Meridian

Episode 119

Friday 26 July 2024

Dax and some completely nondescript white guy are kissing in a sunny park.

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 16 July 2024 · Download (68.2 MB)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Magicks of Megas-Tu

Episode 118

Friday 19 July 2024

Standing in front of the viewscreen on the bridge of the Enterprise, swathed in otherworldly light, is a crudely-drawn satyr, upsettingly ripped and shredded, with his arms in the air and a cheery smile on his face.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Series 1, Episode 8

Stardate: 1254.4

First broadcast on Saturday 27 October 1973

This week, with a budget of dozens of crisp American dollars at their disposal, Joe and Nathan pull out their smocks, palettes, easels and oils in order to bring you a lavishly illustrated story of human creativity and achievement in a 25-minute episode you won’t be embarassed to show your kids. Or not terminally embarrassed, anyway.

Recorded on Tuesday 16 July 2024 · Download (37.0 MB)

Star Trek: The Animated Series

The Void

Episode 117

Friday 5 July 2024

In the Transporter Bay, Janeway is grinning at this week’s Nice Alien  Who Would Look Quite Attractive If Not For All the Latex, while  the medium Robert and a surprisingly helpful Malon look on gormlessly.  It’s all a bit embarrassing.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 7, Episode 15

Stardate: 54553.4

First broadcast on Wednesday 14 February 2001

This week we drop into a parallel universe where Voyager’s situation is desperate, resources are constrained, and the crew has no alternative but to live by its principles — helping, making friends, reaching out, forming alliances, working together to solve problems, seeking out new life and new civilisations, that sort of thing. Turns out, it would have made quite a good premise for a Star Trek series.

Recorded on Wednesday 26 June 2024 · Download (57.5 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Angel One

Episode 116

Friday 28 June 2024

Troi is trying not very hard not to laugh at Riker, who is wearing a skimpy silk lamé outfit open to the waist, revealing one nipple and a generously hairy chest.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 1, Episode 14

Stardate: 41636.9

First broadcast on Monday 25 January 1988

Nothing to learn about gender politics this week as we visit Angel One, where large aggressive women lord it over their twinky male consorts, and Star Trek: The Next Generation finds plenty of exciting new ways to be as offensively sexist as possible. Could someone pass Gene a napkin, please?

Recorded on Tuesday 18 June 2024 · Download (63.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Devil in the Dark

Episode 115

Friday 21 June 2024

In a dark blue cave, a concerned Spock is touching a surface  that might be organic or might be rock. Is he mind melding with a silicon based lifeform?

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 1, Episode 25

Stardate: 3196.1

First broadcast on Thursday 9 March 1967

A terrifying cave monster attacks a bunch of miners in pastel jumpsuits and burns them alive: it must be killed to ensure a continuing supply of raw materials for the engines of capitalism. But then, of course, we reach out, learn that the monster is a person, and thereby discover a terrifying truth about ourselves. A triumph: literally the thing that Star Trek is for.

Recorded on Tuesday 4 June 2024 · Download (66.0 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series