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I watch 2 episodes of Star Trek from 2 different series, and write about them.

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  • “Shaka, when the walls fell”: Arena (Original Series) vs. Darmok (TNG)
  • “Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)
  • “Starfleet is better with you in it”: Lower Decks (TNG) vs. Second Contact (Lower Decks)
  • “Do we need a mutiny today to prove who we are?”: Equinox, Parts 1 & 2 (Voyager) vs. The War Without, The War Within & Will You Take My Hand? (Discovery)
  • “Flame the dark true salt”: Babel (Deep Space 9) vs. An Obol for Charon (Discovery)
  • “A hundred quatloos on the newcomers”: The Gamesters of Triskelion (Original Series) vs. Tsunkatse (Voyager)

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“I was driving starships while your great-grandfather was still in diapers”: Relics (TNG) vs. Flashback (Voyager)

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

Read More “I was driving starships while your great-grandfather was still in diapers”: Relics (TNG) vs. Flashback (Voyager)

“Keep your freaky to yourself”: The Forsaken (DS9) vs. Q & A (Short Treks)

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

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“You are the dreamer, and the dream”: The Inner Light (TNG) vs. Far Beyond the Stars (DS9)

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

Read More “You are the dreamer, and the dream”: The Inner Light (TNG) vs. Far Beyond the Stars (DS9)

“We can be heroes”: Ephraim and Dot (Short Treks) vs. Children of Mars (Short Treks)

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

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Live long and stay warm: Trek vs. Trek will return in 2020

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

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“Resistance is not futile?”: I, Borg (TNG) vs. The Gift (Voyager)

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

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“He was an idiot”: More Tribbles, More Troubles (Animated Series) vs. The Trouble with Edward (Short Treks)

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

Read More “He was an idiot”: More Tribbles, More Troubles (Animated Series) vs. The Trouble with Edward (Short Treks)

“Paradise has never seemed so well-armed”: Homefront & Paradise Lost (DS9) vs. Demons & Terra Prime (Enterprise)

22nd-century Earth has a ways to go before becoming a perfect paradise … and 24th-century Earth may not be so perfect after all.

Read More “Paradise has never seemed so well-armed”: Homefront & Paradise Lost (DS9) vs. Demons & Terra Prime (Enterprise)

“Previously, on Star Trek”: The Menagerie (Original Series) vs. If Memory Serves (Discovery)

The Original Series revisits its original, unaired pilot episode … and half a century later, so does Discovery.

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“We too are machines, just machines of a different type”: The Measure of a Man (TNG) vs. Author, Author (Voyager)

Data’s rights as a person, and the Doctor’s rights as an author, are put on trial.

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