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TNG-0624 Second Chances

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Enterprise team revisit a planet, which allows a visit per 8 years because of ionization. In their visit, they discover a second William Riker. Then we see some developments regarding second Riker.

TNG-0625 Timescape

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

A team in a shuttle discover temporal abnormalities in space, then finds the ship Enterprise in a challenging situation. So they approach to the situation with temporal shields. During the story development, we learn that, the abnormality is an attempt to save children of a species. So we took an emphatic approach and try to solve the situation in a win-win approach.

TNG-0416 Galaxy's Child

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Enterprise crew finds a species lives in space. They cause that animal to die, then they discover it’s pregnant then they recover the child. At parallel, Dr. Leah Brahms joins to Enterprise and story developed with Geordi. Brahms discover the simulation program of Geordi, things happened. At the end, they saved the day.

TNG-0614 Face of the Enemy

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

In a morning, Deanna find herself as a Romulan Tel Shiar commander. It’s a back cover operation which is designed by Ambassador Spock (we barely sure, that’s his plan.) We see a double-sided story of both enemies; Picard’s side and Romulan’s side.

VOY-0207 Parturition

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Lt. Paris and Neelix falls into a conflict subjected to the feelings toward Kes. Then a field trip required a cooperation of both. Then the struggle, which is a birth of a reptilian species (parturition), bridges Neelix and Paris and make them discover a solution and being light on each other.

TOS-0111 Dagger of the Mind

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Enterprise deliver some cargo to a penal colony, when they receive a cargo back an intruder went into bridge and request asylum. They found out, the manager of the facility, uses an extreme device to erase memories or even kill the person.

TOS-0109 Balance of Terror

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

A Romulan vessel passes the neutral zone and damages federation outposts. And Enterprise crew pursues them. Their mutual understanding of each other’s moves, seems like a plausible friendship opportunity in an alternate reality.

TNG-0303 The Survivors

Sun, 25 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

The crew discover a planet, destructed, but has a living population of 2. The survived men, a Douwd, capable of creating illusions which also has material effect. So his power causes tangible consequences. After a conflict in their world, his wife joined the fight, stories developed, at the end he caused a mass murder just by thought.

VOY-0616 Collective

Mon, 12 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Voyager discover a damaged Borg cube with unmatured Borgs in it. It’s a story of unwanted drones, which is not accepted by collective and their freedom journey from drones to individuals.

DS9-0414 Return to Grace

Sun, 11 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Kira and Gul Dukat has a short trip, in which they discover their similarities and feel the power of achieving (conquering) things.

ENT-0211 Precious Cargo

Sat, 10 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

A light episode to consume. :)

Enterprise team discover a pirate ship, who try to get ransom by abducting a successor of principal manager.

VOY-0306 Remember

Wed, 07 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Voyager crew makes a trip with Enarans, who’re a telepathic species, who can share memories (unlike Vulcan’s mind-meld they don’t have to touch)

TNG-0626 Descent

Sun, 04 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Wow, a valuable work of storytelling!

Fascinating and a fluent flow; interconnected stories from the history concluded with a hopeful message.

TNG-0701 Descent Part 2

Sun, 04 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

See Review.

TNG-0119 Coming of Age

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

I love TNG’s parallel storytelling, if the scenario is not so intense and adventurous, they develop parallel stories in common themes, and it brings a fluency and calm to the scene.

VOY-0421 The Omega Directive

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Omega molecule, a thread to existence.

Janeway took out the mission and neutralized the threat.

VOY-0508 Nothing Human

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Excellent, it hit the nerves! A fascinating work of ethical debates, story development and adventure.

DS9-0311 Past Tense (1)

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Is human better than Cardassian, when they lack order (resourcefulness)?

Dr. Bashir and Commander Sisko find themselves in time travel to the point of humanity is about to have a spinoff in terms of social dynamics, justice.

DS9-0312 Past Tense (2)

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

See Review

VOY-0225 Resolutions

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Things happen when Janeway and Chakotay has to be in a planet, separated from their crew.

VOY-0715 Workforce, Part 1

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

I guess, the best story development examples from Star Trek are 2-part stories like this one. These example capture the generic Sci-Fi lover audience. Still, Star Trek should distinguish itself from generic Sci-Fi.

