“The kid’s had too much reality lately, if you ask me”: Hollow Pursuits (TNG) vs. It’s Only a Paper Moon (DS9)

Barclay and Nog use the holodeck the way most of us would, if we could: they spend too much time in it.

“A hundred quatloos on the newcomers”: The Gamesters of Triskelion (Original Series) vs. Tsunkatse (Voyager)

It’s old-fashioned fisticuffs, Star Trek style, as Captain Kirk and Seven of Nine fight for their lives.

Picard and Pike appear to be in trouble, while Wesley Crusher and Thira Sidhu get the Kobayashi Maru treatment.

Scotty finds himself in La Forge’s engine room on Picard’s Enterprise, while Janeway and Tuvok find themselves on Sulu’s Excelsior.

Elevator troubles lead to awkward moments for Odo, Lwaxana Troi, Spock, and Number One.

Captain Picard and Captain Sisko each live out another person’s life, in two of the finest episodes in all of Star Trek.

2019 ends and 2020 begins with very different Short Treks, which tell surprisingly similar stories while exploring new sides of Star Trek.

Until then, wishing you the happiest of space-holidays, and a new year of infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

Geordi makes a new friend, while Voyager gains a new crew member … and loses one.

Tribbles return, in an episode of The Animated Series, and in a Short Trek that only feels animated.