ThinkStank
- February 8 -
Star Trek: Night Shift
TV show, set in the same time period and on the same vessel as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but during the graveyard shift when all the A-list crew members are sleeping or, in Riker’s case, fucking someone or something.
Night Shift’s crew are anxious, bitter depressives, aware that while they’re on the best ship in the fleet none of them are the best; they’re the understudies, the also-rans, the benchwarmers stuck on a bad rotation and just hoping to scrape by on their commission until something — anything — gives them a chance at the prime time, or at least an excuse to bail.
The show follows the officers of Night Shift into the long slow stretches between Picard’s self-aggrandizing trophy missions, on cleanup after yet another of LaForge’s “inspired” fubars of the engineering workflow, through the tedium of medical triage that Crusher can’t be bothered with.
Colm Meaney stars as Security Underchief William “Sheleighleigh” O’Brien, an apparently affable Irishman who harbors a dark secret: after being exposed to a subspace anomaly, he is no longer capable of sleep — and he murdered his twin brother, Miles, six years prior in a fit of REM-withdrawal-induced psychotic rage, and has been living a double life ever since.
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