JC's Trek Talk

Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter Finale: What You Leave Behind The computer announces the time as 05:00 hours, waking Bashir and Ezri, who are sleeping together.  After discussing their night they along with the rest of of the senior staff prepare to leave on the Defiant.  O'Brien admits to Keiko that he hasn't yet told Bashir about the offer for him to teach at Starfleet Academy.  Sisko comforts Kasidy who is experiencing pregnancy-related morning sickness.  Jake walks him to the Defiant.  Odo walks with Worf to the Defiant, they discuss their hopes that Kira is well.  The Defiant departs with the fleet for Cardassia Prime.  On Cardassia Weyoun and the Founder monitor the incoming fleet.  The Founder says that the outcome of the battle will determine the outcome of the war.  Broca reports rumors that Damar is alive and in the capital on Cardassia Prime.  While sneaking through the streets Garak and Damar are stopped by Jem'Hadar patro...

Opinions on Youtube/Patreon Trek Reactors Of late I have been watching a number of Youtubers/Patreon creators doing first time watch reactions to Star Trek episodes and movies.  Among them Jen Murray, RolyPolyOllie, Target Audience (Josh Singh and Alex Daniels), Court Reacts and bunnytailsREACTS.  There are many others.  It is great to see strong interest in the older Trek series as well as the franchise as a whole.  Jen Murray has watched all of TOS, TAS, TNG the first 7 movies and is currently watching DS9 season 4.  RolyPolyOllie has watched some episodes of TOS and TNG, all of the movies, all of DS9 and has recently started Voyager season 5.  Target Audience are watching the entre franchise in release order, they have finished all of TOS, TAS, TNG, the movies through Generations, DS9 seasons 1-3 and VOY season 1.  Court Reacts is currently enjoying TNG season 7 and DS9 season 2.  BunnytailsREACTS is currently in season 2 of TNG, after viewing ...

Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter 8: The Dogs of War On DS9 the crew wait expectantly in ops for the arrival of their new Defiant-class ship.  When the ship, the USS Sao Paulo, arrives they notice how it looks almost identical to the Defiant.  On the Sao Paulo's bridge Admiral Ross transfers command to Captain Sisko.  Ross also gives Sisko special dispensation from Starfleet Operations to rename the ship to USS Defiant!  On the stolen Jem'Hadar ship Kira, Garak And Damar beam down to Cardassia Prime to meet with some of Damar's loyalists.  However they discover that one of the officers, Gul Revok, has betrayed them.  The resistance is massacred.  In orbit the Jem'Hadar ship is attacked and destroyed.  The three are stranded on Cardassia.  They make their way to the capital and hide in the basement of Garak's childhood home, the former home of Enabran Tain with Mila, Tain's housekeeper.  In the infirmary Bashir clears Odo for duty and te...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Premiere Date Announced The release date for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 has been announced.  The 10 episode fourth season of the adventures of Captain Pike and crew on the USS Enterprise will premiere on Thursday, July 23, 2026, through Thursday, September 24, 2026.   As with season 3 I will watch each episode as it premieres and post my thoughts, reactions and ruminations.  Reactions should be posted the Sunday following the release day (subject to change). 

Throwback Thursday Star Trek Enterprise Retrospective Intro The fifth Star Trek (live action) series.  The last series of the Berman era of Star Trek.  The oddball of the Berman era trek shows.  Airing for 4 seasons on UPN from 2001-2005 Star Trek Enterprise (originally just Enterprise Enterprise) was created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga as a prequel series, taking place in the 2150s, Enterprise tells the story of the first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise NX-01 and its crew, humanity dipping its toes into deep space for the first time.  The "right stuff" pioneering days of Starfleet's interstellar exploration, before the founding of the Federation.  Before energy shields, tractor beams, holodecks and replicators.  When things like the transporter were still experimental.  A sound premise, and a good chance to explore a heretofore mostly unknown era of the trek timeline.  Until the network brass decided they had to meddle.  Thankfully Berm...

Deep Space Nine: The Final Chapter 7: Extreme Measures After returning to the station Odo is in the infirmary, being treated by Dr. Bashir.  Bashir tells him that he is still working to find a cure for the disease and that he estimates that Odo has a week, maybe two to live.  Kira and Garak leave to rejoin Damar's resistance.  O'Brien tells Sisko that Starfleet engineering has the schematics of the captured Breen energy dampening weapon and are working on a defense.  Bashir transmits a report to Starfleet Medical, falsely claiming that he has found a cure.  He tells Sisko that he didn't inform him before because he didn't want Section 31 to cover their tracks.  He also say he plans to use Romulan mind probes on a Section 31 member.  Sisko allows them to proceed, overlooking the ethical and legal issues.  After a late night round of darts with O'Brien at Quarks Bashir goes to bed, only to be woken by Luther Sloan from Section 31.  Bashir activ...

JC's Guide to the Final Frontier III The Search for Answers Another fistful of the Final Frontier's follies and failings General Order 1 And the award for the quickest violation of the prime directive (relative to the beginning of the ship's mission) goes to...Captain Christopher Pike.  On the first day of his second five year mission, Captain Pike revealed himself, his half-Vulcan science officer and the Enterprise itself to the natives of Kylie 279.  Granted he was sent there to rescue a captured Starfleet survey team, and granted the prime directive was already violated before that when the battle between Starfleet and the Control-controlled Section 31 forces near Xahea was observed by the Kylians (a classified event in and of itself) and granted it went peacefully and the Kylians would eventually become Federation members, and the classified nature of how the Kylians learned about warp technology let Pike off the hook anyway so... I guess all's well that ends well. ...

Deep Space Nine The Final Chapter 6: Tacking Into the Wind Kira and Garak continue teaching Damars officers about resistance strategy, tensions increase between Kira and Gul Rusot.  After returning from a mission to destroy a Dominion shipyard, Odo, fatigued goes to rest and has difficulty maintaining his shape.  Walking into the bunk room Garak discovers this, Odo admits that he is ill and tells Garak not to let Kira know.  On DS9 Bashir and O'Brien hit a dead end in the search for a cure for Odos disease.  Bashir refuses to go to Sisko, Sisko would be obliged to report to Starfleet, which would alert Section 31.  Gowron tries to blame Martok for a recent defeat at Avenal VII, despite being outnumbered 6 to 1.  Sisko agrees with Martok, blaming Gowron for bad strategic decisions.  On Cardassia the female Founder, showing signs of the disease, asks Weyoun when the cloning facility will be repaired.  She orders the Jem'Hadar to search for Damars fa...

Episode Spotlight TNG's Elementary, Dear Data Having arrived 3 days early for a rendezvous, the Enterprise-D enjoys some downtime.  Data finds Geordi in Engineering finishing a model of the HMS Victory, a present for the USS Victory's captain (Geordi's former CO).  Geordi offers to share in a Sherlock Holmes mystery on the holodeck as Dr. John Watson to Data's Sherlock Holmes.  After ordering the holodeck to select a Holmes mystery at random the two enter the holodeck.  The two enter the holodeck and Geordi marvels at the details in the holographic recreation of Holmes study while Data gets into character.  A knock on the door (Which Data announces before the fact) signals the beginning of the mystery.  Data, with his encyclopedic knowledge of the stories solves the mystery instantly, to Geordi's annoyance.  Geordi tells the computer to freeze the program and angrily leaves the holodeck.  In Ten Forward Geordi tries to explain to Data why jumping ...