Our review of our Season Six review turns our weary eyes to a time of strife, plague, burdened spirits, and bad episodes. Do we still hate Season Six as much as we did, or were our judgments unfairly tinted by everything else that was going on? In the light of time past, can we find anything good to say about Tsunkatse? Is Season Six of Star Trek: Voyager ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
Voyager takes a holographic trip to the make-believe past of a very real place. We take a visit to the very real past of a make-believe courtroom to relitigate our treatment of “Fair Haven,” an episode that poses more questions than it answers about the ethics of holographic (and televised) entertainment. Is “Fair Haven” ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
It’s the last-chance liquor stop on our way into the Season Six abyss! But do we really like it, or do we just like it in comparison to Season Four and Season Six? What are the high points in a season that tackles exciting themes like “depression” and “loneliness” and “arbitrary solitary confinement of a mission-essential crewmember?” Is Season Five ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
An episode that lives in infamy - at least in the nicely muscled breast of one of our team. The day has come to spend some MORE time in the brig and contend with whether or not we were more right then or even more deeply, purely right now. Or could we have been…WRONG? Is Thirty Days ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
It might have given us the Year of Hell, but is Season 4 the Season of Heaven(ly Voyager episodes)? In the stark light of the full series run, does this pile of classics still shine? Is Season 4 ACTUALLY GOOD… or is it ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
We relitigate our episode about an episode about a bunch of randoms relitigating Voyager’s actions nine centuries after the fact. Is this one actually one of Voyager’s best, despite pretty clearly not being that? Is Living Witness ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
The Court of Space Appeals takes another look at Season 3 as the march towards the Omega Verdict continues. Can the season that gave us The Chute and 90’s Chakotay hair truly be maligned? Can the season that gave us False Profits and Seska’s unworthy end truly be praised? Is Season 3 of Voyager ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
It’s a second look at the episode that needs no second look: RISE! The story that inspired a generation is brought back before the Court to have its excellence further prodded and verified in the name of judicial certainty. It’s arguably the greatest tale in all of Voyager, but is it ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
The Space Court takes another look at Voyager’s sometimes-bizarre, sometimes-sublime sophomore outing. Were they fair enough in their original ruling? Were they unfair enough? Voyager Season Two ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
It’s the most hotly anticipated case in the history of fake Star Trek law. Hated by many, beloved by some, Threshold— Voyager’s most infamous episode— finally gets its chance at appeal! Was justice denied in the initial ruling, or was justice supplied? Is it a work of strange genius, or is it just strange? Is Threshold ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
With a swing of the gavel, the Court marks the beginning of the end of the late-intermediate phase of the part that precedes the actual end of the road to justice! Were we too kind to Season One of Star Trek: Voyager on first pass? How doth it shine in the pallid light of that which followed in its stead? Is Season One of Voyager ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
The Transylvanian Court of Space Appeals convenes to wave Lady Justice’s sword in the general direction of Season 1! As “Cathexis” is dragged forth to be reconsidered, will the Court’s opinion have evolved with the changing times? Does anyone even remember what “Cathexis” was about? Is “Cathexis” ACTUALLY GOOD… or ACTUALLY GARBAGE?
The plot thinnens as Firefly works its way through more western tropes. The court examines the Reavers, the unending charisma of the main cast, and whether or not Jonathan could hack it as an interior designer.
Is Firefly SHINY or is it HEINIE?
You’re telling me there’s a TRAIN and we have to do some sort of criminal TASK? Unbelievable, these western tropes are filling up the abyss of space like overflowing sasparilla!
Is Firefly SHINY or is it HEINIE?
Once upon a time in the West of Space, there was a man. The deadliest crackshot this side of the Mesa Verde. Rooting. Tooting. Roping. Milking. Bricklaying. All of that cowboy shit. He was a legend. A legend of hard leather and gunslinger glory.
Unfortunately, this podcast has nothing to do with that wandering stranger. Please enjoy our critical analysis and unbiased palaver about everyone’s favorite sci-fi/western casserole: Firefly.
Is Firefly SHINY or is it HEINIE?
LIMITED SERIES - Don’t Panic VOYAGER is still coming!
At last, the content faucet begins to turn and these are the first drippings.
For FIREFLY we realized that the main topic we would constantly be circling was the age-old ‘can you separate the Art from the Artist’ debate. Here we try to tackle that topic first - and while SHOCKINGLY we don’t resolve that debate for all time -- this does give at least a solid summary of how we’ll attempt to approach the rest of this brief.
70,000 light years and what felt like 70,000 episodes later, we arrive at the (sort of) end of our journey through STAR TREK: VOYAGER! Is season 7 the send-off this ship and crew truly deserved, or did behind-the-scenes apathy make it a dumping ground for unused scripts? It’s a musical and dramatic extravaganza of interplanetary litigation, but only the Patreon Grand Jury gets to decide: Is the FINAL SEASON of Voyager GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?
It’s Janeway vs. Oldway vs. Borg Queen vs. Time Itself in a quadrangle showdown that will bring the entire series to a thrilling and puzzlingly abrupt conclusion! Can Janeway finally give her crew the happy homecoming of their dreams? Will audiences get the BioWare-style epilogues they deserve? Is “Endgame, Part II” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?
It’s the beginning of the end, and it begins… at the end! Voyager’s not-too-distant future reveals a destination that is less happy than Admiral Janeway is willing to accept. Can she convince Captain Janeway to smash up the timeline (again)? Will audiences believe that Harry actually made Captain? Is “Endgame, Part I” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?
Janeway and the Doctor are kidnapped by some aliens, and only the Doctor can endanger the entire ship and crew to save her from a situation she was perfectly capable of handling on her own! Can the Doctor rescue her before she rescues herself? Will anyone explain why the Doctor doesn’t get thirty days in the Tom Paris brig suite for doing a full-on treason? Is “Renaissance Man” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?
