A lot of roads intersect in this season as the biggest stars from Ring Of Honor and Impact aren't just rumbling around NXT but are becoming the bona-fide headliners, along with Roman Reigns, of the WWE. The Ruthless Aggression era finally fades into the background, and the NXT alums take over the main stage. This season sees the Diva Championship replaced with The Womens' Championship in WWE. We also see Bullet Club continue to wreak havoc in ROH under the leadership of AJ Styles and Adam Cole, bay-be.

Sadly, the dark era of Impact continues. Apart from the very weird saga of Willow/Brother Nero/Jeff Hardy and his brother, Broken Matt, the highlights of this era included Decay and the rise of Eli Drake, who would go on to become LA Knight. Kurt Angle, Bobby Lashley, and Drew McIntyre were their heavyweights during this time but their stories were boring and none of their matches were on par with their best work.

There wasn't really an EPIC MOMENT to end this season for the WWE. While their product was overall improving, there wasn't a big retirement match, a broken streak, or even the end of an impressive title run. So, for the first time, we'll end with the weird story of James Ellsworth's fifteen minutes of WWE fame.

1501. Low Impact, 2015

2015 saw a massive drout in TNA pay-per views which, unfortunately, didn't result in the pay-per-views being of higher quality. But during the spring and early summer, the weekly TV show that the company would soon rename itself after featured some fresh faces and a few fantastic matches.

Announcers: Tazz, Josh Matthews, Elijah Burke, Jeremy Borash

1. EC3 vs Drake Maverick (as Rockstar Spud) in a Hair vs Hair Match
2. American Wolves (Impact Tag Team Champs) vs Jessie Godderz & Zema Ion vs Sanada & Manik in an Ultimate X Match

3. Bobby Lashley (Impact Heavyweight Champ) vs Kurt Angle
4. Taryn Terrell (Impact Knockout Champ) vs Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong
5. Kurt Angle (Impact Heavyweight Champ) vs Austin Aries 
5. American Wolves vs The Dirty Heels in an Iron Man Match for the Impact Tag Team Championship

6. Kurt Angle(Impact Heavyweight Champ)  vs EC3

1502. Respect London, 2015

Here we go, we've been building to it for the last two seasons, finally the women of the WWE/NXT go from getting the respect they deserve to just taking over the card with a higher percentage of talented women wrestlers than men. Most of the strongest men in NXT were ROH grads, while the women were all home grown talent. This episodes shows the debuts of Asuka and Nia Jax, the beginning of the second series of exciting women coming into the company, even as The Four Horsewomen were still there at the top.

Announcers: Corey Graves, Byron Saxton, Greg Hamilton, Dasha Fuentes

1. Asuka vs Dana Brooke
2. Apollo Crews vs Tyler Breeze
3. Bayley (NXT Womens Champ) vs Sasha Banks in an Iron Woman Match
4. Asuka vs Emma
5. FTR (as The Revival) (NXT Champs) vs Enzo Amore and Big Cass
​6. Finn Balor (NXT Champ) vs Samoa Joe

1503. Hells In Cells, 2015

Before they were Best Friends (a storyline I can't wait to get to), Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho put on an Intercontinental clinic. John Cena has his final US title defense before, uh, we skip a champ or two, Charlotte continues her reign, and we have some fantastic cage matches, including the final ever Brock vs Undertaker.

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Rich Brennan, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles

1. Kevin Owens (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Chris Jericho
2. John Cena (WWE US Champ) vs Seth Rollins in a Steel Cage Match
3. Roman Reigns vs Bray Wyatt in Hell In A Cell
4. Charlotte Flair (WWE Divas Champ) vs Nikki Bella
5. Seth Rollins (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Kane
6. Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker in Hell In A Cell

1504. The Lunatic Fringe, 2015

The broken up SHIELD continues to dominate the WWE with Roman and Dean taking more of the spotlight while Seth Rollins has to vacate the title and take some time off due to injury. We also get our spooky on with the Brothers Of Destruction vs The Wyatt Family, and a killer triple threat tag team match between two of the teams who are still dominating the tag team scene, a decade later.

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Xavier Woods, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles

1. Roman Reigns vs Alberto Del Rio
2. Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Owens
3. The Brothers Of Destruction vs The Wyatt Family
4. Roman Reigns vs Dean Ambrose for the WWE Heavyweight Title
5. The New Day (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Usos vs Lucha Dragons in a Ladder Match

6. Kevin Owens (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dean Ambrose
​7. Sheamus (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Roman Reigns in a TLC Match

1505. Reloaded, 2015/2016

More solid action and improved storytelling from the underdog of wrestling companies. The Bullet Club, Adam Cole, and Jay Lethal continue to dominate the shows. We also see longtime color commentator, Steve Corrino, step back in the ring for one of the bloodiest matches in ROH history.

Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Steve Corrino, Bobby Cruise

1. The Addiction (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs Young Bucks vs The Kingdom
2. Adam Cole vs Kyle O'Reilly
3. Jay Lethal (ROH Champ) vs AJ Styles
4. Bullet Club (Never Openweight 6 Man Champs) vs Matt Sydal, ACH & Kushida
5. BJ Whitmer vs Steve Corrino in A Fight Without Honor

1506. Last Man Standing, 2015/2016

I love a Royal Rumble. But you may have noticed that it's been a while since there was one in this continuity. That's because 2013-2016 was a string of underwhelming rumbles with too few actual contenders, and the wrong winners. This is, technically, the last of those stinkers. While it's not up there with the best of the events, it's fun and has a decent ending. Also, one of the best surprise entrants of all-time, as the former Bullet Club leader/Impact superstar AJ Styles makes his WWE debut. But it wasn't just the rumble that was good, this might be the only episode in this entire continuity made up from a single pay-per-view. All these matches were actually on one card. I only skipped one match (if you're the one person in the world who wanted to see Kalisto vs Alberto Del Rio...sorry).

Announcers: Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Jojo, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles)

1. Dean Ambrose (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Kevin Owens in a Last Man Standing Match

2. The New Day (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Usos
3. Charlotte Flair (WWE Divas Champ) vs Becky Lynch
4. Royal Rumble
Roman Reigns, Rusev, AJ Styles, Tyler Breeze, Curtis Axel, Chris Jericho, Kane, Goldust, Ryback, Kofi Kingston, Titus O'Neil, R Truth, Brody Lee, Cody Rhodes, Big Show, Pac (as Neville), Braun Stroman, Kevin Owens, Dean Ambrose, Sami Zayn, Erick Rowan, Mike Henry, Brock Lesnar, Jake Hager (as Jack Swagger), The Miz, Alberto Del Rio, Bray Wyatt, Dolph Ziggler, Shaemus, Triple H

1507. Climbing The Ladder, 2016

2016 was not the year of the underdog. Like the couple of years before it, time and again the same faces were winning all of the important matches. That doesn't change too much here but we do see some standout performances from wrestlers that the WWE didn't get behind enough. We also see the future of tag team wrestling begin their domination here as they take out Enzo and Cass in what's probably their best match ever.

