Episode Archives

Trek Geeks #293: Defending Spock’s Brain

Seriously, it’s a great episode. No, really… Ask a lot of long-time fans of the original Star Trek what the worst episode of the series is and, odds are, you’ll get a response like this: “UGH….Spock’s Brain!” This much-maligned season 3 premiere of TOS has been beaten up for decades and, this week, Bill and…

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Five Year Mission #51: The City on the Edge of Forever

What Are Little Songs Made Of? Time travel. Drug overdose. Stone knives and bear skins. The guys discuss one of Star Trek’s most famous episodes and the song that they wrote for it.  Chris reveals the difficulties and pressure of having to write a song about one of the most beloved episodes. 

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Discovering Trek: Hear All, Trust Nothing

LOWER DECKS: SEASON 3, EPISODE 6 This week on Lower Decks, Captain Freeman is assigned to negotiate a trade agreement with the Karemma while docked at…wait for it…wait for it…DEEP SPACE 9!!!  The return to everyone’s favorite “Cardassian Monstrosity” is anything but normal as Tendi has to deal with a fellow Orion who is hell…

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The News From TrekNews.net: Week of Sept. 30, 2022

Week of September 30 Dan and Bill discuss the 35th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the off-again 4th Kelvin Timeline movie, revisiting Deep Space Nine, and the death of Academy Award winning actress Louise Fletcher.

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Discovering Trek: Reflections

LOWER DECKS: SEASON 3, EPISODE 5 This week on Lower Decks, Rutherford is having some problems with his implants and when Tendi tries to help with a cache purge, things get a little crazy as a younger version of Rutherfords conscience takes over his body and fights for control.  The two Rutherfords ‘duke it out’…

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Deep Space Pride #098: The One With Delta Shift and Bad Rutherford

Would it be an unpopular opinion to think that Masks wasn’t that bad an episode? After a short break, we’re back! This week, we chat about various Star Trek milestones – including the 35th anniversary of Encounter at Farpoint. Mike and Johnson chat about where they were when TNG premiered, which snowballs into a conversation…

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SyFy Sistas 2.15: The SyFy Sistas’ Doctor Who Primer for Non-Whovians

Featuring SyFy Sistas Patron and Whovian Jamal Taylor The 59 year old franchise will conclude the Thirteenth Doctor era this October with the BBC special “The Power of the Doctor”. The franchise’s first female Doctor, Jodi Wittaker, will make way for its first Black Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in 2023. Before the Time Lord regenerates join…

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Five Year Mission #050: NU2U2

New music we’ve been enjoying We made it to 50 episodes! Join Andy, Chris, and Noah as they discuss music that is new to them. This is the long-awaited sequel to an episode that aired in April of 2021. In this episode, each member picked 2 artists that they had just recently discovered and really…

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Discovering Trek: Room For Growth

LOWER DECKS: SEASON 3, EPISODE 4 This week on Lower Decks, Boimler, Tendi and Mariner discover a scheme by the dreaded Delta Shift to manipulate a ship lottery on some fancy new living quarters.  They begin a quest to get to the one terminal on the entire ship so that they can beat the Delta’s…

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Trek Geeks #292: David Livingston

Welcoming Star Trek’s Most Prolific Director This week, Bill and Dan welcome Star Trek royalty to the Trek Geeks Podcast! He’s helmed a record 62 episodes of Star Trek across The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. He’s even directed the episode we refer to as “Star Trek’s Finest Hour,” DS9’s “The Visitor,”…

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