A listener’s guide

Where to Start with Star Trek Podcasts

The Trek Geeks Podcast Network makes Star Trek podcasts for every kind of fan, from people who have watched every episode twice to people who watched their first one last week. There are a lot of shows here, which is great until you are standing in front of all of them. This page is the short version: pick what sounds like you, press play, and come back for the rest.

Every show is fan-made, and every one has its full episode archive on this site. Nothing needs an account.

If you only try one show

Start with Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast. Hosts Bill Smith and Dan Davidson have been friends for 30 years and have been making the show since January 2015. It is a conversation about Star Trek across every era, from The Original Series through Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy, with interviews along the way. Guests have included Jonathan Frakes, Nana Visitor, Scott Bakula, and John Billingsley. It was a 2017 Parsec Awards finalist.

You do not need to catch up on anything. Pick the newest episode, or pick an episode about a series you love.

If you want to watch it live

Thursday Night Geeks is the video show, presented by FanSets. Bill and Dan go live every other Thursday night on YouTube with the people who watch it, with guests, countdowns, and the tangents a recorded show would cut. Every stream is kept in the archive afterwards.

If you want new Star Trek reviewed as it airs

We Are Starfleet covers Discovery, Strange New Worlds, and Starfleet Academy, with a rotating cast of hosts and Trekkie guests.

Secret Friends Unite: Code 47 is the Star Trek show from the Secret Friends Unite network, hosted by Charlie Carden and Peter.

Crusher Convo looks at Star Trek through the eyes of Dr. Beverly Crusher and her family.

If you want Star Trek and the rest of sci-fi

SyFy Sistas is four Black women talking Star Trek, Afrofuturism, and everything else they love in science fiction. TrekMovie named it the 2025 Best All-Around Star Trek Podcast.

The BIG Sci-Fi Podcast is a panel of fans from across North America who love Trek most but follow sci-fi everywhere.

Space Crime Continuum pairs a Star Trek story about crime or murder with a real true-crime case. It comes from the hosts of Rewind.

If you want something a little different

The Brian Donahue Podcast is for Trekkies who love Jesus, a conversation about faith and fandom.

Planet Zero is not a Star Trek show at all. It is an original science fiction story by author Brian Donahue, released a chapter at a time and read by the author.

If you want to go deep on one series

Some of the network’s older shows have finished their runs, and they hold up well as a binge. They live in the archive.

For The Next Generation, try With the First Link, which recaps and reviews episodes of the series. For The Original Series, try Five Year Mission. For animated Trek, try Drawn to Trek. For new episodes of the modern shows as they premiered, try Discovering Trek.

Other archive shows cover politics (PoliTreks) and collecting (The Divine Treasury), among others. The full list is on the shows page.

How to listen

Press play on any episode page, or follow a show in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or whichever app you already use. Each show page has the links. New episodes appear here the day they are released.

Want to know who makes all of this? Read The Story of Us, or meet the people behind the microphones.