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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Saturday Dec 06, 2025
Saturday Dec 06, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 5 "The Assignment" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Keiko is possessed by a Pah-wraith in order to manipulate O'Brien into killing the prophets for them. This is when DS9 really starts to go full fantasy with the introduction of evil prophets. And this is nothing by a cliché body possession story that Trek as done many times before. Plus it adds the old "24" trope of someone holding someone's loved one hostage and threatening to kill them in order to manipulate that person to do whatever they want. On top of those clichés this is yet another "O'Brien must suffer" episode, that as gotten really tiresome. *yawn* Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysisSupport Enchantment of Eternity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternityListen to this video in audio podcast form: https://enchantmentofeternity.podbean.com/Check out Enchantment of Eternity on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enchantmentofeternity/Check Out Enchantment of Eternity on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/enchantment33.bsky.social0:00 Intro / Synopsis3:50 The Body Possession Trope8:46 Why I find Season 5 Bland12:58 The "24" Trope20:03 The Introduction of the Pah-Wraiths22:59 Patreon Comments43:49 Rating46:22 Outro
Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 3 "Nor the Battle to the Strong" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where the Klingons attack a Federation colony, kill them in the most brutal way, while also destroying starships near the area. The Klingons. THE KLINGONS!!! this comes even after a cease fire is declared 3 episodes ago and no real explanation is ever given as to why. I mean WTF the Klingons are supposed to be allies. ALLIES!!! Not killing and beheading innocent Federation civilians. Seriously WTF!!! So there was some plot about Jake helping war time medics and learning that the line between bravery and cowardice is thinning than most people think, but I don't know I couldn't really pay any attention to that I was too distracted by the fact THE KLINGONS WERE ATTACKING A FEDERATION WORLD!!! And also all the bad acting. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysisSupport Enchantment of Eternity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternityListen to this video in audio podcast form: https://enchantmentofeternity.podbean.com/Check out Enchantment of Eternity on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enchantmentofeternity/Check Out Enchantment of Eternity on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/enchantment33.bsky.social0:00 Intro / Synopsis3:45 Klingons should NOT be attacking the Federation8:19 What if it wasn't the Klingons attacking11:34 Bad Acting13:14 The Thin Line between bravery and cowardice 21:23 Patreon Comments38:37 Rating45:19 Outro
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 3 "Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Worf gets a crush on a visiting Klingon who turns out to be Quark's ex-wife. Worf is rejected due to his status as an outcast, so he helps Quark woe her instead all the time not noticed Dax whose right in front of him until she has to physically grab him to get him to notice her. While this episode doesn't have a lot of value, the getting someone to love someone else clich is bland, but it was a fun episode and it finally put two characters together that had great chemistry from the very beginning. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysisSupport Enchantment of Eternity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternityListen to this video in audio podcast form: https://enchantmentofeternity.podbean.com/Check out Enchantment of Eternity on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enchantmentofeternity/Check Out Enchantment of Eternity on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/enchantment33.bsky.social0:00 Intro / Synopsis4:38 Excited for Worf/Dax ship13:40 A fun Comedy Episode18:37 Worf and Dax in lurv21:31 O'Brien and Kira Crushing on each other26:48 Patreon Comments41:29 Rating42:28 Outro
Saturday Nov 29, 2025
Saturday Nov 29, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 6 "Remember" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that feels like a TNG episode, because it was, that is the script was based off a TNG script that never got made. However it seems to me that this works much better as a Voyager episode as B'Elanna works better in this role than Troi would have because of her angry disposition. And this over all is an amazing episode that lures you in with a Romeo and Juliet type storyline, but it actually ends up being about a genocide and the propaganda that covers up and denies that the genocide is occurring. A repeating theme throughout history and one that is still relevant today. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysisSupport Enchantment of Eternity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternityListen to this video in audio podcast form: https://enchantmentofeternity.podbean.com/Check out Enchantment of Eternity on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enchantmentofeternity/Check Out Enchantment of Eternity on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/enchantment33.bsky.social0:00 Intro / Synopsis3:40 A Great Episode8:24 Originally a TNG Script19:40 Promoted as a "sexy" episode24:15 Social-Political Commentary 46:20 Patreon Comments56:32 Rating59:59 Outro
Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Thursday Nov 27, 2025
Join me as I cover the 5th season DS9 episode "The Ship"
Originally uploaded to youtube on September 5th, 2015
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 4 "False Profits" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where the two Ferengi who were stranded in the Delta Quadrant in the TNG episode "The Price" pop up. Which is a concept I thought I'd like but what they do with it is terrible, as they have to do some contrived plot of Neelix dressing up as a Ferengi and then trying to fulfill a prophecy, when really all they had to do is beam them up and leave. And doing these shenanigans cost them their ticket home, making this the worst "we almost got home" episode in the entire show. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 1 "Apocalypse Rising" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Sisko, Worf, Odo and O'Brien go under cover, disguised as Klingons in order to expose Gowron as a Challenging, only to get caught but then Odo discovers that it was Martok who was the changeling all along. Things annoy me about this episode, Dukat isn't your friend, Klingons should be, but other than that a passable episode that is neither extraordinary nor terrible. Avery Brooks makes a great Klingon and should have always played one in my opinion. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 3 "The Swarm" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where The Doctor runs out of memory space and needs to update his hard drive, or he'll be shut down. And they try to play this off for obvious and cheap comedy. Oh and also there's a subplot about some alien of the week attacking Voyager, which the episode and promos try to play them off as big and scary but all Voyager needs to do is polarize the hull or whatever to beat them, so no one cares about them. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 3 "The Chute" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Tom and Harry are falsey accussed of a crime they didn't commit and thrown in prison and forced to........... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry I fell asleep, boring, deriviative stories with nothing new to offer will do that to me. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 25 "Flashback" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where SULU IS BACK!!! Well, sort of. We get a weak story about Tuvok having a disease causing him to go back in his memories when he served under Sulu, and nothing has anything really to do with the virus, so is all a nostalgic waste of time. And as good as it was to see George Takei again, I didn't like the fact that it had to be set doing Star Trek VI, and wish it could have been an original story. And the excuse they gave to have Sulu on the show was paper thin. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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