The Nagus "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me,...

Haven Empathy is not an easy thing to get right. One Last Digression On Why Vulcans Are Bad The necessity of empathy is something that...

Mudd's Passion Holy Prophets, this is worse than “Code of Honor”. [Content warning: references to sexual assault.] "The Rankest...

The Corbomite Maneuver A new beginning. And only just in time. “The Corbomite Maneuver” is often referred to as “the third pilot”, for...

Fortunate Son This is quite the turnaround. “Fortunate Son” isn’t just significantly better than “Civilization”, it expertly targets and...

Prime Factors Shh, don’t worry. No need to be scared. It was bound to happen sometime, with a franchise that flirts with science as often...

Move Along Home LIQUID ASSETS, INTESTINAL BLOCKAGES, A SURFEIT OF SCATHES QUINT: GAMES, my friends. Don’t you just wish you were in them?...

Hide And Q After a seven-episode recess, Q has returned to the bench. The trial of mankind can continue. The Honourable Judge Q Presiding...

Once Upon A Planet Poor Lewis Carroll. First he dies, and then this happens. Support Your Local Artist “Once Upon A Planet” isn’t all...

Dagger Of The Mind “How am I supposed to remember you When you won’t let me forget?” Barenaked Ladies, Leave “Dagger of the Mind” is a...

Civilization Let’s lead with the conclusion: “Civilization” doesn’t really work. Perhaps appropriately for a story about the meeting of...

Emanations Right then. Death, the Star Trek way. Strip Search/Strip Mine At heart, “Emanations” is a story which displays two different...

The Passenger Here we run into another episode that seems to be no-one’s favourite, and for reasons which are not difficult to...

The Battle The Ferengi are back! Last time round I really went to the mat for those guys and the opportunities they offered as...

The Magicks Of Megas-Tu “The Magicks Of Megas-Tu” an onion story. Every time you peel a layer off, you find another one beneath it. Let’s...

Miri “Miri” is a story still in its childhood. Perhaps, then, we can forgive that it has so much growing up to do. Trois Siècles de...

Breaking The Ice I’ve always been scared of space. It’s the blackness, I think. The cold. It’s worse than the deepest oceans, because at...

Ex Post Facto Right, then. Noir Trek. As Alan Partridge once said, “Ask yourself two questions: how and why?”. The Big Gamble We can...

Dax Well, this certainly didn’t arrive too soon. It’s finally time for Deep Space Nine to start picking at the gloriously complicated...

Justice Eesh. Punishment zone is right. “Eternal Sign Of Barbarism” Let’s start with the good news: “Justice” isn’t actually as bad as I...