Captain’s log, stardate 81578.1: Lt. Cmdr. Shelby, joins the crew as they investigate the latest planet victimized by the Borg. The Borg soon intercepts the Enterprise and does critical damage, later boarding the ship and kidnapping Picard. Riker leads a fleet of 40 starships to Wolf 359 to confront the Borg, but the fleet’s efforts are in vain – every starship save one is annihilated. An away…

Captain’s log, stardate 81558.3: The Enterprise rescues the lone survivor of an escape pod who has lost his memory. Crusher soon discovers not only is the alien recuperating with incredible speed, but is mutating as well. Welcome back, folks! If you’re reading this on WordPress, then you haven’t missed anything because the last written post only came out a week ago! But for me, it’s been a long…

Captain’s log, stardate 81539.4: Ferengi DaiMon Tog decides that Troi’s mother is the woman for him, and kidnaps her along with Deanna and Riker. On the Enterprise, Wesley forgoes an opportunity to travel to the Academy to help locate the Ferengi ship and recover the three captives. This week, several episode concepts from Hell: A Troi episode and a Ferengi episode, done up as a romantic comedy…

Captain’s log, stardate 81520.8: Vulcan Ambassador Sarek, father of Spock, beams aboard the Enterprise to be transported to his final diplomatic duty. But he is suffering the initial symptoms of a mind-deteriorating disease and his telepathic skills project violent, irrational impulses in the crew’s minds. In which TNG has its first engagement with the Original Series era since the first two…

Captain’s log, stardate 81501.7: Kivas Fajo, an ‘antique collector’, considers Starfleet’s only android officer Data, a prize for his collection and fools the crew of the Enterprise into thinking that Data has been killed in a freak shuttle accident. For whatever reason, my most abiding memory of this episode comes from when I first watched it back in 2022, during my initial run through TNG. I…

Captain’s log, stardate 81482.4: Reginald Barclay neglects his duties in favor of spending time on the holodeck, where he has constructed programs simulating members of the crew. When the senior crew of learns of Barclay’s holo-addiction, he must come to terms that he has a problem. Hello readers! I got a special treat for you this week: longtime friend of the blog Freezing Inferno is here to…

Captain’s log, stardate 81463.3: The Enterprise is called on to transport first-contact specialist Tam Elbrun to Beta Strongrem to make initial contact with an alien life form. However, things go disastrously wrong when Romulan attackers show up and the Beta Strongrem sun goes supernova. The adaptation, usually, is a way to experience a story you love through a different medium. Netflix’s A…

Captain’s log, stardate 81444.2: Picard is pressed into taking a vacation on Risa where he is tangled up in a plan by 27th century aliens to retrieve a weapon that has made its way back in time to the 24th century. Jean-Luc Picard, as we all know, is the ultimate workaholic. When he’s not sitting in his command chair on the bridge dealing with whatever crisis is happening to the Enterprise this…