Star Trek: Lower Decks “Terminal Provocations”
This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks: The show still hasn’t decided whether or not it has a cold open, nor what should go in it. Last week didn’t have one. This week does, but wastes it on a…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”
Our episode gets off to an uninspired start when Ensign Boimler narrates his personal log about an interaction he wasn’t there to see and has no reason to write in his log about. The Cerritos is in the Mixtus system,…
Star Trek: Lower Decks “Moist Vessel”
Well, what a pleasant surprise. This episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks got three; count ’em, three laughs out of me. Keep this pace up and we should have a watchable program by like 2022.
In the cold open, Captain…
Star Trek: Lower Decks “Temporal Edict”
Hello, masochists! Time to watch Star Trek: Lower Decks and die a little inside.
This series has made a name for itself as that gummy ring left behind in the tub after you give Star Trek a bath, and in…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks “Envoys”
In today’s cold open, we trot out a well-worn Star Trek trope of a glowing ball of energy invading the ship, much like the alien that impregnated Troi in the Next Generation episode “The Child”. Mariner and Tendi are wheeling…
Star Trek: Lower Decks “Second Contact”
Before we’d gotten too far into the fabulous 21st century, it became evident that the kind of television the Star Trek franchise produced wasn’t going to be relevant for very much longer. New technologies such as DVR and streaming, new…
Star Trek (TAS) “The Counter-Clock Incident”
At long last, we’re coming to the end of an era here at the Agony Booth: This is the last ever episode of Star Trek (the ’70s animated series) left for us to recap. A lot has happened on the…
Star Trek: Voyager “Q2”
We have now come to the final installment of…
…and boy, does it suck!
This episode aired in the latter half of Voyager‘s final season. By this point, the show had already given up on its premise and decided…
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Star Trek: Voyager “The Q and the Grey”
Despite its flaws, “Death Wish” was a dramatically intriguing episode. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the next installment of…
“The Q and the Grey” begins with the Voyager crew monitoring a star going supernova, because their longing for…
Star Trek: Voyager “Death Wish”
While Star Trek: The Next Generation ended with “All Good Things…” (and from everything I’ve been hearing about Star Trek: Picard, I have good reason to continue viewing “All Good Things…” as TNG’s true ending), the Trek franchise wasn’t…
Star Trek: The Next Generation “Tapestry”
Just a few weeks after “Q-Less” aired, Q returned to The Next Generation for the next installment of…
The episode begins with Crusher receiving emergency patients, including Picard, Riker, and Worf, who are being beamed up after a surprise attack…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Q-Less”
Just a few months after “True Q” aired came the launch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The series, unlike the other Trek series before or since, had a space station setting, rather than one on a starship. It…
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Star Trek: The Next Generation “True Q”
Fans ended up waiting over a year after “Qpid” for the next installment of…
…as the character was conspicuously absent from TNG’s fifth season. There were reportedly plans for an appearance but storylines couldn’t be worked out. However, Q would…
Star Trek: The Next Generation “Qpid”
“Qpid”, the latest installment of…
…has the same lighthearted tone as the previous entry, “Deja Q”.
The episode begins with the Enterprise arriving at Tagus III, where Picard is set to give a lecture to a group of renowned Starfleet…
Star Trek: The Next Generation “Deja Q”
By the time of “Deja Q”, the fifth installment of…
…the character of Q had become beloved by fans. Some likened him to Harry Mudd in terms of his annoying playfulness (I’m only referring to the Mudd played by Roger…
Star Trek: The Next Generation “Q Who”
Q returns for “Q Who”, which is in the middle of The Next Generation‘s second season. This season, overall, proved superior to the show’s first season, despite clunkers such as “Unnatural Selection”, “Up the Long Ladder”, and the second…
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Star Trek: The Next Generation “Hide and Q”
Q’s promise to return at the end of “Encounter at Farpoint” excited fans. Hence, it was a pleasant surprise when we didn’t have to wait long for that return, which came just eight episodes later with “Hide and Q.”
The…
Star Trek: The Next Generation “Encounter at Farpoint”
We finally meet Q himself in the second installment of…
We also meet the entire crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, because this is the premiere episode of that series, “Encounter at Farpoint”.
The series begins with a…
Star Trek “The Squire of Gothos”
I’ll begin by giving thanks to my colleague Tyler Peterson, who penned the delightful Trials of Miles recaps which inspired me to do this series, which will look at the artistic rise and fall of John de Lancie’s Q, spanning…
Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
Last time on Picard with a Vengeance: Picard watched helplessly as the android woman he saved because her enemies were convinced she was going to usher in the apocalypse ushered in the apocalypse. Dick move there. If I were…
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