Drawn to Trek

Drawn To Trek #011: She Has Lost All Control

A Review of Lower Decks’ “wej Duj” Red Alarm! Red Alarm! It’s the penultimate episode of season two and Jessie and Aaron are here to break it all down! Blood (pinkish red) and guts, cultural appropriation, ship porn–this episode has it all! So tune up your sense-oars and join us! You can find us on…

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Drawn To Trek #010: Shari Bing Bang

A Review of Lower Decks’ “I, Excretus” In this episode Aaron and Jessie talk about BEM, the Animated Series episode that first showed a Pandronian, ask “Why can’t Starfleet vessels track their crew members better?” and wonder “Could holographic Borgs be a real threat?” So join us as Jessie jumps into the holo-pod and tries…

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Drawn To Trek #009: Black Licorice, Black

A review of Lower Decks’ “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” In this episode Aaron and Jessie revieweth “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.” This showeth has’t all, evil computers, Ren faire runneth space ships and Star Trek legend Jeff’ry Combs! So, grabeth a torch and thy most wondrous medieval garb and joineth us on the adventure! And we…

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Drawn To Trek #008: We’re Touching Your Stuuuuff!

A Review of Lower Decks’ The Spy Humongous In this episode Aaron and Jessie review The Spy Humongous; They examine how you can subvert classic sitcom tropes, the importance of a makeover, and revel in the call back to Armus, the skin of evil…well maybe not as evil as a hot taffy, honey, shrimp, soda,…

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Drawn To Trek #007: Groin Plumage Redux

A review of Lower Decks’ An Embarrassment of Dooplers This week Infinite Trek’s Brandi Jackola joins the Drawn to Trek team to review and An Embarrassment of Dooplers! We discuss reasons why the Dooplers may have evolved to duplicate, why there are corrupt security officers on Starbase 25 and we return to difference between the…

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Drawn To Trek #006: Gene’s Vision

A review of Lower Decks’ Mugato, Gumato You say Mugato I say Gumato! You say Or-ee-on, I say Orion!Mugato, Gumato, Or-ee-on, Orion! Let’s call the whole thing…not really our favorite episode, but we’re still having fun! This week Aaron and Jessie review Mugato, Gumato an episode with some fun parts, some gross parts and some…

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Drawn To Trek #005: Trash Bag Klingons

A review of “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris” Jessie is back and just like Shaxs with no explanation! Ok, actually she was just sick. But in this episode Aaron and Jessie take a hard look at how they feel about Shaxs coming back from the great beyond after some real heartfelt emotion in the season…

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Drawn To Trek #004: Who Collects the Collectors

Easter egg hunting in “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” The Star Trek Easter eggs on the collector’s ship in “Kayshon, His Eyes Open,”are nearly infinite but the Drawn To Trek is on the case! This week John Cooley joins Aaron Harvey for an oversized episode as they collect all the Easter eggs they can find! Aaron…

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Drawn To Trek #003: Medical Venom

Lower Decks “Strange Energies” review “Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Lower Decks!” Yes Lower Decks is back for a second season and hosts Aaron Harvey and Jessie Gender are ready to rejoin the crew of the Cerritos! First off Aaron talks a bit about the Los Angeles premiere, the USS Cerritos Block Party where the cast…

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Drawn To Trek #002: It’s a Plate!

Comic-Con @ Home Reaction This week it was like Geek Christmas morning as we all stumbled out out bed bleary eyed and sat down to the computer to open up our Star Trek gifts in the form of two Comic-Con panels hosted by Commander Ransom himself, Jerry O’Connell. First off we learned more about the…

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