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.”
Episode 172
Friday 21 November 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 11
Stardate: 51408.6
First broadcast on Saturday 3 January 1998
This week on Deep Space Nine, Dukat (Kathy Bates) and Sisko (James Caan) crash land on one of Star Trek’s less convincing standing sets, and then have a proper talk about their Feelings and Values. (Antipathy, and for one of them, Racism.)
Episode 171
Friday 7 November 2025
Star Trek: Enterprise
Series 1, Episode 20
Stardate: Unknown (2151)
First broadcast on Wednesday 3 April 2002
This week in Star Trek: Slow-Witted White Men, no one turns into a salamander, gets trapped in a board game or has sex with a ghost. In fact, no one does much of anything at all — at least not anything that anyone will remember 23 years later.
Episode 170
Friday 31 October 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 4, Episode 16
Stardate: 51652.3
First broadcast on Wednesday 18 February 1998
This week, we are properly introduced to Voyager’s latest Intransigent Alien Antagonist, in preparation for a thrilling two-part epic in a couple of weeks’ time. And things go pretty well, on the whole, despite (or perhaps because of) some interpersonal conflict between two important cast members and their characters.