Announcers: Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Greg Hamilton, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles, Tony Chimel

1. Chris Jericho vs AJ Styles
2. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns vs Dean Ambrose
3. FTR (as The Revival) (NXT Tag Team Champs) vs Enzo Amore & Big Cass
4. Charlotte Flair (WWE Divas Champ) vs Natalya
5. Triple H (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Dean Ambrose
6. Kevin Owens (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dolph Ziggler vs Cody Rhodes vs The Miz vs Sami Zayn vs Sin Cara vs Matthew Cardona

1508. Bon Voyage, 2015/2016

It's goodbye Full Sail University, an NXT levels up with some killer tag matches, and recruiting another round of indie darlings and New Japan superstars like Austin Aries and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Announcers: Corey Graves, Tom Phillips, Greg Hamilton


1. The Hype Bros vs The Vaudevillains vs American Alphas vs BAM Factor
2. FTR (as The Revival) (NXT Tag Team Champs) vs American Alphas
3. Sami Zayn vs Shinsuke Nakamura
4. Bayley (NXT Womens Champ) vs Asuka
5. Finn Balor (NXT Champ) vs Samoa Joe
6. Austin Aries vs Shinsuke Nakamura
7. Samoa Joe (NXT Champ) vs Finn Balor in a Steel Cage Match

1509. No More Divas, 2016

Here we go, three of The Four Horsewomen in a Wrestlemania title match, plus Natalya gets a shot at the new WWE Women's Championship in a great match with a, umm...homage ending that I could have done without. Also, the WWE really highlights the new leaders of the ring here with AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, Caesaro, and Sami Zayn joining Roman Reigns in the spotlight. Not a Cena, Undertaker, or Triple H in sight.

Announcers: Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Kevin Owens, Lyta, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles, Jojo

1. Charlotte Flair vs Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch for Inaugural WWE Womens Champ
2. Chris Jericho vs AJ Styles vs Kevin Owens vs Caesaro
3. Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn
4. The Miz (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Caesaro
5. Charlotte Flair (WWE Womens Champ) vs Natalya
6. Roman Reigns (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs AJ Styles

15010. Conquest, 2016

Bullet Club has been slowly transforming since their debut a couple of seasons ago. We've seen Prince Devitt leave to become Finn Balor in NXT and WWE, The Good Brothers roll up in the WWE as the OC, AJ Styles did the same. Now we have Adam Cole and Hangman Page joining Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks to claim the name, and they continue to dominate ROH and New Japan. We also get a Jay Lethal/Jay Briscoe rematch, and some more excelllent crossover with new Japan.

Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Steve Corino, Bobby Cruise

1. War Machine (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs The Briscoes
2. Tetsuya Naito vs Kyle O'Reilly
3. Tomohiro Ishii (ROH TV Champ) vs Bobby Fish
4. Bullet Club vs Chris Sabin, Matt Sydal, Alex Shelly & Kushida
5. Bullet Club vs Moose & War Machine
​6. Jay Lethal (ROH Champ) vs Jay Briscoe

1511. The Ultimate Payback, 2016

Bullet Club shenanigans hit the WWE as AJ Styles and The Good Brothers reunite (though they never refer to themselves as Bullet Club in the WWE). We also see The SHIELD play another title belt hot potato as every member gets their revenge on every member that betrayed them last season.

Announcers: Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Lilian Garcia, Jojo, Eden Stiles

1. The Usos vs The Good Brothers (as Gallows & Anderson)
​2. The Miz (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn vs Caesaro 
3. Roman Reigns (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs AJ Styles in a No DQ Match
4. John Cena vs AJ Styles
5.Money In The Bank Ladder Match
Chris Jericho vs Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn vs Caesaro vs Alberto Del Rio 

6. Roman Reigns (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Seth Rollins

1512. Broken Impact, 2015, 2016

Ooof, this is only the second episode of Impact this season. There is some truly inspiringly weird stuff here, particularly Jeff Hardy reimagining himself as Willow and Matt Hardy being "broken". We also get our first glimpse at LA Knight.
Announcers: Josh Matthews, Elijah Burke (as D'angelo Dinero), Christy Hemme , Jeremy Borash 

1. The American Wolves vs Bryan Myers & Trevor Lee
2. Gail Kim (Impact Knockout Champ) vs Awesome Kong
3. EC3 (Impact Champ) vs Matt Hardy vs Drew McIntyre
4. Mia Yim (as Jade) (Impact Knockout Champ) vs Gail Kim vs Sienna
5. Jeff Hardy vs Willow 
5. LA Knight (as Eli Drake) (Impact King Of The Mountain) vs Thomas Raymond Latimer (as Bram)

6. Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy in a Full Metal Mayhem Match
8. Drew McIntyre (Impact Champ) vs Bobby Lashley

1513. Battleground, 2016

Three is the magic number here, as we see The Wyatt Family's last stand against The New Day, John Cena team up with Enzo & Cass to face Bullet Club, three out of the four horsewomen battle for the belt, and every member of SHIELD in the ring for an entire match for the first time this season (run-ins and Money In The Bank cash-ins don't count). 

Announvers: Michael Cole, JBL, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Jojo, Greg Hamilton

1. The New Day vs The Wyatt Family
2. Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn
3. Natalya vs Becky Lynch
4. Bullet Club (as The Club) vs John Cena, Enzo Amore & Big Cass
5. Charlotte Flair (WWE Raw Womens Champ) vs Sasha Banks vs Bayley
6. Dean Ambrose (WWE Champ) vs Roman Reigns vs Seth Rollins

1514. Takeover Texas, 2016

The rise of the next wave of NXT continues. Shinsuke Nakamura and Asuka continue to dominate, Ember Moon and a glorious Impact alum debuts, and Mickey James returns to the WWE for the first time in years.

Announcers: Corey Graves, Tom Phillips, Greg Hamilton, Mike Rome

1. Finn Balor vs Shinsuke Nakamura
2. Ember Moon vs Billie Kay
3. FTR (as The Revival) (NXT Tag Team Champs) vs DIY
4. Asuka (NXT Womens Champ) vs Bayley
5. Samoa Joe (NXT Champ) vs Shinsuke Nakamura
6. Bobby Roode vs Ty Dillinger
7. Asuka (NXT Womans Champ) vs Mickey James

1515. Universal, 2016

It's hard to believe that this episode has the first meeting between Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton, considering they started at the same time in 2002 but here it is, a Brutal match. Plus, we get the first ever Universal Title match.

Announcers: JBL, Mauro Ranallo, David Otunga, Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Dean Ambrose, Jojo, Greg Hamilton

1. John Cena vs AJ Styles
2. Finn Balor vs Seth Rollins  for the inaugural Universal Championship
3. The Miz (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dolph Ziggler
4. Dean Ambrose (WWE Champ) vs AJ Styles
5. Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton

1516. Cruiserweight Classic, 2016

Meet the new NXT kids in a massive tournament that ended up crowning the first WWE Cruiserweight champ (though none of them knew that during the tournament). It's basically a schmorgasboard of New Japan, AAA, and "indie" promotions

Announcers: Daniel Bryan, Mauro Ranallo, Corey Graves, William Regal, Mike Rome

1. Johnny Gargano vs Tomasso Ciampa
2. Tajiri vs Mascara Dorado
3. Drew Gulak vs Zach Sabre Jr
4. Akira Tozawa vs Mascara Dorado
5. Brian Kendrik vs Kota Ibushi
6. Mascara Dorado vs Zach Sabre Jr
7. Kota Ibusi vs TJ Perkins
​8. TJ Perkins vs Mascara Dorado

1517. Bash At The Clash, 2016

"It" gets interesting when Kevin Owens's Best Friend Chris Jericho introduces the WWE to The List in this absolute banger of an episode where titles trade hands and best friends reign supreme.

