Kobayashi Maru

Episode 128

Friday 11 October 2024

On the bridge of Discovery, Book is facing us, looking into the viewscreen at something horrific, and the realisation is just beginning to hit; his eyes are welling with tears. Behind him, small and out of focus, the bridge crew are looking at him with sympathy and love.

Star Trek: Discovery

Series 4, Episode 1

Stardate: Unknown (3190)

First broadcast on Thursday 18 November 2021

The crew of the USS Discovery are really settling down and starting to enjoy their new life in the 32nd century — repairing some butterflies’ GPS network, giving a commencement speech to some socially-distanced Starfleet Academy students, and fixing the unexpected and alarming angular velocity of a Federation space station. Then suddenly an unimaginable tragedy strikes.

Recorded on Tuesday 1 October 2024 · Download (70.5 MB)

Star Trek: Discovery

The Quality of Life

Episode 127

Friday 4 October 2024

In an image familiar from a well-known meme, a handsomely bearded Geordi LaForge expresses his approval by pointing with his index finger.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Series 6, Episode 9

Stardate: 46307.2

First broadcast on Saturday 14 November 1992

Data is excited to get a new puppy and understandably miffed when Riker decides to explode it in order to solve this week’s space problem. Back on Earth, Nathan is delighted by the story’s optimism and sheer nerdery, while Joe remains sceptical.

Recorded on Tuesday 24 September 2024 · Download (65.8 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Death Wish

Episode 126

Friday 27 September 2024

It's Janeway and Q, standing on the bridge of the USS Voyager,  looking at something offscreen with some incredulity.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 2, Episode 18

Stardate: 49301.2

First broadcast on Monday 19 February 1996

Opinions are split on this week’s Untitled Star Trek Project, with Nathan leading the prosecution and Joe the defence. Will Nathan sentence Death Wish to be imprisoned a comet, subsisting only on a rare form of Nogatch hemlock? Or will Joe prevail with the argument that at least it’s Voyager trying to have something to say and giving John DeLancie a new thing to do?

Recorded on Tuesday 17 September 2024 · Download (64.7 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

A Mathematically Perfect Redemption

Episode 125

Friday 20 September 2024

In a beautiful arboreal village on a distant planet, a handsome bird man holds up a small pineapple-sized robot and stares lovingly into her optical sensors.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Series 3, Episode 7

Stardate: Unknown (2381)

First broadcast on Thursday 6 October 2022

This week, a mathematically perfect recurring villain gets her own episode of Star Trek, and we discover how much fun the show can be without all that relentless moralising, just moments before we also discover how much fun it is to watch a villain get her comeuppance while some dunderheaded bird people shake off the dead shackles of a stupid tradition.

Recorded on Tuesday 17 September 2024 · Download (44.6 MB)

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Bread and Circuses

Episode 124

Friday 13 September 2024

Two shirtless sixties-hot gladiators, ready for a bout,  looking slightly embarrassed about their fake-ass shields.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 2, Episode 25

Stardate: 4040.7

First broadcast on Friday 15 March 1968

In hoc episodio, cum nautae astronavis Enterprise ad Urbem Aeternam pervenissent, brevi tempore magister Kirk amicos suos in harena certantes spectavit, passerem garo elixum gustavit, ancillam formosissimam futuit, postremo festinanter discessit. Sed dum navem solvit, cognoscit se testem fuisse novam religionem pacis ac fraternitatis oriri.

Recorded on Tuesday 10 September 2024 · Download (64.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series