Every so often we take a leap through The Guardian of Forever, to seek out new life and new Civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before……..
Ok, we may have been there before
(most likely more than once too).
So join us as we look back and discuss an episode or feature film from the vast library that is Star Trek’s history.
Previous jumps through The Guardian of Forever:
DS9: The Siege Of AR558
Episode Synopsis:
During a supply run to AR-558, Sisko finds the defending Starfleet unit with over two thirds of the troops dead and the remaining soldiers’ morale to be extremely low. When the Defiant comes under attack, Sisko, Bashir, Dax, Nog, and Quark choose to remain on the planet, which is about to come under attack by a much larger contingent of Jem’Hadar soldiers.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
During a supply run to AR-558, Sisko finds the defending Starfleet unit with over two thirds of the troops dead and the remaining soldiers’ morale to be extremely low. When the Defiant comes under attack, Sisko, Bashir, Dax, Nog, and Quark choose to remain on the planet, which is about to come under attack by a much larger contingent of Jem’Hadar soldiers.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
TNG: Tapestry
Episode Synopsis:
After being attacked on an away mission, Picard dies and meets Q in the afterlife Q offers Picard the chance to change a crucial moment in his history and prevent the mistakes he made in his youth
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
After being attacked on an away mission, Picard dies and meets Q in the afterlife Q offers Picard the chance to change a crucial moment in his history and prevent the mistakes he made in his youth
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
TOS: The Squire Of Gothos
Episode Synopsis:
The Enterprise is captured by Trelane, the childish ruler of Gothos.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
The Enterprise is captured by Trelane, the childish ruler of Gothos.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
ENT: In A Mirror Darkly
Episode Synopsis:
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
In the mirror universe, Commander Archer mutinies against Captain Forrest in order to capture a future Earth ship found in Tholian space.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
VOY: Message In A Bottle
Episode Synopsis:
Seven of Nine finds an abandoned subspace relay network that has the ability to send a message, or in this case the Doctor, to a Starfleet ship detected in the Alpha Quadrant
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Seven of Nine finds an abandoned subspace relay network that has the ability to send a message, or in this case the Doctor, to a Starfleet ship detected in the Alpha Quadrant
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
DS9: Little Green Men
Episode Synopsis:
A malfunction on Quark’s new ship (Quark’s Treasure) causes Quark, Rom, and Nog to travel back in time and crash in the year 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
A malfunction on Quark’s new ship (Quark’s Treasure) causes Quark, Rom, and Nog to travel back in time and crash in the year 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
TNG: Who Watches The Watchers?
Episode Synopsis:
The Enterprise must undo the damage when a primitive civilization discovers a Federation observation team and concludes that the Starfleet personnel are gods.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
The Enterprise must undo the damage when a primitive civilization discovers a Federation observation team and concludes that the Starfleet personnel are gods.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
TOS: All Our Yesterdays
Episode Synopsis:
Kirk, Spock and McCoy are trapped in a planet’s distant past, where Spock finds love with an exiled woman.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Kirk, Spock and McCoy are trapped in a planet’s distant past, where Spock finds love with an exiled woman.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
ENT: E2 (E Squared)
Episode Synopsis:
An accident during an attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor places the Enterprisein a bizarre confrontation… with itself.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
An accident during an attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor places the Enterprisein a bizarre confrontation… with itself.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
VOY: Flashback
Episode Synopsis:
After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the USS Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the USS Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
DS9: In The Pale Moonlight
Episode Synopsis:
Sisko and Garak lure the Romulans into the Dominion war in order to get them to join the Federation/Klingon Alliance. Without them, the Federation and Klingon Empire would eventually lose the war and fall under Dominion rule.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Sisko and Garak lure the Romulans into the Dominion war in order to get them to join the Federation/Klingon Alliance. Without them, the Federation and Klingon Empire would eventually lose the war and fall under Dominion rule.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
ST V: The Final Frontier
Episode Synopsis:
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s half brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s half brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
TNG: Elementary, Dear Data
Episode Synopsis:
Data, Geordi, and Dr. Pulaski reenact a Sherlock Holmes mystery in the holodeck, one specifically designed by the computer to defeat Data. Modifications to one of the characters, Moriarty, cause him to take on consciousness and a will of his own, leading to some unexpected consequences.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Data, Geordi, and Dr. Pulaski reenact a Sherlock Holmes mystery in the holodeck, one specifically designed by the computer to defeat Data. Modifications to one of the characters, Moriarty, cause him to take on consciousness and a will of his own, leading to some unexpected consequences.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
VOY: Heroes And Demons
Episode Synopsis:
Harry Kim disappears from the holodeck during his holo-novel, Beowulf. According to the characters, he died at the hands of a mystical beast known as Grendel. When Chakotay and Tuvok also disappear, the Doctor is transferred to the holodeck to investigate.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Harry Kim disappears from the holodeck during his holo-novel, Beowulf. According to the characters, he died at the hands of a mystical beast known as Grendel. When Chakotay and Tuvok also disappear, the Doctor is transferred to the holodeck to investigate.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
5.5 out of 10 pips:
TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles
Episode Synopsis:
Kirk must defuse a Klingon scheme to destroy a grain shipment…and cope with a seemingly benign creature known as a tribble, which reproduces at amazing speed.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Kirk must defuse a Klingon scheme to destroy a grain shipment…and cope with a seemingly benign creature known as a tribble, which reproduces at amazing speed.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Enterprise: The Andorian Incident
Episode Synopsis:
Enterprise visits an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T’Pol’s concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans
Enterprise visits an ancient Vulcan spiritual sanctuary, despite T’Pol’s concerns that her human colleagues will be an awkward and disruptive presence there. Upon landing, they discover that the monastery has been forcibly taken over by the Andorians, a paranoid and highly excitable race of aliens with a long history of conflict with the Vulcans
.The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
DS9: Dr. Bashir, I Presume?
Episode Synopsis:
Stardate: Unknown – Bashir is chosen as the model for Starfleet’s next Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor. During the process it is revealed that Julian was illegally genetically enhanced as a child, rendering him a genius. However, his father must now face a jail term or his son Julian will be court-martialled from Starfleet.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Stardate: Unknown – Bashir is chosen as the model for Starfleet’s next Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor. During the process it is revealed that Julian was illegally genetically enhanced as a child, rendering him a genius. However, his father must now face a jail term or his son Julian will be court-martialled from Starfleet.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
VOY: Coda
Episode Synopsis:
Stardate: 50518.6 – Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Stardate: 50518.6 – Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
7.5 out of 10 pips:
TOS: Space Seed
Episode Synopsis:
The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century… and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century… and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
7 out of 10 pips:
TNG: Yesterday’s Enterprise
Episode Synopsis:
Stardate: 43625.2 – A rift in the space/time continuum brings the Enterprise-C 22 years into the future, and alters the timeline. In this altered reality, the Federation is at war with the Klingons, Tasha Yar is alive, and only Guinan’s unique perception of reality may restore the true timeline.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
Stardate: 43625.2 – A rift in the space/time continuum brings the Enterprise-C 22 years into the future, and alters the timeline. In this altered reality, the Federation is at war with the Klingons, Tasha Yar is alive, and only Guinan’s unique perception of reality may restore the true timeline.
The Official Trek Mate Verdict:
9 out of 10 pips:
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