Untitled Star Trek Project

Star Trek: Picard, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday 9 March 2023. Stardate: 78183.1. This week, an episode of Star Trek: Picard makes a compelling case for the existence of 21st century Trek, as familiar and well-loved characters find themselves in a show with dramatic lighting, beautiful special effects and witty and clever dialogue. But even more than that, they learn that no mat...

Star Trek Movie #4. Release date: 1986.Stardate: 8390.0, and also 1986. This week, Star Trek makes a triumphant return to form, as we are joined by Tom Salinsky to watch the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, in which the crew of the Enterprise meet their match, as they confront the most terrifying alien species of all time — Americans from the 1980s. Here’s a link to Tom Salinsky’s Trekaday...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 14. First broadcast on Friday 3 January 1969. Stardate: 5718.3. A Very Important episode of Star Trek: The Original Series this week, in which we tackle the Serious Issue of Mental Illness, a Terrifying Social Problem which causes ordinary people to conceive an Unquenchable Desire to Take over the Entire Galaxy and to Use Capital Letters Unnecessar...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday 29 January 1996. Stardate: 49373.4. – Guess who I get to meet today. The Creator of Fair Haven, Captain Proton himself: Lieutenant Tom Paris! – No way! That’s awesome! Is he still a salamander? – No, that’s not… It was a celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate, and he’s fine now. He was the first human to break the tran...

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 1, Episode 9. First broadcast on Thursday 1 October 2020. Stardate: Unknown (2380). This week, Joe and Nathan work on their most pressing psychological problems by smashing the ship’s counsellor’s favourite bonsai, storming off to the holodeck, making fun of the Star Trek movie series, and playing the most violent (and possibly racist) video game in the history of th...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 22. First broadcast on Wednesday 26 April 2000. Stardate: 53918.0. These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them. And as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth, where peace reigns and hatred has no home. Enjoyable. And unexpectedly beautiful at tim...

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 4, Episode 9. First broadcast on Friday 3 December 2004. Stardate: Unknown (2154). A new experience for Joe and Nathan this week, as they enjoy an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise without irony or reservations. The Vulcans have been behaving oddly for three and a half years, for some reason, but this week, they decide to be normal again, for a dumb reason. But in spit...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 25. First broadcast on Monday 13 May 1996. Stardate: 49690.1. Nathan, Joe, Kathryn and the Medium Robert are all enjoying themselves this week in a genuinely entertaining Star Trek romance spoiled only by the untimely and unwelcome intrusion of Star Trek: Voyager itself at the very end of the episode. Hey ho.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 1, Episode 16. First broadcast on Thursday 5 January 1967. Stardate: 2821.5. When a metal box containing seven strange creatures lands outside his village, gentle giant Oleg (Buck Maffei) leaves a pregnant wife and an ailing mother in his humble yurt and trudges off to present the creatures with his people’s traditional gift of welcome — a set of giant novelt...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 5, Episode 26 / Series 6, Episode 1. First broadcast on Wednesday 26 May 1999 and Wednesday 22 September 1999. Stardate: Unknown (2375, 2376). Moral dilemmas abound in this week’s season finale of Star Trek: Voyager. Is it permissible to kill a bunch of people if you miss your bus home? Is it permissible to shoot Slimer from Ghostbusters in the face if he’s intent on dri...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 3, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 13 November 1989. Stardate: 43385.6. Comfort food this week, as Star Trek: The Next Generation tries and fails to create a romantic comedy about an exciting new space wormhole. Deanna learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of enjoying herself, some Ferengi learn an urgent lesson about paying attention to their GPS,...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 2. First broadcast on Monday 6 October 1997. Stardate: Unknown (2374). Star Trek goes outside this week, for a top-tier episode in which Sisko and Kira are both confronted by radical integrity and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition. Solid and memorable.

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 2, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday 7 March 2019. Stardate: 1532.9. The second season of Star Trek: Discovery comes to a climax as Spock commemorates Star Trek’s first pilot by taking Michael to Talos IV so that they can both stand around a bunch of singing flowers, weepily recounting their formative childhood traumas. Meanwhile, Paul and Hugh are not the first p...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 26. First broadcast on Friday 29 March 1968. Stardate: Unknown (1968). It’s the pilot of a thrilling new spy-fi series, in which Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), his plucky secretary Miss Lincoln (Teri Garr), and his cat Isis (herself) hang out in the twentieth century’s most stylish decade, drinking cocktails after lunch and occasionally foiling Ameri...

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.