As if I don't have enough new TV shows to watch, I'm still adding old discontinued shows to my already overstuffed itinerary of television watching. Joining Justified, Gilmore Girls and Law & Order is The Librarians.
The Librarians is a spin-off of The Librarian film series (which I have not seen) about The Library, an ancient organization dedicated to protecting an unknowing world from magical threats.
The series follows a team recruited by the Library:
Colonel Eve Baird, formerly a NATO Anti-Terrorist Unit leader, now the new Guardian of the Library.
Ezekiel Jones, a consummate thief who can hack the most secure computers and steal heavily guarded priceless objects.
Jacob Stone whose talents and skills include polymath, linguist, expert in architecture, art, art history, archaeology and world cultures of the past and present AND bar fighting.
Cassandra Cillian, brilliant and freaking adorable for whom science and math are virtual super powers.
With the help of Jenkins, the immortal manager of the Library’s Annex, the team solve impossible mysteries, rewrite and fix key moments in history, recover powerful magical artifacts and fight against supernatural threat.
John Larroquette is just wonderful in his role as Jenkins.
This teams works in tandem with the Librarian Flynn Carsen who is super smart and super capable but isn't always around because actor Noah Wyle had time for the movies but not the TV series. Or it was a pay cut, I don't know. Noah Wyle is an executive producer on the series for what it's worth.
I've only recently begun to sample this series but what I've seen so far, it's a lot of fun. Think X-Files or Supernatural but not as dark. It's Doctor Who but as a fantasy series instead of sci-fi.
Sadly The Librarians only produced 42 episodes over 4 seasons so I will soon be able to catch up on this series and maybe even go back and watch The Librarian movies.
Andrea and I are back on the Star Trek kick with the 6th episode of Prodigy's first season and the start of season 4 of Discovery. Episodes from both series are centered around the "Kobayashi Maru", Starfleet's no-win leadership test first introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
On Discovery, Capt. Burnham goes all cowboy in putting the ship and crew at risk determined to pull a win out of an otherwise winless scenario. She manages to pull it off... mostly. There are still 3 deaths on her conscience.
Which is followed by the death of a planet.
Book's home world. Which is a serious bummer.
On Prodigy, Dal takes the "Kobayashi Maru" test to prove he's the most kick ass Captain ever and repeatedly fails the test, mostly by trying to do everything on his on and repeatedly thinking he can blast his way through any problem. Dal is still a jerk but he slowly becoming a bit more aware of what it really takes to be a leader.
Dal's "Kobayashi Maru" test takes place on a holographic re-creation of the Enterprise 1701-D with a variety of officers from different series, Spoke, Scotty and Uhura from Star Trek: TOS, Odo from Deep Space Nine and Dr. Crusher from Next Gen. While Gates McFadden is credited with new dialogue for Dr. Crusher, archival recordings of Leonard Nimoy, Rene Auberjonois, Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan are used for the other officers.
Meanwhile, Gwyndala has the sickening realization her father is not really that into being a dad as she begins to help this fledgling refugee crew understand the Protostar, what type of ship it is and how it wound up in the Delta quadrant in the first place.
For a kid show aimed at the Nickelodeon demographic, Prodigy is coming along very nicely.
OK, that is that for today's post.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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