Treknobabble

Harry Mudd is back and he is not happy. Possessed with a device that lets him repeat the same thirty minute loop infinitely, he is trying to figure out how to capture Discovery and sell it to the Klingons. Due to his genetic engineering to operate the spore drive, only Stamets remembers events from one loop to the next. Can he convince the crew to listen to him and formualte a plan to stop Mudd, all in less than thirty minutes?

Sarek is injured in a terrorist attack and Burnham may be his only hope. Meanwhile, Admiral Cornwall arrives on Discovery and is questioning Lorca's recent decisions and fitness to command.

Lorca is captured by Klingons while returning from a meeting with Starfleet, leaving Saru in charge. Burnham realizes the jumps are killing the Tardigrade. Can she allow another, even if it means saving their captain?

We continue our review of Voyager Season 5 with the series' 100th episode, and it's a doozy. The episode opens to find Voyager buried under a sheet of ice and a much older Chakotay and Harry Kim executed a daring plan to save it.

Production note: Much like the TV series, sometimes things get produced and aired in different orders, so at the end of this we are flogging our then still pending review of Discovery's Context is for Kings, which obviously has been up for a couple of weeks by now. We're not crazy, just busy and before we knew it, more Discovery had aired and the Voyager review wasn't ready to publish. Thus is life. Enjoy!

An attack on a vital mining operation forces up the Discovery's timeline for getting its engines working. Burnham is tasked with learning what she can from the ships newest acquisition that can help their war effort.

Today's triva: This, shockingly, is NOT the longest title in the history of the show. That honor goes to TOS' For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky.

On her way to a prison colony, Burnham's shuttle is damaged and rescued by the USS Discovery. Her captain quickly conscripts Burnham to assist in a mysterious experiment. She is now surrounded by a crew that doesn't trust her, and working for a captain she doesn't entirely trust. What is the Discovery really working on, and more importantly, why is this show set 10 years before TOS and not 100 after VOY???

Welcome to the premiere review podcast for the first new Trek series in over a decade. Despite years of vague foreboding, we both felt there was a lot to like here and have mustered just enough cautious optimism to keep going! We're joined this week by fellow Trekkie and Klingon language expert, John Harness (@cartweel on Twitter).

Despite our joy (and apprehension) at the forthcoming Star Trek Discovery, we're going to keep working through the remaining VOY and ENT episodes that we have yet to review. This week, Voyager discovers an eerily accurate simulation of Earth and Starfleet Headquarters, right down to the gardener. Who built it, and why?

So, here we are. Seven years facing off against Bajoran separatists, possibly divine wormhole aliens, Cardassian, Klingons, the Dominion, and whatever scheme Quark is up to this week. How will our crew fare? Will the Federation win the war? Will they stop Dukat and Kai Winn from unleashing hell itself? What will it cost them, even if they do?

The Breen have attacked Earth. Damar has staged a rebellion. Dukat and Winn take a bloody step forward in their plan to release the pahwraiths. Ounce for ounce, this is one of the most exciting episodes of DS9 ever!