Category: Trekathon

Tuvok loses his memory. “The Vulcan Brain. A puzzle wrapped inside an enigma, housed inside a cranium.”. No. Bad writer. No biscuit. Tuvok subconsciously prefers Neelix to Janeway? I’m not sure that makes any sense. And while we’re talking about not making sense, the obsessive alien trying to prove that this mysterious species exists quickly…

Tom’s new find goes all ‘Single White Starship’ Mysterious alien technology takes over Tom. It’s an old plot for Trek, but it’s not entirely stupid – after all, if there really was a spaceship wandering around alien races, it would be a realistic concern. Of course, in that case there would be careful security checks,…

The Doctor’s day-dreaming gets out of hand. The Doctor really needs to stop editing his own program. Indeed, [last time he did this](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2012/08/trekathon-461-the-darkling-voy/) her promised to not do it on his own again. Oh well, short memories and all. We get more of an insight into the Doctor this time around, with his literal need…

B’Elanna hallucinates Klingon Hell. So, here’s pretty much the summary of what goes on here – B’Elanna gets into an accident. After the accident she has a dream that’s largely due to her non-acceptance of her Klingon half. And then decides to have another dream, so she can ‘resolve’ her relationship with her mother. Doesn’t…

Seven runs into some old Borg colleagues also trying to escape their old way of life. There’s a little bit too much padding at the start, such as the comedy ‘big unwieldy gift’ and the Paris/Kim ‘dressing down after a bar fight’ scene. But the core of the episode, with Seven facing up to the…

Janeway hunts down the Equinox/White Whale. I was expecting the ‘let’s go gungho, don’t bother communicating’ strategy of Janeway to backfire badly. After all, it’s an old Star Trek story to value diplomacy over weapons. Janeway is pretty much over the edge in this episode, between an Ahab like obsession with Captain Ransom and a…

Farewell Deep Space 9. You never quite lived up to your promise, but you came closer than most shows ever do. But not this year. As for this season? Not good. Not good at all. There isn’t a lot of awful, just *Take Me Out to the Holosuite* and *The Emperor’s New Cloak*. But two…

The End. So, all that build up for the Pah Wraith thing? Weeks of setting this up between Dukat and Winn, foreshadowing across years? Sisko gets a feeling that he has to run to the Fire Caves, Dukat does a quick evil monologue. And then Sisko does the self-sacrifice thing, and it’s over. It’s just…

The final battle for the Alpha quadrant begins. This is – sadly – not very good. There is a lot of terrible padding. Do you know what’s never ever funny? Or interesting? Or ever worth showing on TV? Morning sickness. And of course we need a last visit to Vic Fontaine, this time with Quark…

There are two main highlights from this year for Voyager: Timeless and Bride of Chaotica! Both were up there with the best that Star Trek has ever done, although with quite different tones. Chaotica might be one of the best ‘light’ episodes ever in any series. There were a few other fairly good episodes -…