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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 5.

Following in the footsteps of Season 3, the first batch of episodes in Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 do two things: The overall story of the season-long arc is explored, but, the episode itself presents a standalone story in the classic Star Trek tradition. Last week, Tilly got her “Galileo Seven” moment, but this week, in “The Examples,” Disco tackles a classic Trek ethical dilemma.

As Burnham and Book navigate the morality of saving prisoners on a doomed colony, “The Examples” front-loads the episode with a ton of callbacks and Easter eggs to the rest of the franchise. Here’s every Easter egg and big reference we spotted in Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 5…

USS Janeway

Right away, the episode hits us with a few starship names that sound familiar. The first is the USS Janeway, an obvious reference to Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager,...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” fans are shouting from the rooftops that the recently concluded fourth season is one of its best yet. And that’s thanks in no small part to the show’s talented cast members. Hulu’s one-time Best Drama Series winner (2017) has claimed six acting trophies through the years for lead actress Elisabeth Moss, supporting actress Ann Dowd, guest actresses Alexis Bledel, Samira Wiley and Cherry Jones and guest actor Bradley Whitford. Now a whopping 19 of the Season 4 cast members are in contention for the upcoming 2021 Emmys, as they’ve officially been submitted on the academy’s performer ballot.

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Moss returns as June/Offred, who flees her villainous captors and journeys across fictional post-democratic America after successfully saving the lives of dozens of children in the previous season. For the first time, Joseph Fiennes...

“The further that we get away from the Gilead we’ve known, the closer Janine comes back to herself,” Madeline Brewer explains in respect of her character Janine Lindo in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The fourth season of Hulu‘s Emmy Award-winning drama premiered with three episodes on April 28 and will conclude its 10-episode run on June 16. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), the actress expands on how her character, despite Gilead having “tried to extinguish her flame,” is “aware of her autonomy” in season 4.

The series is based on Margaret Atwood‘s 1985 novel of the same name, which is set in a dystopian near-future America, where women are enslaved as ‘handmaids’ due to plummeting birth-rates and forced to bear children for the ruling class in the new authoritarian Gilead theocracy. When viewers first meet Janine in the debut season, she is “operating entirely on a trauma response” and putting...

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 reaches its fifth episode this week and these new promo images reveal that a couple of familiar faces will be returning to the U.S.S. Discovery. One’s to be expected, but the other raises a lot of questions considering that the last time we saw the character, they died.

Six new photos from episode 5, titled “Saints of Imperfection,” reveal that Michelle Yeoh will feature as Phillipa Georgiou, who recently showed up in episode 3. That installment revealed that the Mirror Universe doppelganger is now working with Section 31, so it’s not a surprise to see her teaming up with Captain Pike and his crew again. It’s more shocking, though, to see Wilson Cruz back as Dr. Hugh Culber, given that he died in season 1.

We knew that Cruz was still contracted as a regular, of course, with the actor appearing in a few cameo...