Announcers: Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, JBL, Mauro Ranallo, David Otunga, Tom Phillips, Andrea D'Amarco, Jojo, Greg Hamilton

1. Shaemus vs Caesaro
2. Rusev (WWE US Champ) vs Roman Reigns
3. Chris Jericho vs Sami Zayn
4. Kevin Owens (WWE Universal Champ) vs Seth Rollins
5. The Miz (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dolph Ziggler in a Title Vs Career Match
6. Charlotte (WWE Raw Womens Champ) vs Sasha Banks

1518. The Decay, 2016

This was a really bad year for Impact. Like, really bad. Like, I can't fill two hours with good matches from the entire calendar year bad. So while this is mostly an Impact episode, I've also thrown in a Defiant Wrestling match featuring Ricochet and Drew McIntyre, who was mostly Impact at this point. We also see Bobby Roode's final appearances for Impact before he shows up on NXT next season. 

1. Dollhouse vs Beautiful People
2. Matt Hardy and Will Ospreay vs James Storm and LA Knight (as Eli Drake)
3. The American Wolves vs Decay in a Monster's Ball Match
4. Eric Young (TNA TV Champ) vs Will Ospreay vs Killian Dain vs Thomas Raymond Lattimer (as Bram) vs Jimmy Havoc in a King Of The Mountain Match

5. The American Wolves (Impact Tag Champs) vs Beer Money Inc
7. Eddie Edwards vs Crazzy Steve
8. Mia Yim (as Jade) (Impact Knockouts Champ) vs Madison Rayne
9. Ricochet vs Drew McIntyre (as Drew Galloway) (Impact Champ) in a non-title match
10. Beer Money Inc (Impact Tag Champs) vs Decay
11. Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy in The Final Deletion

1519. You Just Made The List, 2016

More Team Jeriko shenanigans, aother excellent Banks/Flair match from Raw, and the sequel to one of WWE's worst-ever received matches as, more than a decade after their first cursed encounter, Goldberg returns to battle Burrrrrrrrock Lezzzzzznar.

Announcers: Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Jojo

1. Kevin Owens (WWE Universal Champ) vs Seth Rollins in Hell In A Cell
2. Team Raw Tag vs Team Smackdown Tag in a Survivor Series Match
(The Bar, Enzo Amore and Big Cass, The Good Brothers, The New Day, and The Shining Stars vs American Alpha, Breezango, Heath Slater and Rhyno, The Hype Bros, and The Usos)

3. Sasha Banks (WWE Womens Champ) vs Charlotte Flair in a Falls Count Anywhere Match

4. Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg

1520. A Chinderella Story, 2016

James Ellsworth is unlikely to be in the WWE Hall Of Fame. His tenure in the company was short and mostly forgettable. But for a month or two, his involvement in the AJ Styles/Dean Ambrose feud made him the best comedy character since Santino Marella. This is pretty much the entirety of his interesting run. We shan't be revisiting his time with Carmella, as him winning the first ever Womens' Money in The Bank match ranks down there with Santino Marella winning Miss Wrestlemania

Announcers: JBL, Mauro Ranallo, David Otunga, Tom Phillips, Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Dean Ambrose, Jojo, Greg Hamilton

1. AJ Styles (WWE Champ) vs James Ellsworth
2. AJ Styles (WWE Champ) vs James Ellsworth
3. Team Smackdown vs Team Raw in a Survivor Series Match
(AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, James Ellsworth vs Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Braun Stroman)

4. The Miz (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dolph Ziggler in a Ladder Match
5. AJ Styles (WWE Champ) vs Dean Ambrose in a TLC Match

This first half of the season gives us a focus on Starfleet's relation with The Klingons. Kirk's Enterprise deals with Kirk's prejudice against them while The Next Generation spends much of this season dealing with Worf's family.

Then, meet the cast of Deep Space Nine! Bajorans! Cardassians! Whatever Odo is! Their human captain who seems like a nice guy but boyyyyyyy does he hate Picard (with good reasons). We also spend more time with time problems, and there's a sort of crossover between Enterprise and The Next Generation.

Episode 601: The Undiscovered Country (TOSM)
(Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Uhura, Scott, Chekov, Rand, Sarek, Worf)

This is it, the end of The Original Series cast. That offhanded joke I made about The Wrath Of Kirk? Wellllll, he may have gone a little bit speciesist, and his behavior makes him the prime suspect when a Klingon Peace Advocate is assassinated. It's up to the crew of The Enterprise, along with Captain Sulu from The Excelsior (a ship The Enterprise sabotaged back in Search For Spock) to clear Kirk's name. Again, we get a Rand cameo, and we also see Michael Dorn, who played Worf in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, play an unnamed Klingon lawyer, who I like to believe was Worf, and that the kangarooness of the court proceedings led him to quit the bar and join Starfleet. Wave goodbye to the crew. You might see one or two of them pop up in future seasons, but this is the last time the bulk of the cast gets to interact, as it's finally time for The Enterprise to be decommissioned.


Episode 602: Sins Of The Father (TNG)
(Worf, Picard, Riker, Data, Wesley, Laforge, Crusher, Troi)

Last season, we saw Riker transferred to a Klingon ship as part of an exchange program. This season, a Klingon officer comes to work on The Enterprise. But, OH SHIT, it's Worf's younger brother, and he has some distressing family news.


Episode 603: Reunion (TNG)
(Worf, Picard, Riker, Data, Wesley, Laforge, Crusher, Troi)

The fallout of "Sins Of The Father" come into play, and one of Worf's exes shows up to help mitigate it. She's brought a surprise, and so have they.


Episode 604: Allegiance (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Crusher, Troi, Worf, Laforge, Data, Wesley)

It wasn't so long ago that Picard was captured by The Borg and assimilated, so you'd think they'd up security on The Enterprise, but, no, I am unsure if there is a single season where whomever is captaining The Enterprise at any given moment, isn't abducted by someone he can't identify (or Q, it is often Q). This episode serves as a morality play for Picard while the rest of the crew contends with a mostly ineffectual Picard doppelganger.


Episode 605: Future Imperfect (TNG)
(Riker, Picard, Crusher, Laforge, Data, Worf, Troi)

After a noxious gas incident with Worf and Laforge, Riker wakes up to discover he's forgotten sixteen years of his life, and he's now Captain of The Enterprise. This is what Kirk would have called a Tuesday. Will this episode mean the entire chronology jumps forward sixteen years?                                                   No.


Episode 606: Clues (TNG)
(Data, Picard, Crusher, Worf, Laforge, Riker, O'Brien, Guinan)

Data regains consciousness after some sort of event knocks out everyone on board The Enterprise. He believes that thirty seconds have been stolen from the entire crew, but all signs point to something larger and more disconcerting.

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Episode 607: A Matter Of Time (TNG)
(Picard, Crusher, Riker, Data, Laforge, Worf, Troi)

An annoying time traveler (Max Headroom...aka Dr. Leekie from Orphan Black) shows up to observe what he claims is a pivotal mission for The Enterprise. It's a fun twist on a Prime Directive episode as the crew are the ones being kept in the dark to preserve the time continuum Or Whatever. It's mainly fun to watch an actor portray an annoying character and not have it be agonizing to watch.


