Antimatter Pod

By Anika and Liz

The Star Trek podcast where we talk fashion, feminism, subtext and subspace.... more

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Antimatter Pod episodes:

February 02, 202170. Clinton-Era Star Trek
Liz and Anika sit down to discuss the Voyager pilot "Caretaker", and end up with a podcast almost as long as the episode itself!
We are not good at maths
“It’s a good pilot, but not a good episode.”
The script has a really complicated relationship with Janeway’s femininity
Tom Paris is a truly awful character in the pilot (and for a while after)
Chakotay: stereotypes and racism abound
Tuvok is magnificent and we love him
Harry Kim and the completely unsupported idea that he’s bad with women
We love and adore Kes and hate most of the storylines for her
(We also love and adore age gap relationships … except Kes/Neelix)
“Neelix doesn’t know what a boundary is.”
B’Elanna doesn’t play a big role in the pilot, so we make up for it by discussing her whole arc over seven seasons
The Doctor is basically just Cranky Siri in the pilot
The paternalism in this story
Other episodes discussed:
“Initiations”
“Alliances”
“Basics Part 2”
“Journey’s End” (TNG)
Notes: At one point, Liz refers to Evan Evagora as “half-Maori”. A better term would have been “of Maori heritage”, rather than a phrase which suggests some sort of division or blood quantum. My apologies.
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1h 22min
January 12, 202169. She’s A Queen, Motherf****er! (Discovery 3.13)
It’s our 69th episode! Nice. Also, Discovery wrapped up its third season -- and finally stuck the landing.
Notes:
Season 3 repudiates nearly everything we hated about season 2
Finally Owosekun gets a moment
Liz has decided to ship Owo/Zora
“We are Starfleet”: it’s basically the flipped version of “this is not America”
The new uniforms are bad and we hate them
Liz quotes Meatloaf
Expanding from motherhood stories to parenthood stories
The Moffat era of Discovery
We're taking a break for a month or so, but if there's a topic you want to hear us discuss, let us know! We're on Twitter at @antimatterpod, and you can also reach us at antimatterpod.tumblr.com.
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1h 3min
January 05, 202168. A Little Capitalism, As A Treat (Discovery 3.12)
Anika's back! But where is Lt Nilsson...? (Did Grudge eat her?)
This ep has some audio issues, as Liz learns new software, but we manage to discuss:
Is this Christmas homage a Die Hard episode?
Osyraa and Vance level up in characterisation
Osyraa/Vance arranged marriage fic now pls
Does Osyraa need to raid Georgiou’s wardrobe?
RIP Anika’s Andorian
We EXPLICITLY SAID we didn’t want to know how the replicators work
Who is the Federation President? Our candidates include Voyager's EMH, and also Grudge
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1h 4min
December 29, 202067. The Last Dilithiumbender (Discovery 3.11)
Liz is joined again by Fran as we investigate the cause of the Burn.
Another haunted house, another recurrence of the season’s theme of confronting fear and ugly truths
Su’Kal: the most 2020 hero
The cause of the Burn: a child the Federation failed to rescue
In fact, the Federation destroyed itself through its own complacency
This is a story which prioritises emotional intelligence over logic
Do we need to report Book to the Space RSPCA?
Osyraa’s costume tells a story
It's the episode where we absolutely refuse to get into the question of whether the food you eat on the holodeck is real!
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54min
December 22, 202066. Ebenezer Georgiou (Discovery 3.10)
Liz is joined by Fran to discuss “Terra Firma” part 2. Where is Anika? Only mirror!Fran knows…
So it turns out the mirror universe is not a fun place to hang?
The Terran Empire was always destined to fall
A redemption arc, or a reformation arc?
“You don’t fail upwards in the mirror universe.”
Saving Saru
Liz spoils the end of The Good Place
We talk a lot about Gabriel Lorca and Harry Mudd, which is weird since they don’t actually appear in this episode
VICAR
Sorry, we really did have to discuss Lorca’s priest fetish and make fun of his screen name
The return and demise (again) of Ellen Landry
Vance is oddly inconsistent
Do we need to see Vance in his jim-jams? For ... character development reasons?
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46min
December 15, 2020 65. Harlan Ellison’s Angry Ghost (Discovery 3.09)
In which Liz and Anika step through a door.

• It was so nice of CBSAA to make an episode of Discovery just for us!
• Saru, Book and Vance are under the impression that they’re in a regular episode. They are very wrong.
• We strongly suspect Carl is not really a human from the 1930s.
• If you die in the mirror universe, you die in real life as well.
• A recurring theme of duty
• How Saru is Kristy Thomas
• “And that’s why capitalism is going to destroy us all.”
• The usual Mandalorian digression

Link Selenak’s review
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1h 5min
December 08, 202064. Starfleet Is A Social Construct (Discovery 3.08)
It's the Star Warsiest episode of Star Trek ever, and we are here for it!
We're also talking about:
Admiral Vance: does he have a drinking problem yet?
Michael doesn't really understand the concept of letting others make choices, and it's probably Sarek's fault
Misfits, outsiders, and why is piloting "macho" anyway?
Saru is not a good captain (which is fine), but fandom won't admit it (which is bad)
What the heck is going on with Georgiou? Are we building up to her departure?
It's the episode where Book levels up in Disney Prince!
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56min
December 01, 202063. Michael and Ahsoka (Discovery 3.07)
Liz and Anika talk "Unification III", an episode practically made for us. Discussed along the way:
the academic rigour of the Vulcan thesis defence
the latest episode of The Mandalorian
false binaries
Tilly's career path
Michael's quartet of complicated mothers
It's the episode where we ask -- just how much of a creep is Grudge? And really? Baby Yoda has a name now?
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1h 2min
November 24, 202062. Blue Redshirt (Discovery 3.06)
They had us at "unsanctioned mission".
the Luke-Vader heist of Anika's dreams
the teams are fracturing and it's AWFUL but also a bit great
does Michael actually want to be in Starfleet? Did she ever choose to be in Starfleet?
Michael Burnham and the Series-Long Badge Motif
Michael/Book: how do we love it? We cannot even begin to count the ways!
a Culmets duck family
is Grudge a real cat: y/n?
We also go off on a wholly irrelevant tangent about the ENT episode "Carpenter Street".
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58min
November 17, 202061. Fetch Quest (Discovery 3.05)
Liz and Anika are shocked -- SHOCKED! -- to learn that Starfleet Command is maybe a bit shady.
Also covered:
we care as much about 32nd century starship design as we do about the bridge crew
how season 3 is structured like a video game
Nhan's departure
Georgiou's arc
Discovery is not an ensemble show and should stop trying to be
they really did manage two separate scenes where men tell Michael to watch her tone
Saru's historiography is ... bad
music: the score and the clue
Remember, statistically there is a high probability that Admiral Vance is evil!
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1h 8min

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