Time for DS9 to take another run at the 'possessed by alien energy' plot. This one works a lot better than *The Passenger*, but that's not a hard…
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The most interesting transporter malfunction so far. In a call back to the TOS episode *The Enemy Within*, Riker is duplicated in a transporter accident. Only this time…
Oh dear, it's Lwaxana Troi. Despite that handicap, I liked quite a bit here. O'Brien's relationship with the computer seemed quite real to me - I've had similar…
Y'know, if I was Gowron I'd just go in the other direction whenever I saw Worf - he always seems to be caught in the middle of complicated…
A good teaser should make you eager to see the rest of the episode. If, even with my project to watch everything, I very nearly turned the episode…
I have some helpful advice for any writers considering using narration of any type for TV or movies: don't. It has never, ever worked. It certainly doesn't work…
So far Deep Space 9 is painting a puzzling picture of Bajoran society. So far we've seen terrorists, farmers and priests. Not exactly the kind of rounded picture…
The 'nothing is real' plot is very hard to pull off in TV. In a movie we don't know the background, but here the viewer knows for certain…
Another important marker in the development of the series, the start of the friendship between O'Brien and Bashir. It's been said before by others, but what the writers…
It is tempting to describe this episode as a one-hour long excuse for why the aliens in Star Trek are just 'humans with bumpy noses and foreheads'. Very…