3.1.22 "This First Parting There Was Among Us"
Skin Of Evil “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”- Victor Hugo The Swan On Its Song This is another of those episodes...
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1.1.22 Me Sowing/Me Reaping
Space Seed Time to slay a sacred cow. Or perhaps it might be appropriate to say, time to topple a graven image. Tough on fascism, tough...
6.1.21 Unlike Steve McQueen
Vox Sola “Vox Sola” feels somewhat modest in its ambitions, especially after watching “Return Of The Archons”, which rewrote the book on...
3.1.21 The Solar System Cannot Be Reformed
Symbiosis It’s probably safe to assume that just about everyone reading this post knows that the Federation is a post-money society. The...
1.1.21 "...They Do Things Differently There"
Return Of The Archons “Return Of The Archons” was an episode with an unusually long gestation period. Originally, it was in the running...
6.1.20 All Hail West Texas
Detained This is the episode in which Enterprise does the inevitable, and references Quantum Leap. It does so in three ways. It casts...
3.1.20 "Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons"
The Arsenal Of Freedom What happens when the gun-runners run out of track? Women What Work “The Arsenal Of Freedom” adds to the growing...
1.1.20 The Tell-Tale Heart
Court Martial “Court Martial” is something of a mess. Production Trials That’s a statement of fact, rather than a value judgment. I’m a...
4.1 War And Peace
Deep Space Nine Season 1 Retrospective Deep Space Nine is fundamental to the IDFC project, in the sense that it’s why the project exists...
6.1.19 Double Dipping
Oasis One of the guiding principles of IDFC is that there exists almost no value in judging an episode by how similar it is to those that...
4.1.19 The Damascus Ring Road
In The Hands Of The Prophets Here’s something new. Well, new for IDFC, anyway. We arrive, at last, at our very first season finale....
3.1.19 The Dogmas Of The Quiet Present
Heart Of Glory It’s TNG 2.0. I mentioned in my “Coming Of Age” post that we were entering a new era, with Maurice Hurley taking over from...
1.1.19 Space: 1969
Tomorrow Is Yesterday “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” exists as something quite unlike anything the show has attempted up to this point. It...
6.1.18 Old Friends Are Gold-Pressed Latinum
Acquisition “Acquisition” really didn’t work for me the first couple of times I watched it. Having sat down and had a think, though, I...
4.1.18 Only Obeying Stationery Orders
Duet So, this will be interesting. I’m not dealing with a minor entry to the canon this time, or some forgotten classic in need of a...
3.1.18 "It's A Damned Show Trial!"
Coming Of Age It’s time for an accounting. The Next TNG I already pointed out in my post on “Home Soil” that we were about to find...
1.1.18 "We Can All Get Together On The GRENADE LAUNCHERS, Right?"
Arena The Coon era kicks off with a bang. More than one, actually. And this is supposed to be anti-war? Hipster Criticism I say “the Coon...
6.1.17 "...In The Forests Of The Night"
Rogue Planet I guess technically this is our second rogue planet of the cycle. And like Kirk before/after him, Archer is going to find...
4.1.17 Proof By Counter-Example
Dramatis Personae Not to go all undergraduate essay here, but let’s start with a definition. “Dramatis Personae” translates as “the masks...
3.1.17 "There Can't Be So Much As A Microbe..."
Home Soil Doesn’t this all seem a little familiar? The Devil In The Details While the patented IDFC approach means we’ve not actually yet...
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