Star Trek has always been a franchise built on big ideas. It pushed boundaries from the start and it kept raising the bar with every series and film. But not every bold idea made it to the screen.

Prime Factors' wrote a check that Voyager's episodic nature could rarely cash–but it was still worth writing anyway.

The movie stars Frakes refers to are Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti. Hunter plays the captain and chancellor of the eponymous ...