Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 10 — The Last Generation — A Review

21st April,  2023: ‘The Last Generation’.

*Spoilers*

Right … it’s Friday, again: and I’m hoping like hell that my chips haven’t burnt.

I’m having fish and chips, again.

So you know.

Frankly?

I’m looking forward to it.

As … ?

Once I’ve eaten, I’ll be watching ‘The Last Generation’, the last episode of Star Trek Picard.

We’ll have to see how it goes!

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 9 — Vox — A Review

14th April, 2023: ‘Vox’.

Right …

It’s officially Friday.

And, frankly … ?

Chips are being cooked, washing is being washed, video intros have been made, and stuff, done.

Including phone calls.

The mystery of why we’re supposed to eat fish on a Friday … is still unsolved.

But at least I’m having crinkle cut chips.

At any rate … ?

It’s Friday, once more: and, once I’ve eaten dinner?

I’ll be watching ‘Vox’, the penultimate episode of Star Trek Picard’s third and final season.

I’ll have my review up on the 15the April.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 8 — Surrender — A Review.

7th April, 2023: ‘Surrender’.

Right … it’s Friday, again.

And … ?

Even as I write, vegetables are boiling, chips are cooking … 

And fish is being burnt to billy-o.

At any rate … ?

Dinner is almost done: to a turn.

And, once it’s eaten?

I’ll watch ‘Surrender’, the eighth episode of Star Trek Picard’s third season: and tell you about it, tomorrow night.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 7 — Dominion — A Review

31st March, 2023: ‘Dominion’.

It’s Friday, again.

You can tell, can’t you … ?

The eternal mystery of why we’re supposed to have fish on a Friday is playing itself in front of me — or, at least, to my immediate right — as I write.

Or, at least, I’ve got fish and chips — and some vegetables — on the go as I speak.

Why … ?

Why not?

~≈🖖≈~

At any rate, there’s something else I’ll be thinking about.

Yesterday?

I had a one hour appeal hearing: about whether I qualified for extra financial help from the Department of Work and Pensions.

Hopefully, I will: but … ?

Until I hear — by post, by the 7th April — I won’t know for sure.

It’s both a mystery … and a mildly frustrating case of wait and see.

~≈🖖≈~

At any rate … ?

And I’ll say it, again … it’s Friday.

Which means simply this.

Once I’ve had dinner, I’ll be watching ‘Dominion’, the next episode of Star Trek Picard’s third and final season.

I’ll have my review up, tomorrow.

See you then!

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 6 — The Bounty — A Review

24th March, 2023: ‘The Bounty’.

Frankly … ?

It’s Friday: and … ?

Fish and chips are being cooked, as ever.

And … ?

Equally as frankly, I’ve just seen this video: 

And am wondering why many Americans boil water for tea … in the microwave!

That … ?

Like fish on a Friday, is possibly one of those mysteries we’ll never know the answer to!

At any rate … ?

It’s Friday, 24th March: and I’ll be the next episode of Star Trek Picard — ‘The Bounty’ — tonight.

And then?

Reviewing it, tomorrow.

I’ll see you then!

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 5 — Imposters — A Review

17th March, 2023: ‘Imposters’.

*Spoilers*

Right … it’s Friday … and … ?

I’m getting nearer to eating dinner.

But nowhere nearer the reason we’re supposed to eat fish and chips on a Friday.

Beyond the idea that a bishop told us too.

Or … that we fancy a walk to the chippy.

I know I do: but I’m having home made, thank you.

I couldn’t afford a take out, unless you paid me.

The tip jar’s on the right, if you’re feeling generous!

At any rate … ?

It’s Friday.

And, once I’ve had dinner?

I’ll be watching the next episode of Star Trek Picard … then telling you what I thought about it, tomorrow night.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 4 — No Win Scenario — A Review

10th March, 2023: ‘No Win Scenario’*.

It has to be said: life, sometimes, is full of mysteries.

Yes: it’s Friday

Yes: I’m preparing dinner.

And yes: I’ll be watching the next episode of Star Trek Picard, tonight

And — as a fourth yes? — I’m having fish and chips.

I’m still clueless as to why we’re supposed to have fish.

Except it ties into when the UK — or England, at least — was once a Catholic country.

Basically?

‘A bunch of bishops said so’.

Heigh ho!

~≈🖖≈~

At any rate … ?

It’s Friday night, I’m going to watching ‘No Win Scenario’, the next episode of Star Trek Picard’s last season.

I’ll have my reviews up, tomorrow night.

You can find out what I though of it … 

Tomorrow night!

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 3 — Seventeen Seconds — A Review

3rd March, 2023: ‘Seventeen Seconds’.

Right … it’s official Friday, 3rd March.

Which implies a few things.

Yes: it’s my birthday, tomorrow.

I’m going to have my usual Saturday night review up, a little earlier than expected.

Or possibly later.

One of the two.

If you’d like to make to make my weekend, and buy me a Mac Studio … ?

You’d be welcome to!

It also implies I’m cooking my usual dinner.

Fish and chips … again.

I know that — here in the UK — we’re have the meal as a result of Roman Catholic religious practises from the time we were a collection of squabbling Catholic nations.

