Disaster

Episode 110

Friday 17 May 2024

Worf is standing in Ten Forward. He is holding out his tricorder, which he is using to monitor how dilated Keiko is as she is giving birth. Keiko's spread legs are visible in the foreground, covered decorously  with a shimmering space bedsheet.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 5, Episode 5

Stardate: 45156.1

First broadcast on Monday 21 October 1991

In this week’s outstanding instalment of Competent People Solving Space Problems, the Enterprise is hit by an unexpected and dangerous premise which separates the crew into five distinct subplots and forces each of them to confront their greatest fears. Deanna contends with yet another fibriform space anomaly, Geordi faces the horrors of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song, Worf takes on the unlikely and challenging role of midwife, Data finds himself having to leave his genitals in another room, and Picard is trapped in a confined space and compelled to be nice to people for a while.

Recorded on Tuesday 30 April 2024 · Download (77.4 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Barge of the Dead

Episode 109

Friday 10 May 2024

Under a sky full of red clouds, B'Elanna is standing on board a ship, looking out. The ship is old, made of wood, and its figurehead is a bronze griffin.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 6, Episode 3

Stardate: Unknown (2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday 6 October 1999

A quick trip to the afterlife this week, as B’Elanna discovers the importance of faith and family, and as Voyager itself discovers (too late, perhaps) the importance of the same things. We also learn that hell is the Voyager sets only lit slightly differently, which is something that we had hitherto only suspected.

Recorded on Tuesday 23 April 2024 · Download (62.8 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

The Survivors

Episode 108

Friday 3 May 2024

An elderly couple are standing in a sunny garden, in front of a white  house. They are looking at someone off camera, concerned.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 3, Episode 3

Stardate: 43152.4

First broadcast on Monday 9 October 1989

On the ravaged surface of the Federation colony planet Rana IV, the crew of the USS Enterprise are surprised to discover an excitingly modernist Malibu home set in a lush, quadrilateral garden; after landing on the planet with an away team, Will Riker is surprised to find himself dangling upside down by his ankles; soon after that Deanna Troi is surprised to find herself suffering from an unpleasant and potentially fatal earworm. Meanwhile, back in 1990, Nathan Bottomley and a very young Joe Ford are increasingly surprised to discover a new season of Star Trek: The Next Generation which surpasses both its predecessors in both competence and interest.

Recorded on Tuesday 16 April 2024 · Download (66.4 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

All Those Who Wander

Episode 107

Friday 26 April 2024

Hemmer is standing with his back to us. He is wearing a black leather jacket and his hair and antennae are white. In front of him is a snowy landscape of jagged black mountains that reminds him of Andoria.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Series 1, Episode 9

Stardate: 2510.6

First broadcast on Thursday 30 June 2022

Of course the people you care about are going to cause you pain. It will hurt, but the love it yields will far outweigh the sorrow. Now, hand me the electron coupler.

In this week’s Strange New Worlds, we watch standard space genre things happen to relaxed and likeable characters. Which, turns out, works incredibly well.

Recorded on Tuesday 9 April 2024 · Download (71.9 MB)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Course: Oblivion

Episode 106

Friday 19 April 2024

Kate Mulgrew valiantly tries to act after some dipshit has covered her face in a horrific latex crust.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 5, Episode 18

Stardate: 52586.3

First broadcast on Wednesday 3 March 1999

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

This week, like every week, we continue to experience our gradual, humiliating dissolution, to dread our own inevitable deaths, and to consider with dismay the deaths of everyone we have ever known or loved. And so, to cheer ourselves up, we decide to watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Recorded on Tuesday 2 April 2024 · Download (68.5 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager