Married Trekkie Couple, Nicole & Joe, are back after a bit of a hiatus with some love in Star Trek: Voyager! This episode, focused on the 6th season episode, "Alice," we dig into what makes a space ship sentient, what toxic manipulation can look like in Star Trek, and how one might fall in love with said sentient space ship by way of said toxic manipulation. 

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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Married Trekkie Couple, Nicole & Joe, are joined by the ever cool & insightful Reina Carrión of the Black Alert Podcast! The crew dig into Star Trek: Discovery's 3rd season - specifically, the season-long budding-romance/sustained relationship of Micheal Burnham and Cleveland Booker (Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala).

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

Joe's Twin Cities Geek review of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 can be found here.

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Married Trekkie couple, Nicole & Joe, trek back to early TNG. Specifically, season 2 episode 10, "The Dauphin." Along the way, we chat about the relationship between Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and the enigmatic Salia (Jaime Hubbard), what use energy beings have for a starship, shapeshifting monster suits, and vegan banana peanut-putter cup ice cream.

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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Married Trekkies, Nicole & Joe, are joined by actor, activist, and dungeon master, Noah Averbach-Katz (Ryn in Star Trek: Discovery), to dig into some Enterprise! The crew chat about Season 2 episode 14, "Stigma," and discuss a myriad of topics including (but not limited to) workplace harassment, polyamory, microscopes, perspectives on intimacy, and fargans. Follow Noah over on Twitter @N_A_K, check out his new Twitch channel, and please check out and consider supporting T1International's #insulin4all campaign.

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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This episode, married Trekkies, Nicole and Joe, are joined by actor/writer/Trekkie Dominic Burgess (Star Trek: Picard, The Magicians, Doctor Death)! The crew chat about the bittersweet romance that never was between Seven of Nine and The Doctor in the Voyager episode, "Someone to Watch Over Me," (season 5, episode 22).

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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Married Trekkies, Nicole and Joe, take a dive into the TNG episodes, "Captain's Holiday" (season 3, episode 19), and "Qpid" (season 4, episode 20). We take a look at the rousing yet fleeting romance between Jean-luc Picard and the ever alluring Vash (played by Jennifer Hetrick).

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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Married Trekkies, Nicole and Joe, are back! This time, we're getting animated with Star Trek: Lower Decks season 1 episode 5: "CUPID'S ERRANT ARROW." We chat about about the relationship between Ensign Brad Biomler (Jack Quaid), Lieutenant Barb Brinson (Gillian Jacobs) and a romance parasite with plenty of detours along the way. 

The article mentioned in the episode: LOWER DECKS EPISODE 5 REINTERPRETS ALIEN IN A TOTALLY UNEXPECTED WAY - Ryan Britt 

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode.

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Thanks for listening to our very first episode! In this podcast, married Trekkies, Nicole & Joe, explore love in all its forms through the various incarnations of Star Trek. This episode, we first introduce ourselves, then we dig into the iconic original series episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever" 

***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode. 

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Welcome to Deep Space Love where married Trekkies, Joe & Nicole Praska, take a look at how love - in all its forms - is portrayed throughout the Star Trek universe. From one-off flings and budding romances to the biggest power couples in Trek canon. Subscribe now!