Episode 66
Friday 26 May 2023
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 5, Episode 13
Stardate: 45470.1
First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1992
This week, the Enterprise crew worry unnecessarily about upending the lives of people living under a weird-ass conservative regime, only to find that those people are desperate to get out and there is no good reason at all to prevent them. Also, Deanna has sex, with unfortunate results.
Episode 25
Friday 22 April 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 5, Episode 15
Stardate: 45571.2
First broadcast on Monday 24 February 1992
This week, on Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan sit down to watch a sentimental sci-fi favourite from their youth, only to discover that it’s really just a police procedural where some of the regular cast get to do funny voices. Still, they get to see Marina menacing people with a gun, so there’s that, I guess.
Episode 131
Friday 1 November 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 6, Episode 3
Stardate: 46071.6
First broadcast on Monday 5 October 1992
It’s an outstandingly stupid episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation this week, except for the astonishingly brilliant idea of giving Marina fun things to do and a range of fabulously fun things to wear. Actually, let me start that again. It’s an astonishingly brilliant episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation this week,…
Episode 127
Friday 4 October 2024
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.
Episode 157
Friday 13 June 2025
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 6, Episode 15
Stardate: Unknown (2369)
First broadcast on Monday 15 February 1993
When Q first turned up on the Enterprise bridge in 1987, he came to teach all of humanity a lesson about its terrible past. But this week his mission is more personal: to teach Picard how much he owes his young, undisciplined self, and to remind us that youth is silly and difficult, and that the people living through it deserve our respect.
(On that topic, if you wish to see the inspiration for Joe’s preferred 1990s hairstyle, you should check out the cover of Star Trek: The Next Generation — Boogeymen (1991) by Mel Gilden.)
Episode 12
Friday 21 January 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 6, Episode 26 / Series 7, Episode 1
Stardate: 46982.1
First broadcast on Monday 21 June 1993
and Monday 20 September 1993
After their critically acclaimed attack on Earth on Stardate 44001.4, the Borg are back with a terrifying new plan — to pad out the the running time of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Series 6 finale and Series 7 opener. Meanwhile, Deanna is amused by Data’s porn consumption, Nathan is impressed by Beverly’s approach to command, and Joe is distracted by the memory of much more enjoyable Star Trek episodes.
Episode 24
Friday 15 April 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 7, Episode 14
Stardate: Unknown (2370)
First broadcast on Monday 31 January 1994
This week, Star Trek takes its first ill-judged stab at the Gothic romance genre. Will Beverly fall for her dead grandmother’s lover (sorry), a rangily unattractive anaphasic ghost who encourages her to give up her job and to stand by helplessly while he attacks her friends? Or will she learn a valuable lesson about not dating sociopathic men? (Temporarily and no respectively, it turns out.)
Episode 71
Friday 30 June 2023
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 7, Episode 19
Stardate: 47653.2
First broadcast on Monday 21 March 1994
Well, everyone hates Genesis obviously, but why? It’s silly, of course, it doesn’t attempt to get the science right, and everyone recovers beautifully during the last ad break. But that’s just Star Trek, isn’t it? Isn’t it?
Episode 18
Friday 4 March 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Series 7, Episodes 25–26
Stardate: 47988
First broadcast on Monday 23 May 1994
After seven years of thorny space problems and some of the most ingenious space solutions in Starfleet history, what do we have left to learn? Something about tachyon scans and anti-time, inevitably, but also something about the enduring power of love and friendship. Let’s see what’s in here.