Episode 5
Friday, 3 December 2021
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 1, Episode 10
Stardate: 1512.2
First broadcast on Thursday, 10 November 1966
Tensions are running high this week, as the Enterprise is attacked by a series of regular geometric solids and the bridge crew’s morale starts to crack under the pressure. Is this a ropey and glacially paced moment of disposable 60s TV, or the beginning of something indescribably magical?
Episode 4
Friday, 26 November 2021
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 3, Episode 4
Stardate: Unknown (3189)
First broadcast on Thursday, 5 November 2020
It’s been 1,183 years since Rick Berman left Star Trek, and so it’s time for two new queer characters to join the Discovery family — Trill host Adira Tal and their adorable boyfriend and former host Gray Tal — in an episode all about the importance of connection and belonging. It’s Forget Me Not.
Episode 3
Friday, 19 November 2021
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 7, Episode 12
Stardate: 54452.6
First broadcast on Wednesday, 24 January 2001
It’s our first trip to the Delta Quadrant, and we have questions that need answering. Is B’Elanna’s father a massive racist or just a regular-sized racist? Which is more convincing: Tom and B’Elanna’s baby or an 8472 in a well-lit room? And can we maintain focus all the way through a 45-minute episode of Voyager without a single space anomaly?
Episode 2
Friday, 12 November 2021
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 3, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2371)
First broadcast on Monday, 10 October 1994
In this week’s episode of Family Ties, when Quark (Michael J Fox) lies about his involvement in the death of a belligerent Klingon customer, he finds himself threatened, hauled off to Qo’nos, forcibly married, and required to defend the honour of his house before the High Council with a combination of Excel spreadsheets and extreme physical cowardice. Will he learn a Very Important lesson about the dangers of greed? (Spoilers: no.)
Episode 1
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 3, Episode 15
Stardate: 43625.2
First broadcast on Monday, 19 February 1990
After the Enterprise-C emerges from a mysteriously swirly space anomaly, Joe and Nathan find themselves in an alternate timeline where Star Trek: The Next Generation is dramatically and impractically lit, full of incident, and sceptical about the 1990s belief in the End of History. Star Trek: Discovery Series 1 arrives nearly 30 years too early, in Yesterday’s Enterprise.