Month: March 2012

‘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 flawless. There’s a great slow, steady development of something being ‘not quite right’, and then mercifully little time on the technobabble before we move in to the…

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 (q.v. *Darmok*), but here it’s just annoying and time consuming. Once past that, things picked up a little. The conflict resonates well with the similar issue in…