Episode 116
Friday 28 June 2024
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?
Episode 115
Friday 21 June 2024
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.
Episode 114
Friday 14 June 2024
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Series 3, Episode 1
Stardate: Unknown (2380)
First broadcast on Thursday 25 August 2022
While we wait for the final season of Lower Decks to drop, we head back into the show’s distant past to see how it reintroduces itself to the world at the start of its third season. As you might expect, it’s with love, loyalty, extreme cartoon violence and a few affectionate digs at one of our favourite Star Trek films. And, inevitably, gallons and gallons of alien seminal fluid.
Episode 113
Friday 7 June 2024
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 13
Stardate: September 1953
First broadcast on Monday 2 November 1998
Some time in 2374, Ben Sisko, tired of helming Deep Space Nine in wartime, considers handing the job over to someone else. At the same time but in 1953, Benny Russell dreams of a version of himself living beyond the daily indignities of existing as a Black man in America. And meanwhile in 1998, people tuning in for this week’s episode of White People Living on the Moon find themselves watching something far better than they had a right to expect.
Episode 112
Friday 31 May 2024
Star Trek: Enterprise
Series 3, Episode 12
Stardate: Unknown (2153)
First broadcast on Wednesday 14 January 2004
This week, untrustworthy foreigners attack and terrorise Enterprise for literally no reason other than the arbitrary tenets of their weird and incorrect religion. There’s a lesson to be learned here, but only if you don’t think too hard about it.