The Price

Episode 82

Friday, 22 September 2023

Beverly and Deanna are in a gym on the Enterprise standing in front of a mirrored wall. They are doing stretching exercises, dressed in the most horrendous sparkly leotards imaginable.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 3, Episode 8

Stardate: 43385.6

First broadcast on Monday, 13 November 1989

Comfort food this week, as Star Trek: The Next Generation tries and fails to create a romantic comedy about an exciting new space wormhole. Deanna learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of enjoying herself, some Ferengi learn an urgent lesson about paying attention to their GPS, and the rest of us learn a timely lesson about straight, white American men in the late 1980s. We still have fun though.

Duration: 1:07:35 · Recorded on Tuesday, 19 September 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Rocks and Shoals

Episode 81

Friday, 15 September 2023

On a sunny day, two Jem'Hadar warriors are standing on a cliff,  looking out to sea.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 6, Episode 2

Stardate: Unknown (2374)

First broadcast on Monday, 6 October 1997

Star Trek goes outside this week, for a top-tier episode in which Sisko and Kira are both confronted by radical integrity and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition. Solid and memorable.

Duration: 1:11:30 · Recorded on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

If Memory Serves

Episode 80

Friday, 8 September 2023

We are on the surface of a rock planet, and we can  see a shuttlecraft in the distance. Michael Burnham is here. She bends over to take a closer look at some delicate blue flowers.

Star Trek: Discovery

Series 2, Episode 8

Stardate: 1532.9

First broadcast on Thursday, 7 March 2019

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery comes to a climax as Spock commemorates Star Trek’s first pilot by taking Michael to Talos IV so that they can both stand around a bunch of singing flowers, weepily recounting their formative childhood traumas. Meanwhile, Paul and Hugh are not the first people to experience difficulties maintaining a romantic relationship after one partner has died. Anyway, Nathan has fun, even if no one else does.

Duration: 1:19:03 · Recorded on Tuesday, 5 September 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Discovery

Assignment: Earth

Episode 79

Friday, 1 September 2023

A man in a light-coloured suit, Gary Seven, is lying on a gantry looking at the side of a space rocket with a nozzle that seems to be pouring out steam. Sitting on his back watching the proceedings with some interest is a black cat.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 2, Episode 26

Stardate: Unknown (1968)

First broadcast on Friday, 29 March 1968

It’s the pilot of a thrilling new spy-fi series, in which Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), his plucky secretary Miss Lincoln (Teri Garr), and his cat Isis (herself) hang out in the twentieth century’s most stylish decade, drinking cocktails after lunch and occasionally foiling America’s military–industrial complex. Is it time for us to end our trek through the stars so that we can complete an assignment here on earth?

Duration: 1:14:16 · Recorded on Tuesday, 29 August 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Original Series

Collective

Episode 78

Friday, 25 August 2023

Seven is standing in the corridor of a Borg cube. She looks angry. Behind her, Harry is slumped unconscious. And next to her are three preteen Borg children: two twin boys and a little girl with long hair.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 6, Episode 16

Stardate: Unknown (2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday, 16 February 2000

This week a mediocre script fails to be enhanced in any way by mediocre direction and some mediocre performances. But there’s an upside: a Voyager episode with real consequences that will open up unimaginable new vistas of storytelling and character development. Or not, probably.

Duration: 1:04:14 · Recorded on Tuesday, 22 August 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Voyager

Remember Me

Episode 77

Friday, 18 August 2023

Beverly is sitting at ops on the bridge of the Enterprise. The red  alert lights are flashing. She is staring straight ahead, very intently.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 4, Episode 5

Stardate: 44161.2

First broadcast on Monday, 22 October 1990

In this week’s episode of Likeable and Competent People Solving Space Problems, Beverly finds herself in a shrinking universe from which her loved ones are disappearing one by one, while Nathan and Joe (who inhabit a very similar universe) find a version of Star Trek capable of inspiring a lifelong obsession and, ultimately, an untitled podcast project.

Duration: 1:05:47 · Recorded on Tuesday, 15 August 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Proving Ground

Episode 76

Friday, 11 August 2023

The blue Andorian face of Shran (Jeffrey Coombs) grins from a circular monitor screen.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 3, Episode 13

Stardate: Unknown (2153)

First broadcast on Wednesday, 21 January 2004

This week, we learn a valuable lesson about Johnny Foreigner: he’s just not to be trusted. (God knows how we’re going to get a Federation together.) Still, we manage to enjoy ourselves for a bit.

Duration: 1:11:31 · Recorded on Tuesday, 8 August 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Enterprise

The Host

Episode 75

Friday, 28 July 2023

Dr Crusher is in the turbolift with a handsome man with a lot of latex on his forehead and 90s-era romance novel  cover hair. They are both looking at us with goofy expressions on their faces.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 4, Episode 23

Stardate: 44821.3

First broadcast on Monday, 13 May 1991

Star Trek: The Next Generation makes another ill-judged attempt at romance this week, as Beverly Crusher has an eventful two-week relationship with an alien ambassador, Commander Riker, and an attractive young woman, who are all somehow the same person. It all goes as well as you would expect in a series where every episode returns reliably to the status quo before the credits roll.

(Warning: after the closing credits, there are some incidental spoilers for Strange New Worlds Series 2, Episode 7, Those Old Scientists.)

Duration: 1:25:43 · Recorded on Tuesday, 25 July 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Bem

Episode 74

Friday, 21 July 2023

A frame from a cartoon. Spock and Kirk are standing in front of a cliff, chest deep in water. Behind Kirk, two sinuous green arms emerge from the water to menace him.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Series 2, Episode 2

Stardate: 7403.6

First broadcast on Saturday, 14 September 1974

It’s a low-effort week here at Untitled Star Trek Project, as we pour dozens of crisp American dollars into animating a hilarious encounter between Kirk, Spock, some lizard men in nappies, and an alien who can detach his bits at will, and then spend some time wondering why on earth we bothered.

Duration: 0:48:22 · Recorded on Monday, 17 July 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: The Animated Series

The Changing Face of Evil

Episode 73

Friday, 14 July 2023

A close up of a Cardassian man's face. It's Damar, and he's looking as bold and resolute (and as handsome) as he's ever looked.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 7, Episode 20

Stardate: Unknown (2375)

First broadcast on Wednesday, 28 April 1999

After the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, Ben Sisko (Alan Dale), fearing for the safety of his new wife Kasidy (Lisa Armytage), gets all of her upcoming missions cancelled, with predictable results. Elsewhere on the station, Ezri (Annie Jones) and Worf (Guy Pearce) bicker about her budding relationship to Julian (Peter O’Brien). On Bajor, Kai Winn (Vivean Gray) and her new lodger Anjohl (Ian Smith) are planning to unleash the pah-wraiths on an unsuspecting galaxy. Which puts into perspective the plans of Legate Damar (Stefan Dennis), who merely wants to kick the Dominion out of Lassiter’s so that he can look at himself in the mirror without cringing.

Duration: 1:11:12 · Recorded on Tuesday, 11 July 2023 · Download · Open in new window

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine