Episode 107
Friday 26 April 2024
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Series 1, Episode 9
Stardate: 2510.6
First broadcast on Thursday 30 June 2022
Of course the people you care about are going to cause you pain. It will hurt, but the love it yields will far outweigh the sorrow. Now, hand me the electron coupler.
In this week’s Strange New Worlds, we watch standard space genre things happen to relaxed and likeable characters. Which, turns out, works incredibly well.
Episode 106
Friday 19 April 2024
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 5, Episode 18
Stardate: 52586.3
First broadcast on Wednesday 3 March 1999
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
This week, like every week, we continue to experience our gradual, humiliating dissolution, to dread our own inevitable deaths, and to consider with dismay the deaths of everyone we have ever known or loved. And so, to cheer ourselves up, we decide to watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Episode 105
Friday 12 April 2024
Star Trek: Enterprise
Series 4, Episode 22
Stardate: Unknown (2161)
First broadcast on Friday 13 May 2005
This week Enterprise fans get the chance to watch their favourite show with Jonathan and Marina sitting next to them on the couch, which only raises enraging and bewildering questions like Is any of this even real? and Does any of this actually matter? (to which the answers are of course not and if you like, respectively). Meanwhile, Trip is forced to sacrifice himself to ensure that Archer gets the chance to participate in the foundation of the Federation, without which, to be honest, none of us would even be here. Probably.
Episode 104
Friday 5 April 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 3, Episode 16
Stardate: Unknown (2371)
First broadcast on Monday 20 February 1995
Basically nothing happens on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine this week, as Nathan undergoes a religious experience which inspires him to be terribly nice to people for a change, while Joe anticipates failing to win a major podcasting award. Still, sometimes it’s just nice to hang out with the people you love, isn’t it?
Episode 103
Friday 29 March 2024
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 2, Episode 6
Stardate: 6770.3
First broadcast on Saturday 12 October 1974
A return to the realm of cheap Saturday-morning-cartoon Trek, where the only person apparently putting in any effort is Master of Dialect, Jimmy Doohan. This week, we find ourselves in a universe where space is white, stars are black, people age backwards, women give birth to large old men, and the Enterprise crew are listless, lifeless and dull.
Episode 102
Friday 22 March 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 23
Stardate: 41601.3
First broadcast on Monday 25 April 1988
This week, we watch an dreadful hour of Star Trek — cheap, mawkish and absolutely absurd — but we end up enjoying ourselves enormously. Have we found a fatal flaw at the entire heart of the Untitled Star Trek Project?
Episode 101
Friday 15 March 2024
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 13
Stardate: 3619.2
First broadcast on Friday 15 December 1967
A few tense moments this week, as a fragrant dikironium vampire kills a bunch of redshirts before threatening some characters with names and ultimately the Enterprise itself. But the real suspense comes from an entirely different direction: Will this episode teeter over the edge of camp into baffling semicompetence? Will Kirk’s obsession turn him from a jovial and beloved authority figure into a massive idiot? Will any cue from the Star Trek music library go unused? (No, no and no, fortunately.)
Episode 100
Friday 8 March 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 7, Episode 2
Stardate: Unknown (2375)
First broadcast on Wednesday 12 May 1999
It’s four weeks until the Deep Space Nine finale, and so it’s time for a momentous and operatic episode, an episode full of subtext and thoughtful performances, and an episode that deals a killing blow to two crumbling empires and changes the status quo forever. In short: an episode that exemplifies everything that makes us love Deep Space Nine.
Episode 99
Friday 1 March 2024
Star Trek: Short Treks
Series 2, Episode 2
Stardate: 1421.9
First broadcast on Thursday 10 October 2019
Captain Lynne Lucero (Rosa Salazar) can’t wait to take command of the USS Cabot as it heads off to the Klingon border to save some settlers from a planetary famine. But that’s before she meets walking HR disaster Edward Larkin (H. Jon Benjamin) and his viviparous and prolific sidekick (Tribleustes ventricosus). Hijinks, as usual, ensue.
Episode 98
Friday 16 February 2024
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 4, Episode 8
Stardate: Unknown (3190)
First broadcast on Thursday 10 February 2022
This week, but in the thirty-second century, two people face each other across a poker table. The man’s unbearable loss has made him resolute, and the woman remains resolute despite the loss she is about to suffer. And somewhere far away, in a distant, isolated, unreasonable space at the very edge of the Galaxy, Something — implacable? incomprehensible? — is waiting to judge what they do next.