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Finite Combinations

The only Trek review site to violate the Temporal Prime Directive

All six of the pre-'10s Trek shows considered in the only way that matters - as if they all happened at the same time.

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5.1 What We'd Left Behind

Voyager Season 1 Retrospective For a show about the future, Voyager is surprisingly tied up in the past. Take Five Let’s take an unusual...

5.1.14 Oppenheimer

Jetrel What follows are testimonials from survivors of the nuclear attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. I beg the...

5.1.13 The Frenemy Within

Faces A dame of two halves. Face/Off (Yes OF COURSE I used that as a subheading I have no shame shut up.) Not hard to see how this...

5.1.12 The Ghost In You

Cathexis The Case of the Unappreciated Whodunnit. “Don’t Be Real, Be Postmodern” “Cathexis” is another episode that doesn’t have a...

5.1.11 Stockholm Syndrome

Heroes And Demons Oh good. It’s another holodeck malfunction. The Boxes Of Delight It’s easy to read that as sarcasm, I’m sure. Actually,...

5.1.10 Eat, Betray, Love

State Of Flux The problem with promise is that sooner or later, that promise has to be honoured. These Maquis In The Marquee “State Of...

5.1.9 The Pleasure Principle

Prime Factors Shh, don’t worry. No need to be scared. It was bound to happen sometime, with a franchise that flirts with science as often...

5.1.7 Dead Man's Mirror

Ex Post Facto Right, then. Noir Trek. As Alan Partridge once said, “Ask yourself two questions: how and why?”. The Big Gamble We can...

5.1.6 Galaxy Of Worms (Bonus Post)

Geometric Probability In "Eye Of The Needle" Look. We all have our issues. We all have our obsessions. There was never any way I was...

5.1.6 The Time Tunnel

Eye Of The Needle Ah. Star Trek reaching back into its own past. Where have I seen that before? To do the same myself, however, allow me...

5.1.5 Fantastic Voyager

The Cloud An obvious title, I realise. Mine, I mean, though I can’t believe anyone involved with this episode feels proud they gave it a...

5.1.4 "Leave Me Breathless"

Phage More like “Phailge”, right peeps? Actually, that’s probably unfair – a cheap shot I thought too groan-inducing to resist as an...

5.1.3 Worlds Of Fantasy And Horror #1 pp85-92

Time And Again Way back when this ludicrously ambitious article series began, I gently(ish) took to task those people who say the Trek...

5.1.2 "School's Out For EVER!"

Parallax Perception is a tricky thing. Sometimes you’re sure you’re moving forward when all you’re doing is circling back around....

5.1.1 "...Because We Can't Find Reverse"

Caretaker Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Starfleet officer and a survivor of Cardassian rule walk into bar. Then an...

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