Trekathon

I know the moral of this episode was supposed to be 'gosh, isn't the Prime Directive wise'. But that wasn't my interpretation. I'd suggest the opposite - the…

Ah, it's the super-powerful alien again. Well, I suppose it had been quite a while, really (The Royale was the last, I think). The episode is a bit…

So the Enterprise has every imaginable type of scientist on board, but not even a single ensign with a legal background? That seems short sighted.[^1] So we end…

And on to Season 3. The 'Wesley nearly destroys the ship' thing was a nice change from the earlier 'Wesley saves the day', but it bugged me that…

Season 2 is a pretty polarised year. As opposed to Season 1, which was bad with the (very) occasional hint of good, Season 2 seemed to alternate between…

Everybody loves a clip show. OK, no they don't. No one ever likes a clip show. This episode isn't dreadful until it gets to the clip show bit…

Sharing your episode title with the subject line of spam I've received recently isn't a good start. Still, I thought this episode was very good up until the…

Another strong episode, this time with Worf getting a girlfriend (and also a little bit of time in the big chair). Klingon culture struggles along - apparently Klingon…

Poor Star Trek fans. After the shock of how bad Star Trek V is, what do they get when they turn back to the TV? A Lwaxana Troi…

The famously bad fifth movie. And while it's bad, it's really bad in an 'inept and dull' kind of way, rather than the sort of transcending badness that…