The Examples

Episode 50

Friday 28 October 2022

A middle-aged man with long grey hair stands facing us, strong and upright.  Behind him is the alien landscape of a strange asteroid  and an incomprehensibly strange building.

Star Trek: Discovery

Series 4, Episode 5

Stardate: Unknown (3190)

First broadcast on Thursday 16 December 2021

This week on Star Trek: Discovery: Paul collaborates with the most obnoxious scientist in the Federation, Hugh is counselled by the the most brutal psychologist in Starfleet, and Michael receives emotional support from the most unlikely source on the ship. And a man who committed a terrible crime in his youth is given the chance to somehow, in some small way, make amends.

Recorded on Tuesday 18 October 2022 · Download (73.9 MB)

Star Trek: Discovery

Darmok

Episode 49

Friday 21 October 2022

On a sunny and grassy Californian hillside, Captain Picard is facing the Tamarian Captain Dathon. Dathon is smiling: Picard has clearly understood something.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 5, Episode 2

Stardate: 45047.2

First broadcast on Monday 30 September 1991

They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, “He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.”

Now this is what Star Trek is about — kind, competent people solving a space problem, while learning about the importance of storytelling, connection and understanding. Magnificent.

Recorded on Friday 14 October 2022 · Download (63.0 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

A Night in Sickbay

Episode 48

Friday 14 October 2022

Porthos is alone in a big, empty, blue-lit decontamination room. He is sitting quietly, because he is a very good boy.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 2, Episode 5

Stardate: Unknown (2152)

First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2002

Our mission this week — to boldly rehabilitate an unjustly maligned episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. After more than a season of being aggrieved and obnoxious, Jonathan Archer is suddenly confronted by the need to apologise to people, sometimes with his shirt off. Meanwhile, Porthos is a very good boy, even when he’s just a fluffy puppet.

Recorded on Thursday 6 October 2022 · Download (59.6 MB)

Star Trek: Enterprise

Endgame

Episode 47

Friday 7 October 2022

Flanked by a few less interesting Starfleet ships, Voyager finally approaches the planet Earth.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 7, Episodes 25–26

Stardate: 54973.4 (and 2404)

First broadcast on Wednesday 23 May 2001

A difference of opinion on Untitled Star Trek Project this week: Joe is cross and disappointed that things ended this way, and Nathan is enjoying the satisfaction that only low expectations can provide. Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Voyager enjoy a long-delayed reunion (in latex), re-examine a costly command decision, and experience an upsetting new heterosexual romance. And then, finally, after all these years, they find their way home.

Recorded on Monday 3 October 2022 · Download (108.2 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Vaulting Ambition

Episode 46

Friday 23 September 2022

In a vast room on the Terran ship the ISS Charon, Emperor Georgiou is holding a knife to Michael's throat.

Star Trek: Discovery

Series 1, Episode 12

Stardate: Unknown (2257)

First broadcast on Sunday 21 January 2018

This week, the crew of Discovery find themselves trapped in the Mirror Universe with nothing much to do except to incrementally advance their individual plot threads. Paul chats to himself and his dead partner, Saru tries to persuade Voq’s girlfriend to help him through an identity crisis, Michael partakes of an extremely upsetting hors d’œuvre, and Lord Ealing goes off somewhere in search of a mop and bucket. Fortunately, Cousin Michelle — Her Most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Qo’noS, Regina Andor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centaurius — is being absolutely as fabulous as she sounds, while Gabriel Lorca becomes the first Starfleet Captain to defibrillate some poor bastard’s head before stomping it into a soft paste. Nathan — if no one else — loves it.

Recorded on Saturday 17 September 2022 · Download (60.2 MB)

Star Trek: Discovery