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The crew of the Enterprise find a bizarre hotel on an otherwise uninhabited planet in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'The Royale.'

Few actors could go toe to toe with Michael Dorn on Star Trek, but Suzie Plakson did so brilliantly, but that itself started a small production crisis.

TV Guide marks the 30th anniversary of The X-Files by ranking the top 30 episodes of the Fox sci-fi drama, which starred Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 finale reminds us that it is no longer the 1990s, no matter how hard one might wish otherwise.

Stardate: 42901.3 Captain’s Log: Riker’s poker game is interrupted by a Class-11 emergency signal, which is parsimonious with specifics, only that the ship is to divert to a set of coordinates, with further instructions forthcoming. With a due sense of anticipation and dread, Picard orders the ship to those coordinates, which is outside the Boradis system, which was colonized within the past three decades. Admiral Gromek tells Picard that they must meet up with a special emissary who is tra...

Stardate: unknown Captain’s log. Torres is doing orbital skydiving on the holodeck, albeit with the safeties disengaged. In mid-free-fall, she’s summoned to engineering, but she fobs off her duties onto Seven, to the latter’s surprise. Voyager is launching their fancy-shmancy new multispatial probe, incorporating Borg design elements Seven has provided. However, while it’s gathering data, a Malon freighter snags it in a tractor beam. Tuvok is able to command the probe to send a polaron ...

Stardate: 46682.4 Captain’s Log. The Enterprise has arrived at the Remmler Array for a maintenance procedure known as a baryon sweep—it basically wipes away all the space gunk that’s accumulated over five years. Because the sweep is fatal to all organic matter, we open with the ship in a massive flurry of activity as folks prepare to evacuate. After Picard puts out some organizational fires—stasis units for Crusher, opening a transporter for Troi to aid in evac, etc.—he shares a turb...