VOY-0716 Workforce, Part 2

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

See Review

DS9-0115 Progress

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Kira discovers that 3 people didn’t leave the moon which is subjected to a project in benefit of Bajoran people, and will make the moon inhabitable. The eldest person on the moon refuses to move.

ENT-0208 The Communicator

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000

A prime directive episode; crew forgot a device in pre-warp society, tries to recover “the Communicator”. During attempts, crew risks their lives in the sake of prime directive.

TNG-0407 Reunion

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000

This is one of the marker episodes. Not easy to forget.

Worf and his mate, K’Ehlar, reunites in a way which is not desired; during a leadership change in Klingon empire.

VOY-0613 Virtuoso

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Our doctor, a primary matrix as superior Qomarians says, seems to find their meaningful pursuit in life. But he displays an early decision to a society which cannot comprehend and appreciate him.

ENT-0116 Shuttlepod One

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

A nice filler episode. Again, happening in a shuttle. In Star Trek, shuttle-themed episodes has an interesting reality. In the most resourceful place of starships, it’s difficult to see challenging scenes while shuttles are vulnerable. So, shuttle-episodes are generally performing well on small story developments.

ENT-0122 Vox Sola

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

First contact trials attempt with Kreetassans is mainly based on understanding their language. Hoshi attempts their language, and her failure to decode has ended when Kreetassans get offended on humans’ way of eating. During the contact, another life-form contacts Enterprise and tries to form symbiotic bonding with the crew.

TOS-0202 Metamorphosis

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Zefram Cochrane was not dead, at the date of Enterprise’s encounter with this phenomenon.

An electric-based life-form saves Cochrane and keeps him in an immortal state. As Cochrane started to feel lonely, the life-form finds Enterprise’s shuttle during their march to the rendezvous point with the ship.

TOS-0319 The Cloud Minders

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Enterprise visits Ardana planet to get Zenite material for an emergency need.

The governor is not able to collect the required amount because of the rebellion. Kirk discovers that, the ones who collect the mineral, are subjected to a gas during gathering mineral, makes them act emotionally with lack of logical motives. And there is an apartheid situation seen in Ardana despite their artful, civilized appearance.

ENT-0113 Dear Doctor

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

What an episode, I’m still thinking about the dilemma…

The Enterprise team faces a great deal of saving Valakians from their deadly illness. Valakians share their home planet with another Humanoid species, “Menk”. It seems like they’re enslaving or petting them, but after leaving the human-centric perspective, it seems acceptable.

ENT-0119 Acquisition

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

An amusing first contact with Ferengis.

A group of thieves is trying to steal goods from Enterprise by putting the crew to sleep.

ENT-0101 Broken Bow, Part 1

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Wow, really a fascinating entrance to a spinoff. It utilizes the story of the Federation and uses it wisely. Built on top of the TNG’s production abilities, empowered CGIs, and lots of firsts;

ENT-0102 Broken Bow, Part 2

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Please review ENT-0101 review, which is the previous part of this episode.

TOS-0113 The Galileo Seven

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

While Enterprise is on the way of delivering medicine to a planet, supervised by a high commissioner. Captain has some time to study a space phenomenon. Because of the ionization levels, it’s impossible to use sensors, so the captain sends an away team with Shuttle Galileo Seven. Away team had some troubles and manage out to land in a class M planet, by losing some of the fuels. All the things happened is not known by Enterprise, because of the blocked communications from ionization.

TOS-0124 Space Seed

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Ahhh, Kirkkk!

The episode is one of the breathtaking one, so I won’t describe the story here. It’s one of the should-watch episodes; the episode of first encounter with Khan Noonien Singh.

TOS-0220 A Piece of the Action

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

A piece of action, an amusing episode, and a rigid reference to the future of the Star Trek.

TOS-0310 For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

The Story, Briefly

Enterprise crew notices that an asteroid was in their course. They investigate the asteroid, they found out it’s a generation ship, built 10 thousands years ago, and designed to bring Fabrini’s to a new planet, suitable to live. But Fabrinis doesn’t recognize the reality of their ship, they think it’s a planet environment.

