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. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/enchantmentofeternity
Episodes
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episode 26 "Tears of the Prophets" explained. Join me as I review and recap the Season 6 finale; a finale that doesn't quite do this amazing season justice. It tries to be a sequel to "The Reckoning" which wasn't one of the best of the season, and it has to kill off Jadzia Dax because Rick Berman harrassed and Terry Ferrel off the show. And it does kind of a half assed job of it, and they could h...
In this video I review episode 25 of Season 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "The Sound of her Voice"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 26 "Hope and Fear" explained. Join me as I review and recap the season 4 finale, which as a finale was okay, maybe a tad disappointing. It does pay off a lot of the storylines in season 4, mainly Seven of Nine's character arc and integration into the crew. It resolves the ongoing storyline of the damaged message from Starfleet in "Hunters" (although I would argue in an unsatisfying way). And it r...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episode 24 "Time's Orphan" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that doesn't really need to exist. There is a cornel of a good idea here, like it would have been interesting if an 18 year old Molly could actually talk and normally interact with people but was raised by weird aliens. And if she remained this old, but instead we got an "wolf child" cliché which I just did not find i...
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 25 "One" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode where Seven is all alone on Voyager with only the Doctor for company as the crew is in stasis. It's a decent idea which starts out interestingly enough, but then it attempts to do a "Shining" -esque creepy mind binder and it fails and comes off as silly and goofy. And plus it gets kind of boring just having Seven of Nine wandering the ...
Join me as I cover the worst episode of the Star Trek Franchise
Originally uploaded to youtube on August 24th, 2020
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 24 ""Demon" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that explores a dangerous planet, something that has been done before in "Parturition" and it explores the concept of Voyager almost being dead in the water because it is desperately running out of deuterium something that was done before in several episodes, most notably "Resistance" and where duplicates are made of the Voyager cre...
Join me as I cover a misfire of an episode that portrays a crew that's too stupid to be in Starfleet regardless of age, and whom you're glad they get the death they earned at the end. "Valiant"
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 8th, 2016
Join me as I cover the episode that deals with history and getting it right: "Living Witness"
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 15th, 2015
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episode 21 "The Reckoning" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that goes deep into Fantasy territory where two gods (one good, one evil) possess one of our main characters and then have a battle where there stand there and shoot beams of light from their chests. Some people find this ridiculous, but I'm okay with it. For one: Star Trek has always been a bit of a sci-fi / fantasy,...
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 22 "Unforgettable" explained. Join me as I review and recap the most ironically named episode of the show as it is in fact very forgettable. It's an interesting concept and I like that they give Chakotay something to do, but it's very poor execution. This episode loses all weight or investment because you know the love interest will just be gone by the next episode. This would have been way more ...
Join me as I cover the episode that inroduces the worst character in the entire Star Trek franchise: Vic Fontaine, but it also begins one of the best couples of the entire franchise: Odo and Kira, so it's a mixed bag.
Originally uploaded to youtube sometime in 2015
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 21 "The Omega Directive" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that I most remember as being that other lesser episode that aired the same night as "In the Pale Moonlight". However it's a decent episode that furthers Seven of Nine's character story. The concept of a secret hidden directive that only Captains know about is slightly hard to swallow but still an interesting one. Seven...
Join me as I cover one of the best episodes of the entire franchise.
Originally uploaded to youtube on September 9th, 2019
Join me as I cover the introduction of Section 31 which is actually just another boring falsely accused episode
Originally uploaded to youtube on November 12th, 2016
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 15 "Retrospect" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that's a bit problematic, particularly in this time period as it questions whether victims should be believed. Apparently this was not the intention of the writers who were attempting to comment on the dangers of unreliable technology, but that means that this is a poorly written script that didn't meet the goals it set out to, ...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episode 17 "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" explained. Join me as I review and recap an episode with one of the worse retcons and one of the most reckless uses of time travel. Ira Steven Behr was bitter that Nana Visitor rightfully shoot down the dumb idea that Kira and Dukat should have a love affair, so in spite he instead made Dukat have an affair with her mother instead, which is a terribl...
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 15 "Retrospect" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that's a bit problematic, particularly in this time period as it questions whether victims should be believed. Apparently this was not the intention of the writers who were attempting to comment on the dangers of unreliable technology, but that means that this is a poorly written script that didn't meet the goals it set out to, ...
Join me as I cover an underrated gem of an episode, that's the best Worf and Dax episode that poses a thought provoking moral dilemma, while being one of the best romance episodes in Trek.
Originally uploaded to youtube on March 24th, 2018
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 15 "Retrospect" explained. Join me as I review and recap the episode that's a bit problematic, particularly in this time period as it questions whether victims should be believed. Apparently this was not the intention of the writers who were attempting to comment on the dangers of unreliable technology, but that means that this is a poorly written script that didn't meet the goals it set out to, ...
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