I watch 2 episodes of Star Trek from 2 different series, and write about them.
A sentient computer weaponizes the Enterprise, and a sentient weapon commandeers Voyager.
Read More “His logical selection was compassion”: The Ultimate Computer (Original Series) vs. Warhead (Voyager)It’s old-fashioned fisticuffs, Star Trek style, as Captain Kirk and Seven of Nine fight for their lives.
Read More “A hundred quatloos on the newcomers”: The Gamesters of Triskelion (Original Series) vs. Tsunkatse (Voyager)The Original Series revisits its original, unaired pilot episode … and half a century later, so does Discovery.
Read More “Previously, on Star Trek”: The Menagerie (Original Series) vs. If Memory Serves (Discovery)We look at the evolution of Harry Mudd, as Captain Kirk outsmarts yet another artificial intelligence, and Mudd outsmarts everyone.
Read More “Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)In the space-justice system, Kirk and Worf are put on trial. These are their stories.
Read More “Life is a great deal more complicated in this red uniform”: Court Martial (Original Series) vs. Rules of Engagement (Deep Space Nine)Prime Directive? What Prime Directive? Kirk and Saru each take the law into their own hands.
Read More “The Great Balance is a lie”: A Taste of Armageddon (Original Series) vs. The Sound of Thunder (Discovery)Captain Kirk faces mortal combat with an alien opponent, while Captain Picard gets into a war of words … so to speak.
Read More “Shaka, when the walls fell”: Arena (Original Series) vs. Darmok (TNG)Kirk and Archer take their respective Enterprises into the Wild, Wild West … but, you know, in space.
Read More “Up north, quite a ways”: Spectre of the Gun (Original Series) vs. North Star (Enterprise)We meet an iconically charismatic villain for the first time, and encounter another charismatic villain with a familiar face.
Read More “He was the best of the tyrants”: Space Seed (Original Series) vs. The Arik Soong Arc (Enterprise)Away teams from two Enterprises encounter echoes of Earth’s past on far-off planets … and also cheat at craps (and fizzbin).
Read More “Did humans really talk like that?”: A Piece of the Action (TOS) vs. The Royale (TNG)