TOS-0224 The Ultimate Computer

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

While we’re talking the success of LLMs, and how to regulate AI nowadays, it’s fascinating to review a perspective from the past.

TOS-0117 Shore Leave

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Enterprise crew discovers a planet suitable for having a shore leave. But like all the encounters by the crew, this one became an adventure of discovery.

TOS-0120 The Alternative Factor

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Wow, that’s a fascinating story!

The Story, Briefly

Lazarus, a time-traveler from an extinct humanoid civilization, has lost mental stability and uses his power (primarily a time-ship powered by dilithium) to kill his version in a parallel (opposite) universe. His jumps cause the universe to blink, which means wraps in the continuum, the waves of non-existence happening universe-wide. So a real threat to all universe.

TOS-0001 The Cage (Pilot Episode)

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0000

This is the pilot episode, where Roddenberry convinced the channel to broadcast Star Trek, and he received feedbacks. So we see some things changed after the pilot.

DIS-0510 "Life, Itself" & General Evaluation of Discovery Season 5

Fri, 31 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Evaluation of Episodes

Episode	Score	Which Episode
Average Episodes	22.0 / 100	-
Best	51.2 / 100	Whistlespeak DIS-0506
Worst	6.4 / 100	Under the Twin Moons DIS-0502

This season has been built on the clues of Progenitors from TNG spinoff. If this season would be a substory in TNG, it would be worth of 2–3 episodes. I didn’t like this season by some points.

DIS-0509 Lagrange Point

Thu, 23 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Story Development

Progenitors’ Technology is staying at the Lagrange point of two giant.

Breens and Discovery team reaches to the point at the same time. Breen gets the container which stores the technology.

TOS-0212 I, Mudd

Wed, 22 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

I totally enjoy McCoy’s senses and amusing persona.

The episode starts with McCoy’s feeling about Norman, he was behaving strange and was not visiting the Doctor’s office for checks. Spock replies; “He’s probably terrified of your beads and rattles.” This is certainly an amusing and human reply!

DIS-0508 Labyrinths

Fri, 17 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

The next clue to the Progenitor’s tech, is stored in the Eternal Gallery and Archive, a place similar to Game of Throne’s Citadel. They’re keeping a distance to all the conflict between species/worlds, and just serve the purposes of gatekeeping the knowledge. Fascinating!

DIS-0506 Whistlespeak

Thu, 16 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Wow! Now we’re talking about the new season. Finally they catch the sprit.

Discovery crew visits a pre-warp society’s planet for the next tip of the key of Progenitor’s tech.

DIS-0507 Erigah

Thu, 16 May 2024 21:00:00 +0000

We’re learning more about the Breen society and getting some clarity. L’ak has gained an importance as a key to the throne for his uncle. But he seems to be dead at the end of the episode. Also we learn the details of Breen - Kellerun invade history. And we can see how (ex-Captain) First Officer Rayner has been affected.

DIS-0505 Mirrors

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Alternate-universes become an interesting topic to further evaluate and visit repeatedly. Previous Federation practices were keeping a distance from temporal and inter-universe journeys.

TNG-0121 The Arsenal of Freedom

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I think TOS is more about the discovery, TNG is more about leadership. Captain Picard did an interesting choice by making Geordi the acting captain, while there are superiors available. In this case, we’re both seeing an increased importance of Geordi, and having a chance to observe the development of leadership skills.

DIS-0503 Jinaal

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Jinaal is one of the gatekeeper of Progenitor’s tech. Jinaal is testing the crew to assess whether federation is worth of that technology.

DIS-0504 Face the Strange

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, with this episode where producers gained a momentum to keep the interest during season.

TOS-0214 Bread and Circuses

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’m very proud and satisfied at the end of the story. Let’s start steadily to explain;

DIS-0502 Under the Twin Moons

Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We’re approaching to the prize of the interplanetary puzzle journey…

The episode has started with a classical and cliché poem-puzzle journey. The team is visiting planets to gather parts of a kind of cryptex key. The planets are given with the verses written. Uhhh! I don’t know how I can finish this season.

DIS-0501 Red Directive

Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An interesting start to the season with references to progenitors.

https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/brief-history-of-the-progenitors

And lots of poor points;

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