A little trip on the Defiant turns paranoid when a changeling is found aboard. Another escalation in the cold war with the Dominion that has been running since…
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Jadzia experiences her past selves. This kind of episode is a big opportunity for the actors to do something new. Most of them don't do that much with…
Voyager's first year has some promise, but it hasn't hit its straps yet. But it's a lot better than I'd heard it was. There isn't a single fantastic…
Tuvok tries to whip a ragtag group of Maquis crew into shape. Not exactly a groundbreaking story, but still well told. It was a bit hard to believe…
Kira and an old friend nearly start a civil war. Several episodes so far have followed a pretty similar 'escalation' pattern to this one. Things start out nice…
Neelix runs into a war criminal from his past. This is pretty heavy handed stuff. The number of not-so-veiled allusions to [Hiroshima and Nagasaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) got really annoying fast.…
Quark's mother breaks Ferengi law. Grading on the 'Ferengi episode' curve this was pretty good. That means it comes out slightly above 'mediocre' on the normal scale. My…
Torres gets split into a Klingon and a Human half. From the summary line I was expecting to hate this episode a lot, but it turned out to…
Sisko goes all [Thor Heyerdahl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl). A strangely quieter episode, the trickiest thing here is adjusting to the suddenly slower pace than the episodes around it. It's a good…
Chakotay's brain gets drained. How would you make a really bad episode? * Stupid Holodeck opening sequence with no point other than using up a few minutes. *…