Untitled Star Trek Project

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 16. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 February 2000. Stardate: Unknown (2376). 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.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 5. First broadcast on Monday 22 October 1990. Stardate: 44161.2. In this week’s episode of Likeable and Competent People Solving Space Problems, Beverly finds herself in a shrinking universe from which her loved ones are disappearing one by one, while Nathan and Joe (who inhabit a very similar universe) find a version of Star Trek capable of inspir...

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 3, Episode 13. First broadcast on Wednesday 21 January 2004. Stardate: Unknown (2153). This week, we learn a valuable lesson about Johnny Foreigner: he’s just not to be trusted. (God knows how we’re going to get a Federation together.) Still, we manage to enjoy ourselves for a bit.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 23. First broadcast on Monday 13 May 1991. Stardate: 44821.3. Star Trek: The Next Generation makes another ill-judged attempt at romance this week, as Beverly Crusher has an eventful two-week relationship with an alien ambassador, Commander Riker, and an attractive young woman, who are all somehow the same person. It all goes as well as you would e...

Star Trek: The Animated Series, Series 2, Episode 2. First broadcast on Saturday 14 September 1974. Stardate: 7403.6. It’s a low-effort week here at Untitled Star Trek Project, as we pour dozens of crisp American dollars into animating a hilarious encounter between Kirk, Spock, some lizard men in nappies, and an alien who can detach his bits at will, and then spend some time wondering why on earth...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 20. First broadcast on Wednesday 28 April 1999. Stardate: Unknown (2375). After the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, Ben Sisko (Alan Dale), fearing for the safety of his new wife Kasidy (Lisa Armytage), gets all of her upcoming missions cancelled, with predictable results. Elsewhere on the station, Ezri (Annie Jones) and Worf (Guy Pearce)...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Monday 22 January 1996. Stardate: 49337.4. When a Voyager crewmember is killed in a Kazon attack, and his colleagues are forced to sit through the most butt-clenchingly clichéd eulogy in television history, a few of them declare that it’s time to forge an alliance with the Kazon, which seems unwise. What seems even more unwise is Janeway...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episode 19. First broadcast on Saturday 19 March 1994. Stardate: 47653.2. Well, everyone hates Genesis obviously, but why? It’s silly, of course, it doesn’t attempt to get the science right, and everyone recovers beautifully during the last ad break. But that’s just Star Trek, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 16. First broadcast on Thursday 1 December 2022. Stardate: Unknown (2384). In the Neutral Zone, the USS Protostar faces off against the USS Dauntless, unable to leave and unable to contact them to explain their friendly intentions. And so they stop for a moment and tell each other sad, funny and beautiful stories from their pasts. Meanwhile, on the Dauntless,...

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 1, Episode 5. First broadcast on Wednesday 17 October 2001. Stardate: Unknown (2151). This week, Enterprise Chief Engineer Charles Tucker III is pregnant, and Nathan and Joe expect to be embarrassed and offended by the result. Instead, they are delighted to find themselves merely bored. (In fact, Nathan thinks the first half of the episode is rather sweet and charming...

