Episode 61
Friday 10 February 2023
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 8
Stardate: 41255.6
First broadcast on Monday 9 November 1987
Together at last for the first time, Joe and Nathan find themselves on Planet of the Horny but Unattractive White People, faced with a moral dilemma that wouldn’t challenge a slow-witted five-year-old. Ah, we have fun, don’t we?
Episode 116
Friday 28 June 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 14
Stardate: 41636.9
First broadcast on Monday 25 January 1988
Nothing to learn about gender politics this week as we visit Angel One, where large aggressive women lord it over their twinky male consorts, and Star Trek: The Next Generation finds plenty of exciting new ways to be as offensively sexist as possible. Could someone pass Gene a napkin, please?
Episode 111
Friday 24 May 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 20
Stardate: 41503.7
First broadcast on Monday 21 March 1988
Long before the invention of Ronald D Moore, the Klingons were simple souls who enjoyed brownface, poisoning grain, making lists of rules, and planting a bomb on the bridge of the Enterprise. But by 2364, the next generation of Klingons had embraced the wave of liberalism sweeping across the galaxy, all except for a few holdouts who refused to read the series bible and decided they would pass their time yelling and pointing guns at the warp core instead.
Episode 102
Friday 22 March 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 1, Episode 23
Stardate: 41601.3
First broadcast on Monday 25 April 1988
This week, we watch an dreadful hour of Star Trek — cheap, mawkish and absolutely absurd — but we end up enjoying ourselves enormously. Have we found a fatal flaw at the entire heart of the Untitled Star Trek Project?
Episode 149
Friday 4 April 2025
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.