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.
Episode 161
Friday 11 July 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 7
Stardate: 53167.9
First broadcast on Wednesday 10 November 1999
This week, the crew of the USS Voyager awaken an ancient evil and unleash it upon the Delta Quadrant: the Vaadwaur, a phantom army that appears out of thin air, destroys entire colonies, and vanishes in the blink of an eye — but whose soldiers’ physiognomy is such that few men can find them afterwards.
Episode 175
Friday 12 December 2025
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 14
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 2 February 2000
Tom, Harry, Neelix and Chakotay somehow return from a space mission with PTSD — and with memories of an armed conflict which might not even be theirs. All this goes just about as well as you’d expect, with inexplicable flashbacks, studio sets pretending to be outdoor locations, some odd gurning by Ethan, and some characteristically unpleasant shouting from the Worst Robert. But in spite of it all, there’s a point to be made, and some last-act location work lifts the whole thing considerably.
Episode 78
Friday 25 August 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 16
Stardate: Unknown (2376)
First broadcast on Wednesday 16 February 2000
This week a mediocre script fails to be enhanced in any way by mediocre direction and some mediocre performances. But there’s an upside: a Voyager episode with real consequences that will open up unimaginable new vistas of storytelling and character development. Or not, probably.
Episode 87
Friday 3 November 2023
Star Trek: Voyager
Series 6, Episode 22
Stardate: 53918.0
First broadcast on Wednesday 26 April 2000
These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them. And as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth, where peace reigns and hatred has no home.
Enjoyable. And unexpectedly beautiful at times. Much like Star Trek, really.