Wait... Where's Spock?

This week, Amaia and Mat search for the meaning of life...errr...no, wait...I mean a reason to live...after watching this week's episode - KIDDING! It's not THAT bad...it's not ALL that bad. Though it is extremely hard not to stop yourself repeatedly blinking whenever the main guest star is on screen due to just HOW CLOSE TOGETHER his eyes are...SO close. Nonetheless, they find time to actually touch upon one of the serious issues this episode raises: how is it possible to dedicate almost ONE QUARTER of the running time to a CHASE SCENE...oh! And the problematic treatment of veterans after a war...but mostly the chase scene thing...

Amaia and Mat are BACK with a BANG for 2026 - and that bang is Romulan-shaped and pretty bang-y. We get well-tailored outfits, we get political thrills, we get water at exactly 12 onikans - baby!...we get the LOT! We also, unfortunately - for us, anyway - Shakespeare (maybe we would've preferred some more Sherlock Holmes), but there's also top form Steward and a GREAT main guest star. So prepare for warp speed as we commence a new year of "Wait!..where's Spock?"

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat make quite a lot out of not much at all really, and in doing so realise that they actually enjoyed talking about this episode more than watching it...except for Lisa Wilcox...she's TOTALLY a nailed on chance of making the best guest stars shortlist and we're not even half way through yet. Oh! And the whole post-apolyptic Mad Max action...that was pretty sweet! And all the hair. Head hair, chest hair, hair on hair...SO much hair...

This week, Amaya and Mat recoil in disgust as Star Trek gets its Tarantino-esque FREAK on, via Troi's oiled-up feet!!! And that's just the cherry on top of a generally creepy sexed-up episode - though that doesn't take away from some actually decent diplomatic negotiation action, and a handful of cracking lines! So grab your KY and vomit bag (or hand cloth) and settle in for the sound of two people dry wretching against the soaring strains of the 'Next Gen' soundtrack.

This week, Amaya and Mat - well, Hell! They have a hoot in the season's best episode, with easily the coldest Worf moment we've ever had, and an absolute masterpiece in redemption from Geordi after last week's horror show. No jokes. That is all. Enjoy!

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat experience the joys of holodeck beach dating and 4D chess against the background of the remains of a long-dead civilisation...only for it all to come crashing down in a steaming heap of beep-bop technobabble and creepy AI making out. God bless you, Lieutenant La Forge, you deserved SO much better. On the plus side, you do get to hear Mat's brain explode - along with his potty mouth - mutliple times across the duration of the episode.

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat explore Star Trek bondage fan-fic....errr....no sorry! Wrong episode! Bonding! That's it. And they also set a new record for diverging from the actual episode! This one, though, has got the lot: Wes bringing it; Picard bringing it; Troi bringing it...in a bad 1980's therapist way; there's both appropriate and inappropriate touching; aaaaand....CRYING! A LOT of crying... ("You cried"). But WHO cried? You'll have to tune in to find out!

This week, Amaya and Mat journey into the Prime Directive with one simple mission: for God's sake, try and stop Mat talking SO much about nothing in order to keep the episode under 2 hours...unfortunately, here in the present we know their mission failed. BUT...we get a bit of everything: Buffy (as always); Star Trek: the Motion Picture, aaaand; HOTTEST of hot takes...Patrick Stewart ain't all that in the acting stakes!!! Come at us!!!...also, apologies for the poor audio again - promise it's fixed FOR GOOD going forward!

This week, it's all location, location, location, as Amaia and Mat visit the set of that classic late 70's British post-apoc TV series, Survivors - they WISH (well...Mat wishes). Nope, its a mystery episode, with genocide, aliens, space battles, and BONUS Troi-trauma (Marina Sirtis gets to emote all over the shop), and, what, only the second actual outdoor location of the series so far? Perhaps the biggest mystery, however, is how we will ever get Mat to not constantly repeat himself and just SHUT THE F**K UP?!

On this week's episode, Mat forgets to set up his microphone properly, and so the quality of his audio - not just his commentary - is very poor, AND...he's recovering from an extended sickness, so he sounds like death barely warmed up. So it's up to Amaia to hold it all up, with searing critical insight...mostly about some movies she's seen recently, but she also talks about this episode a bit. And to top it all off, the recording connection went. Now I don't want to say this is going to go down as the Cursed Episode of Wait!...where's Spock...not unless there's extra ad revenue in it, that is...