Episode 608: The Defector (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, Crusher, Laforge, Troi)

For most of the series, the Romulans have been an offscreen threat. We don't even know precisely why they're at war with Starfleet, other than they both want to explore the world and claim it as their own. In this episode, a top officer from The Romulans defects to Starfleet, claiming he knows about a weapon that will change the tide of war.  


Episodes 609 & 610: Emissary (DS9)
(Sisko, Picard, O'Brien, Kira, Odo, Jake, Quark, Dax, Bashir, Keiko, Nog, Gul Dukat)

What war, you might ask? Well, way back in Season Five of this continuity, Capt. Picard became a borg named Locutus who blew up a bunch of Federation ships on his course to destroy Earth (which he failed to do). One of the ships he blew up contained Benjamin Sisko who is now traveling with Picard to an abandoned Cardassian space station called Deep Space Nine. Picard totally killed this guy's wife, so he is Not Pleased with him or the assignment, but he and his son decide to join the crew of Deep Space Nine, anyway, and are joined by Enterprise transporter engineer O'Brien, and his wife, Enterprise botanist Keiko. Plus a ragtag crew of Bajorans, Ferenghi, Trill, and whatever the hell Odo is. The Cardassian space station is the center for the war we learned about in the previous episode.


Episode 611: Amok Time (TOS)
(Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, Uhuru, Chekov, Chapel, T'Pring, T'Pau)

Vulcan love rituals are sooooooooo archaic. Witness Spock's pon farr from the era of The Original Series.


Episode 612:. Spock Amok (SNW)
(Spock, T'Pring, Chapel, Pike, Singh, Uhura, M'Bega, 1, Ortegas, April, Kyle)

It's classic body swap shenanigans when Spock's fiancee visits during a very important diplomatic meeting with a race of moody aliens who are trying to decide whether to align with Starfleet or The Klingons. Oh, and the two "fun-killers" on staff play Enterprise Bingo to get a better emotional connection with the crew. Oh, hey, isn't this pretty much just an alternate version of the previous episode? It even has Chapel in it!


Episode 613 & 614: Redemption (TNG)
(Worf, Picard, Guinan, Data, Riker, Yar)

Let's cool off from that steamy Vulcan lust with a tie into a major storyline, as we revisit the chaos of The Klingon empire. It's a direct sequel to "Reunion", though much time has elapsed. It's a satisfying conclusion(?) to the story arc begun in "Sins Of The Father".


Episode 615: Past Prologue (DS9)
(Kira, Sisko, Bashir, Garak, Odo, O'Brien, Dax, Keiko)

Much of this season focuses on Cardassian and Bajoran war criminals, and how to keep the peace after all the terrible things they did to one another during the war. Deep Space Nine's first officer, Kira, was once a member of a Bajoran underground movement that the Cardassians consider terrorists. When one of her old cohorts shows up, the newly assembled crew needs to figure out how much they can trust each other, and how much they can trust The Cardassians. And what the hell are the sisters of Duras from Redemption doing on Deep Space Nine?


Episode 616: Man Alone (DS9)
(Odo, Sisko, Dax, O'Brien, Keiko, Bashir, Nog, Jake, Quark)

Deep Space Nine's security officer, Odo, has held the post since the station was run by Cardassians, and while some of the Bajorans trust him, everyone is put on edge when a criminal he sent to prison shows up on board and is swiftly murdered.


Episode 617: Pegasus (TNG)
(Riker, Picard, Worf, Data, Troi, Laforge)

After Riker graduated from Starfleet Academy, he served on a ship called Pegasus where Bad Shit Went Down. He and the Captain, another tropey incompetent Starfleet Asshole (a younger John Locke from Lost!) were the only two who escaped. But what did they escape from, and why are the Romulans interested? DUN DUN-DUNNNNN.


Episode 618: The Are The Voyages (ENT/TNG)
(Riker, Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Shran, Soto, Troi, Mayweather, Reed, Phlox, Data)

This is one of the most hated episodes of Star Trek. But more for its context than its content. It was aired as the final episode of Enterprise, which was a slap in the face to the cast of Enterprise, because it's actually a TNG episode. During the events of "Pegasus", Riker goes to the holodeck to examine his problem from multiple angles. To do so, he recreates The Enterprise from Enterprise (I know, I know), and acts as cook, talking with each crew member about different decisions they've made during their Starfleet Career. It would have probably been liked or loved if it had been in the middle of the season instead of the end. I like it as a non-canon chance for Enterprise and TNG to crossover. Because we're going to come back to Enterprise at least once more, and nothing that happens in this episode will have ever happened to them, but it has helped Riker make a difficult decision during "Pegasus".


Episode 619: Babel (DS9)
(Bashir, O'Brien, Sisko, Quark, Odo, Kira, Jake, Dax)

More a companion to Darmok than Journey To Babel or Babel One, the episode focuses on the effects of a Cardassian engineered virus that causes aphasia in its victims. And then they die, of course, unable to express what they're going through.


Episode 620: The Inner Light (TNG)
(Picard, Crusher, Riker, Data, Laforge, Troi)

A probe seeks information from Picard, and to get it, makes him live an entire lifetime where his new family and friends convince him that his life on The Enterprise was a dream.

One of the fun parts of curating your own continuity, is that you can twist episodes around and create entirely new storylines. So this season will introduce us to Q and The Borg, and the concept of The Traveler. But it will also explain Beverly Crusher's long absence from the show, as she disappears in "Remember Me", is replaced by Pulaski with zero explanation, and then returns, along with Tasha Yar after a tear in the fabric of reality occurs in "Yesterday's Enterprise". After that, Pulaski is never mentioned again.

We also get to meet The Gorn this season. We got a brief glimpse of them in the mirrorverse in Season 2 but now we get the original terrible episode of The Original Series, and then see them become a major threat in Strange New Worlds.

I love watching this altered season.

Episode 501: Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG)
(Wesley, Picard, Riker, Crusher, Laforge, Data, Traveler)

An annoying faux-engineer and his alien counterpart, The Traveler, are trying to improve The Enterprise's warp drive. They end up causing the ship to be hurtled far beyond charted space, where they are left at the end of the episode. This is a pro-Wesley episode.


Episode 502: Q Who (TNG)
(Picard, Q, Riker, Troi, Data, Laforge, Crusher)

I LOATHE Q. He's my least favorite recurring character in all of the Star Trek franchise. But there's no denying his existence, as he pops up in some crucial episodes. For my continuity's sake, the crew mever got back to charted territory in the last episode, so they're still trying to figure out where to go when they encounter the weird Q moron, who leads them straight into the cubey hands of the newest Star Trek enemy race: The Borg!


Episode 503: Remember Me (TNG)
(Crusher, Picard, Wesley, Traveler,  Laforge, Wesley, Data, Troi, Worf, O'Brien)

Returning from their Borg mission, Enterprise docks at a Starfleet base. One of Dr. Crusher's old professors visits the ship, but soon after his arrival, he disappears, and there is no record of him ever existing. Slowly, but surely, the whole Enterprise Crew also starts to disappear. This sounds like some Traveler shenanigans.


Episode 504: Peak Performance (TNG)
​(Picard, Riker, Data, Worf,  Wesley, Troi, Pulaski, Laforge, O'Brien)

It's time for war games between Picard and Riker, with the bridge crew being divided between them, as well as Data and a strategy expert (think of an entertainingly weasley chess master) battling over a game of Strategem (think of a Nintendo Wii version of speed chess, that they never explain the rules to...which is to the benefit of the episode). Naturally, something happens that turns the war games into an important life or death struggle. This episode features Pulaski instead of Crusher, as I like to imagine she is still missing from the events of the last episode.


