Episode Archives

Discovering Trek: First First Contact

LOWER DECKS: SEASON 2, EPISODE 10 This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks, it looks like Captain Freeman is leaving the Cerritos for bigger and better things!  But before that happens she has to help her old friend Captain Sonya “Hot Chocolate” Gomez when her ship, the USS Archimedes loses all power and hurtles towards…

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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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Trek Geeks #270: John Billingsley

Enterprise’s Denobulan Doctor! Parents: This episode is tagged as explicit for adult language and situations. There is no “bleeping” in this episode. This week, we’re excited to welcome John Billingsley to The Flagship! For four seasons, he portrayed the NX-01’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Phlox and today he stops by to talk a little bit…

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Deep Space Pride #052: Lower Decks: The One Where Rutherford Almost Saves the Enterprise

The Cerritos should definitely have dropped by the crystalline entity orgy. This week, Mike and Johnson shared their unbridled enthusiasm for “I, Excretus,” which they both think might be the best Lower Decks episode of the entire season. This episode has us hanging out with both the lower and upper deckers, while they try to…

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Discovering Trek: wej Duj

LOWER DECKS: SEASON 2, EPISODE 9 This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks, did you ever wonder what life as a Lower Decker was like on other alien starships?  Well wonder no more friends, as this week we get to see life below decks on a Klingon ship, a Vulcan ship and even a Pakled…

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Trek Geeks #269: All Our Yesterdays

Escaping Certain Doom in a Planet’s Past… The Enterprise arrives at the planet Sarpeidon which is about to be destroyed by a supernova. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to investigate and are trapped in a planet’s distant past–where Kirk is accused of being a witch and Spock finds love (or something) with an exiled…

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With The First Link 1.25: Conspiracy

TNG: SEASON 1, EPISODE 25 Something is not right in Starfleet, so the Enterprise makes an unplanned trip back to Earth! Can Picard trust any of his old friends? And, perhaps more importantly, does this have anything to do with crustaceans and mealworms? Ruthie and Matthew talk about real conspiracies in the fictional world of…

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PoliTreks #041: SPOOKY TREKS: The Borg

A discussion about perhaps the scariest species in all of Star Trek: The Borg PoliTreks is gearing up for the spooky season! Special guest Felicity Pickens a.k.a RadMissFliss jumps in with Shashank to confront the horrors of the Borg species. Resistance may be futile, but discussion is not, and everything about the Borg including their…

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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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Deep Space Pride #051: Lower Decks: The One Where Billups Almost Has Sex

How about we have a new Star Trek show where Jeffrey Combs plays every character? We’re reaching the home stretch when it comes to Season 2 of Lower Decks! This week, we discuss “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie,” which unfortunately is an episode title that we had serious problems remembering (even though we were fans of…

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