Trekathon

As I may have mentioned, I love a good courtroom scene. It took eight episodes, but Deep Space 9 has finally knocked one out of the park. This…

By far the most Troi heavy episode the show has ever done. And despite most of the past evidence, it works (with a misstep or two along the…

Q comes to visit, hijinks ensue. This isn't that bad an episode, but its not really much of a Deep Space 9 episode. Most of the plot development…

I blame this episode for me being so far behind. I started watching on the plane to San Francisco, but it was so dull I fell asleep part…

There's a very good story lurking somewhere under this episode, but it just doesn't show up enough in the final product. Miles' relationship with the strange alien is…

For a while it looked like the Holodeck was going to get badly overused in Star Trek. A lot of that was probably due to the fact that…

The good old 'epidemic sweeps the station' one. There's a nice twist here with the virus being the responsibility of Bajoran terrorists, but that's never used for anything…

I love a good locked room mystery. But while there was a locked room involved, this one wasn't that good. The mystery relied a little bit too much…

This episodes seems out to prove a point - this is not the old Star Trek. This is the new Star Trek, where characters have a past, where…

Unusually for a two-part episode, this one is actually pretty even in quality (the last to manage that was *Encounter at Farpoint*, which was uniformly bad). Well, it…