If someone with half an idea could let me know, I’d appreciate it!

At any rate … ?

And to reiterate?

It’s Friday, and I’m going to be watching ‘Seventeen Seconds’: the next episode of Star Trek Picard’s last series.

And … ?

I’ll have my written and video reviews up, tomorrow night … once I’ve had a celebratory birthday meal.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 2 — Disengage — A Review

SPOILERS!

24th February, 2023: ‘Disengage.’

Right … 

It’s a Friday: again.

And?

Even as we speak, vegetables are boiling, chips — or, at least, chip shaped rose potatoes — are cooking … 

And fish … ?

Is, likewise, being cooked.

Why … ?   I still don’t know.

Explanations on the back of a postcard, please!

~≈🖖≈~

At any rate, the point I’m trying to make?

Is that it’s Friday: and, again?

I’m going to watching another episode of Star Trek Picard, tonight.

Episode two, so you know: called ‘Disengage.’

I’ll have this review finished, and posted, tomorrow night.

I’ll see you then.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 3 Episode 1 — The Next Generation — A Review

17th February, 2023: The Next Generation.

Right … I’ve officially got dinner on the go.

Fish and chips: again.

This time last Friday … ?

I was telling you about classic Doctor Who series, ‘The Crusade’: the last episode, at any rate.

And Sunday?   Saw me watching — then reviewing — episode two of For All Mankind.

Right now … ?

Dinner’s a’cooking.

Fish and chips, again.

Once that’s eaten?

I’ll be settling in to watch ‘The Next Generation’: the first episode of Star Trek Picard’s third and last series.

You’ll find out more, tomorrow: when I publish my written and video reviews.

~≈🖖≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 1 Episode 8 — Broken Pieces — A Review

4th April, 2020.

Is it possibly to be mildly outraged by something?

Now I look back at the introductory video?

I can’t help but think outrage is possibly too strong a word.

Although I’ve possibly a couple of things to be outrage at.

One?

Earlier to day, I went to the Brentwood branch of Sainbury’s.

Where, whilst queueing up, along side everyone else?

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I noticed the guy in the bright green Lamborghini, trying to park.

A Lamborghini, for  crying out loud.

That’s a little bit excessive, for just a loaf and a couple of spuds, would you say?

~≈¥≈~

The other thing that annoyed me?

I saw this piece of news, earlier.

Telling us a couple of 5G phone masts had been set on fire: with at least one attacking claiming they were attacking the site as 5G phone masts were responsible for the current Corona virus outbreak.

Ye … mothering … GODS!!!

How much of an idiot do you have to be to believe some of the sillier conspiracy theories doing the rounds?

Especially the bit of arse-hattery* that says a telephone pole can give you a virus?

And that you need to burn something down, or wear a tinfoil hat?

Ye gods!

~≈¥≈~

At ANY rate … ?

It’s a Saturday, I’ve been shopping, I’ve eaten …

And I have, as promised, managed to catch some TV.

Yes.

Another episode of Star Trek Picard’s first series.

~≈¥≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 1 Episode 5 — Stardust City Rag — A Review

26th March, 2020.

Right … 

I’m unemployed, have a long term health condition — diabetes, since you ask — and am mildly frustrated about the corona virus lockdown.

There’s many things worth complaining about, I think.

One thing that does give me mixed feelings?

Is the — admittedly few — people on TV complaining about the amount of benefits they’re getting, as a result of being laid of in the crisis.

I know it’s hard: having been out of a job for two years, now., and on a very low income.

There’s nothing I can do about that, until the job situation improves.

To see others unused to being in my boat complaining about it, when the system is creaking under unprecedented strain?

Smacks of … 

There was one woman on the BBC News, today, compiling about the amount of Statutory Sick Pay she was receiving.

She’d been given it, if I’ve understood things correctly, as she was having to self-isolate: and complaining about the amount.

That she couldn’t live on that amount.

To me, struggling to manage on the amount I get … ?

It smacked of either ingratitude … or just plain old whinging …

~≈‡≈~

At any rate … ?

At any rate, I — like many of us — am stuck indoors.

With, quite literally, just my TV for company.

The TV … and another episode in the first series of Star Trek Picard…

~≈‡≈~

Star Trek Picard — Series 1 Episode 4 — Absolute Candor — A Review

24th March, 2020.

You know, I’ in the UK: and the UK … ?

Is on lock down.

We can only go out … ?   To shop for essentials, do banking, or get medication.

It’s very frustrating.

I’m job hunting, and, at the moment?

I was due to have a meeting at the job centre in a week and a half’s time.

Which then got converted into a phonemail in a week and a half’s time.

Which then got cancelled, this morning.

The job centre’s processing a lot of new claims.

I … 

I can understand why they’re going that: there’s a lot of pole redundant, however temporarily.

But I’ve enough experience with the Department of Work and Pensions — the government departments that organise the benefits system — to try and keep a paper trail of what they’ve told me.

~≈®≈~

At any rate … ?

I’m stuck indoors: as are we all.

If nothing else?

I can catch up with another episode of the TV show I’m watching, right now: another episode of series one of Star Trek Picard.

~≈®≈~