You Are Cordially Invited

Episode 150

Friday 11 April 2025

Looking as handsome as hell, Worf and Jadzia, dressed in deep red and wearing metal circlets, kiss at the end of their wedding ceremony.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 6, Episode 7

Stardate: 51247.5

First broadcast on Friday 10 October 1997

This week, Worf and Jadzia celebrate the triumphant 150th episode of Untitled Star Trek Project by setting a date for their wedding, holding one fun party and one excruciating one, punching a future mother-in-law in the face, calling off the wedding, calling it back on again, and having sex with that handsome young lieutenant from the USS Sutherland. Or was that last one just us?

Recorded on Tuesday 8 April 2025 · Download (69.5 MB)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Neutral Zone

Episode 149

Friday 4 April 2025

In the Voyager mess hall, Neelix is presenting Tuvok with a plate of  fluorescent green cheese. Tuvok raises an eyebrow.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 1, Episode 26

Stardate: 41986.0

First broadcast on Monday 16 May 1988

This week, Joe and Nathan are woken from 380 years of cryosleep to discover that the world has changed forever: the ship’s captain isn’t friendly and welcoming like Captain Stubing, some of their ports of call have been scooped in their entirety off the surface of the planet, and those people in that scary green cruise ship over there look very unfriendly indeed.

Recorded on Tuesday 1 April 2025 · Download (72.4 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Learning Curve

Episode 148

Friday 28 March 2025

In the Voyager mess hall, Neelix is presenting Tuvok with a plate of  fluorescent green cheese. Tuvok raises an eyebrow.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 1, Episode 16

Stardate: 48846.5

First broadcast on Monday 22 May 1995

Two B-plots on Star Trek: Voyager this week, each one more forgettable than the other. In the A B-plot, Tuvok is unreasonably mean to four obnoxious misfits, while the B B-plot is somehow about cheese.

Recorded on Tuesday 25 March 2025 · Download (62.0 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Such Sweet Sorrow
Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2

Episode 147

Friday 21 March 2025

In the far, far distance, the USS Discovery is flying up into the massive wormhole that will take them 930 years into the future.

Star Trek: Discovery

Series 2, Episodes 13–14

Stardate: 1050.8

First broadcast on Thursday 11 April 2019
and Thursday 18 April 2019

The whole of Discovery Series 2 has been leading to this: a baffling and possibly ill-advised decision to catapult the show 930 years into the future. (Spoiler: it turns out better than we could have dared to imagine.) On the way though, we get to experience breathtaking CGI, some vertiginous camerawork, and more heartfelt and prolonged emotion than the entire history of the franchise to date.

Recorded on Tuesday 18 March 2025 · Download (138.9 MB)

Star Trek: Discovery

The Game

Episode 146

Friday 14 March 2025

We're in the turbolift. Wesley is on the left, dressed in civilian clothes, looking across at Nurse Ogawa, looking dreamily into the distance and smiling, probably because of the gaming headset she's wearing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 5, Episode 6

Stardate: 45208.2

First broadcast on Monday 28 October 1991

This week, it’s The One Where the Entire Crew is Taken over by an Orgasmatronic Video Game. Oh, and Wesley’s back as well. It’s Star Trek, at the very top of its (don’t say it) Game.

Recorded on Tuesday 4 March 2025 · Download (69.9 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shades of Green

Episode 145

Friday 7 March 2025

Reunited at last, in a corridor on the Cerritos, Tendi and Rutherford hug. Tendi is facing us, eyes closed, pressing her face against Rutherford's neck and holding him as tight as she can.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Series 5, Episode 2

Stardate: 59376.9

First broadcast on Thursday 24 October 2024

Everyone learns a valuable lesson this week: Boimler learns about the perks and perils of being the fun boss, Tendi learns what it takes to be a kick-ass swashbuckling aunt, and T’Lyn learns why, how and how much Rutherford and Tendi love each other. Even the gardener bot gets a little arc. (Good for him.)

Recorded on Monday 4 March 2024 · Download (42.0 MB)

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Episode 144

Friday 28 February 2025

Neelix is in a dark room, lit only by a portable electric lamp that he  is holding up to his face. There is a dark figure out of focus in the foreground.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 6, Episode 25

Stardate: Unknown (2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday 17 May 2000

This week, Star Trek remembers that its two most important jobs are scaring children and giving us hope for the future. It doesn’t do either of these particularly well in The Haunting of Deck Twelve, but the whole thing is fun and confident enough to entertain us for forty-five minutes. And sometimes that’s enough.

Recorded on Tuesday 25 February 2025 · Download (71.8 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Minefield

Episode 143

Friday 21 February 2025

We're looking down at the Enterprise hull. On the left, a spherical device about two metres in diameter. Next to it, in a spacesuit, we can see Malcolm, connected bloodlessly to the device by a spike driven through his leg. There's a curious airlessness to the entire situation.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 2, Episode 3

Stardate: Unknown (2152)

First broadcast on Wednesday 2 October 2002

A change of pace for Star Trek this week, as the writers of Enterprise decide to explore the rightly-neglected relationship between Captain Archer and his completely featureless Armory Officer, Malcolm Reed. As so often happens, people get strapped to a bomb, Romulans utter muscular threats, and the most interesting members of the crew are completely sidelined.

Recorded on Tuesday 18 February 2025 · Download (67.3 MB)

Star Trek: Enterprise

Time’s Orphan

Episode 142

Friday 7 February 2025

We're in a cave with two Mollys: a little girl with a dirty face who is looking directly at us, wide-eyed. And a young woman holding her hand and looking with some concern in the same direction as the little girl.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 6, Episode 24

Stardate: Unknown (2374)

First broadcast on Wednesday 20 May 1998

This week, Miles and Keiko struggle to work out how to react when their daughter ruins a perfectly pleasant family picnic by plummeting accidentally into an high-concept science fiction premise. Meanwhile, back on the station, their son falls foul of a sudden sitcom outbreak, banging his head on a table in what seems, in context, to be a comparatively sensible and comprehensible accident. It’s all a lot of nonsense, of course, but the people are nice, and everything turns out for the best.

Recorded on Wednesday 5 February 2025 · Download (66.8 MB)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Who Watches the Watchers

Episode 141

Friday 31 January 2025

We're outside, on a sunny and rocky planet. Facing each other are  Captain Picard, his arm in a sling, and a woman roughly his age, wearing  a simple dress of rough fabric. Sitting between them and a bit behind them are a younger man and his daughter, also dressed in simple clothing. Picard and the woman are smiling at one another.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 3, Episode 4

Stardate: 43173.5

First broadcast on Monday 16 October 1989

– You see, my people once lived in caves. And then we learned to build huts and, in time, to build ships like this one.
– Perhaps one day, my people will travel above the skies.
– Of that, I have absolutely no doubt.

Top-tier Star Trek this week, as The Next Generation belatedly hits its stride, with a well-written, well-acted and well-made story about the beauty and fragility of progress.

Recorded on Tuesday 28 January 2025 · Download (64.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation