Month: June 2010

  • Trekathon 252: Captive Pursuit (DS9)

    There’s a very good story lurking somewhere under this episode, but it just doesn’t show up enough in the final product. Miles’ relationship with the strange alien is nice, but the episode founders on the lack of moral ambiguity. It’s pretty clear to everyone who the bad guys are, as they have no redeeming qualities.…

  • Trekathon 251: Ship in a Bottle (TNG)

    For a while it looked like the Holodeck was going to get badly overused in Star Trek. A lot of that was probably due to the fact that the first ‘good’ episode (The Big Goodbye) was a holodeck one. But it’s been used sparingly enough that the teaser make you glad its back. Moriaty’s trick…