Enterprise- Observer Effect

Original Airdate: 1/21/2005

We get back into our mini-series of Star Trek/COVID-19 crossovers with Observer Effect. We question if it perhaps paints a to hopeful projection of the human race's chances right now seeing how unwilling so many are unwilling to confront white supremacy; we ask how the observer effect is playing out during this pandemic; and how each day we are presented with certain risks we can choose to take or not take based on the importance of the task. 

TNG: Contagion 

Original Airdate: 3/20/20 

Three ships are infected with a virus that will ultimately lead to their destruction. Three ships handle this challenge in very different ways. The absence of individual and collective mourning, portals to a true end of quarantine, and dystopian bedtimes, all in this episode of Trek in the Time of Corona!

Enterprise: Dear Doctor

Original Air Date: 1/23/2002

The choices we make as a nation and as a world during this pandemic are not only impact individual lives but also entire demographics of our population. Dr. Phlox and Captain Archer help us explore these incredibly difficult choices in this pivotal episode of Enterprise. Social engineering, Darwinism, cultural communication, and the dangerous concept of cultural superiority are all in OUR pen pal letter to those of you spread across the galaxy.  

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The Original Series: Miri  

Original Airdate: 10/27/66 

Typically, during national crisis we can't stop asking "But what about the children?" Perhaps we don't hear that being asked because we are ashamed of what they are learning from us right now? We look at the TOS "Miri" episode and think about what lessons the 'Grups' are teaching the 'Onlies' in our modern day end of the world experience.

Deep Space Nine: Babel

Original Air Date: 1/24/93

As the heroes of Deep Space Nine valiantly rush to save the lives of everyone aboard Deep Space Nine, a cargo freighter captain makes an ill advised escape attempt that provides them all with a meaningless distraction. Caroline and Bryan are sad to report the fiction of this story hits so close to home in this American pandemic experience.

The Original Series: The Naked Time

Original Air Date: 9/29/66

Kirk for President

Who are we revealed to be during COVID-19? The crew of the Enterprise reveal the deepest, hidden parts of themselves as a side effect of a mysterious virus that overtakes the ship after a visit to a doomed planet. COVID-19 seems to be doing the same, peeling back layers of the social and political structures we have put in place, exposing the weaknesses and systemic deficiencies within.