What We Do
- Episode reviews!
- Art and comics from Malachi Ward and contributing artists.
- Ratings, rankings, lists, essays, and other forms of analysis to foster discussions about the shows
We certainly aren’t the first to do a thorough review site for Star Trek, we just want to join in on the fun. Maybe you never gave a particular series much of a chance and want to check it out? Maybe you want to revisit a show you loved and haven’t seen since it aired? Maybe you just want to re-watch a show you may have already seen 10 times? Why not watch it together?
If you’re interested in contributing art (or any type of writing), email us at letswatchstartrek@gmail.com
Who We Are
Let’s Watch Star Trek was started by Malachi Ward and Sam Ward.
Malachi Ward is a cartoonist living in South Pasadena, CA. He is the co-creator of the science fiction series Expansion with Matt Sheean, and the author of the Ritual series for Revival House Press. He’s been published by Image Comics, Fantagraphics and Nobrow Press. Recently he wrote/illustrated a story in the 2019 Star Trek: Waypoint Special put out by IDW. He is currently working as an artist for an upcoming Netflix animated series, and always has ongoing comics projects. Check out his patreon to keep up with everything he’s doing!
Sam Ward had some free time. You can follow him on twitter
We grew up loving The Next Generation and some of the movies. We weren’t intensely dedicated to Star Trek at the time, and didn’t have much familiarity with the other shows. In the last few years we have gone back and given a closer look to each series and have come to love them to an embarrassing extent, as will be well documented by this site.
Our Rating System
0 – Very rarely given out. I think I only have a couple episodes in all of Star Trek that will get a 0. It means it’s never worth watching, and people would probably be better off if they never saw it.
1 – A bad episode, usually containing something embarrassingly stupid/silly. If we find ourselves particularly frustrated with an episode, we’ll give it a 1. Sometimes we’ll give episodes a 1 if we just can’t find anything worth watching in it.
2 – Mediocre. We actually like a lot of the episodes we give a 2, but we recognize it might be an episode only for one of those fans blinded by their dedication to Star Trek. A lot of times we try to imagine a person new to the show who may be on the fence about wanting to watch a bunch of Star Trek, and if we think that person should skip an episode because it might be too dull, or a turnoff, we’ll give it a 2.
3 – A 3 in our book is actually pretty high marks. It means we would recommend a person watch the episode in they are new to the show and might only be somewhat interested in Star Trek. We’ve given episodes a 3 even when we think they are really solid and fun to watch.
4 – A 4 is a particularly special episode. We’ll normally give two or three of these out per season. Generally just a great episode.
5 – Extremely rare, and extremely good. We probably will only give a 5 out to our absolute favorite episodes in an entire series. It means it’s arguably in the top 5 episodes from all of Star Trek.
For The Animated Series we use a simpler Watch or Skip rating