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?
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 119
Friday 26 July 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 3, Episode 8
Stardate: 48423.2
First broadcast on Monday 14 November 1994
This week, Deep Space Nine serves up a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, in which a respected female character undertakes an ill-advised heterosexual romance with a creepy and unattractive white guy, which makes her look like an idiot. Meanwhile, over in the B-plot, Quark and Jeffrey Coombs try to get hold of some deepfake celebrity porn of Nana Visitor.
Episode 52
Friday 2 December 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 3, Episode 5
Stardate: Unknown (2371)
First broadcast on Saturday 24 December 1994
Stardate 46519.1: Surgically altered to appear Romulan, Marina Sirtis wakes up on board the Romulan Warbird Khazara looking as fabulous as she has ever looked and starts threatening an increasingly cowed Carolyn Seymour. The result — one hell of an enjoyable episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Eighteen months later: Surgically altered to appear Cardassian, Nana Visitor wakes up on Cardassia Prime looking incredibly striking, but her rich backstory, the show’s increasingly involved premise, and her willingness to just go for it as an actor — all of these combine to make one hell of an enjoyable and satisfying episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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 57
Friday 6 January 2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 4, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2372–2450)
First broadcast on Monday 9 October 1995
It’s life, Jake. You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes.
Star Trek takes a break from space nonsense to remind us what grief is like: lonely, lifelong and bleak. The price we pay for love.