Category: Trekathon

A mission to salvage parts from DS9’s twin goes awry when they seem to end up in a bad horror movie by mistake. Not good. I suppose it’s a reasonably competent attempt to create a more oppressive atmosphere. But it’s really pretty silly stuff. They stretch a long way to set up the situation in…

Chakotay leads a mutiny against Janeway. Another missed opportunity. While the story here (Seska’s booby trapped the holodeck program), it would have been much more interesting to try and maintain the pretence that this is a real mutiny a lot longer – the whole episode, even. There was a really good idea, but it gets…

Eddington helps Sisko stop a final revenge attack by the Maquis. Last season we had a [great Sisko/Eddington episode](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2012/06/trekathon-420-for-the-cause-ds9/), followed up by an [even better one earlier this year](). Fortunately someone was taking notes about what works, because while this is really just more of the same it works really well. It’s a great pity…

The crew of Voyager is kidnapped one-by-one, to be replaced by aliens. Just didn’t make sense. Either this is a situation that should have been easily dealt with by Voyager security, or the alien race is so advanced that the elaborate plan was a complete waste of effort. Mind you, the theme of the day…

The Defiant finds a planet made up of their descendants. Helpful hint to the writes of this episode: a happy pastoral scene with the community helping to plant crops does *not* provide a basis for all of the characters to suddenly decide to act differently. The core moral dilemma was nicely presented here, but the…

A link between Humanity and a Delta Quadrant race is discovered by an alien researcher. This is a very brave episode. It’s about a third of the way into the episode before we even hear the name ‘Voyager’. The majority of the screen time is given over to a non-regular alien in heavy makeup. And…

Worf goes on a mission with General Martok. Star Trek has always had fairly clear ideas about Klingon society (well, since TNG at least), but has always struggled to present them on screen in a way that makes sense. This episode goes a long way towards making it work. Sure, there’s a brutal hierarchy to…

The Doctor decides to simulate a family for himself. A strong finish doesn’t make up for a weak start. This story starts off in very predictable and dull territory – oh, the Doctor has made a family that’s far too happy and nice, but let’s make it more realistic. There’s nothing new here, it’s been…

Quark goes home to find his mother starting a relationship with the Grand Nagus. Remember a couple of episodes ago when there was a half decent Ferengi episode? It wasn’t a trend, it was an attempt to lull you into a false sense of complacency. So that this piece of absolute garbage can hit you…

Kira works out her daddy issues with her Cardassian ‘father’. Meh. Tried for deep and moving, just didn’t quite work. The Kira part of the episode just had some missing element, nothing I can put my finger on, that kept things from coming together properly. The more interesting part of the episode was Dukat and…