Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 1. First broadcast on Friday 20 September 1968. Stardate: 5431.4. A young woman wearing fabulous boots materialises on the Enterprise , renders the crew unconscious, and then removes Spock’s brain. And soon we discover — to our horror — that everyone else involved in making this episode has had their brain removed as well.
Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 3. First broadcast on Thursday 4 November 2021. Stardate: Unknown (2383). Star Trek welcomes a whole new generation into its ranks, as Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Pog, Murf and their prisoner Gwyn become the new crew of the USS Protostar . Their first mission: to accidentally set course for a black hole, to learn to work together as a crew, and to come to appreciate the value of good advice. And, of course, to boldly go where no one has gone before....
Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 25 September 1996. Stardate: 50252.3. 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....
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 2, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday 30 September 2021. Stardate: Unknown (2381). It’s Star Trek ’s most terrifying crew evaluation since Coming of Age : the crew of the USS Cerritos confront a ridiculous alien from Star Trek: The Animated Series , the Terran Empire, medical ethics, an unconvincing Old West set on the Paramount lot, the plot of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , the Borg, complex strings of water molecules which acquire carbon from the body and...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 21 October 1998. Stardate: Unknown (2375). When passive-aggressive Vulcan racist Captain Solok arrives on Deep Space Nine and challenges Sisko to some kind of sportsball game, a series of hilarious training montages ensues, followed by a Very Important Lesson about how utterly adorable Rom is. Bless.
Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 1, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 10 October 2001. Stardate: Unknown (2151). After the crew of Enterprise decide to ignore the advice of their only competent crewmember, they find themselves on a very routine away mission on a very unremarkable planet, exhibiting behaviour that would embarass the most racist of your racist uncles. Turns out that at the end of the day, it hasn’t been such a long road getting from there to here....
Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 1, Episode 10. First broadcast on Thursday 10 November 1966. Stardate: 1512.2. Tensions are running high this week, as the Enterprise is attacked by a series of regular geometric solids and the bridge crew’s morale starts to crack under the pressure. Is this a ropey and glacially paced moment of disposable 60s TV, or the beginning of something indescribably magical?
Star Trek: Discovery, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday 5 November 2020. Stardate: Unknown (3189). It’s been 1,183 years since Rick Berman left Star Trek , and so it’s time for two new queer characters to join the Discovery family — Trill host Adira Tal and their adorable boyfriend and former host Gray Tal — in an episode all about the importance of connection and belonging.
Star Trek: Voyager, Series 7, Episode 12. First broadcast on Wednesday 24 January 2001. Stardate: 54452.6. 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?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 3, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 10 October 1994. Stardate: Unknown (2371). In this week’s episode of Family Ties , when Quark (Michael J Fox) lies about his involvement in the death of a belligerent Klingon customer, he finds himself threatened, hauled off to Qo’nos, forcibly married, and required to defend the honour of his house before the High Council with a combination of Excel spreadsheets and extreme physical cowardice. Will he learn a Very Import...
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 3, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday 19 February 1990. Stardate: 43625.2. After the Enterprise-C emerges from a mysteriously swirly space anomaly, Joe and Nathan find themselves in an alternate timeline where Star Trek: The Next Generation is dramatically and impractically lit, full of incident, and sceptical about the 1990s belief in the End of History. Star Trek: Discovery Series 1 arrives nearly 30 years too early, in Yesterday’s Enterprise ....