Episode 505: The Emissary (TNG)
(Worf, Picard, Riker, Troi, Data, Laforge, Pulaski, Clancy)

Not my favorite episode but it introduces Worf's ex, a half-Klingon/half-human political ambassador whose existence is vital to later continuity.  Also, still no Beverly Crusher. 


Episode 506: A Matter Of Honor (TNG)
(Riker, Picard, Data, Worf, Wesley, Pulaski, Laforge)

Klingon culture is complicated, and the early episodes of TNG that focus on Worf and his relation with his heritage are Not Very Good. In this episode, we see the Klingons through the lens of Riker, who is assigned as First Officer on a Klingon ship. Some chaos ensues when someone similar to Wesley's friend from the first episode fails to alert either The Enterprise or the Klingon that there is something on the Klingon hull that could destroy the ship.


Episode 507: Elementary My Dear Data (TNG)
(Data, Laforge, Picard, Pulaski, Moriarity, Riker, Worf, Troi, Clancy)

Pulaski suggests that Data work on his problem solving skills on the holodeck, where he and Laforge discover the joys of playing Sherlock Holmes. Then, as they often do, things go awry.


 Episode 508: Contagion (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Laforge, Worf, Data, Troi, Wesley, Pulaski, O'Brien)

A computer related  problem, a lost Starfleet vessel, Romulans, and Pulaski. It's not a great episode, but it has an interesting conceit. And ... no Crusher.


Episode 509: Time Squared (TNG)
(Picard, Pulaski, Riker, Data, Laforge, Troi, O'Brien)

For our continuity's sake, the technological problem from Contagion is the cause of another glitch, this one phases Picard slightly out of synch with the universe. The crew, including Doctor Pulaski, barely manage to fix the problem, and save Picard. But the slight rip in time leads to...


Episode 510: Yesterday's Enterprise (TNG)
(Picard, Data, Yar, Guinan, Riker, Worf, Laforge, Wesley, Crusher)

A rip in time causes a dimensional change that's a bit like The Mirror Universe we explored in Season Three. The crew isn't evil, but their timeline has changed, and Yar, who died last season, is back. When they encounter a previous Enterprise crew (the crew from between TOS and TNG), they know they have to send the ship back to its original time, where they all will die, in order to prevent the Starfleet/Klingon war that dominates this Mirrorverse.  Any scenes with Beverly Crusher before the time rip are edited out. So that there's some shock for the viewers (but not the crew, who don't know that their timeline has been altered) when both she and Tasha Yar are alive again and part of the crew. Unlike Yar, though, Dr. Crusher gets to stick around, and much like in the actual series, Pulaski is never mentioned, as though she never existed at all.


Episode 511: Evolution (TNG)
(Wesley, Picard, Riker, Data, Laforge, Crusher, Worf, Troi)

Dr. Bob Kelso from Scrubs was an insufferable prick in the Star Trek universe, as well. His science mission comes in conflict with one of Wesley's school experiments, which is in conflict with The Enterprise's computer. This is one of the best Wesley episodes in the series, and has him acting like his mom was merely away for a while on a mission, and not that she ceased to exist for a while.


Episode 512: Carbon Creek (ENT)
(T'Pol, Archer, Tucker)

Over dinner, T'Pol is asked to explain a trip she took to Pennsylvania before joining the crew of Enterprise, and we learn that First Contact between humans and Vulcans isn't the story we thought it was. 


Episode 513: Arena (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhuru, Scott, Sulu, Lesley)

There's a reason we skipped over this episode when we were deep in The Original Series. It is TERRIBLE. The acting, the fighting, the alien costumes. Just one of the worst episodes of the series. But comically The Worst as opposed to The Most Boring. And while I don't remember the Metatrons returning, we do encounter The Gorn again in Strange New Worlds, so I figured we should check out their terrible origin.


Episode 514: Momento Mori (SNW)
(Pike, Singh, Spock, 1, Ortegas, M’Benga, Hemmer, Chapel, Uhura)

Oh hey, look, it's The Gorn again! This time, instead of a slow moving, fake looking alien, they're an unseen dangerous menace who wipe out entire colonies. Luckily, Singh has some experience with them and can help try and save The Enterprise from imminent doom.


Episode 515: Sarek (TNG)
(Picard, Sarek, Riker, Crusher, Data, Laforge, Worf, Troi)

The crew of The Enterprise hosts Spock's dad and his ... new wife? It turns out that Sarek has what's essentially Vulcan dementia, and it completely messes with the crew.


Episode 516: Simultude (ENT)
(Trip, Archer, T'Pol, Phlox, Reed, Sato, Mayweather)

While we're basking in our sadness, let's check back with the crew of the first Enterprise. During repairs, Trip is gravely injured, and Phlox suggests a controversial technique, wherein a clone of Trip, with a fifteen day life cycle is created purely to harvest parts of its brain to help Trip recover. It is Dark and Emotionally Draining to watch, but well-written, and fast paced.


Episodes 517 & 518: Best Of Both Worlds (TNG)
(Riker, Picard, Data, Worf, Laforge, Crusher, Wesley, Guinan, Troi)

The Borg are back in town! And they abduct one of The Enterprise crew and turn them into The Borg before heading to Earth to assimilate the human race.


Episode 519: Regeneration (ENT)
(Phlox, Archer, T'Pol.. Reed, Mayweather, Sato, Tucker)

What if, and hear me out on this, Picard's crew Weren't the first humans to interact with The Borg? What if Archer's Enterprise encountered them but just didn't know what they were? What if the cure for assimilation was discovered hundreds of year before Locutus?


Episode 520: Family (TNG)
(Picard, Worf, Troi, Riker, Crusher, Wesley)

After the cataclysmic events of "Best Of Both Worlds", the crew has some down time, and we get some insight on the off-mission lives of Picard, Worf, and the Crushers. This is unlike any other TNG episode, and it's a cool change of pace. And a precursor to something that will take place several seasons in the future.

The purpose of this project was to present a fun chronology for people new to Star Trek or even long term fans who are looking for a new way to watch the series. As such, I've tried to steer clear of the worst episodes of Star Trek. But, I guess if you don't see Any terrible episodes than you don't realize just how good the rest of them are.

This season is our introduction to The Next Generation cast. Now that we've shunted the crew of Discovery into the future, it's time to meet Picard and his crew. because there are no rules to my continuity, I can skip most to all of season one of Next Generation. Spoiler alert: It was awful. The blandest episodes were just homages to the original series, the best episodes tended to focus on Data, and the worst episodes usually involved Q, who we'll meet next season. 

While I've edited out most of the eye-rollingest episodes, there are some bad episodes of TNG that you sort of need to experience to appreciate how they're rectified as the season matured. They're also sort of necessary for major continuity points. Sorry.

I've even shuffled in a bad episode of TOS (and TOS had three seasons of episodes, and maybe three-quarters of a season's worth of good episodes) so you can see that the tropes of Starfleet being incompetent and possibly brimming with madmen has been true since the series first debuted.

Episode 401: Coming Of Age (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Wesley, Crusher, Troi, Worf, Data, Laforge)

In the actual viewing order, this episode of The Next Generation shows up about halfway through the first season, and one of the biggest criticisms of it, is that it has false consequences, as the two major storylines center on crew members possibly leaving the show, which was obviously not going to happen. But while this is not a great episode to endure after you've spent a bunch of time with the crew, it's a great intro.

Starfleet is bastards. We see them from two angles in this episode as an Admiral orders an annoying auditor to investigate Captain Picard's competency while Honorary Ensign Wesley Crusher applies to Starfleet Academy to become an official crew member. As you might expect, not much is at it seems. 


Episode 402: We'll Always Have Paris (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Data, Crusher, Worf, Laforge, Troi)

Starfleet may be bastards, but it's scientists who keep mucking things about TNG. In this case, a disgraced Starfleet scientist has caused time issues not completely unlike "Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad". Data is chosen to solve the problem, as Picard has the very Kirkian problem of having one of his favorite exes show up on board.


Episode 403: Whom Gods Destroy (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, Scott, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, Hadley)

Make no mistake, this is a TERRIBLE episode of Star Trek. It's here to show just how awful Starfleet Bastards can be, as well as give us some Original Series flavor to this season. But it's a bad episode. If you enjoy drinking games, you can probably come up with a couple for this episode.


Episode 404: Conspiracy (TNG)
(Picard, Riker, Data, Crusher, Worf, Laforge, Troi)

A group of rogue Starfleet captains approach Picard about the possibility that Starfleet has been corrupted by an outside source. So when Starfleet orders The Enterprise to a star base, Picard is understandably concerned. When it turns out that the jerky auditor from the first episode, as well as the admiral who sicked the auditor on the ship in the first place, are involved, the crew of The Enterprise springs into action.


​Episode 405: Too Short A Season (TNG)
(Picard, Crusher, Riker, Yar, Worf, Data, Laforge, Troi)

Elderly Starfleet bastards journey to Enterprise to help diffuse a hostage situation. But they are BAD at it.


Episode 406: Strange New Worlds (SNW)
(Pike, Spock, Singh, Ortegas, 1, M’Benga, Hemmer, Chapel, Uhura, T’Pring, April)

Shortly after last season's Discovery fiasco, Cmdr. Pike took a sabattical. Well, it didn't last long before he was called back to Starfleet to track down his missing first officer with a new crew, on his new ship, Enterprise.


Episode 407: Data's Day (TNG)
(Data, O'Brien, Picard, Keiko, Crusher, Troi)

See the ship through Data's eyes, and meet O'Brien's future wife, Keiko. See how Data nearly ruins a wedding but also saves the ship. Also, a cat.


Episode 408: Datalore (TNG)
(Data, Picard, Riker, Yar, Worf, Wesley, Laforge)

It turns out that Data isn't the only android like him. His "brother", Lore, is A Jerk. What happens if he replaces Data as an officer?


Episode 409: Borderlands (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol, Soong, Phlox, Sato, Trip, Reed, Mayweather)

Was the guy who made Data and Lore evil? We may never know. But the original crew of The Enterprise has to deal with a Klingon problem while they're transporting one of Dr. Soong's ancestors who has been messing around with augmented humans who, as it happens, are wreaking havoc with the Klingons.


Episode 410: The Naked Now (TNG)
(Laforge, Wesley, Crusher, Data, Riker, Picard, Yar)

I'm sorry again. This is another Terrible Trek episode but it has major implications for future episodes, including, and especially, Data. This is basically an echo of the TOS episode "Naked Time" but with more naked consequences.


Episode 411 & 412: Cold Station 12/The Augments (ENT)
(Archer, Soong, Phlox, Trip, Reed, T'Pol, Mayweather, Sato)

Back to the original Enterprise's Klingon and Soong problem, The Augments take over the medical facility that holds thousands of augmented embryos. The situation causes Soong to have to choose between humans and Augments, doctors to choose between the potential for life and their already living colleagues, and The Klingons to choose between killing The Augments, killing the humans, or just killing everyone.


Episode 413: The Most Toys (TNG)
(Data, Picard, Riker, Wesley, Laforge, Worf, O'Brien)

DATA IS NOT A TOY. But there is a collector who values the android's worth, and decides to fake Data's death and steal him from Starfleet, and Data makes a Very Human decision to try and escape. This has one of the few I Am Evil villains that I don't mind, as his motives are purely villainous but believable.


Episode 414: Skin Of Evil (TNG)
(Yar, Troi, Picard, Riker, Worf, Laforge, Data, Crusher, Wesley)

This is the worst TNG episode on the list. By far. It's poorly written, has lackluster effects, and it redshirts a major character for contract reasons. Unfortunately, we kind of need to see the character die for ... reasons.


Episode 415: Charlie X (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Rand, Leslie, Nellis)

We reach all the way back to the second ever episode of Star Trek for this story of a god-like teenager wreaking havoc on the crew. It's a solid episode, and the only reason I held it back until now was because there are some excellent Uhura moments, and I wanted to pair it with the following episode.


Episode 416: Q&A/Children Of The Comet (SNW)
(1, Spock, Pike)
(Uhura, Pike, Spock, Singh, Ortegas, 1, M’Benga, Hemmer, Chapel)

On his first day on Enterprise, Spock gets stuck on a turbo lift with #1.

You can tell me all you want about how progressive the Star Trek universe is, and how we live in a post-racial society because we elected a Black President in 2008, but let it be known that it took SIXTY YEARS before Star Trek did an episode centered on Uhuru. Yea, yea, yea, Burnham is the lead in Discovery and she's a woman of color, but the Uhuru character has been around since the 1960s and she didn't get her moment in the spotlight until 2022. It's a really good episode about becoming part of a team, and I hope it means we'll get another Uhura-centric episode before 2081.


Episode 417: Hollow Pursuits (TNG)
(Laforge, Riker, Barclay, Picard, Data, Wesley, Troi , Worf, Crusher)

I hate holodeck episodes, and this is not generally considered one of the best of them, but it does introduce Barclay who ... sigh ... we will be seeing again later.


Episode 418: Mudd's Passion/The Escape Artist (TAS/ST)
(Mudd, Spock, Kirk, Chapel, McCoy, Uhura, Scott)
(Mudd)

I loathe Barclay. The character is an incel who will eventually get completely undeserved redemption, despite still being a misogynist shitbag. The actor who plays him is a bigoted bag of sewage in a human suit. Just typing about the actor or the character make me angry, so to rectify that, here's a character who's a misogynist villain who is actually a delight to watch and is played by someone who seems to have spent his entire career trying to be a better, more tolerant and loving person. Here, we see Mudd trying to escape from his past sins. And it's fun.


Episode 419: Measure Of A Man
(Data, Picard, Riker, Laforge, Pulaski, Worf, Wesley)

Another Starfleet Bastard tries to interfere with The Enterprise by ordering Data to be dismantled so that he can build more androids for Starfleet. When Data, and then Picard refuse, the issue of Data's status as a lifeform goes to trial with Starfleet's JAG (yea, like the court procedural TV show). This is probably the best episode of the season.


Episode 420, brah: Ghosts Of Illyria (ST/SNW)
(1, Singh, Pike, Spock, Ortegas, M’Benga, Hemmer, Chapel, Uhura)

Invasion of the moth people! The crew of The Enterprise is sent to investigate a planet where an entire colony has disappeared. A virus spreads amongst the crew that gets them addicted to light, and we get some great background on the crew.

