The Empath

Episode 153

Friday 9 May 2025

In the middle distance, Kirk, Spock, Bones and a beautiful but completely passive woman are walking past a row of perspex tubes into a dark void. Watching them, their backs to us, are two tall aliens with domed, hairless heads with visible buttock cleavage at the base of their skulls.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 12

Stardate: 5121.5

First broadcast on Friday 6 December 1968

A series of urgent production catastrophes this week, as we arrive at Paramount Studios with no set, no lines for our female guest star, and a script with no story and no plot. Can these omnipotent bum-headed aliens help us out?

Recorded on Tuesday 6 May 2025 · Download (73.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

The Drumhead

Episode 152

Friday 2 May 2025

Jean Simmons as Admiral Norah Satie, looking like she has just realised that she has completely destroyed her career. (Satie, not Simmons.)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 3, Episode 21

Stardate: 44769.2

First broadcast on Monday 29 April 1991

This week, Jean Simmons strides imperiously onto the Enterprise bridge, accompanied by her executive assistant, her scary stenographer, her daddy issues, and a terrifying sense of self-righteous rage. Unmissable.

Recorded on Tuesday 29 April 2025 · Download (71.3 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Countdown

Episode 151

Friday 25 April 2025

It’s a two-shot. On the left is Hoshi, staring in an unfocused way  at the giant Xindi-Reptilian on the right. He’s taller and greener than her, and he’s touching her cheek tenderly with his left hand.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 3, Episode 23

Stardate: Unknown (2154)

First broadcast on Wednesday 19 May 2004

It’s the second last episode of the Xindi arc, which can only mean one thing: a big, dumb spectacle in which we’re all trying to prevent a bunch of lizards wearing slinkies from hurling a massive lethal wiffle ball into planet Earth. Fortunately, Connor, Jolene and Billingsley are here with some acting for us to enjoy as well.

Recorded on Friday 18 April 2025 · Download (61.9 MB)

Star Trek: Enterprise

You Are Cordially Invited

Episode 150

Friday 11 April 2025

Looking as handsome as hell, Worf and Jadzia, dressed in deep red and wearing metal circlets, kiss at the end of their wedding ceremony.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 6, Episode 7

Stardate: 51247.5

First broadcast on Friday 10 October 1997

This week, Worf and Jadzia celebrate the triumphant 150th episode of Untitled Star Trek Project by setting a date for their wedding, holding one fun party and one excruciating one, punching a future mother-in-law in the face, calling off the wedding, calling it back on again, and having sex with that handsome young lieutenant from the USS Sutherland. Or was that last one just us?

Recorded on Tuesday 8 April 2025 · Download (69.5 MB)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Neutral Zone

Episode 149

Friday 4 April 2025

In the Voyager mess hall, Neelix is presenting Tuvok with a plate of  fluorescent green cheese. Tuvok raises an eyebrow.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 1, Episode 26

Stardate: 41986.0

First broadcast on Monday 16 May 1988

This week, Joe and Nathan are woken from 380 years of cryosleep to discover that the world has changed forever: the ship’s captain isn’t friendly and welcoming like Captain Stubing, some of their ports of call have been scooped in their entirety off the surface of the planet, and those people in that scary green cruise ship over there look very unfriendly indeed.

Recorded on Tuesday 1 April 2025 · Download (72.4 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation