Episode 44
Friday, 9 September 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 1, Episode 11
Stardate: 48658.2
First broadcast on Monday, 10 April 1995
A barely secret conspirator has been selling Federation technology to the Kazon Nistrim in a weird alternative timeline where there are more than seven people on board the ship, where Chakotay has agency and interesting things to do, and where we really feel like we’re stranded tens of thousands of light years from home. Plus, Seska is here!
Episode 9
Friday, 31 December 2021
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 3, Episode 4
Stardate: 50252.3
First broadcast on Wednesday, 25 September 1996
When the Doctor’s hard drive starts to fill up with opera, romantic relationships and all the complex glories of being human, he finds himself increasingly unable to fulfil his function as Voyager’s Chief Medical Officer — instead becoming a heartbreaking analogue of your dad suffering from dementia. Also, a bunch of space things happen that we couldn’t possibly care about.
Episode 59
Friday, 20 January 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 3, Episode 18
Stardate: 50693.2
First broadcast on Wednesday, 19 February 1997
Flushed with the success of its previous attempt at Gothic Horror, Star Trek gamely tackles the genre again, as the Doctor’s experiments with the parameters of his program inevitably lead to a high-concept holographic version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with all of the creepiness towards women that that implies. Aggressively mediocre.
Episode 41
Friday, 19 August 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 3, Episode 21
Stardate: Unknown (2379–2369)
First broadcast on Wednesday, 9 April 1997
This week, Joe and Nathan find themselves travelling backwards in time to 1997, when they first watched and enjoyed the Star Trek: Voyager episode Before and After, only to find themselves infected with a deadly [tech], which will be going to have activated some time later (or earlier) when they undergo [tech] therapy in the Doctor’s new [tech] treatment [tech]. Meanwhile, Harry has apparently married a toddler or something, which seems upsetting and highly inappropriate.
Episode 19
Friday, 11 March 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 4, Episode 6
Stardate: Unknown (2374)
First broadcast on Wednesday, 8 October 1997
In this week’s meeting of the Jeri Ryan Appreciation Society, we watch the most aggressively average Star Trek episode the Randomiser can find, only to discover that there’s still a lot of fun to be had — hilariously sluggish action scenes, a shockingly low-effort Intransigent Alien Race, and some wonderfully subtle and nuanced performances from Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ and Jeri Ryan.
Episode 21
Friday, 25 March 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 4, Episodes 18–19
Stardate: 51715.2
First broadcast on Wednesday, 4 March 1998
It’s business as usual on Star Trek this week, as the crew of Voyager find themselves in an episode of Secret Army which has been cast, written and directed by latex-headed aliens in Nazi uniforms. Will Voyager’s extensive back catalogue of holodeck programs persuade the Hirogen that there’s more to life than festooning your bulkheads with human skulls? Or will the Captain be forced (reluctantly) to kill Seven of Nine first?
Episode 34
Friday, 24 June 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 5, Episode 10
Stardate: Unknown (2375)
First broadcast on Wednesday, 16 December 1998
This week: a clever script, a complete absence of banter, a frog alien that scores zero on the B’omar Scale, astonishingly good incidental music by Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and two outstanding performances from Mark Harelik and Kate Mulgrew — all working together perfectly to create one of Voyager’s Best Episodes Ever. Enjoy. (You will.)
Episode 3
Friday, 19 November 2021
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 7, Episode 12
Stardate: 54452.6
First broadcast on Wednesday, 24 January 2001
It’s our first trip to the Delta Quadrant, and we have questions that need answering. Is B’Elanna’s father a massive racist or just a regular-sized racist? Which is more convincing: Tom and B’Elanna’s baby or an 8472 in a well-lit room? And can we maintain focus all the way through a 45-minute episode of Voyager without a single space anomaly?
Episode 47
Friday, 7 October 2022
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 7, Episodes 25–26
Stardate: 54973.4 (and 2404)
First broadcast on Wednesday, 23 May 2001
A difference of opinion on Untitled Star Trek Project this week: Joe is cross and disappointed that things ended this way, and Nathan is enjoying the satisfaction that only low expectations can provide. Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Voyager enjoy a long-delayed reunion (in latex), re-examine a costly command decision, and experience an upsetting new heterosexual romance. And then, finally, after all these years, they find their way home.