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.
Episode 111
Friday 24 May 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 20
Stardate: 41503.7
First broadcast on Monday 21 March 1988
Long before the invention of Ronald D Moore, the Klingons were simple souls who enjoyed brownface, poisoning grain, making lists of rules, and planting a bomb on the bridge of the Enterprise. But by 2364, the next generation of Klingons had embraced the wave of liberalism sweeping across the galaxy, all except for a few holdouts who refused to read the series bible and decided they would pass their time yelling and pointing guns at the warp core instead.
Episode 110
Friday 17 May 2024
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.
Episode 109
Friday 10 May 2024
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.
Episode 108
Friday 3 May 2024
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.