Drawn to Trek: A Star Trek Animation Podcast

Hosted ByAaron Harvey, John Cooley, Jessie Gender, & Darren Moser

For 45+ years there has been one animated Star Trek series, but soon there will be 3 not to mention the animated Short Treks! This podcast explores the world of animated Star Trek in all its incarnations from the 1970s Star Trek: The Animated Series to the animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks and the upcoming young adult focused Star Trek: Prodigy!

Join Aaron Harvey, co-author of Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series as he and his co-hosts John Cooley, Jessie Gender, and Darren Moser analyze and animated Trek adventures and talk about how they fit into a half-century of Trek history and lore.


All Episodes

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!...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...