Category: Trekathon

Voyager finds another Federation ship in the Delta quadrant. Ho hum. The other crew has a dark and terrible secret. Good old upright Janeway just won’t understand, but somehow they manage to get the upper hand. About the only thing unexpected in this episode is that it isn’t all neatly wrapped up with a moralistic…

The Cardassian revolution goes badly, and Odo is cured but angry. Once more unto the stupid Ferengi plots. Quark thinks he’s going to be Nagus, but actually it’s going to be Rom. Oh my gosh, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen on screen. It’s painful, and a pointless distraction from the…

The Doctor makes friends with a missile. [The Quality of Life](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/04/trekathon-243-the-quality-of-life-tng/) meets [Dreadnought](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2012/06/trekathon-407-dreadnought-voy/) – or to put it another way, [Dark Star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)). Oh, and there’s a small touch of [The Ensigns of Command](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/03/trekathon-157-the-ensigns-of-command-tng/) as well. About the only thing we get here of any real interest was the Doctor getting to play a different role…

Bashir tries to outwit Section 31. Just at the end they lose their nerve, and we get a much more conventional piece of story telling. If we were spending an hour in Kai Winn’s mind, or Dukat’s mind, this would have been worth while. But an hour in Sloan’s mind? A character we’ve seen twice,…

Seven of Nine goes back in time to save Voyager. Then forwards in time. Then back again. To be honest, I lost track. I’ll have to watch this episode with a whiteboard next time around. It fully embraces the logical consistency problems of a time travel episode, and instead just decides to have fun with…

The Cardassian revolution strikes a real blow, and a Klingon coup is needed. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find much to say about these episodes. The plot is moving on, big things are happening. It’s all pretty good, pretty interesting. Unlike the previous go, it doesn’t feel like we’re just killing time – there’s…

Janeway reminisces about an ancestor. What a strange, strange episode. The vast majority is set in 2000, with pretty much no science fiction elements other than the background ‘Millenium Gate’ project. There are some cuts to Voyager, and their implausibly vast historical databases. There is an element of fantasy though – a project like this…

Part 5 of 10. The Defiant has been blown up, Earth attacked, and a Cardassian revolt has started. I’m starting to feel like they might be starting to throw too many balls in the air. This episode adds internal conflict within the Klingon side, tensions over Kira as an advisor to the Cardassians, and some…

My Fair Borg. It is objectively remarkable that there have been so many Star Trek stories, and this is the first time the Pygmalion/My Fair Lady story has been rolled out at full strength. That takes serious commitment, given that practically every other show on Earth gets there sometime in the second of third season.…

Worf and Ezri return, and the Breen attack Earth. Here’s a useful measure of how well this serial story is working – I was annoyed that there was an episode of Voyager getting in the way here. And I’m even more annoyed about the fact there’s another one. I said before that it’s hard to…