Genesis

Episode 71

Friday 30 June 2023

Deanna is sitting in the bath, fully clothed. She looks shocked at a uniformed man just off camera. She has her hand pressed to her cheek and blood is seeping between her fingers.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 7, Episode 19

Stardate: 47653.2

First broadcast on Monday 21 March 1994

Well, everyone hates Genesis obviously, but why? It’s silly, of course, it doesn’t attempt to get the science right, and everyone recovers beautifully during the last ad break. But that’s just Star Trek, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

Recorded on Tuesday 20 June 2023 · Download (70.5 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Preludes

Episode 70

Friday 23 June 2023

A painting or a comic book panel depicts a deadly space war. Phaser beams cross the frame, one of them striking a large hunk of rock in the middle. On the ground below are people and the strange elongated bodies of robots bristling with weapons. On a cliff high above is the silhouette of another of these robots. And in the sky are strange patterns. A clock? A blueprint? It's like the cover of the most stylish and action-packed Nebula Award-winning book of the 1960s.

Star Trek: Prodigy

Series 1, Episode 16

Stardate: Unknown (2384)

First broadcast on Thursday 1 December 2022

In the Neutral Zone, the USS Protostar faces off against the USS Dauntless, unable to leave and unable to contact them to explain their friendly intentions. And so they stop for a moment and tell each other sad, funny and beautiful stories from their pasts. Meanwhile, on the Dauntless, we hear a different story, a story of war and revenge, and a plot whose aim is the destruction of the Federation itself.

Recorded on Tuesday 13 June 2023 · Download (42.4 MB)

Star Trek: Prodigy

Unexpected

Episode 69

Friday 16 June 2023

It's sunset. Two people are sitting in a dinghy facing one another. On the left, and orange lizard lady in a shiny jumpsuit: on the right is Trip in his Starfleet uniform. There is a bowl of white crystals between them.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 1, Episode 5

Stardate: Unknown (2151)

First broadcast on Wednesday 17 October 2001

This week, Enterprise Chief Engineer Charles Tucker III is pregnant, and Nathan and Joe expect to be embarrassed and offended by the result. Instead, they are delighted to find themselves merely bored. (In fact, Nathan thinks the first half of the episode is rather sweet and charming, but he’s an incurable romantic where lizard people are concerned.)

Recorded on Monday 5 June 2023 · Download (67.6 MB)

Star Trek: Enterprise

Farewell

Episode 68

Friday 9 June 2023

We are outside: there is a sunny forest in the background. In the foreground, Picard is hugging a man. We can just glimpse his face. It's Q. Picard has his face pressed against Q's chest. He is smiling.

Star Trek: Picard

Series 2, Episode 10

Stardate: Unknown (2024, 2401)

First broadcast on Thursday 5 May 2022

In one episode’s time, Star Trek: Picard will become, for the first time, a television event, but for now, we’ve got some plot to wrap up, some sad farewells to make and a new relationship to start. And a point, however muted, about living an extraordinary life.

Recorded on Tuesday 30 May 2023 · Download (77.1 MB)

Star Trek: Picard

In Purgatory’s Shadow
By Inferno’s Light

Episode 67

Friday 2 June 2023

Garak is standing in the darkness in a narrow space inside a bulkhead. His face is lit by some bare optical cables. He is looking very stressed.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 5, Episodes 14–15

Stardate: 50564.2

First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1997
and Monday 17 February 1997

It’s a soap-opera extravaganza on Deep Space Nine this week, as Garak reconciles with his long-lost father, Dukat abandons his long-lost daughter, and Julian discovers a scheming lookalike that he never knew he had. Meanwhile, there is a shift in the balance of power in the Quadrant, as the show rewrites its own premise in the way that we have come to admire and enjoy.