Star Trek: Voyager (1995) -Eye of the Needle, and Ex Post Facto

Captain’s log: stardate 48579.4 Hilary J. Bader came up with the story that Jeri Taylor and Bill Dial turned into a teleplay for one of my fave episodes from the first season. First airing on 20 February, 1995, Voyager detects a wormhole which allows them to make contact with a Romulan ship in the Alpha…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Visionary, and Distant Voices

Station log: stardate unknown John Shirley pens the teleplay for this episode from a story by Ethan H. Calk that first aired on 27 February, 1995. This O’Brien (Colm Meaney) story is fairly enjoyable, and also plays into the overall arc of the season. A delegation of Romulans arrives on the station to be briefed…

Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – Phage, and The Cloud

Captain’s log: stardate 48532.4 Brannon Braga and Skye Dent penned the teleplay for this episode from a story by Timothy DeHaas. It first debuted on 6 February, 1995, and introduced the Voyager crew and the audience to the rather troubling Viidans. This is a species that are suffering from a deadly phage so that their…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) – Destiny, and Prophet Motive

Station log: stardate 48543.2 David S. Cohen and Martin A. Winer pen this Sisko (Avery Brooks) episode that first aired on 13 February, 1995. A joint Bajoran, Cardassian and Federation science mission to establish a permanent communications relay through the wormhole runs into problems when an ancient Bajoran prophecy centred around the Emissary – Sisko…

Star Trek: Voyager (1995) -Parallax, and Time and Again

Captain’s log: stardate 48439.7 Brannon Braga pens the first episode following the series opening, from a story by Jim Trombetta. It debuted on 23 January, 1995. Voyager has begun its journey home, and as the Starfleet and Maquis crews attempt to integrate, they receive a distress call from a ship, a ship stuck in a…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) -Life Support, and Heart of Stone

Station log: stardate 48498.4 Ronald D. Moore pens the teleplay for this episode from a story by Christian Ford and Roger Soffer. Debuting on 30 January, 1995, the story follows a number of story threads, Bashir (Alexander Siddig) attempts to save Vedek Bareill’s (Philip Anglim) life after a docking accident. Kira (Nana Visitor) is anxious…

Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – Caretaker

Captain’s log: stardate 48315.6 Micheal Piller and Jeri Taylor penned the series opener from a story they came up with alongside Rick Berman, and the Trek universe was introduced to its newest captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her Intrepid-class starship, Voyager, NCC-74656. She and her crew, including a helmsman recruited out of a Federation…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) -Past Tense: Part I, and Part II

Station log: stardate 48481.2 Robert Hewitt Wolfe pens this stellar episode from a story he developed with Ira Steven Behr. First broadcast on 2 January, 1995, the story follows Sisko (Avery Brooks), Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and Dax (Terry Farrell) as, thanks to a transporter accident while the Defiant is in orbit around Earth, end up…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994) – Defiant, and Fascination

Station log: stardate 48467.3 While Star Trek: Generations floundered a bit at the box office, Trek continued it’s small screen adventures on DS9. It brought a couple of carryovers from Next Gen as well that show up in the episodes this week. First up, Defiant, written by Ronald D. Moore. Airing on 21 November, 1994,…