The People v. Star Trek: Voyager

***Content Warning: The following episode deals with topics of sexual assault, mental and physical abuse, trauma, and rape culture.*** The People v. Star Trek: Voyager drops the schtick to discuss “Retrospect,” an episode that began as a bad-faith critique of the mental health profession and aged into a bad-faith “cautionary tale” about how society handles allegations of sexual assault. It’s not a...

Strap in for an episode that brings you not one but TWO colossal diplomatic failures! Janeway ruins a chance for peace with the Hirogen! Seven ruins a chance for peace with Species 246867whatever! Will Janeway and Seven ruin a chance for peace… with each other? Will Paris retire from Starfleet to do standup on cruise ships? Can anyone explain gravity on this show? Is “Prey” GOOD... or is it GARBAG...

Seven of Nine is hunting for emails in the ancient alien inbox! The Hirogen are hunting for Federation trophy spines! Harry Kim is hunting for assurance that his parents haven’t replaced him with a Cocker Spaniel! Can this episode track and bag a good verdict? Will Seven and Tuvok escape the scariest Predator knockoffs this side of Yautja Prime? Is Mark Johnson the biggest piece of dog crap in Tre...

Incompetent Romulan hit squads! Prototype warships with detachable parts! A regrettable-in-hindsight guest star! Yes, this episode of Voyager has all the things you’ve been hoping for, but will that be enough to save it from the multi-vectored assault of justice? Can two EMHs succeed where one EMH probably would have also succeeded? Is the Doctor too big to send as an attachment? Is “Message in a...

Voyager drifts into hostile territory and drifts off into a collective dream prison constructed by evil, sleepy aliens! Can Chakotay and the Doctor save the crew from the Sandman’s grasp? Will Tuvok’s exposed, muscular torso derail Season 4’s narrative arc? If those aliens are asleep all the time, how do they handle bathroom stuff? Is “Waking Moments” GOOD... or is it GARBAGE?

Season 4 dials up the existential darkness as Voyager’s resident clown goes on a journey of broken faith and depressing confrontation with mortality! Can Chakotay save him from his nihilistic spiral? Will Neelix rediscover his will to live in time to give Ensign Wildman five freaking minutes to herself before bedtime? Is Tom Paris a ninja turtle? Is “Mortal Coil” GOOD... or is it GARBAGE?

You will believe a hologram can fly! When Voyager gets tele-ransacked by the owner of an interplanetary chop shop, Janeway must join forces with Leonardo Da Vinci to rescue a computer from an oil refinery and, well, it all makes a little more sense when you actually watch it. Will the unlikely duo take to the skies, or will this episode crash and burn? Is “Concerning Flight” GOOD... or is it BLIFF...

You will believe a hologram can fly! When Voyager gets tele-ransacked by the owner of an interplanetary chop shop, Janeway must join forces with Leonardo Da Vinci to rescue a computer from an oil refinery and, well, it all makes a little more sense when you actually watch it. Will the unlikely duo take to the skies, or will this episode crash and burn? Is “Concerning Flight” GOOD... or is it GARBA...

B’Elanna brings her murderous ideations to a planet of telepaths and winds up doing hard time in the Naughty Thoughts Penitentiary! To save her from a state-mandated lobotomy, Tuvok must infiltrate the underground black market for stinky thinkies-- where violent thoughts are the only currency! Will he prove her innocence before he gets in too deep? Will Tom’s “Plan B” result in the single-handed m...

We took the most intense two-parter in Voyager lore and turned it into an excuse to get properly sloshed— and you can drink along! When you hear the bell, take a slug of your preferred non-synthesized grown-up libation. By the end of the show, you, like the Krenim, can have a very questionable relationship with reality! Not a drinker? No problem! Just kick back and enjoy a super-sized dose of our...

Alien voyeurs descend upon Voyager to secretly observe everyone’s make-out parties and bathroom habits! Will their research agenda turn the ship into the quadrant’s deadliest game of Sims 4? Can Janeway’s subconscious desire to kill the crew save the crew from being killed? Will Tom and B’Elanna get all PG-13 on Tuvok’s desk while he’s on lunch break? Is “Scientific Method” GOOD... or is it GARBAG...

A stray Borg signal puts Voyager’s rookie crew member into “recall” mode, resulting in one stolen shuttle, several assaulted colleagues, and numerous ham-fisted flashbacks. That’s so Seven! Will the mystery of the raven be unraveled? Will Tuvok and Seven become stoic besties? Will Jeri Ryan rescue yet another questionable script? Is “The Raven” GOOD... or is it GARBAGE?

