Episode 138
Friday 27 December 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 10
Stardate: Unknown (2369)
First broadcast on Sunday 14 March 1993
This week, we travel back to a time in the distant past aboard Deep Space Nine, a time before anyone has worked out how the show should be played, written or directed. There’s some fun to be had, of course, but not from watching this episode.
Episode 42
Friday 26 August 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 11
Stardate: Unknown (2369)
First broadcast on Sunday 21 March 1993
Deep Space Nine finds itself unexpectedly in sitcom territory this week, as the Nagus (Wallace Shawn) arrives on the station with a complicated scheme to expose the incompetence of his Large Adult Son Krax (a young Eric Trump in his first television role). Meanwhile, Commander Sisko discovers something delightful and heartwarming about his small teenage son Jake, who unwittingly teaches him a Valuable Lesson about kindness and trust.
Episode 63
Friday 5 May 2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 15
Stardate: 46844.3
First broadcast on Sunday 9 May 1993
This week, Kira moves a few steps forward on her long and problematic journey from terrorist to bureaucrat as she struggles with a decision to evict Brian Keith from a hastily re-dressed Standard Cave Set 1. In the meantime, Jake and Nog do some adorable capitalism, foreshadowing just how much we’re going to grow to love them by the end of the show.
Episode 158
Friday 20 June 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 17
Stardate: 46925.1
First broadcast on Sunday 23 May 1993
Three plots for the price of one this week on Deep Space Nine. In reverse order of importance: (C) we all stand around in Ops talking about the computer; (B) Julian gets some funny lines and a pleasantly unsurprising character arc; and (A) Odo and Lwaxana are trapped in a lift together with nothing to do but some amazing and even quite moving acting. Underrated, but mostly by people who don’t enjoy things that are good.
Episode 31
Friday 3 June 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 18
Stardate: 46922.3
First broadcast on Sunday 30 May 1993
You know how it is: it’s your first spinoff — a cast of delightfully high-concept characters set against a colourful backdrop, with story possibilities around every corner. But then you find yourself limping towards the end of your first season. You’ve done the plague one, the weird alien fugitive one, the buddy comedy one with the CGI shaving cream, and the terrible boardgame one that everyone will have such fond memories of. So what’s left? How about a story where all of your beloved regulars play people no one cares about, embroiled in a conflict that no one has any interest in? We can do that, can’t we?