Enchantment of Eternity’s Star Trek Episode Reviews
Welcome to Enchantment of Eternity. I’m Marc, and I’m on a mission to analyze every episode of the Star Trek Franchise. I started with The Original Series, and then moved on to The Next Generation, and now I’m covering Deep Space Nine and Voyager in order of airdate. It’s my mission statement to always give my honest opinion on each and every episode regardless of what the popular opinion is, so sometimes I have some hot takes. I prefer character based stories. I try to analyze the writing, acting, cinematography, and music of each episode, with emphasis on the writing. I explore themes and commentaries on the episode and give my opinion on whether or not it works, as well as explore some behind the scenes tidbits and trivia, and share my personal experience with the episode. We also hear from my patreon supporters and what they think of the episode. So check me out and give it a listen.
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Episodes
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I cover "Lower Decks" The episode NOT the show. However it was a great episode that inspired a whole Star Trek show, but also was an inspiration for many other shows in the modern era as well. As this was a masterpiece that follows 4 junior officers instead of our main characters, but they do it in such a way that is emotionally powerful, with a stand out ending that is one of the best of the show.
Originally uploaded to youtube on December 4th, 2016
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
In this podcast I'm joined by Alyssa and Darrin as we do a deep dive break down of my #4 on my Top 25 favorite episodes of the entire Star Trek Franchise list, which is the 1st season Original Series Episode City on the Edge of Forever
Originally streamed on youtube on December 9th, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap one of the first real bonding episodes for Bashir and O'Brien that made them one of Trek's all time greatest bromances. However the episode itself is rather dull and forgettable, in fact I think this is one of the more forgettable episodes of Trek. Two people bonding while they're hiding out from bad guys, the main cast thinking characters are dead when they're not, and forgettable one off aliens we don't care about, these are standard Trek cliches that make for an ordinary episode
Originally uploaded to youtube on December 9th, 2024
Originally uploaded to youtube on December 9th, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I cover the Worst episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Doctor Crusher starts having an affair with a candle ghost.
Originally uploaded to youtube on August 3rd, 2020
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap a memorable prime directive episode where Picard is maybe a bit too rigid with the prime directive as he's willing to let an entire civilization die, but Worf's foster brother enacts a plan against orders to save a village of people by using the holodeck. It makes for an intriguing story with twists and turns as Worf and his brother work out their differences while trying to to trick a group of people that their still on their planet when really they're on the holodeck, which makes for one of the most ingenious uses of the holodeck in Trek.
Originally uploaded to youtube on December 4th, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap another "Odo finding out his origins" fake out as we think we found an evil shape shifter that's terrorizing the station, but turns out it was just a boring glop of goo that just died immeadiately and it was actually Odo who was terrorizing the station because he was effected by gas or something. But there is an interesting character story in here about Odo reconnecting with the scientists who studied him, and kind of raised him as an adoptive father and all the complex emotions that come with that, so that was good.
Originally uploaded to youtube on December 2nd, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap the episode that brings in John Locke from "Lost" playing an evil admiral that used to be Riker's Commanding officer who is up to no good. A unique episode involving the Romulans and Riker dealing with his past that hits hard.
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 30th, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap number 17 in my Top 25 Worst Episodes of the Star Trek Franchise list: Rivals. The episode that follows an uninteresting con man who sucks as a con man and stereotyped as a listener hard! He gets into a rivalery with Quark, something I couldn't possibly care less about, meanwhile he has these luck controlling balls that cause people everywhere on the station to trip and fall and bang their hands against the wall because they have bad luck. So easily one of the dumbest, childish plot line in Trek history.
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 27th, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Join me as I review and recap the episode that makes an analogy about refugees, but doesn't do a particularly good job at it, as the story meanders and doesn't have a focus nor a particularly clear message. Also the analogy to modern times doesn't work, because unlike modern day refugees, these Gamma Quadrant refugees are offered a perfect paradise planet by a benevolent post-scarcity civilization and THAT certainly doesn't happen in modern times. But there are some good character moments for Kira, and it delves a bit deeper into Bajoran culture, and the ambiguity of the story does work for the tone of DS9, I like how the viewer is left to make up their own mind rather than being told what to think by the script.
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 25th, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Join me as I review and recap this parallel universe hopping episode, that uses the concept of parallel universes in a unique way as Worf jumps between universes that are very similar to his own, but start to get more and more different as he eventually finds himself in universes where he's married to Counselor Troi. It's an amazing episode and one of the best of the show.
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 23rd, 2024