Episode 57
Friday 6 January 2023
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 4, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2372–2450)
First broadcast on Monday 9 October 1995
It’s life, Jake. You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes.
Star Trek takes a break from space nonsense to remind us what grief is like: lonely, lifelong and bleak. The price we pay for love.
Episode 56
Friday 30 December 2022
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Series 2, Episode 4
Stardate: 58036.4
First broadcast on Thursday 2 September 2021
This week, Star Trek: Lower Decks does what it does best: plumbing the depths of the franchise’s weirdest moments to produce something fun, entertaining, and sympathetic to its ideals. Which is why we get to root for some underappreciated and frequently mispronounced alien monsters, and why those two beautiful nerdy men, Boimler and Rutherford, get to save the day not with violence, but with a PowerPoint presentation and some maths.
Episode 55
Friday 23 December 2022
Star Trek Movie #7
Stardate: 48632.4
Release date: 1994
Star Trek: Generations is a Christmas movie, but more than that, it’s the moment when Star Trek: The Next Generation makes its first tentative and ultimately unsuccessful step into the venerable movie franchise. Julian Bashir’s crazy uncle has a horrific plan to get to heaven by killing a bunch of people we don’t see and don’t care about, and can only be stopped by two middle-aged white guys clambering over some gantries or something. Oh, and the Enterprise crashes and the whole crew is killed. Happy holidays, everyone!
Episode 54
Friday 16 December 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 2, Episode 19
Stardate: 42859.2
First broadcast on Monday 19 June 1989
Our writers are on strike this week, and so we’re just going to mark time until we reach the end of this blurb. When an uncomfortably horny Lwaxana Troi beams aboard the Enterprise, a series of events happen, culminating at last in the episode’s closing credits. Mick Fleetwood guest stars as a fish.
Episode 53
Friday 9 December 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 15
Stardate: 4523.3
First broadcast on Friday 29 December 1967
In one of the best episodes in Star Trek history, our show learns very early on that it can shoot for ridiculous and hit funny and entertaining. What more can we say? It’s brilliant.