Janeway reminisces about an ancestor. What a strange, strange episode. The vast majority is set in 2000, with pretty much no science fiction elements other than the background…
Author: robert
Part 5 of 10. The Defiant has been blown up, Earth attacked, and a Cardassian revolt has started. I’m starting to feel like they might be starting to…
My Fair Borg. It is objectively remarkable that there have been so many Star Trek stories, and this is the first time the Pygmalion/My Fair Lady story has…
Worf and Ezri return, and the Breen attack Earth. Here’s a useful measure of how well this serial story is working - I was annoyed that there was…
Can we be done with the Malon now? They’re a one-note “evil polluting capitalist” species who have no interesting stories to tell. Star Fleet has never had of…
Sisko gets used to married life, Ezri and Worf get sentenced to Death, Damar gets sick of his deal with the devil, Kai Winn has a crisis of…
Dukat has an evil plan, and Kai Winn is falling for it. And him. I was a bit surprised to see Dukat move towards literal seduction of Kai…
The beginning of the end for DS9, with the first episode in the 10-part finale. Worf goes missing, and Ezri tries to find him. There’s a sharp turn…
Voyager meets an unusual group of aliens who go around solving problems. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find…
Chakotay hallucinates a boxing movie. Without quite noticing, I see we’re in another patch of movie pastiches. We’ve had gangster, 1950s SF serial, war movie, spy thriller. And…