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Finite Combinations

The only Trek review site to violate the Temporal Prime Directive

All six of the pre-'10s Trek shows considered in the only way that matters - as if they all happened at the same time.

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1.1.22 Me Sowing/Me Reaping

Space Seed Time to slay a sacred cow. Or perhaps it might be appropriate to say, time to topple a graven image. Tough on fascism, tough...

6.1.21 Unlike Steve McQueen

Vox Sola “Vox Sola” feels somewhat modest in its ambitions, especially after watching “Return Of The Archons”, which rewrote the book on...

6.1.20 All Hail West Texas

Detained This is the episode in which Enterprise does the inevitable, and references Quantum Leap. It does so in three ways. It casts...

1.1.20 The Tell-Tale Heart

Court Martial “Court Martial” is something of a mess. Production Trials That’s a statement of fact, rather than a value judgment. I’m a...

4.1 War And Peace

Deep Space Nine Season 1 Retrospective Deep Space Nine is fundamental to the IDFC project, in the sense that it’s why the project exists...

6.1.19 Double Dipping

Oasis One of the guiding principles of IDFC is that there exists almost no value in judging an episode by how similar it is to those that...

4.1.19 The Damascus Ring Road

In The Hands Of The Prophets Here’s something new. Well, new for IDFC, anyway. We arrive, at last, at our very first season finale....

3.1.19 The Dogmas Of The Quiet Present

Heart Of Glory It’s TNG 2.0. I mentioned in my “Coming Of Age” post that we were entering a new era, with Maurice Hurley taking over from...

1.1.19 Space: 1969

Tomorrow Is Yesterday “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” exists as something quite unlike anything the show has attempted up to this point. It...

4.1.18 Only Obeying Stationery Orders

Duet So, this will be interesting. I’m not dealing with a minor entry to the canon this time, or some forgotten classic in need of a...

3.1.18 "It's A Damned Show Trial!"

Coming Of Age It’s time for an accounting. The Next TNG I already pointed out in my post on “Home Soil” that we were about to find...

6.1.17 "...In The Forests Of The Night"

Rogue Planet I guess technically this is our second rogue planet of the cycle. And like Kirk before/after him, Archer is going to find...

4.1.17 Proof By Counter-Example

Dramatis Personae Not to go all undergraduate essay here, but let’s start with a definition. “Dramatis Personae” translates as “the masks...

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