Learning Curve

Episode 148

Friday 28 March 2025

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

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 25 March 2025 · Download (62.0 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Such Sweet Sorrow
Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2

Episode 147

Friday 21 March 2025

In the far, far distance, the USS Discovery is flying up into the massive wormhole that will take them 930 years into the future.

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 18 March 2025 · Download (138.9 MB)

Star Trek: Discovery

The Game

Episode 146

Friday 14 March 2025

We're in the turbolift. Wesley is on the left, dressed in civilian clothes, looking across at Nurse Ogawa, looking dreamily into the distance and smiling, probably because of the gaming headset she's wearing.

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 4 March 2025 · Download (69.9 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shades of Green

Episode 145

Friday 7 March 2025

Reunited at last, in a corridor on the Cerritos, Tendi and Rutherford hug. Tendi is facing us, eyes closed, pressing her face against Rutherford's neck and holding him as tight as she can.

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.)

Recorded on Monday 4 March 2024 · Download (42.0 MB)

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Episode 144

Friday 28 February 2025

Neelix is in a dark room, lit only by a portable electric lamp that he  is holding up to his face. There is a dark figure out of focus in the foreground.

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 25 February 2025 · Download (71.8 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager