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...

Strange New World This is a nice episode. That’s not me damning with faint praise. Niceness is a badly undervalued quality. Almost all...

Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...

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...

Code Of Honor I will not bury the lede. “Code Of Honor” is a steaming racist mess. Bottom place of everything ever is pretty much...

One Of Our Planets Is Missing "Ooopim”, as the kids are already calling it, is a slightly frustrating episode. It isn’t actually bad in...

Where No Man Has Gone Before It’s the second pilot! By which I mean this was the second attempt to get a green light after “The Cage” was...

Fight Or Flight “Fight Or Flight” is a frustrating beast. Perhaps not as frustrating as an alien slug going on hunger-strike just because...

Parallax Perception is a tricky thing. Sometimes you’re sure you’re moving forward when all you’re doing is circling back around....

Past Prologue So this is how it’s done. The Kohn-Ma Clustercuss “Past Prologue” is about as far from “The Naked Now” as one can get. Back...

The Naked Now (Content warning: contains discussion of sexual consent and ways in which that principle may not be respected). After a...

Yesteryear Sticking with the theme of kid’s behaviour, then… Trying Not To Think About Time Well, kind of. Eventually. First I want to...

Charlie X Well, it’s just terrible, isn’t it? A twelve-shaded nightmare. Utterly terrible on multiple levels and in multiple directions....

Broken Bow Let us take the process of growth into our own hands. Let us show Mother Nature how things are done. Speed her up a little....

Caretaker Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Starfleet officer and a survivor of Cardassian rule walk into bar. Then an...

Emissary Sometimes you've just got to boldly stay. Progress And Paradox Ira Steven Behr once said that the biggest problem The Next...

Encounter At Farpoint Our first step into a wider galaxy. Onward And Upward We open on a star-field. Of course we do, this is the post...

Beyond The Farthest Star "Beyond The Farthest Star" was not an episode written to be a pilot. Like the show which burned so this one...

The Man Trap Our very first taste of Star Trek turns out to be an unusual one. Too much salt, maybe? Salt On The Fingers It’s now old...

It was a shot heard round the world. Well, not a shot, really. An explosion. And everyone picked it up at different times. And it was in...