Episode 177
Friday 26 December 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 4, Episodes 1–2
Stardate: 49011.4
First broadcast on Monday 2 October 1995
This week, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine starts again — with a second pilot episode two and a half years after the first one. It’s The Best of Both Worlds, but much faster, funnier and more confident. And this is only the beginning. Again.
Episode 176
Friday 19 December 2025
Star Trek Movie #5
Stardate: 8454.1
Release date: 1989
The quintessential odd-numbered Star Trek film, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier roared onto our screens in 1989, delighting and enthralling basically no one at all. Still, despite the glacial pace, the lack of incident and the horrendous special effects, it has something to say — something about the love and friendship between weird and grumpy old men who have known and annoyed one another for decades. And if you’ve got that, who needs Sha Ka Ree?
Episode 175
Friday 12 December 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 14
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 2 February 2000
Tom, Harry, Neelix and Chakotay somehow return from a space mission with PTSD — and with memories of an armed conflict which might not even be theirs. All this goes just about as well as you’d expect, with inexplicable flashbacks, studio sets pretending to be outdoor locations, some odd gurning by Ethan, and some characteristically unpleasant shouting from the Worst Robert. But in spite of it all, there’s a point to be made, and some last-act location work lifts the whole thing considerably.
Episode 174
Friday 5 December 2025
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 3, Episode 26 / Series 4, Episode 1
Stardate: 43989.1
First broadcast on Monday 18 June 1990
and Monday 24 September 1990
This week, a seminal moment in the history of television appears to be taking place at 0.5× speed.
Episode 173
Friday 28 November 2025
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 2, Episode 18
Stardate: 42823.2
First broadcast on Monday 22 May 1989
“Terrible beyond terrible.”
“Here lies a colossal mess of a show, mixing serious (albeit unrealized) science fiction with broad, less-than-funny comedy.”
“Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd.”
“That was fun.”
“Yeah, I thought that was great.”