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...

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

Symbiosis It’s probably safe to assume that just about everyone reading this post knows that the Federation is a post-money society. The...

Return Of The Archons “Return Of The Archons” was an episode with an unusually long gestation period. Originally, it was in the running...

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

The Arsenal Of Freedom What happens when the gun-runners run out of track? Women What Work “The Arsenal Of Freedom” adds to the growing...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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

Acquisition “Acquisition” really didn’t work for me the first couple of times I watched it. Having sat down and had a think, though, I...

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...

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...

Arena The Coon era kicks off with a bang. More than one, actually. And this is supposed to be anti-war? Hipster Criticism I say “the Coon...

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...

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

Home Soil Doesn’t this all seem a little familiar? The Devil In The Details While the patented IDFC approach means we’ve not actually yet...

The Squire Of Gothos Oh, I get it! Bang Bang, You’re Dead – The Playground Battlefield “The Squire Of Gothos” didn’t work for me at...