Enchantment of Eternity’s Star Trek Episode Reviews
Welcome to Enchantment of Eternity. I’m Marc, and I’m on a mission to analyze ever 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. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternity
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Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 Episode 10 "Fascination" explained. Join me as I review and recap this highly dramatic episode where Vedek Bariel meets his fate. It's a great medical drama and good use of Bashir, and another great appearance by Kai Winn who is just as despicable as ever. And it has a really emotional ending with great music that is really powerful. It is marred by a terrible B plot though where Nog acts totally out of character, so that brings the episode down a bit. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 Episode 2 "Parallax" explained. Join me as I review and recap the second episode of Voyager which deals with the Maquis interrogating into the Starfleet crew and the difficulty involved in that. However it happens way too fast as this process should have taken several episodes. And we get another BS anomaly something that unfortunately is going to become very common place for Voyager. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Join me as I cover the pilot episode of Voyager. It's one of the best pilots, if not the best pilot in Trek, because it's a suspenseful, exciting story that does the job of introducing us to all the new characters in a way that feels natural and part of the story
Originally uploaded on Youtube on August 27th, 2016
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Saturday Mar 08, 2025
Saturday Mar 08, 2025
Join me as I cover the 2 parter that explores Sisko, Bashir and Dax traveling back to 2024 as written in 1994. An interesting morality tale the tackles issues like homelessness and it has a cast of great guest characters, and overall is a great character story making it one of the best examples of Time Travel in Star Trek.
Originally uploaded to youtube on January 15th, 2018
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 Episode 10 "Fascination" explained. Join me as I review and recap this silly episode where we get Lwaxana Troi once again and it's used in a ridiculous "Mid Summer Night's Dream' type story where everyone falls in lust with random other people. It's goofy and dumb, and actively unfunny and difficult to watch, but they do have a good side plot with Miles and Keiko O'Brien fighting over her absence which was one of the most realistic depictions of a marriage I've seen. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Join me as I cover the somewhat overrated episode where Riker comes to DS9, but it's Thomas, not William, but that doesn't really matter because their both played by Jonathan Frakes. Kira bothers him about trying to be a hero but she's actually wrong, because he's being strategic which is smart. And Dukat is way too friendly in this episode for my tastes.
Originally uploaded to youtube on May 28th, 2020
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Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Star Trek: Generations movie explained. Join me as I review and recap this underrated movie that often gets more hate than it deserves. Sure the pacing is off, and more time should have been spent with Kirk and Picard together, and the ending where two old guys have a fist fight on top of a mountain with another old guy isn't the most satisfying, but there are some great character stories in here, some great acting, and the music is spectacular, and the humor works. There's a lot to be admired in this film, which is in my opinion better than "First Contact". Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
Originally uploaded to youtube on May 16th, 2018
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Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 Episode 8 "Meridian" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Dax has a fling with Goodwin from "Lost" and she wants to abandon all her friends and her entire life she knows for 60 years for this dude she just met, and barely has any chemistry with. So yes this story line sucks. But I must admit that I do really love the B plot about a filthy rich cretin trying to get Quark to make a personal Kira hologram for him to have his way with. There's some great character interactions between Kira and Odo, and the comedic timing in this is just perfect, and it's quite a predictive commentary on deep fakes, a topic that wouldn't really become a thing until several decades after this episode was made, so it kind of saves the episode for me. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 Episode 7 "Civil Defense" explained. Join me as I review and recap this great character episode, that's intense and exciting and easily the best version of the disaster movie format that Star Trek has every done. You get some amazing moments with Dukat, this may in fact be the best Dukat episode. You get some great Garak moments, great Kira moments, and they even got Jake involved in the main plot for once. Just a great, fun, exciting episode. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 6th, 2018
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 Episode 6 "The Abandoned" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Odo becomes a segregate father to a Jem'hadar baby, and it doesn't go the way he would hope. While I think this is a fascinating story line where we learn more about the Jem'hadar I'm not pleased with the ending that seems to imply people are irredeemable. Plus it seems like the easy and predictable way to go. There's also a side plot with Sisko trying to break up his son and a dabo girl, but then changing his mind when he learns more about his son, this was okay, as it furthers the Sisko / Jake relationship. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis
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