The Nexus #93 "All Our Yesterdays" / "Future Imperfect" (Patreon)

On this month's trip into the Star Trek universe on The Nexus, we're talking about a solid Riker episode of TNG and the PENULTIMATE episode of TOS! 

First up, that second-to-last TOS episode is "All Our Yesterdays," which originally aired back on March 14, 1969. This slashed-budget ep features the Core Three heading down to a supposedly "uninhabited" planet and immediately finding life, wow, weird! They get separated into two different periods of time in this planet's history, and Spock and McCoy kinda fight over a lady during this planet's Ice Age, while Kirk is trapped in a different Witchfinder General-esque timeline battling with musketeers and crooked jailers— and there are literally no other Star Trek characters in this episode! Shrug.

Then over on TNG, it's the Riker-heavy ep, "Future Imperfect," which aired on November 10, 1990. This is the one where Riker wakes up after an away mission accident and 16 years have seemingly passed! Picard is now an admiral working to negotiate a truce with the Romulans, Data is Riker's Number One, Jonathan Frakes looks like an older Orson Welles in that age make-up, and Riker himself is sidled with a rotten child who sucks at the trombone and a dead wife he doesn't even remember meeting!

The Nexus is a WHM podcast where the guys futilely go through two Star Trek series at the same time. Thank you so much for continuing to support our family of shows—we couldn't do it without you! We know you have lots of options for podz and we're super-stoked you chose to spend some time with us—thanks again!

Cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.