Category: Trekathon

Enterprise finds a disturbing scene on an abandoned ship. This episode serves two main purposes – first, establish a different tone to the previous series. This isn’t the incredibly powerful Enterprise of TOS or TNG, or even Voyager. This is a weak ship, and a crew who are out of their depth this far out…

Archer has to find and rescue Klaang. I enjoyed the general plot of the episode, with some good action sequences mixed with some insight into the characters. I might well be wrong about T’Pol, as she’s certainly appearing to be a bit more complex than I feared. And Archer is shaping up to be an…

Earth’s newest ship goes on a mission to return an injured Klingon. So far it’s an interesting start to a series. The show is clearly trying to do something quite different to the previous series, but still connected in history. Choosing the prequel route is a mixed blessing – you get a lot more freedom…

Farewell Voyager. You did not have a good year. Overall Voyager has had a curious trajectory. From a weak start it started to find its feet, and in season 4 had a pretty good run. But since then the quality seems to have been in decline. Season 7 is as weak as Season 2. The…

Voyager goes home. The core of the episode is ’Janeway versus Janeway’ – a fitting conflict perhaps, for a show that frequently didn’t have a clear enough picture of Janeway’s character from episode to episode. But the ‘future’ Janeway is given enough distinct character to make the conflict believable, and the resolution to the conflict…

Admiral Janeway tries to save Voyager from 16 years in the Delta Quadrant (out of 23). A great episode with a couple of small missteps. About half the episode is spent in the ‘future’, and other than some dodgy special effects makeup it’s everything that you would want. The ‘present’ Voyager part is also strong,…

The Doctor goes rogue to save the Captain. A few bumpy moments, but overall a clever story that actually makes some good use of the Doctor’s holographic abilities. As lampshaded at the start of the episode, in many ways the Doctor is the most capable crew member, as demonstrated by his successful takeover of the…

Neelix falls in love and leads a revolution. Even knowing that this is the last season, and only three episodes left after this one, it was a surprise to see an actual ‘series changing’ thing happen. Neelix’s departure is earned here. We get a good review of what he means to the crew, and why…

Tom Paris gets a speeding ticket. OK, fine, that’s just the idiotic B-plot. Perhaps if the humor it was so obviously played for had worked I wouldn’t have been so annoyed. The rest of the episode is pretty standard ‘noble savage’ stuff, with Seven of Nine learning another lesson about the ‘value of primitive cultures’.…

Voyager gets its second real mission in the course of the show. Not a bad defence of the Prime Directive, although I think that it’s a bit unfair to really blame Humanity for the planetwide catastrophe that this kicked off. It would be nice if people remembered that there are quite a few non-Humans in…