Category: Trekathon

Jake has a pretty bad time helping Doctor Bashir on a combat medical mission. Great, wait until *after* the cease fire with the Klingons to give us an episode that actually makes us feel like there’s a war going on here. This is really the closest we’ve ever gotten in Star Trek to ‘real’ combat…

Step 1. Download ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’. (Optional: just go watch [*Roxanne*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_(film)). Step 2: Change the names to Worf, Quark and Grilka. There is (apparently) no step 3. I’m being a bit unfair. Despite the fears I expressed only a few episodes ago, the inevitable Klingon/Ferengi episode turned out OK. That was because by putting Worf…

B’Elanna dreams a dream of time gone by. Everything is delivered well enough, it just seems very strange that it’s B’Elanna here. We haven’t seen her as being the empathic, caring one very much in the past. Here it seems like ‘we have to give this to a female character to make the story work,…

Sisko tries to retrieve a crashed Jem’Hadar ship. The best Red Shirt episode ever. It’s tremendously redshirt-y – five people die. And for a while it’s awfully standard Star Trek. But then one of the deaths is treated seriously, as a matter of importance. And then there’s a great scene at the end where the…

Voyager manages to find a way to do a Ferengi episode. Funnily enough it’s another callback episode, this time back to around 300 episodes ago and [*The Price*](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/04/trekathon-163-the-price-tng/). Close readers may have noticed that I’m not a huge fan of Ferengi-based episodes, but this one was actually pretty good. It was also not as huge…

Sisko leads a mission to the Klingon home world to do something about that whole ‘Gowron is a changeling’ thing. OK, exactly what is Sisko’s job supposed to be here? On paper he’s the commander of the station, which would seem to be a full-time job. But he heads off all the time to command…

The Doctor breaks down, and Voyager does some trespassing. Better again, but still missing something. The plot of the Doctor breaking down was interesting, and it was clever to pair that with crises elsewhere on the ship. But the only emotional content was from Kes and the Doctor – we never got an impression anyone…

Tom and Harry get themselves thrown in one of those ‘throw away the key’ jails. Fairly average stuff, but nothing really major fell down here. The story was a bit old, but the surgical modifications to make people angry added something new and a bit darker for Harry. And we learnt something about Harry and…

Tuvok suffers from a mental condition that can only be solved by watched *Star Trek VI*. Good idea: let’s celebrate the long history of Star Trek by putting the current series characters together with the old series ones. Bad idea: getting hung up on the fact that Tim Russ, who plays Tuvok, was an extra…

The day is saved by two ex-cons and a hologram. Well, it looks like we’re done with the Kazon at least. This episode wraps that story up, killing Seska off and seemingly removing the imperative to hunt down Voyager. Good riddance I say, they were boring. And it made no sense – Voyager should be…