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 106
Friday 19 April 2024
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 5, Episode 18
Stardate: 52586.3
First broadcast on Wednesday 3 March 1999
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
This week, like every week, we continue to experience our gradual, humiliating dissolution, to dread our own inevitable deaths, and to consider with dismay the deaths of everyone we have ever known or loved. And so, to cheer ourselves up, we decide to watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Episode 83
Friday 29 September 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 5, Episode 26 / Series 6, Episode 1
Stardate: Unknown (2375, 2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 26 May 1999
Moral dilemmas abound in this week’s season finale of Star Trek: Voyager. Is it permissible to kill a bunch of people if you miss your bus home? Is it permissible to shoot Slimer from Ghostbusters in the face if he’s intent on drinking all of your precious bodily fluids? Is it permissible to torture Rick Worthy if you’re having a really bad day? And it is obligatory to endow the characters in your Star Trek show with clear and consistent motivations?
Episode 109
Friday 10 May 2024
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 3
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 6 October 1999
A quick trip to the afterlife this week, as B’Elanna discovers the importance of faith and family, and as Voyager itself discovers (too late, perhaps) the importance of the same things. We also learn that hell is the Voyager sets only lit slightly differently, which is something that we had hitherto only suspected.
Episode 156
Friday 30 May 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 5
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 20 October 1999
Sometimes everything just comes together — a dull script, routine design, a generic score, perfunctory direction, an uncharismatic leading man and a guest star’s strange and flaccid performance. Meanwhile, on Star Trek: Voyager, Tom screams at his long-suffering girlfriend after falling in love with a car or something.