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.
Episode 143
Friday 21 February 2025
Star Trek: Enterprise
Series 2, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2152)
First broadcast on Wednesday 2 October 2002
A change of pace for Star Trek this week, as the writers of Enterprise decide to explore the rightly-neglected relationship between Captain Archer and his completely featureless Armory Officer, Malcolm Reed. As so often happens, people get strapped to a bomb, Romulans utter muscular threats, and the most interesting members of the crew are completely sidelined.
Episode 142
Friday 7 February 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series 6, Episode 24
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Wednesday 20 May 1998
This week, Miles and Keiko struggle to work out how to react when their daughter ruins a perfectly pleasant family picnic by plummeting accidentally into an high-concept science fiction premise. Meanwhile, back on the station, their son falls foul of a sudden sitcom outbreak, banging his head on a table in what seems, in context, to be a comparatively sensible and comprehensible accident. It’s all a lot of nonsense, of course, but the people are nice, and everything turns out for the best.
Episode 141
Friday 31 January 2025
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 3, Episode 4
Stardate: 43173.5
First broadcast on Monday 16 October 1989
– You see, my people once lived in caves. And then we learned to build huts and, in time, to build ships like this one.
– Perhaps one day, my people will travel above the skies.
– Of that, I have absolutely no doubt.
Top-tier Star Trek this week, as The Next Generation belatedly hits its stride, with a well-written, well-acted and well-made story about the beauty and fragility of progress.