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June 6, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E5 ”Spock Amok”

Shenanigans! Rigamarole! HIJINKS!!! That is the basis of this fifth episode of the season. Enterprise is docked at Starbase 1 for some much needed repairs and also much needed R&R for the crew. Spock has big ideas of spending some …

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May 31, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E4 ”Memento Mori”

The Enterprise is off to Finibus 3 just to deliver some much needed atmospheric filtering equipment when the find the scientific installation there abandoned and burning. There's blood all over the place and torn scraps of clothing – but no …

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May 24, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E3 ”Ghosts Of Illyria”

Everybody's got secrets! As the Enterprise explores an abandoned Illyrian colony planet for evidence of what happened to the gene-experimenting people, Spock and Pike are trapped down on the planet by an ion storm and the Enterprise is beset by …

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May 16, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E2 ”Children Of The Comet”

Cadet Uhura attends a dinner at the captain's table with a bunch of senior staff and other officers during which she admits that though she beat out several thousand applicants for the job on Enterprise, she might not be "all …

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May 11, 2022

Star Trek Strange New Worlds S1E1 ”Strange New Worlds”

It all begins with Una (AKA Number One) goes missing on a routine First Contact mission. Pike, who has been roughing it out in the wild with a beard and a lady-friend, gets the call to return to the Enterprise …

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May 9, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 E 10 ”Farewell”

Ok, well the Borg-queen/Jurati has absconded with the ship and Picard et al are stuck in the past. But the past still needs saving. Renee Picard needs to go on the Europa mission and Adam Soong is still out there …

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May 2, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 E 9 ”Hide and Seek”

Nobody freak-out, ok? It's the penultimate episode of season two of Picard. Everything is going to be fine! Picard has everything under control and the future is in good hands! Now. Are we a little concerned about the full blending …

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April 25, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 E8 ”Mercy”

It's Season 2 Episode 8 of Picard! Well, Picard and Guinan are in an undisclosed location, some basement FBI facility, being questioned by the tenacious Agent Wells, who has a real bee in his bonnet about aliens. Meanwhile, Borg/Jurati (AKA …

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April 18, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 E7 ”Monsters”

A funky little episode. We spend most of the time romping around in Picard's subconscious. Meeting his mother, Yvette, whom he stylizes as a queen, and his father, Maurice, whom he calls a monster. And also young Jean-Luc, a little …

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April 17, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 5 & 6 ”Fly Me To The Moon” & ”Two of One”

A lot transpires at this halfway point of season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. Firstly we meet the Watcher. It's not Laris. She calls herself Tallinn. Her job is to watch one person and make sure their movement through time …

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April 14, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 3 & 4 ”Assimilation” & ”Watcher”

The crew of La Sirena manages to fend this alternate-reality magistrate and his soldiers, only to be pursued by more ships of the "Confederation" of Earth. Things seems dicey, but then the hook the Borg Queen up to the ship, …

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April 11, 2022

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 1 & 2 ”The Stargazer” & ”Penance”

And we're back with a brand new season of Picard! Meet Jean-Luc. He's a formerly disgraced and retired, now reinstated, Star Fleet officer. He has just been named chancellor of the Star Fleet Academy. His friends are doing pretty all …

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March 28, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E13 ”Coming Home”

Now we come to end, my friends. The End! Tarka has locked Book up and taken over his ship to gain access to the DMA controller so he can go universe hopping, DISCO is trying to get out of their …

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March 14, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E12 ”Species 10C”

Finally, we are at the hyperfield bubble of Species 10C! The whole season has been leading up to this! Will Michael, President Rillak, et al be able to find a way to communicate with this vastly advanced species and get …

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March 9, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 11 ”Rosetta”

Closer and closer to the object of all this season's fussing about – but not quite there yet. Convinced that they need to do a bit more research before entering the "hyperfield" and trying to establish first contact with species …

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Feb. 28, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 10 ”The Galactic Barrier”

Things are really heating up as the first contact task force heads to the Galactic Barrier. DISCO is the ship that will carry them out to species 10C's weird energy/Dyson sphere and there is no time to waste as the …

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Feb. 21, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 9 ”Rubicon”

Well, it's time for the rubber (or starship nacelles) to meet the road (or hard vacuum). Michael and the crew of DISCO attempt to ambush Book and Ruon Tarka as they are building the explosive isolytic device (using the tracker …

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Feb. 14, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 8 ”All In”

....and we're back at the DISCO! Since Book and Ruon Tarka took matters into their own hands and decided to steal the next generation spore drive and go build their own isolytic bomb and take a punch at species 10C …

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Feb. 7, 2022

BONUS EPISODE: Star Trek Jeopardy

This week as Discovery is on hiatus for just one more week, Stevie was asked to join some other Trek podcast hosts to take part in a Star Trek Jeopardy... Akie (our champ) was unfortunately busy being a cool musician …

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Jan. 31, 2022

Star Trek Movie Watchalong ”Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan”

So, this is it. Finally, we are doing a watchalong of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. A regular contender for the "best Star Trek movie of all time." And it does not disappoint. From the sartorial splendor of …

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Jan. 23, 2022

StarTrek Watchalong ”Star Trek: Beyond”

Another watch-along monday! We screwed our courage to the sticking place and made valiant effort to watch the third of the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies – Star Trek: Beyond. High was the anticipation for this film when it came …

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Jan. 17, 2022

Star Trek Movie ”Star Trek: Into Darkness” Watchalong

And we're back! The DISCOVERY hiatus continues, as does our series of watchalongs. We continue with the 2013 follow-up to Star Trek entitled Star Trek: Into Darkness. Kirk et al are hoping to start their five-year mission when, because of …

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Jan. 10, 2022

Star Trek Movie ”Star Trek (2009)” Watchalong

The year was 2009. Barack Obama was president in the United States. The economy was tanking. ands JJ Abrams had made a new Star Trek movie. It had Kirk and Spock and Bones... Uhura, Sulu, Chekov... the *whole* gang. And, …

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Jan. 3, 2022

Star Trek Discovery S4 E7 ”...But to connect”

It's the mid-season finale of Star Trek Discovery. What it's all be leading up to (before, you know, the rest of the season). The Federation has called together an assembly of all the major worlds and races, Federation and otherwise, …

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