'Captain, we're receiving 285,000 hails'. It feels like a long time since the last 'great' episode (it was *Duet*, 24 goes ago). But I found this episode nearly…
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Star Trek hits 300 episodes. And Bajor deals with unauthorised starship arrivals. The entire first act screamed 'this episode is short'. Breaking the universal translator can be interesting…
Data meets his mother. This episode ended up as just a great big pile of 'meh'. While I like Data as a character, this journey into his past…
Sisko meets a woman who was never there. There wasn't anything particularly bad about this episode, but it fell flat in almost every direction. There was an *incredibly*…
Speed limits come to the Star Trek universe. This feels like an episode that went very badly wrong somewhere in the writing process. There's an awful lot of…
A crime committed during the occupation comes back to light as someone tries to kill Quark. The first major episode to feature Odo, and it's a great story.…
Picard and Crusher are captured and inadvertently joined telepathically. The best parts of the episode were the Picard/Crusher scenes as they came to terms with their new mental…
Some Like It Hot takes on a Ferengi twist. Overall an offensive and misguided episode, focusing on the single most offensive part of Ferengi culture. I simply can't…
Q: How do you make a tolerable Lwaxana Troi episode? A: Make it not a comedy. Oh, and make her unconscious for at least half the episode. I…
Deep Space 9 has to adjust to the Aliens with Disabilities Act. This episode was well constructed technically, but something rubbed me the wrong way. I think that…