Treknobabble

DS9 S7E17- Penumbra

As DS9 enters the homestretch, it embarks on an amitious, and heretofore largely forbidden plot device: the serialized story. The Dominion War is drawing to a climax, and all the cast of DS9 both friend and foe will forced to make hard choices about its outcome. Is it chaotic and occasionally uneven? Sure. Would we trade it for anything? Nope.

Star Trek Beyond (God, the lack of colon is driving me mad)

So, is being the called the least awful of the Abrams movies a compliment? Probably not, but it's the best this 1984b of the franchise is going to get from us. The actors are really trying, and there is some tentative attempts to explore the themes that TOS and its movies did, but it still pretty much devolves into an excuse to get Chris Pine on a motorcycle.

DS9 S7E06 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

We learn a lot in this episode. We learn that the Federation's multicultural values are not just talk as we see Nog excel not just as a Starfleet officer, but as a wheeling and dealing Ferengi. We learn that the Dominion is not the unified front that it tries to present. And if the title is anything to go by, we learn that the Oxford command does not survive to the 24th century.

DS9 S7E01- Image in the Sand

We return to DS9 for its final season. When we last left the show, everyone and everything was in chaos. After Jadzia's (useless) death, Sisko has taken a leave of absence and the Prophets seem to have abandoned Bajor. We open the season to find Sisko trying to make sense of his losses in his father's restaurant. Meanwhile, Kira has been left in charge of the station, and her first challenge will be to navigate Romulan intrigue and Worf must find a way to honor the wife he lost.

VOY S4E26 - Hope and Fear

Voyager gets some assistance from a new friend in decrypting Starfleet's message. The results appear to be a way home. Is it too good to be true? (Spoiler Alert: Yes, yes it is. Always)

VOY S4E23 - Living Witness

The Doctor awakens to find himself centuries in the future and the only person left who can clear Voyager's name, as history has judged Janeway a genocidal monster and the crew her violent lackeys. The Doctor quickly learns, however, that setting the record straight will not be easy, not will it come without consequences.

VOY S4E19 - The Killing Game, Part 2

An explosion has ripped through the holodeck and taken out several decks of the ship. But in the good news department, Janeway is Janeway again and that's always going to stack the odds in your favor. Get on your best black turtleneck and let's go take out some Nazis!

VOY S4E18 - The Killing Game

The crew has been captured by the Hirogen and is being forced to fight and die over and over again in holodeck simulations to give the Hirogen insight into Alpha Quadrant species  history and capability. Neelix is a Klingon. B'Elanna is very pregant. And Janeway is serving you Marlene Dietrich realness in a tuxedo ensemble that alone justifies this whole episode.

VOY S4E14 - Message in a Bottle

Voyager finds a network of apparently abandoned satellites that will allow them to communicate with Earth in real time. The catch (and of course there is one) is that the only transmission that would survive the trip is the Doctor's program. The Doctor is sent hurtling across the galaxy and finds himself on the USS Prometheus --- just after it has been hijacked by Romulans. (See what I mean with the catches?) His only ally is this ship's EMH, a cocky Mark II. Can the stalwart holograms save the ship?

VOY S4E09 - Year of Hell, Part II

Voyager is not in the best of shape. Down a nacelle and most of her crew, Janeway leads a skeleton crew trying to hold the ship together with spit and prayer, and the strain, particularly on Janeway, is beginning to show. Chakotay and Paris are still being held by Annorax and his obsession with correcting the timeline.