PoliTreks: A Star Trek Podcast

Hosted ByBarry DeFord & Shashank Avvaru

FORTNIGHTLY ON WEDNESDAYS

PoliTreks! Barry DeFord and Shashank Avvaru talk politics, religion, and society around the replicator. Along with special guests, we choose to Boldly Go straight into the social, political, and sometimes spiritual underpinnings at the core of Star Trek. In this podcast, we aim to seek out new perspectives, and discover the ways Trek - past and present - can help us better understand the world as it is, and us as we are. We travel at warp speed through worlds, timelines, and dimensions with one mission: make sense of our reality!


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PoliTreks: Special Announcement

NEW HOME FOR POLITREKS! Join us as we announce our affiliation with the Trek Geeks Podcast Network with special guests Bill Smith & Dan Davidson!  

PoliTreks #24 – The PoliTreks Of: Star Trek (2009)

In this Episode, Shashank and Barry take a deep dive into the great Kelvin Universe/JJ-verse/soft-reboot/Fast And Furious In Space movie Star Trek, released in 2009 after almost half a...

PoliTreks #23 – The PoliTreks Of: Into Darkness

On this episode, Shashank and Barry look into the perhaps often maligned episode of the Kelvin Universe, Star Trek: Into Darkness. This movie is ambitious and revisits major characters...

PoliTreks #22 – Civilizations, Part II

On this episode of PoliTreks, Shashank and Barry discuss three infamous civilizations in the Star Trek Universe: the Q Continuum, The Romulan Star Empire, and The Terran Empire. We...

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...

PoliTreks #20 – Villains

On this, our maiden voyage of PoliTreks – A (the new ‘season’), we look at Villains of Star Trek. This discussion is merely the beginning as Trek has many...

PoliTreks #19 – Section 25 – A DS9 Celebration Part 4: 25 DS9 Lessons

In the news segment of this episode, Barry and Shashank catch you up on current events from the Trek Lens. The main topic is another part of the Section...

PoliTreks #18 – Methods Devour Themselves

In this very ambitious episode, Shashank and Barry have teamed up with our good friend Brett O’Shea from Revolutionary Left Radio, a political science/philosophy/activist podcast, to talk about the...

PoliTreks #18.1 – Methods Devour Themselves Raw Interviews

Being that the episode was coming on 2+ hours in length, and the fact that we could not get both interviews on the show in their entirety, we decided...