Episode 132
Friday 8 November 2024
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 1, Episode 6
Stardate: 5143.3
First broadcast on Saturday 13 October 1973
This week, crudely-drawn slow-moving simulacra of the Enterprise crew interact listlessly in a crudely-drawn slow-moving simulacrum of Star Trek. Except for the shapeshifting red octopus, which is awesome. Meanwhile, Joe drops £2.50 renting a Star Trek episode whose budget was nearly ten times that, adjusted for inflation.
Episode 131
Friday 1 November 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 6, Episode 3
Stardate: 46071.6
First broadcast on Monday 5 October 1992
It’s an outstandingly stupid episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation this week, except for the astonishingly brilliant idea of giving Marina fun things to do and a range of fabulously fun things to wear. Actually, let me start that again. It’s an astonishingly brilliant episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation this week,…
Episode 130
Friday 25 October 2024
Star Trek: Prodigy
Series 1, Episodes 19–20
Stardate: Unknown (2384)
First broadcast on Thursday 22 December 2022
and Thursday 29 December 2022
You may think you need me to get there, but after seeing everything you’ve accomplished, I have full confidence you’ll find your way. Because together your potential is infinite.
Now, go boldly.
This week, the crew of the USS Protostar save the Galaxy in the most selfless and heartwarming way imaginable, in a version of Star Trek that’s complex, enthralling and breathtakingly beautiful.
Episode 129
Friday 18 October 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 20
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Wednesday 22 April 1998
Fly me to the moon
Let me trek among the stars
Let me taste the cocktails
In some holographic bars
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Episode 128
Friday 11 October 2024
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 4, Episode 1
Stardate: Unknown (3190)
First broadcast on Thursday 18 November 2021
The crew of the USS Discovery are really settling down and starting to enjoy their new life in the 32nd century — fixing some butterflies’ GPS network, giving a commencement speech to some socially-distanced Starfleet Academy students, and fixing the unexpected and alarming angular velocity of a Federation space station. Then suddenly an unimaginable tragedy strikes.
Episode 127
Friday 4 October 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 6, Episode 9
Stardate: 46307.2
First broadcast on Saturday 14 November 1992
Data is excited to get a new puppy and understandably miffed when Riker decides to explode it in order to solve this week’s space problem. Back on Earth, Nathan is delighted by the story’s optimism and sheer nerdery, while Joe remains sceptical.
Episode 126
Friday 27 September 2024
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 2, Episode 18
Stardate: 49301.2
First broadcast on Monday 19 February 1996
Opinions are split on this week’s Untitled Star Trek Project, with Nathan leading the prosecution and Joe the defence. Will Nathan sentence Death Wish to be imprisoned a comet, subsisting only on a rare form of Nogatch hemlock? Or will Joe prevail with the argument that at least it’s Voyager trying to have something to say and giving John DeLancie a new thing to do?
Episode 125
Friday 20 September 2024
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Series 3, Episode 7
Stardate: Unknown (2381)
First broadcast on Thursday 6 October 2022
This week, a mathematically perfect recurring villain gets her own episode of Star Trek, and we discover how much fun the show can be without all that relentless moralising, just moments before we also discover how much fun it is to watch a villain get her comeuppance while some dunderheaded bird people shake off the dead shackles of a stupid tradition.
Episode 124
Friday 13 September 2024
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 25
Stardate: 4040.7
First broadcast on Friday 15 March 1968
In hoc episodio, cum nautae astronavis Enterprise ad Urbem Aeternam pervenissent, brevi tempore magister Kirk amicos suos in harena certantes spectavit, passerem garo elixum gustavit, ancillam formosissimam futuit, postremo festinanter discessit. Sed dum navem solvit, cognoscit se testem fuisse novam religionem pacis ac fraternitatis oriri.
Episode 123
Friday 30 August 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 24
Stardate: 50901.7
First broadcast on Monday 19 May 1997
This week, Deep Space Nine does the best that it can with a slasher horror premise involving four redshirts and some murderous Cardassians, including beloved secondary character, plain, simple Garak. Fortunately, no one suffers any long-term ill-effects — except for the people who are no longer around to complain, I suppose.