Episode Archives

Trek Geeks #170: Our Favorite Collectibles

BREAK OUT YOUR STAR TREKULATOR! Collectibles. It might be a fancy word for “stuff you buy,” but these things mean something to us as Star Trek fans. It gives us a way to connect to this universe that we all love so much. This week, we’ll look at some of our favorite products from over…

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Discovering Trek #208: If Memory Serves

SPOILER ALERT Spock and Burnham visit the forbidden planet Talos IV seeking help from the Talosians to restore Spock’s deteriorating mind, but help will come at a cost.  On board Discovery, Hugh Culber continues to struggle with his literal new life. His confusion and anger finally boil over with an emotional confrontation with Ash Tyler….

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PoliTreks #21 – Civilizations, Part I

On this episode, Shashank and Barry discuss the possible human inspirations of the alien races of Star Trek. Much has been covered on this, so our hosts try to think outside of the box, or at least in terms of western paradigms. The news segment has another hot-take, this time from Shashank as he talks…

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Trek Geeks #169: The Killing Game

EMILIE’S FAVORITE EPISODE! Back in October of 2018, we met our new friend Emilie at Northeast TrekCon in Albany, NY. We asked her to tell us her favorite Voyager episode and she didn’t wait very long to tell us it was the two-part epic, “The Killing Game,” from Star Trek: Voyager’s fourth season. We told…

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Discovering Trek #207: Light and Shadows

SPOILER ALERT As the crew of the USS Discovery deal with a dangerous temporal anomaly while in orbit of Kaminar, Michael heads home to Vulcan to continue her search for Spock.  When she gets there, she finds out that Amanda has been keeping something from her and Sarek – literally. When Section 31 intervenes and…

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Discovering Trek #206: The Sound of Thunder

SPOILER ALERT One of the mysterious Red Bursts shows up over Saru’s home planet of Kaminar which allows him to go back to the home he thought he would never see again. His return is not as positive as he hoped as the Ba’ul show up and threaten the crew of Discovery as well as…

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Discovering Trek #205: Saints of Imperfection

SPOILER ALERT As Burnham and Stamets attempt to rescue Tilly from the mycelial network, a starting discovery is made–and it changes everything! Joining Bill to examine this episode is our friend Barry DeFord from  PoliTreks to discuss the monster destroying the mycelial network, the confrontation between Pike and Leland, the return of Phillipa Georgiou, and all…

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Trek Geeks #168: Say Something Nice, Part Deux

FINDING THE GOOD THINGS This week, we revisit some not-so-great episodes of Star Trek with a dear friend! Every episode of Star Trek is someone’s favorite and also someone’s least favorite. We’re going to take some episodes that we don’t like as much and try to find something nice to say about them. Joining us…

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Discovering Trek #204: An Obol for Charon

SPOILER ALERT While trying to track down Spock, the crew runs into a massive strange new life form which has potentially fatal effects on Saru in this weeks episode of Star Trek Discovery, while down in engineering, Stamets and Reno have to use everything in their power to save Tilly from the alien who appeared…

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Trek Geeks #167: Religion in DS9

AN EPIC CROSSOVER CONCLUDES This week, we’re excited to welcome our friends from Trek.FM’s Standard Orbit podcast to the Flagship of the Trek Geeks Podcast Network! Join us and our friends Hayley Stoddart, Ken Tripp, and Zach Moore for an in-depth discussion on religion in the second Star Trek spin off series, Deep Space Nine….

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