Overview
This is the best of the four seasons, as the show found its footing just in time to be cancelled. I really enjoyed the season, and while I wouldn’t say the Riker storyline from the finale was my favourite, it was still well done. A great season overall, back to regular trek storylines and getting to know different species better.
Episodes That I Liked
There were seven separate episodes that I rated 5/5, which suggests a really good season, right? Well, yes and no. First, the “yes” side. Three episodes dealt with the Vulcans (E07, 08, and 09) with an Embassy bombing, mind-melds, and ancient artifacts. A little uneven within an episode, but a great trio together. Episodes 13, 14, and 17 dealt with Romulans, Andorians, and the Orion Syndicate quite well — good, solid episodes. And then EP21, setting up the series finale with saving “Terra Prime” to save “Starfleet” was again, quite good.
I rated ten more episodes as 4/5, with alt-history time travel to WWI (E01 and 02), and time on Earth (E03). Episodes 05 and 06 focused on Augments, episodes 12/13/15 focused on Andorians and Klingons. We had the mandatory alt-universe visit for E18 that started off strong and then fizzled. And, of course, the finale, which was “okay”, but I wasn’t a big fan of the story trick of having Riker watch everything as if it was a holodeck recreation.
Episodes That Were Watchable
Despite a strong season, three were only rated 3/5, with one about transporter beam stuff (E10), genetically modified humans (E04) that turned into the Augments in E05-06, and aliens observing humans under stress (E11).
Episodes That I Didn’t Like
I already mentioned above that the alt-universe storyline fizzled? Yep, E19 was a total snoozer. So, too, was E20 about Xenophobes on the moon around Earth. Yawn.
List of Episodes from Season 4
| S04E01 | Storm Front Pt 1 | Alt History 101 – Change WWII | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E02 | Storm Front Pt 2 | Chickens, eggs, and time travel | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E03 | Home | You can’t go home again | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E04 | Borderland | GM humans attack a Klingon ship | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
| S04E05 | Cold Station 12 | Augments look for their cousins | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E06 | Augments | Paranoia often befalls the prideful | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E07 | Forge | Embassy bombing on Vulcan? Illogical | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E08 | Awakening | A mind-meld hangover is brutal | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E09 | Kir’Shara | Ancient relics speak to present day | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E10 | Daedalus | Beam me back from 15 years ago | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
| S04E11 | Observer Effect | Observing human reactions | 🐸🐸🐸⚪⚪ |
| S04E12 | Babel One | Tellerites vs. Andorians…and Romulans? | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E13 | United | Even Romulans like drones | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E14 | Aenar | Telepathic Andorians…well, that’s new | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E15 | Affliction | A Klingon virus requires Phlox’s help | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E16 | Divergence | Oh, so that’s what happened to ridges | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E17 | Bound | Orion Syndicate makes some moves | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E18 | In A Mirror, Darkly Pt 1 | Alt universes kick butt | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
| S04E19 | In A Mirror, Darkly Pt 2 | And then I yawned | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
| S04E20 | Demons | Xenophobes on the moon…shocking | 🐸🐸⚪⚪⚪ |
| S04E21 | Terra Prime | Save Starfleet, save the Federation | 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 |
| S04E22 | These Are The Voyages | Holodeck for all good things | 🐸🐸🐸🐸⚪ |
The Bottom Line
Solid season, the best of the four years…and then it was cancelled.