Star Trek: Picard, Series 2, Episode 10. First broadcast on Thursday 5 May 2022. Stardate: Unknown (2024, 2401). In one episode’s time, Star Trek: Picard will become, for the first time, a television event, but for now, we’ve got some plot to wrap up, some sad farewells to make and a new relationship to start. And a point, however muted, about living an extraordinary life.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episodes 14–15. First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1997 and Monday 17 February 1997. Stardate: 50564.2. It’s a soap-opera extravaganza on Deep Space Nine this week, as Garak reconciles with his long-lost father, Dukat abandons his long-lost daughter, and Julian discovers a scheming lookalike that he never knew he had. Meanwhile, there is a shift in the bala...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 13. First broadcast on Monday 10 February 1992. Stardate: 45470.1. This week, the Enterprise crew worry unnecessarily about upending the lives of people living under a weird-ass conservative regime, only to find that those people are desperate to get out and there is no good reason at all to prevent them. Also, Deanna has sex, with unfortunate resu...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Friday 22 December 1967. Stardate: 3614.9. When simple, mild-mannered lackwit Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) stabs three women to death in the space of a couple of hours, the crew of the Enterprise become suspicious enough to start an investigation, which mostly consists of getting Majel Barrett to read them a bunch of Wikip...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 26 / Series 4, Episode 1. First broadcast on Wednesday 21 May 1997 and Wednesday 3 September 1997. Stardate: 50984.3. As Voyager approaches the end of its third year, it’s time for its very own version of The Best of Both Worlds. And here it is, complete with a massive encounter with the Borg, clouds of débris, a terrifying new enemy, dissension among the comm...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 15. First broadcast on Sunday 9 May 1993. Stardate: 46844.3. This week, Kira moves a few steps forward on her long and problematic journey from terrorist to bureaucrat as she struggles with a decision to evict Brian Keith from a hastily re-dressed Standard Cave Set 1. In the meantime, Jake and Nog do some adorable capitalism, foreshadowing just how muc...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday 23 June 2022. Stardate: 2341.6. A long time ago in a land far, far away, a beneficent king called Alex ruled over the kingdom of Trek, deciding which provinces would prosper and what each province would be known for. And so it came to pass that in the Province of Strange New Worlds, fun and entertainment would hold swa...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 9 November 1987. Stardate: 41255.6. Together at last for the first time, Joe and Nathan find themselves on Planet of the Horny but Unattractive White People, faced with a moral dilemma that wouldn’t challenge a slow-witted five-year-old. Ah, we have fun, don’t we?

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 3, Episode 2. First broadcast on Thursday 1 September 2022. Stardate: Unknown (2381). A game of Bat’leths & BiHnuchs takes a surprising turn, as Mariner and Boimler make some very important decisions: Mariner is going to be less insubordinate, while Boimler is going to boldly take opportunities he has never taken before. But soon Mariner finds herself ignoring Ransom...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 18. First broadcast on Wednesday 19 February 1997. Stardate: 50693.2. Flushed with the success of its previous attempt at Gothic Horror, Star Trek gamely tackles the genre again, as the Doctor’s experiments with the parameters of his program inevitably lead to a high-concept holographic version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with all of the cree...

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 4, Episodes 20–21. First broadcast on Friday 6 May 2005 and Friday 13 May 2005. Stardate: Unknown (2155). Enterprise is reaching the end of the long road that brought them from there to here, and before we say a final goodbye, we’ve just got enough time to foil a charmless racist demagogue who wants to destroy our future — a future based on co-operation, openmindednes...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 4, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 9 October 1995. Stardate: Unknown (2372–2450). It’s life, Jake. You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes. Star Trek takes a break from space nonsense to remind us what grief is like: lonely, lifelong and bleak. The price we pay for love.

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 2, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday 2 September 2021. Stardate: 58036.4. This week, Star Trek: Lower Decks does what it does best: plumbing the depths of the franchise’s weirdest moments to produce something fun, entertaining, and sympathetic to its ideals. Which is why we get to root for some underappreciated and frequently mispronounced alien monsters, and wh...

Star Trek Movie #7. Release date: 1994.Stardate: 48632.4. Star Trek: Generations is a Christmas movie, but more than that, it’s the moment when Star Trek: The Next Generation makes its first tentative and ultimately unsuccessful step into the venerable movie franchise. Julian Bashir’s crazy uncle has a horrific plan to get to heaven by killing a bunch of people we don’t see and don’t care about, a...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 2, Episode 19. First broadcast on Monday 19 June 1989. Stardate: 42859.2. Our writers are on strike this week, and so we’re just going to mark time until we reach the end of this blurb. When an uncomfortably horny Lwaxana Troi beams aboard the Enterprise, a series of events happen, culminating at last in the episode’s closing credits. Mick Fleetwood guest sta...