Star Trek Reviews

Episode guide featuring extensive critical reviews of Star Trek episodes and films.

First Generation: 1964-1986
The Original Series

Second Generation: 1987-2005
TOS wrap, TNG, DS9, Voyager, & Enterprise

Third Generation: 2009-present
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Picture
Date
My Rating
Fan Ratings
Synopsis
Problems
Factoids
Remarkable Scenes
Comments
Fan Commentary
Episode Commentator Date
TOS: Charlie X Wiley Hyena 2012-05-18
TOS: The Cage Stephan 2012-05-17
Movie: Star Trek VIII: First Contact Johnnyribcage 2012-05-15
DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations packman_jon 2012-05-14
DS9: Honor Among Thieves packman_jon 2012-05-14
TNG: The Wounded Nadrac 2012-05-14
TOS: Bread and Circuses Wiley Hyena 2012-05-14
TOS: Wolf in the Fold Wiley Hyena 2012-05-14
TNG: Darmok packman_jon 2012-05-13
TOS: The Deadly Years Wiley Hyena 2012-05-12
TOS: The Menagerie, Part II Wiley Hyena 2012-05-12
DS9: Accession Hugo 2012-05-11
DS9: Bar Association hugo 2012-05-08
TNG: The Mind's Eye Bob 2012-05-08
Voy: Prime Factors Keith WP 2012-05-08
TNG: Conspiracy Nadrac 2012-05-06
TNG: Galaxy's Child EZ 2012-05-06
Voy: Virtuoso CL 2012-05-04
TNG: Cause and Effect Rache 2012-05-03
TOS: The Alternative Factor Mark 2012-05-01
TNG: Masks Arbit 2012-05-01
DS9: Crossfire Hugo 2012-04-30
DS9: Chimera Chris Wright 2012-04-30
TNG: Half a Life Lee 2012-04-25
DS9: Children of Time Mario 2012-04-23
Ent: Kir'Shara Lee 2012-04-22
TNG: Frame of Mind Ggen 2012-04-22
TNG: The Chase Ggen 2012-04-20
DS9: For the Uniform Mario 2012-04-20
TNG: Descent, Part II dan 2012-04-19
Episode Fan Rating My Rating Date
TNG: Where No One Has Gone Before 6 5 2012-05-20
TNG: The Last Outpost 4 3 2012-05-20
TNG: Code of Honor 4 6 2012-05-20
TNG: The Naked Now 4 4 2012-05-20
TNG: Encounter At Farpoint, Part II 6 5 2012-05-20
TNG: Encounter At Farpoint, Part I 7 7 2012-05-20
Ent: Strange New World 4 2 2012-05-20
TOS: I, Mudd 5 1 2012-05-20
TNG: First Contact 8 6 2012-05-20
TNG: The Chase 9 6 2012-05-20
Voy: Random Thoughts 3 5 2012-05-20
TNG: The Pegasus 10 5 2012-05-20
TOS: The Devil in the Dark 7 7 2012-05-20
Ent: Unexpected 0 6 2012-05-20
TOS: A Piece of the Action 5 6 2012-05-20
DS9: Take Me Out to the Holosuite 10 10 2012-05-20
DS9: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River 7 9 2012-05-20
TNG: The Inner Light 6 10 2012-05-20
TOS: Arena 5 6 2012-05-20
TNG: The Enemy 8 7 2012-05-20
TNG: Remember Me 6 4 2012-05-20
Ent: Anomaly 2 6 2012-05-19
Voy: The Disease 2 6 2012-05-19
DS9: Rejoined 4 2 2012-05-19
Voy: Basics, Part I 6 7 2012-05-19
DS9: A Time to Stand 10 9 2012-05-19
DS9: Call to Arms 10 10 2012-05-19
Voy: False Profits 7 1 2012-05-19
Movie: Star Trek X: Nemesis 0 8 2012-05-19
TNG: The Emissary 6 6 2012-05-19

Short FAQ

How do your reviews work?
Each Star Trek series is divided by season and a link to a page where each season is reviewed episode by episode is provided. Each episode review shows a screenshot, the season and episode number, the episode name, the original air date, my rating, a synopsis, a list of technical problems, a list of interesting factoids, a list of remarkable scenes, and some final comments. You may also attach your own ratings, reviews, and commentary to mine.

How does your rating system work?
It is a scale from 0 to 10. An episode rated 10 would be one of the best episodes Star Trek has ever done. A rating of 5 or 6 would be average. A rating of 1 would be a very bad episode. A rating of 0 means I think the episode is so bad that I have (usually, but not always) personally dropped it from Star Trek canon. Episodes rated zero often have incredible technical problems. There are very few episodes rated 10 and even less rated 0. I think this is fair. Keep in mind that I would rather watch a low-rated Star Trek episode than virtually anything else on TV. Star Trek has always been my favorite TV show.

What's the deal with your average rating?
My average rating should usually never be below 4 or above 6. Ideally my average rating is 5. The lowest rating I usually give a bad episode of Star Trek is 1. The reason for this is that I usually (but not always) consider a zero rated episode as so bad that it should be dropped from canon. This happens very infrequently.

TAS is not canon you moron!
My view of what is and isn't canon slightly differs with that of TPTB. Anything shown on screen or in a movie is canon, unless I rate it zero and declare it not canon.

What about the movies?
I rate them exactly like any other episode of Star Trek, except usually with a bigger screenshot, a higher rating most of the time, and a lot more commentary.

I submitted a comment and it's been weeks! Are you ever going to post it?
I don't check the queue every day. But if your comment does not appear after a prolonged period of time, and you've not received a rejection notice, then I've probably silently deleted it, or you typo'd your private E-mail address. I don't always issue a rejection notice when I delete a submission. On the rare event that you do receive a rejection notice, it is probably because I found lots of value in your submission and simply want you to refine it a bit more and resubmit. If I've silently rejected your submission, it means I found something fundamentally wrong with it and am unwilling to work with you. I know all of this comes off as arrogant and condescending, but this is my website, and I do believe in maintaining a certain level of quality control. All that said, and while I do reject a lot of submissions, I do accept more than I reject. Please, don't let it bother you.

What is the basis for your work?
I have admired the review style of Graham Kennedy and Bernd Schneider for many years. I wanted to create a more specialized Star Trek site focusing on episode reviews modeled as a combination of their two styles. This site won Bernd Schneider's September 2008 EAE award. Thanks Bernd!

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