Episode 32
Friday 10 June 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 3
Stardate: 3541.9
First broadcast on Friday 29 September 1967
When the Enterprise takes on board an inexplicably touchy and unreasonable box of flashing lights dangling from a fishing line, hilarity ensues. Also, racism.
Episode 31
Friday 3 June 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 1, Episode 18
Stardate: 46922.3
First broadcast on Sunday 30 May 1993
You know how it is: it’s your first spinoff — a cast of delightfully high-concept characters set against a colourful backdrop, with story possibilities around every corner. But then you find yourself limping towards the end of your first season. You’ve done the plague one, the weird alien fugitive one, the buddy comedy one with the CGI shaving cream, and the terrible boardgame one that everyone will have such fond memories of. So what’s left? How about a story where all of your beloved regulars play people no one cares about, embroiled in a conflict that no one has any interest in? We can do that, can’t we?
Episode 30
Friday 27 May 2022
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Series 1, Episode 1
Stardate: 1739.12
First broadcast on Thursday 5 May 2022
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It’s five-year mission: To explore Strange New Worlds. To remind us of our love the Original Series. To have a fun adventure every week. To look like nothing else on television. To boldly attempt — for a world exhausted by impending catastrophes — to be the most authentic expression of Star Trek since the 1960s.
Episode 29
Friday 20 May 2022
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 1, Episode 7
Stardate: 2136.8
First broadcast on Sunday 29 October 2017
meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer Lieutenant Ash Tyler. After a catastrophic explosion destroys the ship, Harry Mudd sneaks on board Discovery, kills the captain, and searches for a way to sell the spore drive to the Klingons; meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer Lieutenant Ash Tyler. After a catastrophic explosion destroys the ship, Harry Mudd sneaks on board Discovery, kills the captain, and searches for a way to sell the spore drive to the Klingons;
Episode 28
Friday 13 May 2022
Star Trek: Picard
Series 2, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2401 and 12 April 2024)
First broadcast on Thursday 17 March 2022
This week, Joe and Nathan are on the edge of our seats, wondering what insignificant event will tip the twenty-first century over the edge — turning it from a punishing ordeal into a shrieking hellscape of fascism and climatic disaster. Fortunately we’re able to distract ourselves from all this with a really enjoyable episode of Star Trek: Picard.