Primeval - 3.01 featuring the Egyptian Suncage

An anomaly opens at the British Museum where Sarah Page works. Captain Becker joins the team.

Sort of a shame they didn't use the mythological creatures angle more in season 3.

Seven out of ten.

Primeval - 3.06 featuring Terror Birds

Christine Johnson takes over the ARC, with Danny, Connor, Abby and Sarah escaping to what they believe is a safe site, but is, instead, an anomaly through which Terror Birds are emerging. Lester is dismissed and Becker is kept on by Christine. Abby's brother holds a poker game in her flat.

Eight out of ten.

Primeval - 2.07 featuring Leek's Zoo

Cutter, Jenny, Abby and Connor are held by Helen and Leek at Leek's zoo, while Stephen deals with a giant sand scorpion released by Leek unto a beach.

I am still annoyed that Stephen hasn't been brought back to life.

Eight out of ten.

Primeval - 2.03 featuring Sabre-tooth Tigers

The team tries to track down a potential Sabre-Tooth Tiger in an amusement park.

Seven out of ten.

Sanctuary - 1.11 Instinct

The team hunts an abnormal in a warehouse while in the company of a local TV reporter and camera man before the police arrive.

It evokes memories of the movie Cloverfield with the hand-held video style and the heard but never seen camera man providing commentary. The episode reaches a typical end with the camera man's death and the team destroying/obtaining the footage.

Seven out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.05 Remember Me

Beverly Crusher is the only one to notice when people begin to go missing from the Enterprise.

Seven Star ships out of ten.

Notes

• The last to vanish were Wesley and finally Picard.
• The Traveller returns

Doctor Who - R1.05 World War Three

Rose and the Doctor battle the Slitheen at 10 Downing Street.

The Slitheen are scarier once they start hunting.

Eight TARDISes out of ten.

Notes

• Doctor guilt & sympathy for the dead, apologizes to them
• Taking power to gain access to Britain's nuclear weapons
• The Doctor was always able to escape the cabinet room but method is risky to those inside.
• The Doctor offers to take Mickey and Mickey refuses

Quotes
"I could save the world but lose you." - The Ninth Doctor to Rose Tyler

Doctor Who - R1.04 Aliens of London

Rose and the Doctor return to present day London a year after Rose left to the arrival of aliens to Earth.

The Slitheen are rather silly looking.

Eight TARDISes out of ten.

Notes

• A boy spray paints BAD WOLF on the side of the TARDIS.
• Big Ben is destroyed by the alien's ship.
• Harriet Jones is introduced. 
• The Doctor give Rose a key to the TARDIS.

Quotes
"I don't do families." - The Ninth Doctor

Star Trek - 2.15 Journey to Babel

The Enterprise is taking a large group of ambassadors of the Federation to a council at Babel, including Mr. Spock's parents, the Vulcan Ambassador Sarek and his human wife, Amanda.

The old rare blood type trope, but you'd think they'd have a reasonable blood substitute by then.

Notes

• Spock hasn't been home in 4 years, and hasn't to his father as a father in 18 years.
• Sarek is secretly proud of his son being a Starfleet officer according to Amanda.
• Vulcans used to execute people.
• Sarek is 102 years old.
• Gratuitous shirtless Kirk scene
• Spock uses an experimental drug on himself to enable Bones to correct Sarek's heart defect.
• Bones seemed rather to have a full sickbay with Sarek, Spock and Kirk in there as patients at the end. 

Doctor Who - R1.03 The Unquiet Dead

Rose and the Doctor visit Cardiff at Christmas on 1869 and meet Charles Dickens and investigate why the dead are refusing to rest.

I rather liked that somewhere at the back of the TARDIS there is a closet full of period clothing for companions.

Eight TARDISes out of ten.

Notes 

• Bad Wolf mentioned by Gwyneth when she was reading Rose 
• Rose and the Doctor battle the Gelth.
• Introduced of the Cardiff rift. 
• Foreshadowing of Rose thinking about her deceased father
• Gelth claim to have been disembodied by the Time War and few in number and could use dead bodies.
• Turns out there were a few billion. 
• Rose is suffering from the misconception that she can't die in the past. The Doctor says history is in flux and the future could be rewritten by what happen there and now.

Quotes

"It's a different morality. Get used to it or go home." - The Ninth Doctor to Rose Tyler

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.04 Suddenly Human

The Enterprise brings a human male teenager who had been raised by Talarians.

Picard's difficulty with children is revisited. I'm wondering if they were trying to attract a younger audience this season as this is the third episode in a row to feature younger guest stars. You'd think the soundproofing in a 24th century star ship my be better. The resolution of the episode felt rather rushed.

Six starships out of ten.

La Femme Nikita - 1.02 Friend

A friend from Nikita's childhood causes complications with the current operation.

Seven out of ten.

La Femme Nikita - 1.01 Nikita

Nikita is recruited into Section 1 under Michael's tutorage.

I'm not sure if I saw this one or not the first time through. A fast-paced set-up for the series.

Seven out of ten.

Stargate Atlantis - 1.18 The Gift

The residents of Atlantis prepare for the Wraith assault and Teyla suffers nightmares.

I found the therapy sessions rather boring, but I usually do. I liked the disagreement between the scientist and soldiers about the prospects of holding the city

Eight out of ten.

Star Trek: Voyager - 6.01 Equinox, Part 2

Voyager's crew races to track down the Equinox which has Seven and the Doctor aboard.

A rather disturbing performance by Robert Picardo.

Eight out of ten.

Star Trek: Voyager- 5.26 Equinox, Part 1

Voyager comes to the aid of another Starfleet ship in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Equinox.

I don't remember seeing this episode before and it's rather interesting.

Eight out of ten

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 2.15 Pen Pals

The Enterprise investigates a planet that is rapidly becoming uninhabitable and Wesley is assigned the planetary survey. Data communicates with a young alien on the surface of the planet.

Seven out of ten.

Star Trek: Voyager - 4.26 Hope and Fear

While still trying to decode the message from Starfleet the crew meets an alien with a flair for translation.

An okay episode, but rather underwhelming as a season finale.

Seven out of ten.

Star Trek: Voyager - 4.24 Demon

Running critically short of deuterium, Voyager attempts to harvest it from a "Demon" class planet which is extremely inhospitable to most life forms.

Great, so now most of the crew has demon planet clones.

Seven out of ten.

The X-Files - 1.21 Tooms

Eugene Tooms is released from the Sanitarium and Mulder and Scully try to put him in jail before he murders again.

Tooms again! Yay! And Skinner! Loved that Tooms murdered his therapist.

Eight out of ten