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…
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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…
Deep Space 9 focuses on the gamma quadrant for the first time. It's a bit of the setting that so far has only gotten short shrift. Even here…
This is an interesting episode - in retrospect it's really the first real step into the major plot arc of the series, the Dominion. But I suspect that…
Jean-Luc and Nella, sitting in a Jeffries Tube, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. It's an unusually quiet, character centred story - unusual but welcome. It's a nice change of pace, and a…
OK, I'm just going to point out the obvious: this is *Die Hard* on a starship. The ever-reliable TV Tropes [records over 20 TV shows that have gone…
Ah, teenagers. Their rebellious ways, the staying out late and the teaching of English to Ferengi. Just can't trust 'em... The main plot of the episode, with Quark…
Another mix of a good idea with bad execution. The 'throw everyone into a strange game' idea is reasonably (although not completely) novel, and could work quite well…
Overall not bad, but by no means was this a 'two-part' story - there was no reason why you couldn't have told this whole story in a single…