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Celebrate the Summer of Sweet Revenge With These Star Trek Episodes, Part Three

Celebrate the summer's end with these sweet episodes!


A collage of images from various episodes is set against a psychedelic background.

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As the Summer of Sweet Revenge heads into its final month, we’ve got one last list of episodes that will give you the best moments of sweet revenge throughout the franchise. Read on, and share your favorite moments of Sweet Revenge on social!

Star Trek: The Original Series - "I, Mudd" (Season Two, Episode Eight)

Captain Kirk (The Original Series) and his crew smile at the end of an episode.

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Space huckster Harcourt Fenton Mudd has returned, and boy is he steamed at Kirk for foiling his scheme from Season One. He’s back with an army of android women powered by the battery of revenge.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Sins of the Father" (Season Three, Episode Seventeen)

Worf stands in a darkened room.

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Generational slights lead to a secret alliance, then the gravest injustice of all: Lt. Worf’s discommendation by the Klingon High Council. The joke’s on them in just a few years when he ends up Chancellor, of course, but it still has a bite worse than a rabid targ!

Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Reunion" (Season Four, Episode Seven)

Worf embraces his son, Alexander.

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Worf’s baby mama K’Ehleyr is killed by Duras, initiating the “Right of Vengeance,” setting the course of Klingon history into a new orbit.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Defiant" (Season Three, Episode Nine)

Thomas Riker smirks at Kira.

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Riker is back! (Kinda…it’s Thomas Riker.) And he’s joined the Maquis, leading to some unexpected temporary alliances. There are enough roiling reprisals to fill a quadrant in this one.

Star Trek: Voyager - "Equinox, Part I and II" (Season Five, Episode Twenty Six/Season Six, Episode One)

Captain Janeway stands on the bridge, looking thoughtful.

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The Caretaker array pulling Voyager 70,000 lightyears from home proved to be Captain Janeway’s biggest challenge, and over seven years she rose to it each week, meeting obstacles with her ethics intact. (Quiet, Tuvix-lovers.) Not every ship is as lucky to have such a captain, as we see in this two-parter on how vengeance can lead to corruption.

Star Trek: Picard - "Stardust City Rag" (Season One, Episode Five)

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Seven of Nine agrees to help Picard retrieve Bruce Maddox from a space pirate, but once they corner him on Freecloud her desire for vengeance over Icheb’s death is overpowering.

Star Trek: First Contact

Picard receives orders to assist the fleet in Star Trek: First Contact.

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“The line must be drawn HERE! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done.”

Star Trek Beyond

Krall faces off against Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

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A former MACO who feels abandoned (and who has transformed into the lizard-like Krall) decides to take his vengeance against the entire Federation…starting with the very nifty-looking Yorktown Station.


Jordan Hoffman (he/him) is an entertainment writer in New York City, whose work can currently be read at Vanity Fair, Decider, and The AV Club, and is the current chair of the New York Film Critics Circle. He is the co-author of The Star Trek Book of Friendship and has moderated Star Trek panels in New York, London, Las Vegas, Chicago, Germany, and at sea.

Star Trek: Picard streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and is distributed concurrently by Paramount Global Distribution Group on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.