Episode 18
Friday 4 March 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 7, Episodes 25–26
Stardate: 47988
First broadcast on Monday 23 May 1994
After seven years of thorny space problems and some of the most ingenious space solutions in Starfleet history, what do we have left to learn? Something about tachyon scans and anti-time, inevitably, but also something about the enduring power of love and friendship. Let’s see what’s in here.
Episode 17
Friday 25 February 2022
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 3, Episode 13
Stardate: Unknown (3189)
First broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2021
Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery: it’s the distant future, the Federation is broken, and isolationism runs rampant. Then, of course, lots of things happen, we make new connections, and find a new purpose. And now, the very noisy conclusion. Explosions! Gunfights! Space battles! There’s plenty of action, but do we find ourselves missing the days when Star Trek was a lot of people talking urgently in rooms?
Episode 16
Friday 18 February 2022
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 19
Stardate: 51721.3
First broadcast on Wednesday 15 April 1998
This week, we discuss one of Star Trek’s most sacred texts — a forty-five minute Ben Sisko soliloquy, in which he saves the galaxy in a trolley problem of Garak’s devising, killing in the process a Romulan Senator, an obnoxious blue guy and at least one really hot Romulan bodyguard. Is this a great episode, a truly great episode, or something else altogether?
Episode 15
Friday 11 February 2022
Star Trek: Picard
Series 1, Episode 7
Stardate: Unknown (2399)
First broadcast on Thursday 5 March 2020
Picard and Soji arrive on the planet Nepenthe, where their confusion and self-doubt are assuaged by the planet’s atmophere, by the love of trustworthy old friends, and by some really good wood-fired pizza. Meanwhile, Agnes vomits two or three times, a beloved secondary character is horribly murdered, and a pretty young Romulan is trapped on a Borg cube with little hope of escape. On balance, we think it’s a win.
Episode 14
Friday 4 February 2022
Star Trek: Short Treks
Series 2, Episode 6
Stardate: Unknown (5 April 2385)
First broadcast on Thursday 9 January 2020
An inexplicable terrorist attack on Mars claims tens of thousands of lives. But how to react to it? Do we succumb to panic and fear? Or do we forget our differences and re-commit to our shared values?