils for the wielder of the Witchblade?

Season 1 Regular Cast: Yancy Butler (Detective Sara Pezzini), David Chokachi (Detective Jake McCarty), Anthony Cistaro (Kenneth Irons), Will Yun Lee (Danny Woo), Eric Etebari (Ian Nottingham)

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Ralph Hemecker
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Ralph Hemecker
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), Peter Mensah (Moebius), Kenneth Welsh (Captain Siri), Kathryn Winslow (Vicki), Sandrine Holt (?), Wade Eastwood (Black Dragon #2), Fragna Dusai (Black Dragon #3), and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green