Every Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ranked (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG | DS9 | VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LDWhole Enchilada TNG Ranking by Titles Only Watching “Encounter at Farpoint” — to say nothing of slogging through the first two seasons, who would have thought that this spinoff would have, itself, created spinoffs? And yet it has… and for a significant number of fans who didn’t watch the original series when first broadcast or in syndication, this is their Trek. That also means some serious ribbing is in order, which I will…

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Every Episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Ranked (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG | DS9 | VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LDWhole Enchilada ENT Ranking by Titles Only When it first aired, I joined millions of other Star Trek fans in saying, “What the hell are you thinking with that theme song?” The “franchise exhaustion” –already evident in Voyager, in some kind of way— also made its appearance here. I actually tuned out by season 3 during its original run. At the time, and even now, I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t have been…

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Every Episode of Star Trek: Discovery, Ranked (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG | DS9 | VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LDWhole Enchilada DSC Ranking by Titles Only Ah, Discovery. I can’t recall a Star Trek series so maligned by people who subsequently reveal they haven’t seen a single episode. I do recall a Star Trek series being maligned by people who have seen many an episode, thinking of, well, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. So, in other words, Discovery is in good company for those who have seen it and…

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Every Episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ranked (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG |DS9| VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LDWhole Enchilada DS9 Ranking by Titles Only The first Star Trek series not safely aboard a ship named Enterprise had a bumpy start, but when it hit warp drive, boy, did it ever. I have long trumpeted the virtues of this series. Even though my ardor for it has diminished as more recent non-Trek shows have gone to greater heights — and even as the other Star Trek series have risen in my estimation —…

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Every Episode of Star Trek, the original series, Ranked (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG | DS9 | VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LDWhole Enchilada TOS Ranking by Titles Only The O.G. (Original Geekdom) of the Star Trek universe remains beloved by many Trek fans over and above any other series and –although I had seen most of these episodes countless times before– in watching them again for this ranking, I understood the love. Underneath the thriftily constructed sets and bright uniforms designed to highlight this new thing called “color TV,” underneath 60s tropes and the…

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Every Episode of Every Star Trek Series, Ranked: The Whole Enchilada (with comments)

Main PageTOS | TAS | TNG | DS9 | VOY | ENT | DSC | ST | PIC | LD | PRO | SNWWhole Enchilada Whole Enchilada Ranking by Titles Only Peldor Joi, Star Trek fans! There’s plenty to be grateful for in terms of Star Trek stories and below you’ll find every single one ranked (list current as of June 14th, 2020). Well, at least for television. However, we are faced with a fannish…

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Every Episode of Every Star Trek Series, Ranked: Do Your Own Ranking

Back to the Main Post I decided to rank every single episode of every Star Trek series because wanted to share my love for Star Trek, but I know other people have opinions which may range from the belligerent Tellarite to the logical Vulcan. Well for either of those individuals and for everyone in between, here’s some printable files you are free to download and use for your own ranking, whether you use something like…

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Crisis of Infinite Star Treks: All Good Things…

This is the 32nd and final entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. It was… fun. Way back in November 2015, I started musing about the state of Star Trek… and I kept on blogging about Trek so much that in 2016, that I retconned those early posts into what has become Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. There have been long posts…

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Clash of the Streaming Titans, Revisited

Just about a year ago, I was musing about the future of streaming TV –which seems to pretty much be “the future of TV”– and well… Things have gotten a lot more complicated. Content to be the Content Gorilla, Disney is poised to unleash its streaming juggernaut this Fall, basically giving us the Vault in on-demand form. All those lovely Disney properties on Netflix, of which there are many, will be gone too soon. Meanwhile,…

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Stepping Away from Comics, Directly

This past week, a friend posted a video of a friendly local comic shop/bookstore. Used books are stuffed into every conceivable bit of shelf space, surrounding long boxes of comic book back issues, with memorabilia and figurines placed in strategic –and sometimes haphazard– locations. It’s almost archetypical for what you’d imagine a used bookstore/comic shop to be. A week earlier, I stepped into that same comic shop for, if not the very last time, my…

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