The Star Trek Movies era was a delight for long time fans who hadn't seen their beloved cast in a decade. And while the first movie is A Chore to sit through, The Wrath Of Khan began a new, self-aware, and sometimes deliberately silly era of Star Trek.

For this season, we're going to spend the first half focused on Spock. He goes missing in the Motion Picture universe AND he was already missing in the Discovery timeline, so it's fun to see various crews trying to track him down. 

We also spend some time with the other first officers, T'Pol and Saru.

The real story of this series, though, is that it's the end of our voyages with Discovery for a looooooooong time.  Also, the cast of The Original Series (and Movies) is going to be seen less frequently going forward. Don't be sad, though, they'll be flashed back to several times in the continuity as reference points for some of the more modern shows.

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Episode 301: The Wrath Of Khan (TOSM)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Khan, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Saavik)

Sure, we're back in the original dimension, but it's many years later. Kirk is an admiral, Spock's back on Vulcan, and Chekov is a commander on The Reliant. On a research mission, Chekov runs into Khan from last season, and is forced into a trap intended to ensnare Kirk. But what's more important to Khan? Killing Kirk or getting his hands on The Genesis Device?


Episode 302: Brother (DIS)
(Burnham, Pike, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Sarek, Grayson, Reno, Linus)

Something major happened to Spock at the end of The Wrath Of Khan, so now we're going to go all the way back to when he was a child, and explore his relationship with Burnham. And, oh yea, Pike is now the temporary captain of The Discovery, as the ship goes off in search of the cause of the Seven Lights. We'll be seeing a lot of him this season.


Episode 303: An Obol For Charon (DIS)
(Burnham, Pike, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Reno, Linus)

Like one of the classic episodes, an unidentified sphere takes control of Discovery, messes with its computer, and turns the whole ship higgledy-piggledy. It also triggers an illness in Saru that is fatal to his species.


Episode 304: Fallen Hero
(Archer, Ph'lox, T'Pol, Reed, Mayweather, Sato, Trip)

First officers having cultural identity problems occur all over the Star Trek timeline. During the Enterprise era, T'Pol must balance her loyalty to the crew with her Vulcan heritage. 


Episode 305: The Sound Of Thunder (DIS)
(Saru, Burnham, Pike, Tyler, Stamets, Culber, Linus)

Everything Saru knew about his species lifespan was a lie, so he decides to break The Prime Directive to set his species free. Plus, Culber is alive again, and Tyler is back on the ship. Awwwwwkwaaaaaaaaaaard.


Episode 306: The Search For Spock (TOSM)
(Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Saavik, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Sarek, Spock)

The Wrath Of Khan is considered by most to be The Best Star Trek movie, and I don't disagree. It sets all the rest of The Star Trek films into motion as a really cool storyarc on aging military personnel desperately clinging to power. Here, the crew of The Enterprise must defy Starfleet to rescue their missing friend. Also, Klingon bastards do Something that will incur The Wrath Of Kirk.


Episode 307: If Memory Serves (DIS)
(Spock, Burnham, Pike, Saru, Stamets, Tilly, Tyler, Georgiou, Culber)

It looks like The Enterprise wasn't the only ship to find Spock. Young Spock is back with Burnham trying to get to the Discovery via Thalos IV, the planet from The Menagerie. What will his involvement due to help them discover the purpose of The Red Angel, and how will it affect Discovery's relationship with Starfleet and Section 31?


Episode 308: Project Daedalus (DIS)
(Spock, Burnham, Pike, Saru, Stamets, Tilly, Ariam, Nhan)

Everyone is on edge on the Discovery. Spock and Burnham, Stamets and Culbert, Pike and Tyler, Ariam and Nhan. Ok, not Tilly. She's still delightful. But someone on board has either been feeding information to Section 31 or else taking information from the Sphere they encountered last season. And it's unclear what they're doing with it. But the now fugitive Discovery is in Section 31 territory and the proverbial fan is oscillating in proverbial feculince.


​Episode 309: The Voyage Home (TOSM)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Uhura, Scott, Sulu, Sarek, Saavik, Rand)

After the events of The Search For Spock, the former Enterprise crew must journey back to 20th century Earth in an unfamiliar vessel in order to bring some whales back to Earth to keep it from being obliterated by an amok probe. It's a weird premise, and the movie is filled with more Colorful Metaphors than you'd expect in a Star Trek film. This is the most honestly funny chapter in TOS, as its humor is based on the various crew members' failure to understand 20th century culture. And it's very much a mid 1980s comedy. It's also fun to see Rand show up again, even if it's Very Briefly.


Episode 310: Cold Front (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol. Phlox, Sato, Mayweather, Tucker, Daniels, Sillik)

A secret war is being waged throughout time, and Archer's Enterprise is somehow stuck in the midst of it.


Episode 311: Perpetual Infinity (DIS)
(Burnham, Spock, Saru, Stamets, Tillly, Culber, Tyler, Pike, Georgiou)

The identy of The Red Angel is finally revealed.


 Episode 312: Through The Valley Of Shadows (DIS)
(Burnham, Tyler, Pike, Spock, Saru, Stammets, Culber, Amanda, L'rell, Reno)

Back to Klingons and family problems, as Burnham, Pike, and friends must visit the home of the Time Crystals which are ... guarded by Tyler and L'rell's son? Oh, Time Crystals, how your wackiness allows us to overcome things like, the passing of time, in order to have an emotional conundrum.


Episodes 313 & 314: The Menagerie (TOS)
(Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Pike, Uhura)

A reshoot of TOS's pilot features Spock appearing to commit mutiny (man, Sarek is a Bad Influence) in order to take his previous captain (and current captain of The Discovery in our chronology) Pike, back to a planet where he was once part of a zoo. Part flashback, part trial, part sci-fi adventure, this two-part episode shows that it was Pike, not Kirk who was into making out with multi-colored aliens.


Episode 315: Twilight (ENT)
(Archer, Phlox, Tucker, T'Pol)

While we're futzing around with time travel, wes check back in with Archer's Enterprise. In trying to save T'Pol, Archer becomes gravely wounded. We flash forward a bit to see how, without Captain Quantum Leap, the crew can't save the world. So Phlox attempts to go back in time and set everything right.


Episode 316:  Deadly Years (TOS)
(Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Chekov, Sulu, Scott, Chapel, Uhura)

A seemingly abandoned planet turns out to actually be a deathtrap, as it causes most (but not all) the people who visit it to age rapidly. That's right, you'll get to see Grandpa Kirk, Wizardly Spock, and a whole bunch of other crew members grow grey over a single episode. Shockingly, no one is mind controlled into thinking they're young. 


Episodes 317 & 318: Shockwave (ENT)
(Archer, Reed, T'Pol. Tucker, Mayweather, Sato, Daniels, Sillik, Forrest, Soval)

More cold war time travel shenanigans make Captain Archer seem responsible for a massive tragedy. Will this be the end of our journey with Archer's Enterprise?


Episodes 319 & 320: Such Sweet Sorrow (DIS)
(Burnham, Spock, Pike, Saru, Stammets, Georgiou, Stammets, Tilly, Tyler, Culber, Sarek, Amanda, Reno,  L'rell)

It's not at all going to be the end for our journey with Archer's Enterprise but this episode will mark our final adventure with the crew of Discovery for a long while. Maybe ever? *clears throat* Discovery! Enterprise! Control! Starfleet! A thing that must be destroyed lest it fall into the wrong hands! Timestream manipulation! Sacrificed characters! Nannites! It's a game changing adventure for everyone as we say goodbye to the USS Discovery and Season Three.

