WWE Survivor Series 2023 Review: Matches, Surprises, and Epic Returns

Wow, where to start?

First & foremost, I really want to give props where they’re due: Triple H has done a masterful job of putting together a product in which a large part of the roster is incredibly over with the crowd! I mean if you look up & down this roster, just about everyone elicits a good crowd response!

From your World Champion, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Cody Rhodes, Gunther, The Judgment Day, and all the women: Becky, Bayley, Iyo Sky, Zoey Stark, Rhea Ripley…the crowd cares about everyone! Even Dominic Mysterio does his job incredibly well of being a smarmy, underhanded heel who’s not afraid to take the easy way out, and the crowd loves to boo him for it! And this isn’t John Cena or Xpac “go away” heat, the crowd is reacting exactly as they’re supposed to to this ass. Bravo!

Onto the matches…

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November 26, 2023 0

Best new Star Trek characters of the Paramount+ era

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com)

Paramount’s done a pretty nice job in fleshing out their new Star Trek series on Paramount+

As it stands, Paramount+ has given us a number of new Star Trek series since first launching Star Trek: Discovery in September of 2017. Those new series include: Discovery (4 Seasons), Star Trek: Picard (3 Seasons), Star Trek: Lower Decks (4 Seasons), Star Trek: Prodigy (1 Season), and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2 Seasons). You can also count Star Trek: Short Treks, but those are just shorts that don’t tie into one another and don’t have any consistent characters.

Though some of these series rely on previously established characters like Captains Christopher Pike, Jean-Luc Picard, and Kathryn Janeway, there have been a good number of new characters added to the Star Trek Universe and given quite interesting backstories and quirks. While not every one of their new characters have been fully fleshed out as I’d have hoped, there are a few notable, well-written characters who I’m here to shine a spotlight on today.

In the coming slides, I’m going to share some of my favorite new additions to the Star Trek Universe, many of whom, aren’t the central characters of their various series. In fact, most of them are actually supporting characters that I believe, their respective series would suffer greatly if they were left out. I’m here to explore some of their stories, and the reasons why I think they’re great additions. The following are my favorite new additions to the Star Trek Universe – in no specific order.

November 19, 2023 0

Star Trek Fleet Command is fun, but not “Trek”

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com)

Last month, Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command celebrated its 5-year Anniversary.

For those of you who haven’t tried out Star Trek Fleet Command (available for Android, Apple iOS, Mac OS & Windows), it’s a mobile strategy game published by Scopely & CBS Interactive. When the game first launched, visually, it centered around the crew, ships, and content associated with the Star Trek 2009 rebooted series of movies that starred Chris Pine as a young James T. Kirk.

Over the course of the ensuing five years, quite a bit of content has been added to the game to bring together both the Kelvin and the Prime timelines. From new missions involving the ships & characters from Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager along with the recent additions on Paramount+ of Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks & Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. They’ve done a nice job in incorporating all the various characters & ships we’ve gotten to know over the last 50+ years.

Players are urged to form and join alliances to claim territories, mine resources & materials used for constructing & upgrading new ships and buildings within your station, and also compete against one another in specialized daily events.

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November 4, 2023 0

Setting the record straight on Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager

(originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com)

Neelix started out quite the questionable character on Star Trek: Voyager.

When we first meet Neelix, he’s tending to his debris field where he seemingly would be selling off junked starship parts that he procured via numerous, possibly underhanded ways, and selling them off for profit in order to survive in the Delta Quadrant. The one commodity he seemingly could not obtain was something that Federation ships were able to synthesize in an instant: water. Upon realizing this, he decided to take advantage of the Voyager crew’s generosity and innocence to free his girlfriend from enslavement at the hands of the Kazon.

Neelix proved himself to be quite the conniving individual, always seemingly having friends of questionable morals in the right places throughout his region of the Delta Quadrant. The one being whose existence he held above all else was Kes, his 3-year-old Ocampan girlfriend. Since the Ocampans live abbreviated lives, with the eldest Ocampans typically living only eight or nine years, by comparison, that puts Kes to be about the equivalent of being in her mid-20s to early 30s, alternatively, it was always my understanding with all of Neelix’s life experiences, that he was fairly significantly older than Kes…not only in physical age but also in cognitive age as well, which kind of makes him a bit of a creeper. However, just as I wrote previously here, I always viewed Voyager as the story of the redemption of Nick Locarno/Tom Paris & I think the same can easily be said about Neelix as well!

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November 2, 2023 0