Untitled Star Trek Project

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 3, Episode 5. First broadcast on Thursday 7 August 2025. Stardate: 2184.4. This week, so entranced is Nathan by the beauty of the Enterprise crew, the size and glossy finish of its sets, and the technological wonder of the effects wall that he completely fails to notice that basically nothing happens for about half an hour. Fortunately, Joe is here to help out...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Monday 2 October 1995. Stardate: Unknown (2371). This week, I refuse to put more thought into this blurb than the writers put into this episode of Voyager.

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 9 October 2002. Stardate: Unknown (2152). An unusual episode of Enterprise this week, with some satisfying serialisation, an inventive and inviting premise, and enough time to hang with the crew while they go exploring — all of which makes for a charming and entertaining 25 minutes. Sadly, the episode lasts 45 minutes.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episodes 1–2. First broadcast on Sunday 3 January 1993. Stardate: 46379.1. – Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can, but in the end it comes down to throwing one pitch af...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 19. First broadcast on Monday 30 March 1992. Stardate: 45703.9. This week, Wesley faces a difficult choice. Option A: to help build another fortress of impunity to defend his privileged friends from the demands of justice and kindness. Option B: to tell the truth and expose them all to the consequences of their actions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he c...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episode 6. First broadcast on Monday 4 November 1996. Stardate: Unknown (2373) and 4523.7. This week, the crew of the USS Defiant deploy some exciting new digital video technology to travel back to 1967 and inveigle themselves into a beloved episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It’s a perfect thirtieth birthday present for the franchise, reminding us tha...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 5, Episode 6. First broadcast on Wednesday 18 November 1998. Stardate: 52143.6 (2375) and 2390. This week, Joe and Nathan stare in wonder at an episode of Voyager that gets everything right — a compelling hook, a couple of memorable and significant visuals, a clear and straightforward time loop premise, and a human story of guilt, atonement and forgiveness. One of the be...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 22. First broadcast on Friday 7 March 1969. Stardate: 5906.4. This week, a feculent alien rock-monster decides to make a TV episode to determine which philosophy is stronger — good or evil. To that end, he gets his friends to dress up as Abraham Lincoln and various racist stereotypes, so they can toss sticks and jabolite rocks at each other until i...

Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 2, Episodes 19–20. First broadcast on Monday 1 July 2024. Stardate: 62314.8 and 5 April 2385. Oh, Dal, I wasn’t talking about now. The reason the universe needs you all together, that hasn’t happened yet. Things yet to come, wondrous and terrible things. But you’ll have to wait and see. It’s nearly time to say goodbye to the crew of the USS Prodigy as they fly off in sea...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 2, Episode 1. First broadcast on Sunday 26 September 1993. Stardate: Unknown (2370). It’s Series 2, Episode 1 of Deep Space Nine, and so it’s time for the show to set off in a bold new direction, exploring its premise instead of simply being The Next Generation but in a shopping mall. First item on the agenda: rescue a very dull Bajoran war hero from Soledad Cany...

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 5, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday 18 April 2024. Stardate: Unknown (3191); also 2256, 2257, 2258, 3189 and 3218. This week Michael and her new first officer Commander Rayner are caught in a time loop carefully designed by the Krenim to give Michael the chance to prove that her approach to leadership is the correct one, as usual. Meanwhile, Joe gets a surprising...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 13. First broadcast on Monday 4 February 1991. Stardate: 44474.5. Many years ago, Joe and Nathan were offered a contract by a shadowy devilish figure, who promised them 180 episodes of peace and prosperity until her return, when she would demand their eternal servitude, mostly consisting of admiring her smile and the fabulosity of her hair. Honestl...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Series 1, Episode 1. First broadcast on Thursday 15 January 2026. Stardate: 853724.6 and Unknown (3190s). This week, the children of Earth face a difficult and precarious future — one that they didn’t create but that they must nevertheless endure. And now there’s a new Star Trek series where that’s basically happening too. But in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, these ki...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 23. First broadcast on Wednesday 3 May 2000. Stardate: Unknown (2376 and 2371). This week, Joe and Nathan struggle to find exactly the right word to express their feelings about this episode.

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 10. First broadcast on Wednesday 27 November 2002. Stardate: Unknown (2152). Another astonishingly dull and unambitious week aboard Enterprise, as Hoshi Sato is accidentally transported into a high-concept plot that we’ve seen done better half a dozen times in the last fifteen years. Things liven up slightly ten minutes from the end, when we are treated to...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 4, Episodes 1–2. First broadcast on Monday 2 October 1995. Stardate: 49011.4. This week, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine starts again — with a second pilot episode two and a half years after the first one. It’s The Best of Both Worlds, but much faster, funnier and more confident. And this is only the beginning. Again.

Star Trek Movie #5. Release date: 1989.Stardate: 8454.1. The quintessential odd-numbered Star Trek film, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier roared onto our screens in 1989, delighting and enthralling basically no one at all. Still, despite the glacial pace, the lack of incident and the horrendous special effects, it has something to say — something about the love and friendship between weird and grum...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 14. First broadcast on Wednesday 2 February 2000. Stardate: Unknown (2376). 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 od...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 3, Episode 26 / Series 4, Episode 1. First broadcast on Monday 18 June 1990 and Monday 24 September 1990. Stardate: 43989.1. This week, a seminal moment in the history of television appears to be taking place at 0.5× speed.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 2, Episode 18. First broadcast on Monday 22 May 1989. Stardate: 42823.2. “Terrible beyond terrible.” Ronald D. Moore “Here lies a colossal mess of a show, mixing serious (albeit unrealized) science fiction with broad, less-than-funny comedy.” Jamahl Epsicokhan, Jammer’s Reviews “Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd.” Jean–Luc Picard “That was fun.” “Y...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 11. First broadcast on Saturday 3 January 1998. Stardate: 51408.6. This week on Deep Space Nine, Dukat (Kathy Bates) and Sisko (James Caan) crash land on one of Star Trek’s less convincing standing sets, and then have a proper talk about their Feelings and Values. (Antipathy, and for one of them, Racism.)

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 1, Episode 20. First broadcast on Wednesday 3 April 2002. Stardate: Unknown (2151). This week in Star Trek: Slow-Witted White Men, no one turns into a salamander, gets trapped in a board game or has sex with a ghost. In fact, no one does much of anything at all — at least not anything that anyone will remember 23 years later.

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 4, Episode 16. First broadcast on Wednesday 18 February 1998. Stardate: 51652.3. This week, we are properly introduced to Voyager’s latest Intransigent Alien Antagonist, in preparation for a thrilling two-part epic in a couple of weeks’ time. And things go pretty well, on the whole, despite (or perhaps because of) some interpersonal conflict between two important cast me...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 1, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 5 October 1987. Stardate: 41209.2. An unexpected but not unprecedented miracle turns water into booze on board the Enterprise-D, and soon the entire crew is horny, depressed, or facing an awkward meeting with HR on Monday. After all this, Joe can’t see how this show becomes a hit, but Nathan thinks he can. Bottoms up, e...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 1, Episode 18. First broadcast on Thursday 19 January 1967. Stardate: 3045.6. Gornfest 2025 continues this week on Untitled Star Trek Project, as we head back to 1967 — when the Gorn were just a single rubber lizard in a spangly minidress and the Federation was barely a glint in Gene L. Coon’s eye. Iconic, memorable and visually striking — this is why nerds s...