Star Trek introduced some of the greatest tropes in TV history. While some of the episodes can be difficult to watch through a modern lense, you can't deny that, despite many well-intentioned missteps, the original series did many long-term wonderful things for cultural diversity in television, as well as bringing us ridiculously fun ideas that other sci-fi shows, books, movies, and comics would pay homage to.

We saw a few in season one, and we get a few minor ones early on here with some time travel shenanigans, and running into a ship in distress that turns out to be filled with criminals. The big one for this season, though? THE MIRRORVERSE.

That's right, after Kirk's crew encounters a weird space anomaly with The Defiant sticking out of it (a ship we will see again...mostly in Deep Space Nine), the crew of not just Kirk's Enterprise but also Archer's Enterprise and Lorca's Discovery all end up in a universe where there are different versions of themselves with different motivations. Many of them have goatees and Are Evil. 

We will end this season coming out of the mirrorverse and seeing what is in store for the various crews in the blissfully restored reality we got used to in season one and the front half of season two.

We also introduce a new show this season, The Animated Series. There are no new characters, as it's basically just an extension of The Original Series but in animated form. 

Episode 201: This Side Of Paradise (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura)

Mellow out, man. Even Spock gets groovy in this tale of a planet that keeps everyone chillaxed and on the serious harmonius vibology. Will someone narc them out to Starfleet so they can get back to The Man's duty?


Episode 202: Yesteryear / Lethe (TAS/DIS)
(Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Sarek, Amanda)
(Burnham, Sarek, Amanda, Saru, Tyler, Tilly, Stammets, Lorca, Culber, Detmer)

An animated episode? Yes. Fun with Spock and time travel and portals! On the way back from a time adventure, Spock and Kirk return, only to find that nobody on The Enterprise knows who Spock is. Let's see if poorly animated space travelers can restore the timeline!

Then, we learn that Spock's mummy and daddykins raised an adopted human daughter named Mike Burnham. You know, the protagonist of Discovery. So when Sarek ends up on the brink of death, it's his fully human daughter who comes to his rescue.


Episode 203: Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad (DIS)
(Burnham, Tyler, Mudd, Stammets, Lorca, Saru, Tilly)

It's time loop madness when Mudd comes back to exact his revenge on Lorca and Tyler for leaving him in the Klingon prison last season.


Episode 204: I, Mudd 
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Mudd, Scott, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov)

And now it's time for Mudd to have his revenge on Enterprise for what *they* did to him last season. Why so angry Muddsy? You have an entire planet of hot cloned androids to keep you company. Why would you ever want to get away from them?


Episode 205: Operation Annihilate! (TOS)
(Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Uhura)

Kirk's family lives on an outpost where something is going horribly awry.  Hopefully,  they'll be able to help out with---oh, it's another mind control thing? Yikes. This seems to be happening an awful lot. Maybe this time they'll just kill all the mind controllers in the universe, and they can start trusting each other again.


Episode 206: Immunity Syndrome (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Scott, Uhura, Chapel)

Another new type of...alien?...planet?...galaxy?...dimens---what is going on in this episode? Will the crew have to make an ultimate sacrifice to save the universe? I mean, probably not. We are only six episodes into the second season. But maybe one of the cast will die this time to establish some stakes. Maybe?


Episode 207: Space Seed (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, Khan, McCoy, Scott, Uhura)

The Enterprise stumbles on an abandoned ship filled with prisoners once jettisoned from Earth, including a certain sexpot with the name Kirk most likes to yell in his sleep. That's right, it's the debut of KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!


Episode 208: Shore Leave (TOS)
(Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Uhura)

This season has been so taxing. The crew rather desperately needs some R&R, so they find an abandoned planet, send Sulu and McCoy to check it out, and prepare for a nice, uneventful time. Wait. Did McCoy just see The White Rabbit from Alice In Wonderland? Is he on shrooms? Are there people here? Are we back in mind control territory? Damn it, will the crew ever get to properly relax?


Episode 209: Dead Stop (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol, Reed, Trip, Mayweather)

The Tellarites give the crew of The Enterprise some terrible advice, and they end up getting repairs from a surreal space station. Crew members will die! Plots will twist. 


Episode 210: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky (TOS)
(McCoy, Kirk, Spock, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, Chapel)

A McCoy-centric episode where they visit a ship full of people who don't know they're on a ship. There's a love plot, the possibility of a character being left behind, and some mind-control, so it's pretty tropey, but fun!


211: Metamorphosis (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Leslie, Zefram)

Particularly during TNG and Enterprise, the Star Trek franchise loves to wax poetic abnout the inventor of warp technology, Zefram Cochrane. Well, here's his first appearance in our watchthrough.  Here, he falls in love with an intangible ball of living energy. Ahhh, the classic forbidden love.


212 & 213: Broken Bow (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol, Phlox, Reed, Mayweather, Sato, Tucker, Zefram)

Hey, it's Zefram again! Here we see his first inteaction with aliens (which we'll see again in a few seasons), and also see the origin of this version of the Enterprise's crew. Oh, sure, we've already seen them a bunch in this chronology, but these were the first episodes of the series that was aired, so it's sort of a flashback origin story for us!


Episode 214: Tholian Web (TOS)
(Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Chapel, Chekov, Kirk)

The beginning of a dimension expanding saga finds The Enterprise Crew encountering The Defiant, another Starfleet ship that appears to be phasing through dimensions. When Kirk also phases, Spock decides the ship can't leave the location, even though an alien species called the Tholians are ensnaring The Enterprise in a web that could doom them to the same fate.


Episode 215 & 216: In A Mirror, Darkly (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol, Phlox, Sato, Mayweather, Reed, Forrest)

So where did The Defiant go when it phased? The Mirrorverse. An alternate dimension where good and evil are flip-flopped, and nobody behaves in a familiar way. The crew of The Mirrorverse Enterprise become embroiled in a political conundrum where they think their best chance of survival is to take The Defiant as their new ship.


Episode 217: Mirror, Mirror (TOS)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Uhura, Chekov)

It's TOS's crew's turn to explore the Mirrorverse, as Kirk ends up in the topsy-turvy world where crew members must kill to be promoted. Will Spock help him return to his home dimension? I mean, he must, otherwise this would be the end of the series, right?


Episode 218: Despite Yourself (DIS)
(Burnham, Saru, Tyler, Stamets, Tilly, Lorca)

Oh no! Discovery is ALSO caught in the Mirrorverse? This is crazypants. But unlike the other series, there seems to be a reason for them being here besides random chance. 


Episode 219: Vaulting Ambition (DIS)
(Burnham, Saru, Tyler, Stammets, Tilly, Lorca, Georgiou)

There is Definitely a reason that Discovery ended up in The Mirror Universe, and as they try and figure their way back into the regular universe, we (the audience...not so much the crew) learn the messed up truth behind all of their adventures so far.


Episode 220: What's Past Is Prologue (DIS)
(Lorca, Georgiou, Burnham, Saru, Tyler, Stammets, Tilly)

Once the crew catches up with the audience, they are even more motivated to get the hell out of the Mirrorverse. Turns out pretty much nothing is ever as it seems. I'm sure their return to the regular universe will make everything status quo again, though. Isn't that how Star Trek works?