Most COVID-19 relevant Treks?

[Phily B]

I was watching TNG Season 1 before and the Enterprise crew started coming down with a severe respiratory virus almost unrelated to the episode's plot. It was the Haven episode, I think. It was weird cause I don't remember it at all lol.

 

[Farscape One]

"Angel One"

 

[Tim Thomason]

TAS: "Albatross" deals with finger-pointing in the aftermath of a plague. We still have that to look forward to.

I'm not going to do any finger-pointing. It's the other guys who will do all the finger-pointing. What's their problem?

 

[thribs]

Star Trek Voyager Homecoming is pretty apt. I just read that recently.

 

[Captain Clark]

Definitely the Quickening

 

[Sakonna]

I was watching TNG Season 1 before and the Enterprise crew started coming down with a severe respiratory virus almost unrelated to the episode's plot. It was the Haven episode, I think. It was weird cause I don't remember it at all lol.

I swear, I think I have this experience everytime I rewatch "Angel One." That plotline is so forgettable, yet also so huge and dramatic! It's weird that the stakes of the A story are so low -- save these few guys who don't actually want saving? -- contrasted with this B story where the stakes are "everyone on board is about to die horribly of the plague!"

 

[Lance]

I was watching TNG Season 1 before and the Enterprise crew started coming down with a severe respiratory virus almost unrelated to the episode's plot. It was the Haven episode, I think. It was weird cause I don't remember it at all lol.

"Angel One"

I swear, I think I have this experience everytime I rewatch "Angel One." That plotline is so forgettable, yet also so huge and dramatic! It's weird that the stakes of the A story are so low -- save these few guys who don't actually want saving? -- contrasted with this B story where the stakes are "everyone on board is about to die horribly of the plague!"

It would be remiss of me not to note at this point Youtube user MajorGrin's fantastic compilation that draws a very deliberate parallel with our current crisis (watch it all the way through, it's brilliant).

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[frankieteardrop]

Dear Doctor (ENT)
Sure, we could do something to stop this whole mass death. But you know, we feel more like letting it run its natural course and watch it from above. See you around, fuckers!

I recently started a re-watch of ENT and arrived at this episode last night. Even the specifics of the epidemic seemed eerily familiar:

PHLOX: You're treating them with a synthetic antibody?
ESAAK: It's effective at first, but the disease mutates. Once it moves into the respiratory system there's no way of controlling it. Pulmonary failure usually follows in a few days.

 

[Lord Garth]

"Night" (VOY)

You're stuck inside, can't go anywhere, going stir crazy. No end in sight. And time to reflect on stuff. Too much time.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

For the people wigging out about “gubbmint overreach” and the economy, one might take some lessons from “The Ensigns of Command.”

You know, when Data has to convince a bunch of stubborn Gomers to act in their own best interests so they don’t die, while they keep going on about “muh freedumbz!”

“This is just a thing, and things can be rebuilt. Lives cannot.”

 

[Nightdiamond]

Dear Doctor (ENT)
Sure, we could do something to stop this whole mass death. But you know, we feel more like letting it run its natural course and watch it from above. See you around, fuckers!

Exactly.

I was going to recommend this one too. They had the cure for it too, but ended up withholding it, or discussed withholding it because of some bizarre scientific jabbity jook.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Star Trek First Contact. "Don't let them touch you!"

 

[MAGolding]

Thinking about the groups protesting the closing down of most activities in the USA, I can't help thinking about TOS "The Way to Eden" and Dr. Sevrin's refusal to face the facts..

 

[Tim Thomason]

With the release of a bunch of new Doctor Who online videos, and a recent entire new episode of Parks and Recreation, we might be getting a COVID-related Star Trek episode/special sooner than later.

It would probably be in the form of a short (Short Trek?), and the question arises, of course, on its canonicity and acceptability. Would it be available on YouTube or CBS All Access or both? What would the episode contain if it's only produced via at-home people with their own equipment (probably supplied by CBS)? Maybe just Avery Brooks video-chatting with Jonathan Frakes or Jolene Blalock in a wig chatting up Simon Pegg all with a greenscreen background showing a static image.

 

[Farscape One]

It occurs to me that VOYAGER's "NIGHT" is a good candidate. While not a disease episode, it does deal with some of effects of a long, isolated journey for the crew.

 

[Lord Garth]

"Critical Care" (VOY) It summarizes everything wrong the American Healthcare System. Which is more relevant than ever with Covid-19. Elitists only care if they're the ones in danger.