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 72
Friday 7 July 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 2, Episode 14
Stardate: 49337.4
First broadcast on Monday 22 January 1996
When a Voyager crewmember is killed in a Kazon attack, and his colleagues are forced to sit through the most butt-clenchingly clichéd eulogy in television history, a few of them declare that it’s time to forge an alliance with the Kazon, which seems unwise. What seems even more unwise is Janeway’s decision to ignore everything that history has taught us about white people, as she forges an alliance with the Trabe, who talk nicely and know which knife and fork to use. It all turns out pretty much how you would expect.
Episode 89
Friday 17 November 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 2, Episode 15
Stardate: 49373.4
First broadcast on Monday 29 January 1996
– Guess who I get to meet today. The Creator of Fair Haven, Captain Proton himself: Lieutenant Tom Paris!
– No way! That’s awesome! Is he still a salamander?
– No, that’s not… It was a celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate, and he’s fine now. He was the first human to break the transwarp barrier, and today, he’s on the Cerritos!
When I first read that script, I couldn’t believe they were going to shoot it.
Episode 85
Friday 20 October 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 2, Episode 25
Stardate: 49690.1
First broadcast on Monday 13 May 1996
Nathan, Joe, Kathryn and the Medium Robert are all enjoying themselves this week in a genuinely entertaining Star Trek romance spoiled only by the untimely and unwelcome intrusion of Star Trek: Voyager itself at the very end of the episode. Hey ho.