I watch 2 episodes of Star Trek from 2 different series, and write about them.
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)Deep Space Nine and Enterprise get in the Halloween spirit, as Garak goes all Michael Myers on an abandoned station, and T’Pol finds a zombie apocalypse on board a Vulcan ship.
Read More “Use logic more quietly”: Empok Nor (DS9) vs. Impulse (Enterprise)We see Earth through the eyes of 3 Ferengi in the 40s, and 3 Vulcans in the 50s.
Read More “I Love Lucy is on tonight”: Little Green Men (DS9) vs. Carbon Creek (ENT)Spock and Burnham have daddy issues, and Sarek is emotionally exhausted from appearing in 3 different series of Star Trek.
Read More “I feel angry, but I want to love”: Journey to Babel (TOS) vs. Sarek (TNG) vs. Lethe (DSC)The debut episodes of Enterprise and Discovery show us 2 very different visions of life in Starfleet before Kirk.
Read More “We’re explorers, not soldiers”: Broken Bow (ENT) vs. The Vulcan Hello & Battle at the Binary Stars (DSC)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)