Episode 148
Friday 28 March 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 1, Episode 16
Stardate: 48846.5
First broadcast on Monday 22 May 1995
Two B-plots on Star Trek: Voyager this week, each one more forgettable than the other. In the A B-plot, Tuvok is unreasonably mean to four obnoxious misfits, while the B B-plot is somehow about cheese.
Episode 147
Friday 21 March 2025
Star Trek: Discovery
Series 2, Episodes 13–14
Stardate: 1050.8
First broadcast on Thursday 11 April 2019
and Thursday 18 April 2019
The whole of Discovery Series 2 has been leading to this: a baffling and possibly ill-advised decision to catapult the show 930 years into the future. (Spoiler: it turns out better than we could have dared to imagine.) On the way though, we get to experience breathtaking CGI, some vertiginous camerawork, and more heartfelt and prolonged emotion than the entire history of the franchise to date.
Episode 146
Friday 14 March 2025
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 5, Episode 6
Stardate: 45208.2
First broadcast on Monday 28 October 1991
This week, it’s The One Where the Entire Crew is Taken over by an Orgasmatronic Video Game. Oh, and Wesley’s back as well. It’s Star Trek, at the very top of its (don’t say it) Game.
Episode 145
Friday 7 March 2025
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Series 5, Episode 2
Stardate: 59376.9
First broadcast on Thursday 24 October 2024
Everyone learns a valuable lesson this week: Boimler learns about the perks and perils of being the fun boss, Tendi learns what it takes to be a kick-ass swashbuckling aunt, and T’Lyn learns why, how and how much Rutherford and Tendi love each other. Even the gardener bot gets a little arc. (Good for him.)
Episode 144
Friday 28 February 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 25
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 17 May 2000
This week, Star Trek remembers that its two most important jobs are scaring children and giving us hope for the future. It doesn’t do either of these particularly well in The Haunting of Deck Twelve, but the whole thing is fun and confident enough to entertain us for forty-five minutes. And sometimes that’s enough.