A science project turns into a war. This episode develops in a very careful sequence. For the first 10 minutes it looks like its going to be an…
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Miles O'Brien goes on trial for war crimes. Once again there's a Federation double standard on display here. There's a lot of lip service in other episodes about…
Season 7 ended well. That's about the nicest thing that I can say about it. Otherwise the season was mostly bad to mediocre, with only 6 episodes making…
And now, the end of the end. Endings are hard. But they pull it off about as well as could be imagined. It's a good story, the stakes…
It's the beginning of the end for The Next Generation. Endings are hard. Just ask the the writers of *Lost* or *Mass Effect 3*. So there's a lot…
It's everyone's favourite SF theme, elections for a religious post. Overall the structure of this episode is quite clever, and it manages to avoid a lot of the…
The Maquis and the Cardassian DMZ are back. That's four episodes now, must be a thing. At last, a good episode of TNG. It's been a while, as…
293 episodes later, it's time to back to the [Mirror universe](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/01/trekathon-033-mirror-mirror-tos/). Outside of Tribbles it's hard to think of a more beloved story to return to than the…
The Enterprise evolves into another life form. It's another strange symbolic episode, only this time with an even less enjoyable ending as rather than resolve the problems on…
'Plain and simple' Garak has a complicated medical problem. Fantastic stuff. Not much I can add really. It takes the pieces set up earlier in terms of Garak's…