Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 21. First broadcast on Wednesday 9 April 1997. Stardate: Unknown (2379–2369). 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 h...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 41
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 1, Episode 5. First broadcast on Thursday 3 September 2020. Stardate: 57601.3. It’s another episode of Lower Decks , and amidst all the quick-fire jokes and impressive visuals, we learn Another Valuable Lesson: sure we love treaties, Tellarites, timelines and the exciting new T88 model tricorder, but what we’re really here for is hang time with people we love and the sheer joyous ridiculousness of it all. Live long and prosper, friends!...
Aug 12, 2022•38 min•Ep. 40
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 16 June 2022. Stardate: 1997.9. This week on Strange New Worlds our ongoing mission continues — what if Star Trek but relaxed and visually spectacular? In the meantime, Chris teaches some pirates a thing or two about cooking, Christine teaches Spock a thing or two about relationships, and Jesse James Keitel teaches the whole cast a thing or two about being chill, sexy and fabulously evil....
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 39
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 12. First broadcast on Monday 28 January 1991. Stardate: 44429.6. Our Irish lad to the war has gone On the deck of the Phoenix you’ll find him. He’s got a song that goes on and on And a sad backstory behind him. Marc Alaimo’s here in a silly hat He’s missed some bits while sha-a-ving. And Captain Maxwell has shown us that He’s a dick and he isn’t worth saving....
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 38
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 15. First broadcast on Wednesday 24 February 1999. Stardate: Unknown (2375). When the Lounge is taken over by violent mobsters, Vic Fontaine (James Darren) has no choice but to call in his fictional friends from the twenty-fourth century to help him out. A stylish and entertaining heist ensues, the good guys win, and we’re reminded (again) about how much we love these people.
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 37
Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Wednesday 5 February 2003. Stardate: Unknown (2152). In this Very Special Episode, we learn a Valuable Lesson about discrimination and bigotry without a single mention of the minority group being discriminated against. In the meantime — by the most amazing coincidence — Trip has an awkward moment when confronted by some nice people who don’t share his sexual ethic. It’s all a bit of a slog, to be honest....
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 36
Star Trek: Discovery, Series 4, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 30 December 2021. Stardate: Unknown (3190). The crew of Discovery and the peoples of the galaxy are both facing the same dilemma this week: the cautious path of wariness or the risky path of connection with a faceless threat? But it’s Star Trek , and so love and bravery prevail. Meanwhile, Book leaves Michael to look after the cat, and Saru bashfully offers a succulent to the President of Ni’Var....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 35
Star Trek: Voyager, Series 5, Episode 10. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 December 1998. Stardate: Unknown (2375). 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.)...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 34
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 14 October 1996. Stardate: Unknown (2373). This week, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : Quark wants Grilka, Dax wants Worf, Nerys wants Miles, Worf wants Grilka, Miles wants Nerys, Worf wants Dax, Odo wants Nerys (probably), and Julian wants not to know any details about any of this. Meanwhile, Joe wants more of this sort of thing, while Nathan just wants some special effects and reflective surfaces, but will settle for a t...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 33
Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 3. First broadcast on Friday 29 September 1967. Stardate: 3541.9. When the Enterprise takes on board an inexplicably touchy and unreasonable box of flashing lights dangling from a fishing line, hilarity ensues. Also, racism.
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 32
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 18. First broadcast on Sunday 30 May 1993. Stardate: 46922.3. You know how it is: it’s your first spinoff — a cast of delightfully high-concept characters set against a colourful backdrop, with story possibilities around every corner. But then you find yourself limping towards the end of your first season. You’ve done the plague one, the weird alien fugitive one, the buddy comedy one with the CGI shaving cream, and the terrible boardgame one that eve...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 31
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 1. First broadcast on Thursday 5 May 2022. Stardate: 1739.12. Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . It’s five-year mission: To explore Strange New Worlds. To remind us of our love the Original Series. To have a fun adventure every week. To look like nothing else on television. To boldly attempt — for a world exhausted by impending catastrophes — to be the most authentic expression of Star Trek since the 1960...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 30
Star Trek: Discovery, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Sunday 29 October 2017. Stardate: 2136.8. meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer Lieutenant Ash Tyler. After a catastrophic explosion destroys the ship, Harry Mudd sneaks on board Discovery , kills the captain, and searches for a way to sell the spore drive to the Klingons; meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer ...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 29
Star Trek: Picard, Series 2, Episode 3. First broadcast on Thursday 17 March 2022. Stardate: Unknown (2401 and 12 April 2024). This week, Joe and Nathan are on the edge of our seats, wondering what insignificant event will tip the twenty-first century over the edge — turning it from a punishing ordeal into a shrieking hellscape of fascism and climatic disaster. Fortunately we’re able to distract ourselves from all this with a really enjoyable episode of Star Trek: Picard ....
May 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 28
Star Trek: The Animated Series, Series 1, Episode 12. First broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1973. Stardate: 5267.2. Exhausted from last week’s astonishingly brilliant performance, this week Bill Shatner is literally phoning it in — so bored with Star Trek that he can’t even be bothered to say all five digits of this week’s stardate. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is trapped in a thing, unable to escape until they do another thing. Or something. Whatever....
May 06, 2022•46 min•Ep. 27
Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Friday 20 October 1967. Stardate: 4202.1. A nameless and unknowable monster which has destroyed whole star systems and wiped out an entire Starfleet crew is now heading towards the most populated part of the galaxy. The only things standing in its way: a dramatic soundtrack, a memorable guest actor, an incredibly confident production, and William Alan Shatner. It doesn’t stand a chance.
