Untitled Star Trek Project

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 15. First broadcast on Friday 29 December 1967. Stardate: 4523.3. In one of the best episodes in Star Trek history, our show learns very early on that it can shoot for ridiculous and hit funny and entertaining. What more can we say? It’s brilliant.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 3, Episode 5. First broadcast on Monday 24 October 1994. Stardate: Unknown (2371). Stardate 46519.1: Surgically altered to appear Romulan, Marina Sirtis wakes up on board the Romulan Warbird Khazara looking as fabulous as she has ever looked and starts threatening an increasingly cowed Carolyn Seymour. The result — one hell of an enjoyable episode of Star Trek: T...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 8. First broadcast on Wednesday 18 November 1998. Stardate: Unknown (2375). This week, it’s time to ruin everyone’s fun, as Nathan declares that a Deep Space Nine fan favourite is an artistic failure, and compares it unfavourably to Take Me Out to the Holosuite. Is he crazy, or is it the whole damn system that’s crazy?

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 4, Episode 5. First broadcast on Thursday 16 December 2021. Stardate: Unknown (3190). This week on Star Trek: Discovery: Paul collaborates with the most obnoxious scientist in the Federation, Hugh is counselled by the the most brutal psychologist in Starfleet, and Michael receives emotional support from the most unlikely source on the ship. And a man who committed a te...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 2. First broadcast on Monday 30 September 1991. Stardate: 45047.2. They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, “He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.” Now this is what Star Trek is about — kind, competent people solving a space problem, wh...

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 5. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2002. Stardate: Unknown (2152). Our mission this week — to boldly rehabilitate an unjustly maligned episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. After more than a season of being aggrieved and obnoxious, Jonathan Archer is suddenly confronted by the need to apologise to people, sometimes with his shirt off. Meanwhile, Porthos...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 7, Episodes 25–26. First broadcast on Wednesday 23 May 2001. Stardate: 54973.4 (and 2404). A difference of opinion on Untitled Star Trek Project this week: Joe is cross and disappointed that things ended this way, and Nathan is enjoying the satisfaction that only low expectations can provide. Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Voyager enjoy a long-delayed reunion (in latex),...

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 1, Episode 12. First broadcast on Sunday 21 January 2018. Stardate: Unknown (2257). This week, the crew of Discovery find themselves trapped in the Mirror Universe with nothing much to do except to incrementally advance their individual plot threads. Paul chats to himself and his dead partner, Saru tries to persuade Voq’s girlfriend to help him through an identity cris...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episodes 1–2. First broadcast on Wednesday 30 September 1998 and Wednesday 7 October 1998. Stardate: 52152.6. It’s an epic start to Deep Space Nine’s final season. Miles, Julian and Quark join Worf on a mission to honour Jadzia by blowing up a cartoon shipyard. Ben and Jake meet a (completly adorable) new Dax, drag Brock Peters through the desert for some reas...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 1, Episode 11. First broadcast on Monday 10 April 1995. Stardate: 48658.2. A barely secret conspirator has been selling Federation technology to the Kazon Nistrim in a weird alternative timeline where there are more than seven people on board the ship, where Chakotay has agency and interesting things to do, and where we really feel like we’re stranded tens of thousands o...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 1. First broadcast on Friday 15 September 1967. Stardate: 3372.7. What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way. In this Classic Episode of Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan find themselves unexpectedly involved in a fight to the deat...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 11. First broadcast on Sunday 21 March 1993. Stardate: Unknown (2369). Deep Space Nine finds itself unexpectedly in sitcom territory this week, as the Nagus (Wallace Shawn) arrives on the station with a complicated scheme to expose the incompetence of his Large Adult Son Krax (a young Eric Trump in his first television role). Meanwhile, Commander Sisko...

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 earlie...

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...

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...

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 w...

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 mu...

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 wh...

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 c...

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 on...

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 t...

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.

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 fu...

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 e...

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; me...