Ferengi Love Songs

Episode 135

Friday 29 November 2024

It's an elderly Ferengi couple: on the left is Moogie, a lady in a  polka-dotted dress and lots of gold jewellery. On the right is Grand Nagus Zek, a very wrinkled old man with huge hairy ears in an equally elaborate outfit. They both look terribly happy.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 5, Episode 20

Stardate: Unknown (2373)

First broadcast on Monday 21 April 1997

Again, the story doesn’t really have a legitimate theme, it’s just More Ferengi Farce, but without any solid laughs. In fact, I’d put “Ferengi Love Songs” on or near the bottom of the Ferengi episode list.

Jamahl Epsicokhan, Jammer’s Reviews

It’s all pretty trivial and unamusing. The only reason this is watchable at all is that Armin Shimerman is so accomplished. Moogie is right – leave your action figures in their original packaging.

Tom Salinksy, Trekaday

It was a show that worked well in dailies, in little snippets, but put it all together and you’re saying ‘Enough already!’"

Ira Steven Behr, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion

– I don’t think that that episode was as good as either A Night in Sickbay or Genesis, but I do think it was pretty fun, and I’m glad that Deep Space Nine does it.
– Yeah, I don’t think that was an amazing episode, but pretty fun, I’ll take.

Nathan and Joe, Untitled Star Trek Project

Duration: 1:11:39 · Recorded on Tuesday 26 November 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Azati Prime

Episode 134

Friday 22 November 2024

In the brig of a Xindi starship, Archer is hanging by his arms from the  ceiling. He has been beaten, and there is blood on his face and in his mouth. Behind him, holding him by the head, is the menacing figure of a Xindi-Reptilian.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 3, Episode 18

Stardate: Unknown (2154)

First broadcast on Wednesday 3 March 2004

This week, the Xindi and some big-ass lizard guy get to beat the crap out of (a) Enterprise and (b) Captain Archer, respectively. Meanwhile, Nathan and Joe are delighted, not because they’re mean (although they are), but because this is such a thoroughly entertaining hour of Star Trek: Enterprise. Who knew such things could be?

Duration: 1:14:30 · Recorded on Tuesday 19 November 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Enterprise

Accession

Episode 133

Friday 15 November 2024

Kira in her quarters, fed up, in closeup. She's resting her head on her hands and looking at the crudely made clay birds that surround her.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 4, Episode 17

Stardate: Unknown (2372)

First broadcast on Saturday 24 February 1996

This week, Miles and Julian learn about larping and friendship, Kira learns about clay and the inevitability of authoritarian male religious figures, and we learn about subtext and delightful character development — all thanks to Jane Espenson, who, it turns out, is the real hero of the episode.

Duration: 1:04:08 · Recorded on Tuesday 5 November 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Survivor

Episode 132

Friday 8 November 2024

In a corridor on board the Enterprise, McCoy, Spock and Kirk are all being attached by a giant spindly orange cartoon octopus with a row of glowing yellow eyes.

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.

Duration: 0:38:18 · Recorded on Tuesday 5 November 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Man of the People

Episode 131

Friday 1 November 2024

We're in Ten-Forward. Deanna Troi is looking both alarming and extremely glamorous, her hair piled high on her head with a grey curl on her forehead and wearing a very spangly and highly revealing blue dress. She is baring her teeth angrily at a pudgy middle-aged man, while behind her another middle-aged man look on, concerned.

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,…

Duration: 0:58:30 · Recorded on Tuesday 29 October 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Supernova, Part 1 / Supernova, Part 2

Episode 130

Friday 25 October 2024

We're looking out over San Francisco Bay. The Golden Gate Bridge is  on our right. It's sunset. In front of us are Jankom, Murf, Dal, Zero and Rok, who is standing up raising her arms in triumph as Gwyn's shuttle rises from a platform and heads off into the distance.

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.

Duration: 1:23:21 · Recorded on Tuesday 22 October 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Prodigy

His Way

Episode 129

Friday 18 October 2024

We're in a darkened jazz club. In the foreground is a man playing  a double bass, just behind her, looking at him, is (a hologram of) Kira Nerys, with bold red lipstick. She is gazing into his eyes and singing.

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

Duration: 1:07:41 · Recorded on Tuesday 8 October 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Kobayashi Maru

Episode 128

Friday 11 October 2024

On the bridge of Discovery, Book is facing us, looking into the viewscreen at something horrific, and the realisation is just beginning to hit; his eyes are welling with tears. Behind him, small and out of focus, the bridge crew are looking at him with sympathy and love.

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.

Duration: 1:12:17 · Recorded on Tuesday 1 October 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Discovery

The Quality of Life

Episode 127

Friday 4 October 2024

In an image familiar from a well-known meme, a handsomely bearded Geordi LaForge expresses his approval by pointing with his index finger.

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.

Duration: 1:07:25 · Recorded on Tuesday 24 September 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Death Wish

Episode 126

Friday 27 September 2024

It's Janeway and Q, standing on the bridge of the USS Voyager,  looking at something offscreen with some incredulity.

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?

Duration: 1:06:16 · Recorded on Tuesday 17 September 2024 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Voyager