V'Ger Please!

Strap yourselves in, as a whole new show starts as we arrive at "Azati Prime"! This one truly has everything - Time Zucc, relationship drama, murders, Trek lady weak zone exploitation, and all the traumatic brain injury you can handle (also lots of compelling drama and action good grief this was good)!

Before we arrive at Azati Prime we have one little side-trip into a world where Jeffrey Combs is all you need. That's right, we reviewed the classic horror (?) comedy(!) film "Re-Animator" for our Patrons earlier this year, now available to all! Observe as roles are reversed and Peter gushes endless detail while Joseph is bewildered by everything happening around him.

A combination of motherly instinct and strong workplace violence comes together as we review "Hatchery"! When the NX-01 happens by a crashed Insectoid ship, Archer gets more than some sweet loot, Major Hayes gets a Space Horror MVP award, and we finally get a mutiny!

It's deja-vu all over again as we review "Doctor's Orders"! For some reason, the writers decided to rip off of Voyager's "One" beat for beat ...but hey, at least it's a well done rip off. John Billingsley does all the acting, we find out Trip is a Void Engineer, and Porthos remains a Very Good Boy.

Several running plots reach a...uh...culmination as we review "Harbringer". When Trip decides to give Vulcan Touching to the ship's standard issue Hot Israeli, T'Pol decides to steal her man back and it all plays better than you think. Also a bad melting chocolate space man appears!

The crew of the NX-01 bust out all their drama kid skills as we review "Stratagem"! After capturing a very stupid Degra and friends, Archer goes full LARP Goblin with a side of memory chloroform to get some answers.

The NX-01 gets a heaping helping of everyone's favorite Andorian as we review "Proving Ground"! While it's no mystery that any episode with Jeffrey Combs and his acting cheat codes is a banger, this one reaches new heights as Shran is all too helpful and creates an Archer Head Wound Inversion.

When a robed alien who is definitely not Space Osama shows up, he and his fundamentalist pals take over the NX-01 in "Chosen Realm". We are right on the post-9/11 nose this week as we deal with religious fanatics, terrorism, mad bombers, and the whole '24' package!

Because going to Planet Trigun just wasn't enough, we get our second 'period episode' in three weeks as we endure "Carpenter Street"! Time Zucc rolls in just in time to give Archer and T'Pol a fetch quest, our heroes do a quick L&O: SVU costume change, and it's time to hit the drive-thru!

High drama, subtle production design, and excellent performances are on the table as we review a truly great entry of the Trek canon in "Similitude". When a Starfleet IED knocks Trip into a coma, Phlox does some off the books dirt, Archer stops shaving, and T'Pol winds up in a triangle with two versions of the same guy.