Oh, hey, the Prime Directive. Quite frankly, I couldn't see the episode for the trees here, as I spent the entire hour thinking about the morality and ethics…
Trekathon
The wheel of 'when does my character get a story' comes up Riker, and he's drawn back into a shadowy incident from his past. It's odd to remember…
A clue to Odo's background is found in the Gamma Quadrant. Good idea, poor execution. The idea of a disease affecting a shapeshifter was an interesting one, and…
Quark battles a rival bar, while O'Brien has a racketball rivalry with Bashir (Gee, I wonder what the episode title could possibly mean...) Fluff, but entertaining and reasonably…
'Captain, we're receiving 285,000 hails'. It feels like a long time since the last 'great' episode (it was *Duet*, 24 goes ago). But I found this episode nearly…
Star Trek hits 300 episodes. And Bajor deals with unauthorised starship arrivals. The entire first act screamed 'this episode is short'. Breaking the universal translator can be interesting…
Data meets his mother. This episode ended up as just a great big pile of 'meh'. While I like Data as a character, this journey into his past…
Sisko meets a woman who was never there. There wasn't anything particularly bad about this episode, but it fell flat in almost every direction. There was an *incredibly*…
Speed limits come to the Star Trek universe. This feels like an episode that went very badly wrong somewhere in the writing process. There's an awful lot of…
A crime committed during the occupation comes back to light as someone tries to kill Quark. The first major episode to feature Odo, and it's a great story.…