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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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Tag: godlike beings

“I don’t know how I’m going to enter this into the log”: Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG) vs. Threshold (Voyager)

The crew of the Enterprise go where they should never have gone in the first place … and so do the writers of Voyager.

Read More “I don’t know how I’m going to enter this into the log”: Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG) vs. Threshold (Voyager)

“You have angered The Picard”: Who Watches the Watchers (TNG) vs. New Eden (Discovery)

Picard gets a promotion from captain to god, and the Discovery visits a distant colony of humans whose ancestors were abducted by “angels”.

Read More “You have angered The Picard”: Who Watches the Watchers (TNG) vs. New Eden (Discovery)

“I’m literally angry with rage!”: The Squire of Gothos (TOS) vs. Where No Fan Has Gone Before (Futurama)

The crew of the Enterprise meet Earth’s biggest fan, and the cast of the show meet Star Trek’s biggest fan.

Read More “I’m literally angry with rage!”: The Squire of Gothos (TOS) vs. Where No Fan Has Gone Before (Futurama)

“Above all else, a god needs compassion”: The Cage (TOS) vs. Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS)

The series so nice they made a pilot, twice

Read More “Above all else, a god needs compassion”: The Cage (TOS) vs. Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS)

“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are”: Encounter at Farpoint (TNG) vs. Emissary (DS9)

In the first episode of TNG, Picard wants to see what’s out there, and in the first episode of DS9, Sisko’s not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Read More “If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are”: Encounter at Farpoint (TNG) vs. Emissary (DS9)

“Is there a John Luck Pickurd here?”: Yesteryear (TAS) vs. Tapestry (TNG)

Young Spock learns that the needs of an injured pet outweigh the needs of its owner, and young Picard learns that getting stabbed through the heart can be good, actually.

Read More “Is there a John Luck Pickurd here?”: Yesteryear (TAS) vs. Tapestry (TNG)

Recent Posts

  • My 20 Favorite Treks of 2020 January 17, 2021
  • “Wolf 359 was an inside job”: Samaritan Snare (TNG) vs. No Small Parts (Lower Decks) December 28, 2020
  • “I am alone, but I will adapt”: One (Voyager) vs. Doctor’s Orders (Enterprise) November 1, 2020
  • “His logical selection was compassion”: The Ultimate Computer (Original Series) vs. Warhead (Voyager) October 26, 2020
  • “Attention, Bajoran workers”: The Arsenal of Freedom (TNG) vs. Civil Defense (DS9) October 5, 2020
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