The People v. Star Trek: Voyager

Voyager goes all-in on debating the ethics of atrocity in times of war, and Neelix is the unlikely rhetorical centerpiece. The members of Judge Later’s court must decide if the writers go too far (or perhaps not far enough) in exploring one of the darkest moments in human history. Also: Janeway will still let anyone on the ship. Is it OK for Star Trek to be joyless when the subject matter warrants...

An episode that begins with a soup-related interpersonal mishap evolves into a full-blown study of the human psyche and its warring duality-- now with two times the Torres and 100% less Lieutenant Durst! Will Voyager’s first foray into the subconscious earn a favorable verdict? Will the Vidiians clear the exceedingly low bar of becoming the show’s best recurring villains? Can the podcast survive m...

Things get all spiritual and stuff as a mysterious space accident leaves Chakotay in a coma. Meanwhile, an invisible force makes members of the crew sabotage the ship and punch each other in hilarious fashion, and nobody-- not even the officers of Judge Later’s space court-- knows who to trust! Can justice survive where paranoia thrives? Will Voyager ever ease off with the cringy attempts at portr...

Speak as a friend or stand challenged-- to decide if this episode is any good! Rhetorical greatswords hew and clang as the legal fate of the first true “Doctor” episode is decided in the Court of Space. Meanwhile, Voyager’s crew risks life and photonic limb to save Ensign Kim from his decidedly M-rated holographic video game. Will The Doctor succeed in unlocking the “A Hero Rises” achievement? Wil...

Paranoia reigns on the ship as Janeway, Tuvok, and Chakotay seek out a Kazon collaborator among the crew! Paranoia reigns in the courtroom as the prosecution is baselessly accused of probably definitely conspiring with aliens to undermine the pursuit of space justice! Also: The crew deals with the shocking possibility that Lt. Smarm Johnson isn’t entirely trustworthy, Seska Space Fresca learns the...

The Voyager crew experiences life on the pointy end of the Prime Directive, ultimately finding that it’s way more fun be the jerkface aliens denying tech to desperate people than it is to be the desperate people! Also: The court calls Janeway’s taste in men into serious question as the brilliant-but-obviously-super-lonely captain punches waaaaay below her weight class! Will a ponytail and some cos...

The Voyager writers room goes to war against euthanasia and narrative consistency (again)! The Voyager crew inadvertently disrupts the natural order of life for a pre-warp species (again)! Also: Janeway shares some comforting thoughts about the possibility of an afterlife and Torres sort of flippantly kills an interdimensional visitor with a science experiment. Will the (very temporary) death of H...

Tom Paris is convicted of murder… but will this episode be convicted of being trash? Voyager’s homage to film noir thrillers spits tropes faster than Dixon Hill’s tommy gun spits hot lead, but it might not be enough to fend off a harsh verdict at the hands of Judge Later’s space court! Also: Kim adds “judgmental tattletale” to his already-impressive resume of character flaws. Delta Quadrant dogs l...

The mood of the courtroom darkens as desperation begins to nibble at the edges of Voyager’s stalwart Starfleet sensibilities, and the crew learns a valuable and excruciating lesson about hope: It can never be trusted. Basically, they name a wormhole after Harry Kim and it all goes downhill from there. Will Torres’ far-fetched science plan work, effectively ending the Voyager television series at e...

The courtroom is thrown into chaos when Harry Kim swears under space oath that he remembers being in his mother’s womb. Also: Characters (finally) begin to develop! The writers make an honest-yet-ultimately-unsuccessful attempt to handle Chakotay’s Native American heritage more sensitively! The crew of Voyager must fly their way out of a giant cloud creature that they flew their way into because t...

The Board-certified legal gladiators of Judge Later’s courtroom follow Voyager on a breezy jaunt into the world of organ theft! Janeway engages in some intense moral sparring with a threatening new alien race that will almost certainly never, ever bedevil the days of the Voyager crew again, Kess and Neelix’s relationship reaches staggering new heights of codependency, and the writer’s room shatter...

Things get dicey for the defense team as Voyager takes an ill-advised journey into the past, all the way… to yesterday?! Join the Voices from the Past as they unspool a perplexing yarn about the dangers of nuclear power, or maybe the dangers of eco-terrorism, or maybe both or neither. It also might be about colonialism or something like that. Can Janeway and Paris harness the might of temporal jun...

The courtroom drama ignites as Voyager plunges headlong into the fast-paced, take-no-prisoners world of departmental staffing assignments. The Voices from the Past mourn when a perfectly good staff meeting is ruined by a camera-rattling collision with a TYPE 4(!!!) quantum singularity, but their spirits are restored as Janeway and Torres bond over science and shuttle feels. Will the courtroom of J...

The legal warriors of Future Space Court continue to argue the merits of “Caretaker” as an effective pilot episode. The Voices from the Past struggle to ignore the cracks as the episode’s pacing falls apart, Janeway shoots the Prime Directive right out the airlock, and Paris is revealed to be inexplicably insensitive to Chakotay’s ethnocultural background. Will a surprise take on the Star Trek “ti...

The place is Space Court. The year is The Future. The question at hand is one that has shattered homes, wounded friendships, and bedeviled humanity’s greatest minds for generations: Is Star Trek: Voyager good… or is it garbage? Journey forward to the courtroom of the Honorable Judge Midnightien Later as he seeks to discern a final and legally-binding answer to this and other perplexing questions,...