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 26
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday 24 February 1992. Stardate: 45571.2. This week, on Untitled Star Trek Project , Joe and Nathan sit down to watch a sentimental sci-fi favourite from their youth, only to discover that it’s really just a police procedural where some of the regular cast get to do funny voices. Still, they get to see Marina menacing people with a gun, so there’s that, I guess.
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 25
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episode 14. First broadcast on Monday 31 January 1994. Stardate: Unknown (2370). This week, Star Trek takes its first ill-judged stab at the Gothic romance genre. Will Beverly fall for her dead grandmother’s lover (sorry), a rangily unattractive anaphasic ghost who encourages her to give up her job and to stand by helplessly while he attacks her friends? Or will she learn a valuable lesson about not dating sociopathic men? ( Temporarily and no respective...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 24
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episode 23. First broadcast on Monday 12 May 1997. Stardate: Unknown (2373). Previously, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : Tired of being a supporting character in a thankless role, Michael Eddington leaves DS9 to star heroically in a TV show which we never see and which exists entirely in his own imagination. After most of the cast and crew are killed by Cardassians — which can happen — and he himself is imprisoned for treason, he is recruited by Sisko for on...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 23
Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Saturday 22 January 2022. Stardate: 607125.6. It’s a heartwarming rite of passage for our youngest Star Trek crew — their very first encounter with a baffling new kind of temporal anomaly. And it’s not just any temporal anomaly: it’s a metaphor for the difficulties they have co-operating as a crew and an opportunity to overcome those difficulties. Plus, it gives Rok-Tahk the chance to be sweet, vulnerable, clever and magnificent in turn...
Apr 01, 2022•40 min•Ep. 22
Star Trek: Voyager, Series 4, Episodes 18–19. First broadcast on Wednesday 4 March 1998. Stardate: 51715.2. 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 (relu...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 21
Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 6. First broadcast on Friday 25 October 1968. Stardate: 4385.3. The crew of the Enterprise find themselves in a weird and beautifully directed simulacrum of Tombstone, Arizona with a couple of hours to kill before their certain death at the hands of Wyatt Earp’s gang of off-puttingly ugly cowboys. Meanwhile, we all learn a valuable lesson about why Star Trek is superior to real TV westerns. A classic....
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 20
Star Trek: Voyager, Series 4, Episode 6. First broadcast on Wednesday 8 October 1997. Stardate: Unknown (2374). 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....
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 19
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episodes 25–26. First broadcast on Monday 23 May 1994. Stardate: 47988. After seven years of thorny space problems and some of the most ingenious space solutions in Starfleet history, what do we have left to learn? Something about tachyon scans and anti-time, inevitably, but also something about the enduring power of love and friendship. Let’s see what’s in here.
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 18
Star Trek: Discovery, Series 3, Episode 13. First broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2021. Stardate: Unknown (3189). Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery : it’s the distant future, the Federation is broken, and isolationism runs rampant. Then, of course, lots of things happen, we make new connections, and find a new purpose. And now, the very noisy conclusion. Explosions! Gunfights! Space battles! There’s plenty of action, but do we find ourselves missing the days when Star Trek was a lot of people ...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 17
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 19. First broadcast on Wednesday 15 April 1998. Stardate: 51721.3. This week, we discuss one of Star Trek ’s most sacred texts — a forty-five minute Ben Sisko soliloquy, in which he saves the galaxy in a trolley problem of Garak’s devising, killing in the process a Romulan Senator, an obnoxious blue guy and at least one really hot Romulan bodyguard. Is this a great episode, a truly great episode, or something else altogether?...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 16
Star Trek: Picard, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 5 March 2020. Stardate: Unknown (2399). Picard and Soji arrive on the planet Nepenthe, where their confusion and self-doubt are assuaged by the planet’s atmophere, by the love of trustworthy old friends, and by some really good wood-fired pizza. Meanwhile, Agnes vomits two or three times, a beloved secondary character is horribly murdered, and a pretty young Romulan is trapped on a Borg cube with little hope of escape. On balanc...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 15
Star Trek: Short Treks, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Thursday 9 January 2020. Stardate: Unknown (5 April 2385). An inexplicable terrorist attack on Mars claims tens of thousands of lives. But how to react to it? Do we succumb to panic and fear? Or do we forget our differences and re-commit to our shared values?
Feb 04, 2022•36 min•Ep. 14
Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 22. First broadcast on Wednesday 30 April 2003. Stardate: Unknown (2153). The crew of Enterprise encounter the Vissians, a genial and technologically advanced species who enslave three percent of their population and force them to have sex with married couples who wish to conceive their horrible latex-faced children. Surprisingly, we’re generally fine with this. Apart from Trip, who is a good person.
Jan 28, 2022•59 min•Ep. 13
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 6, Episode 26 / Series 7, Episode 1. First broadcast on Monday 21 June 1993 and Monday 20 September 1993. Stardate: 46982.1. After their critically acclaimed attack on Earth on Stardate 44001.4, the Borg are back with a terrifying new plan — to pad out the the running time of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Series 6 finale and Series 7 opener. Meanwhile, Deanna is amused by Data’s porn consumption, Nathan is impressed by Beverly’s approach to command, an...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 12
