Episode 167
Friday 3 October 2025
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Series 2, Episode 10 / Series 3, Episode 1
Stardate: 2344.2
First broadcast on Thursday 10 August 2023
This week, Strange New Worlds asks the question, “What if The Best of Both Worlds, but with higher production values, more modern narrative techniques, and much better hair?” The answer might surprise you.
Episode 166
Friday 26 September 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 7, Episode 13
Stardate: Unknown (2375)
First broadcast on Wednesday 10 February 1999
It’s the 1990s — the era of the Consulting Psychopath — and so when a pretty young lieutenant is shot dead in his locked quarters, perky newcomer Ezri Dax decides to investigate — with the help of her crap-haired and murderous previous host Joran. It’s all very light and implausible, but we get a few laughs, Ezri gets a big gun, and the regular cast (except Cirroc) get their usual DS9-style character beats.
Episode 165
Friday 22 August 2025
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 1, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2256)
First broadcast on Sunday 1 October 2017
This week, disgraced Starfleet officer Michael Burnham falls down the rabbit hole, where she finds an unsettling mirror image of her previous life: a crew regarding her with suspicion, a captain manipulating her with falsehoods, and a Starfleet obsessed with operational security. And then the slavering monster shows up.
Episode 164
Friday 15 August 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 2, Episode 8
Stardate: Unknown (2372)
First broadcast on Friday 13 October 1995
This week, Voyager is beset by a bunch of crazy Star Trek crap — involving china cups, sandwiches and curly-headed moppets, for the most part — but after 45 minutes we still have no idea why it happens or how we should feel about any of it. Still, Kate is awesome, as usual, and that counts for quite a lot.
Episode 163
Friday 8 August 2025
Star Trek: Enterprise
Series 4, Episode 13
Stardate: Unknown (2154)
First broadcast on Friday 4 February 2005
This week, the middle episode of a mid-range arc in the middest of all the shows in the Star Trek franchise. Trip and Malcolm are trapped in various rooms pressing buttons, while the Tellarites and Andorians are on their usual space alien bullshit. Harmless.