Untitled Star Trek Project

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 3, Episode 13. First broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2021. Stardate: Unknown (3189). Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery: it’s the distant future, the Federation is broken, and isolationism runs rampant. Then, of course, lots of things happen, we make new connections, and find a new purpose. And now, the very noisy conclusion. Explosions! Gunfights! Space battles! Ther...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 19. First broadcast on Wednesday 15 April 1998. Stardate: 51721.3. This week, we discuss one of Star Trek’s most sacred texts — a forty-five minute Ben Sisko soliloquy, in which he saves the galaxy in a trolley problem of Garak’s devising, killing in the process a Romulan Senator, an obnoxious blue guy and at least one really hot Romulan bodyguard. Is...

Star Trek: Picard, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 5 March 2020. Stardate: Unknown (2399). Picard and Soji arrive on the planet Nepenthe, where their confusion and self-doubt are assuaged by the planet’s atmophere, by the love of trustworthy old friends, and by some really good wood-fired pizza. Meanwhile, Agnes vomits two or three times, a beloved secondary character is horribly...

Star Trek: Short Treks, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Thursday 9 January 2020. Stardate: Unknown (5 April 2385). An inexplicable terrorist attack on Mars claims tens of thousands of lives. But how to react to it? Do we succumb to panic and fear? Or do we forget our differences and re-commit to our shared values?

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 22. First broadcast on Wednesday 30 April 2003. Stardate: Unknown (2153). The crew of Enterprise encounter the Vissians, a genial and technologically advanced species who enslave three percent of their population and force them to have sex with married couples who wish to conceive their horrible latex-faced children. Surprisingly, we’re generally fine with...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 6, Episode 26 / Series 7, Episode 1. First broadcast on Monday 21 June 1993 and Saturday 18 September 1993. Stardate: 46982.1. After their critically acclaimed attack on Earth on Stardate 44001.4, the Borg are back with a terrifying new plan — to pad out the the running time of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Series 6 finale and Series 7 opener. Meanwhile,...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 1. First broadcast on Friday 20 September 1968. Stardate: 5431.4. A young woman wearing fabulous boots materialises on the Enterprise, renders the crew unconscious, and then removes Spock’s brain. And soon we discover — to our horror — that everyone else involved in making this episode has had their brain removed as well.

Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 3. First broadcast on Thursday 4 November 2021. Stardate: Unknown (2383). Star Trek welcomes a whole new generation into its ranks, as Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Pog, Murf and their prisoner Gwyn become the new crew of the USS Protostar. Their first mission: to accidentally set course for a black hole, to learn to work together as a crew, and to come to appreciate t...

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 25 September 1996. Stardate: 50252.3. When the Doctor’s hard drive starts to fill up with opera, romantic relationships and all the complex glories of being human, he finds himself increasingly unable to fulfil his function as Voyager’s Chief Medical Officer — instead becoming a heartbreaking analogue of your dad suffering from...

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 2, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday 30 September 2021. Stardate: Unknown (2381). It’s Star Trek’s most terrifying crew evaluation since Coming of Age: the crew of the USS Cerritos confront a ridiculous alien from Star Trek: The Animated Series, the Terran Empire, medical ethics, an unconvincing Old West set on the Paramount lot, the plot of Star Trek II: The Wr...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 21 October 1998. Stardate: Unknown (2375). When passive-aggressive Vulcan racist Captain Solok arrives on Deep Space Nine and challenges Sisko to some kind of sportsball game, a series of hilarious training montages ensues, followed by a Very Important Lesson about how utterly adorable Rom is. Bless.

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 1, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 10 October 2001. Stardate: Unknown (2151). After the crew of Enterprise decide to ignore the advice of their only competent crewmember, they find themselves on a very routine away mission on a very unremarkable planet, exhibiting behaviour that would embarass the most racist of your racist uncles. Turns out that at the end of...

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 1, Episode 10. First broadcast on Thursday 10 November 1966. Stardate: 1512.2. Tensions are running high this week, as the Enterprise is attacked by a series of regular geometric solids and the bridge crew’s morale starts to crack under the pressure. Is this a ropey and glacially paced moment of disposable 60s TV, or the beginning of something indescribably m...

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday 5 November 2020. Stardate: Unknown (3189). It’s been 1,183 years since Rick Berman left Star Trek, and so it’s time for two new queer characters to join the Discovery family — Trill host Adira Tal and their adorable boyfriend and former host Gray Tal — in an episode all about the importance of connection and belonging.

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 7, Episode 12. First broadcast on Wednesday 24 January 2001. Stardate: 54452.6. It’s our first trip to the Delta Quadrant, and we have questions that need answering. Is B’Elanna’s father a massive racist or just a regular-sized racist? Which is more convincing: Tom and B’Elanna’s baby or an 8472 in a well-lit room? And can we maintain focus all the way through a 45-minut...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 3, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 10 October 1994. Stardate: Unknown (2371). In this week’s episode of Family Ties, when Quark (Michael J Fox) lies about his involvement in the death of a belligerent Klingon customer, he finds himself threatened, hauled off to Qo’nos, forcibly married, and required to defend the honour of his house before the High Council w...

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 3, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday 19 February 1990. Stardate: 43625.2. After the Enterprise-C emerges from a mysteriously swirly space anomaly, Joe and Nathan find themselves in an alternate timeline where Star Trek: The Next Generation is dramatically and impractically lit, full of incident, and sceptical about the 1990s belief in the End of History....