Category: Trekathon

This episode was not off to a good start when Picard made a dig about Economics before the credits. The rest wasn’t as bad as the average of this season so far, it was more a problem of bumpy implementation this time. The uselessness of Troi is becoming particularly apparent, when she can’t even tell…

Finally a decent bit of Star Trek. This is a nice episode, which works out nicely and gives a bit of useful background to the characters as well. This was the first time that I started to get a proper feel for Picard and Riker. Or, rather, a feel for them as they’d later be…

Five episodes in, and this show really is quite lucky to not be canceled yet. Here we come to the big reveal on the season’s big bad aliens, and what do we get? Some fairly pathetic cowards who behave like left-over stooges. The big fight scene seems more like ‘Munchkins versus Star Fleet’ than anything.…

I think there must have been a problem with my DVD. Because the scene where it was explained that the culture was a result of a violation of the Prime Directive by a previous Star Fleet mission which accidentally left behind a copy of *Jungle Drums of Africa*. Because surely they weren’t intending to just…

Right. So that first two-part episode was a bit of a rocky start, but pilots are like that, aren’t they. Too many characters to establish. Now that’s out of the way maybe we can have a good episode. No such luck. This is just bad. From the seduction of the android “fully functional in every…

The second half of the pilot picks the pieces up a little. There are still some problems – Picard is being a bit of a dick, and his characterisation is still settling down. And the Wesley Crusher issue is starting to rear it’s head. But the core of the story is an interesting SF idea,…

Star Trek returns to live action TV for the first time since 1969. In we sweep to a fantastic looking Enterprise, a cool looking Captain, and then: it’s super-powerful aliens. Again. *sigh*. Oh well, at least the Q are the apotheosis of the idea. And really, the first 10 minutes isn’t promising. It’s incredibly talky,…

A lot of people rate this as the best of the movies. I’m not sure I agree. It’s a good movie, certainly (it’s the only one that I could ever convince my wife to suffer through, at any rate). But in a lot of respects it just isn’t very Star-Trek-y.r As a movie it tries…

Star Trek III gets a lot of heat from people who want to maintain the ‘odd numbered Star Trek films aren’t any good’ myth. But it’s really not that bad. There are quite a few distracting missteps. The recasting of Saavik, Scotty assimilating the contents of the pie van, the silly Klingon dog, Christoper Lloyd…

The film that saved Star Trek. I mean that seriously. While the first movie was a success, it wasn’t very good. If the second one had also been bad, then I think that the movie series would have stopped, and we never would have seen any of the other TV series. Fortunately, Star Trek II…