Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.09

Second Sight

Sisko meets Fenna, a mysterious woman, on the fourth anniversary of the death of his wife at the Battle of Wolf 359. Fenna disappears on more than one occasion before he can learn very much about her. The third time she disappears it is right before his eyes.

Dax and Chief O'Brian help Professor Gideon Seyetik, a visiting scientist, prepare to reignite Epsilon 119, a dead star. Sisko gets a bit of a shock when he meets Nidell, Seyetik's wife, and she looks just like Fenna. Sisko confronts Nidell but she doesn't recognize him.

Sisko and Dax accompany Seyetik and Nidell aboard the Prometheus, the ship that takes them to Epsilon 119. Fenna appears aboard the Prometheus after Nidell falls into a coma. Gideon recognizes her. He saw her once before, a few years prior. Dax believes that she is the unconscious manifestation of Nidell's mental energies.

The Good Place 1.01

Everything Is Fine

Eleanor wakes up in The Good Place. She discovers that she is dead and she's there because she was extremely good during her life on Earth. She has a soul mate in The Good Place. His name is Chidi. Once they are alone she confesses to him that she doesn't know what she's doing there because when she was alive she wasn't a good person. She made a living selling fake medicine to poor, old people.

Chidi doesn't want to believe her at first. The next morning everything seems to have gone haywire in the neighborhood where they live. Chidi is convinced that it must be because Eleanor is there. Michael, who designed the neighborhood, doesn't understand what's going on.

Eleanor suggests that maybe Chidi, who used to be a professor of ethics, could teach her to be a good person.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.15

You Got to Have Luck

starring John Cassavetes, Marisa Pavan

directed by Robert Stevens

Escaped convict Sam Cobbett (John Cassavetes), forces Mary Schaffner (Marisa Pavan) to help him while her husband is in town buying groceries. He is so concerned over his own safety that he doesn't pick up on the fact that she is deaf but able to read lips. His luck runs out after he has her answer the phone when her mother calls.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.08

I, Excretus

The Cerritos is visited by Shari yn Yem, an official from Starfleet who is there to test the crew through individual holopod drills. The lower decks and bridge crew are forced to change places. They are all fairly confident that they can manage but with one exception they all fail miserably. Boimler is the exception bur he keeps repeating the same test, one in which he faces off against the Borg by himself. His score keeps incrementally increasing but he isn't satisfied and keeps going over and over.

Shari reveals that they have all failed miserably. She is just waiting for Boimler to finish his testing but his success won't change anything. Captain Freeman and her crew scare the tester by heading straight for a Crystalline Entity and when that doesn't scare the tester enough they next head for a temporal black hole.

Ratatouille (2007)

Ratatouille (2007)

starring Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano

directed by Brad Bird

111 minutes

Remy (Patton Oswalt) a rat with a refined sense of taste and smell longs to be a cook. He gets the idea from a chef he has seen on television, Gusteau. Remy, by chance, makes his way from the French countryside to Paris where he finds Gousteau's restaurant which since his death has been run by Skinner (Ian Holm), Gusteau's former sou chef.

Remy helps Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), the latest addition to the kitchen staff at Gusteau's restaurant, become the newest culinary star.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.04

Wish

Everyone in the house gets obsessed with a lucky charm that Momoko gives to Sumire. Sumire's father comes to visit, partly out of concern for his daughter's well being.

Thoughts

The parts of the episode dealing with the visit of Sumire's father were a bit tense. The parts dealing with the charm didn't pull me in quite as much. He wasn't rude. He seemed genuinely concerned but I think mostly that it was just that he wasn't ready for his daughter to grow up and leave home.

Steven Universe 1.40

On the Run

Amethyst and Steven go on the Run, just like the No Home Boys, the main characters from a series of books that Steven has been reading. Amethyst takes Steven to see the Prime Kindergarten, the place where she was born. Pearl catches up to them. She is angry at Amethyst for brining Steven to the Prime Kindergarten. Amethyst and Pearl fight but Steven intercedes and gets them to stop. They all go home together in the end.

Thoughts

The title of this episode is also the title of one of the No Home Boys novels.