Welcome to Season 2. And we're off to a pretty heavy dose of retooling. A new doctor, a new set (complete with stunt recurring guest star), some reshuffling…
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Wheee, all the way back to the beginning. Why this one now? Because it was first shown on television on 4 October 1988, a month or so before…
This show was honestly pretty lucky to get a second year. There are some good moments. But not nearly enough. There's really only one truly great episode ("The…
From the title I was expecting a nice tense Romulan-centric episode, something like *Balance of Terror* back in the original series. Instead we get borderline-slapstick fun with the…
Babylon 5 ruined this episode for me. You see, before Babylon 5 the idea of having a vast conspiracy just come up and be resolved in one episode…
A fairly interesting episode that's slowed down by writing that doesn't quite reach as far as its grasp, but manages to avoid mediocre or terrible. As a result…
A giant oil slick kills the security officer of the Enterprise. The episode mainly fails simply because the alien looks so ridiculous you cannot take it seriously. Really,…
Star Trek visits the always exciting world of pharmaceutical companies and contract disputes. And the politics are as always very subtle - why, no one has ever compared…
For a moment I thought everyone was going to get over the case of the stupids they've been experiencing since the start of season one. They pick up…
Worf gets an episode at last. I think the only real failing here is that it's hard to appreciate any kind of deep cultural struggle wihin Worf because…