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5.1.6 The Time Tunnel
Eye Of The Needle Ah. Star Trek reaching back into its own past. Where have I seen that before? To do the same myself, however, allow me...
Ric Crossman
Oct 24, 202111 min read
4.1.6 Old Skin For The New Ceremony
Q-Less (Content warning: generalised references to abusive relationships) Jambly crisps. Reading reactions to this episode make me wonder...
Ric Crossman
Oct 21, 202113 min read
3.1.6 A Cloudy Outlook
Lonely Among Us Lonely Among Us” is an episode about absence. The absence of memory. The absence of understanding. The absence of home....
Ric Crossman
Oct 19, 202110 min read
2.1.6 Get Carter
The Survivor This is not an episode that starts well. I’m never going to come down in favour of stories that involve our heroes gushing...
Ric Crossman
Oct 17, 20217 min read
1.1.6 I Ain't Sayin' She A Dilithium Digger...
Mudd's Women *Unintelligible screaming* Ugh. You’re going to want a bit more than that, aren’t you? FINE. No point hiding it, though....
Ric Crossman
Oct 14, 202111 min read
6.1.5 Tracks Are Shale That Novans Have Agreed Upon
Terra Nova This is an episode with an awful lot to say. So much, in fact, that it comes up with a whole new way of saying things. ...
Ric Crossman
Oct 12, 202111 min read
5.1.5 Fantastic Voyager
The Cloud An obvious title, I realise. Mine, I mean, though I can’t believe anyone involved with this episode feels proud they gave it a...
Ric Crossman
Oct 10, 202116 min read
4.1.5 "Freedom To Starve Ain't No Freedom"
Captive Pursuit We open on an employee complaining to the station commander about her working life. A brief introduction to the questions...
Ric Crossman
Oct 7, 202110 min read
3.1.5 "You Just Did Just What I Thought You Were Gonna Do"
Where No One Has Gone Before Come on in. That’s right. Come on in and get out of that cold. You must be half frozen. Let me take that...
Ric Crossman
Oct 5, 202112 min read
2.1.5 You Cannot Be Serious
More Tribbles, More Troubles David Gerrold’s sequel to his own classic is an interesting beast. It has a reputation as an uncomplicated...
Ric Crossman
Oct 3, 20216 min read
1.1.5 The Power Set
The Enemy Within (Content warning: discussion of sexual assault) It started out as one of those rare, wonderful days that promises quiet....
Ric Crossman
Sep 30, 202116 min read
6.1.4 Junior 2: Junior Goes To Space
Unexpected (Content warning: Discussions of violation of consent in a sci-fi context.) Well. Yikes, innit? The nicest thing I can find...
Ric Crossman
Sep 28, 20219 min read
5.1.4 "Leave Me Breathless"
Phage More like “Phailge”, right peeps? Actually, that’s probably unfair – a cheap shot I thought too groan-inducing to resist as an...
Ric Crossman
Sep 26, 202110 min read
4.1.4 "Once Again, The Communication Process Has Broken Down"
Babel “Babel” feels like DS9‘s first misstep. It’s not particularly a bad episode – bits of it are rather good, in fact. The issue lies...
Ric Crossman
Sep 22, 20218 min read
3.1.4 Make Ferenginar Great Again
The Last Outpost I originally wrote this essay on the 9th of November, 2016. Donald Trump had been announced as the next President of the...
Ric Crossman
Sep 21, 20219 min read
2.1.4 "And After The Spanking..."
The Lorelei Signal Best worst-episode-ever ever? “The Lorelei Signal” has the occasional beautiful island, but getting to them means...
Ric Crossman
Sep 19, 20217 min read
1.1.4 Booze-Ups And Breakdowns
The Naked Time It feels like it’s too early for this. Mostly, anyway. Is It That Time Already? “The Naked Time”, quite clearly, is...
Ric Crossman
Sep 16, 20218 min read
6.1.3 Trip's Trip Trips Trip
Strange New World This is a nice episode. That’s not me damning with faint praise. Niceness is a badly undervalued quality. Almost all...
Ric Crossman
Sep 14, 20218 min read
5.1.3 Worlds Of Fantasy And Horror #1 pp85-92
Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...
Ric Crossman
Sep 12, 202110 min read
4.1.3 Three Threes Make Nine
A Man Alone Intro Once again, Deep Space Nine has to push back against TNG‘s mistakes. The appalling flood of clueless racism that swept...
Ric Crossman
Sep 9, 202120 min read
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