Episode 25
Friday 22 April 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 5, Episode 15
Stardate: 45571.2
First broadcast on Monday 24 February 1992
This week, on Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan sit down to watch a sentimental sci-fi favourite from their youth, only to discover that it’s really just a police procedural where some of the regular cast get to do funny voices. Still, they get to see Marina menacing people with a gun, so there’s that, I guess.
Episode 24
Friday 15 April 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 7, Episode 14
Stardate: Unknown (2370)
First broadcast on Monday 31 January 1994
This week, Star Trek takes its first ill-judged stab at the Gothic romance genre. Will Beverly fall for her dead grandmother’s lover (sorry), a rangily unattractive anaphasic ghost who encourages her to give up her job and to stand by helplessly while he attacks her friends? Or will she learn a valuable lesson about not dating sociopathic men? (Temporarily and no respectively, it turns out.)
Episode 23
Friday 8 April 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 5, Episode 23
Stardate: Unknown (2373)
First broadcast on Monday 12 May 1997
Previously, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tired of being a supporting character in a thankless role, Michael Eddington leaves DS9 to star heroically in a TV show which we never see and which exists entirely in his own imagination. After most of the cast and crew are killed by Cardassians — which can happen — and he himself is imprisoned for treason, he is recruited by Sisko for one final mission — to stop a deadly attack on Cardassia that is also entirely imaginary. Hero, traitor, or just some asshole with bad hair and a penchant for lavish Broadway musicals? Let’s find out.
Episode 22
Friday 1 April 2022
Star Trek: Prodigy
Series 1, Episode 8
Stardate: 607125.6
First broadcast on Saturday 22 January 2022
It’s a heartwarming rite of passage for our youngest Star Trek crew — their very first encounter with a baffling new kind of temporal anomaly. And it’s not just any temporal anomaly: it’s a metaphor for the difficulties they have co-operating as a crew and an opportunity to overcome those difficulties. Plus, it gives Rok-Tahk the chance to be sweet, vulnerable, clever and magnificent in turn. And who doesn’t want to see that?
Episode 21
Friday 25 March 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 4, Episodes 18–19
Stardate: 51715.2
First broadcast on Wednesday 4 March 1998
It’s business as usual on Star Trek this week, as the crew of Voyager find themselves in an episode of Secret Army which has been cast, written and directed by latex-headed aliens in Nazi uniforms. Will Voyager’s extensive back catalogue of holodeck programs persuade the Hirogen that there’s more to life than festooning your bulkheads with human skulls? Or will the Captain be forced (reluctantly) to kill Seven of Nine first?