When a holographic Norman Bates discovers the joy of murder, no filthy organic is safe from his squeaky rage! Can the Doctor convince him that humans are less gross than fish? Does B’Elanna have redundant organs? Will the Hitchcock estate sue? Is “Revulsion” GOOD... or is it GARBAGE? Join the Patreon! Get a Mug! Patreon.com/shadeaux

Fathom the tale of a warrior band locked in endless combat with an implacable foe that definitely isn’t the Predator! Their only hope of survival: a faithful first officer with a familiar face tattoo! Will Ckakotay ride the rages past the trembles and send the beasties to the way-after? Will the universal translator explode from trying to sift through all this folky nonsense? Is “Nemesis” GOOD......

It’s the most wonderful time of the Klingon year, but B’Elanna Torres has come down with a case of the qapla’-humbugs! Can her friends guilt her into participating in a series of painful and disgusting holiday traditions? Can Janeway and the crew recover Voyager’s warp core without accidentally sending a problematic message that reinforces negative stereotypes about refugees? Will Tom Paris risk t...

Season 4 giveth a human-looking Seven of Nine and taketh away a Kes, at last fulfilling the dark bargain a season in the making. Is Kes’ final ascension to the Phoenix Force the ending the character truly deserved? Is Seven of Nine’s surprisingly rapid deBorgification a case of “too hot, too fast?” Is Janeway’s casual authoritarianism a total mood or is it simply rude? Is case 4.02 “The Gift” GOOD...

The People v. Star Trek: Voyager is BACK with a BRAND NEW episode that was TECHNICALLY recorded in September of 2019… but, hey, it’s new to you! Season 4 roars to life in front of a live DragonCon audience, and Scorpion, Part 2, is first in line for a meet & greet with Lady Justice! Will Janeway finally cross the line in defense of her crew and her mission? Will Chakotay storm around the bridge in...

At long last, the finale to The People v. Star Trek: Voyager’s thrill-ride third season has arrived! A robust sampling of the Patreon Grand Jury has spoken! Fates have been sealed! Lady Justice has packed herself a picnic… and the corn salad is NOT gluten-free! Will season 3’s stratospheric highs cancel out its embarrassing lows? Will John Q and Zap repair the Judge’s corrupted programming with a...

Git over heeere for season 3’s thrill-ride finale! New dangers! New interpersonal conflicts! Genuinely disturbing towers of mangled Borg body parts! Will a budgetary shot-in-the-arm be enough to send season 3 out on a winning verdict? Will Janeway’s first spoken-word metal album be called “Appeal to the Devil?” Does the Space Court have the narrative gravitas to pull off a BIG-TIME SHOCKING CLIFFH...

Voyager learns what concerned parents and pandering conservative politicians have known for decades: Playing violent video games WILL cause your dead nemesis to return and hijack your starship. Will Voyager fall victim to Super Mutiny Simulator’s deadly day-one patch? Will Tuvok self-publish? Will a Paris versus Paris showdown rip the Universe apart? Is “Worst-Case Scenario” good... or is it garba...

Mystery abounds as Voyager’s crew is slowly replaced by hapless aliens who turn out to be totally unhapless jerkwads! Criticism abounds as solid storytelling is slowly replaced by spotty narrative logic! Will Janeway retake her ship from the Delta Quadrant’s lamest pirates? Will the crew be forced to live out their days in the skylit atrium of a pretty nice 1990s mall? Will we ever learn how unive...

Trapped in a malfunctioning turbolift, the members of Space Court must render justice through the Muzak-spewing speakers of their grey-paneled prison! Trapped in a Honda on the way to the QuikTrip in Commerce, Ga., the voices from the holocron must render analysis from the humid expanse of Georgia Hwy 441! Will the crew of Voyager befriend the descendants of the characters from ABC’s Dinosaurs? Wi...

Voyager boldly attempts a feat that has bedeviled humanity’s greatest writers for generations: to tell a tale that seamlessly blends the exploration of space-subspace interfold anomalies with the exploration of the modern family. Will they succeed, or will this episode plod on as a two-headed monster of half-baked plotlines? Will the Doctor learn the true meaning of living with a teenager who is k...

Theorizing that one could time travel within her own lifetime, Dr. Old-ass Kes stepped into the biotemporal chamber… and vanished. She awoke to find herself careening through her own past, facing mirror images that were younger and had better hair, and driven by an unknown force to change history so that Torres and Janeway don’t get killed by a friggin’ console explosion sometime in Season 4. Her...

Voyager encounters an unknown alien race that at first is like, “Aw, hey, we’re nice,” but then they totally aren’t, and the ensuing firefight leads a recently mutated Ensign Kim into his absolute best chance at getting laid on this trip. But are the happenin’ gals of Taresia what they appear to be? Will Harry escape with all or most of his fluids still in his possession? Will the writers truly ha...