Category: Trekathon

Voyager finds a way to phone home. It’s very nearly halfway through Voyager as a series, so I suppose it’s time to contact home. The network they use is a bit implausible (it just happens to start near their location, and finish near the Federation), but it was good to finally force the Doctor to…

Voyager has a bad case of the nightmares. Or, alternatively, the Voyager travelling players present *Inception* (12 years before the film, of course). The dream-within-a-dream stuff seems pretty predictable now, but for the time it’s very well done. I was a bit worried that this was going to be another ‘horror’ episode, something that has…

Dukat and Sisko are stranded together after a crash. Really great, but not quite spectacular, stuff. It’s really a one man show, with Sisko not doing much other than move the action along a couple of times. It’s mainly Dukat coming to terms with his demons, and deciding once and for all to be a…

Quark assembles a rag-tag group of Ferengi to rescue his mother. Some truly horrible moments: Quark and Nog just wandering into the Captain’s office accidentally, many scenes of the five Ferengi fighting, the reapparance of Empok Nor, screaming Ferengi, ‘To the Infirmary’, the inevitable final act conflict over money, ‘let’s do it for equal shares…

Neelix has a spiritual crisis, and decides to commit suicide. There are people out there who complain that Voyager is too light, and doesn’t deal with serious themes. I don’t think any of them had ever seen this episode. Unlike some previous rounds (especially around Worf and his brother), this time the spiritual crisis is…

Leonardo Da Vinci gets kidnapped from Voyager. Mostly good, after a pretty silly opening with things kidnapped off the ship seemingly randomly. Or rather, just the right set of things to make the plot work. Just doesn’t make sense given how shields are supposed to work in this universe. But once that’s done the rest…

Bashir mentors a group of genetically enhanced oddballs. Hey everybody, remember that Bashir’s genetically enhanced? We had that [whole episode](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2012/08/trekathon-462-doctor-bashir-i-presume-ds9/) last year, and one other brief mention since then. Well the writers have remembered too, and now he’s looking after a whole passel of damaged geniuses. From there it’s a mostly above average version of…

B’Elanna is arrested for violent thoughts. The thing Voyager has been doing best lately is returning to the well of ‘imaginative science fiction’ – thinking up a concept, and telling a story that revolves around the complexities and consequences of that concept. It’s the core of what’s best in Star Trek, and sometimes the shows…

The Mirror Universe Bareil appears, and Kira takes a fancy to him. 25 minutes 52 seconds. That’s when things head downhill with mirror Kira making an appearance. Up until then it was passable, if a little dull stuff. But with mirror Kira we’re back into the full range of reasons why this mirror universe thing…

Things go downhill for Voyager this year. …only on screen that is. In terms of quality, this is actually one of the best ‘second parts’ that Trek has ever turned in. One plus of the time travel episode is that you can have a lot of fun. While they resist the temptation to kill characters…