Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Masterpiece Society

Episode 66

Friday 26 May 2023

Deanna and a young man are standing in a garden in front of a window looking out onto a hostile alien landscape. They are kissing.

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.

Recorded on Tuesday 16 May 2023 · Download (66.5 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Power Play

Episode 25

Friday 22 April 2022

Evil possessed Deanna Troi stands in Ten Forward, firing a phaser.

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.

Recorded on Sunday 10 April 2022 · Download (73.8 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Man of the People

Episode 131

Friday 1 November 2024

We're in Ten-Forward. Deanna Troi is looking both alarming and extremely glamorous, her hair piled high on her head with a grey curl on her forehead and wearing a very spangly and highly revealing blue dress. She is baring her teeth angrily at a pudgy middle-aged man, while behind her another middle-aged man look on, concerned.

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,…

Recorded on Tuesday 29 October 2024 · Download (57.3 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

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

Tapestry

Episode 157

Friday 13 June 2025

Picard is sleeping in a sunlit bedroom, lying on his side facing us, smiling post-coitally as he gently wakes up. A hand appears from behind him and strokes his ear. (It's Q.)

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.)

Recorded on Tuesday 10 June 2025 · Download (60.9 MB)

Star Trek: The Next Generation