In the 90's Star Trek was a little ahead of the curve in the representation of the LBGT community. This week Jordan and special guest Oliver Whitney of Screencrush take a look back at TNG's "The Outcast" & The Host" as well as DS9's "Rejoined" to see how they hold up today.

This will be the last episode of the year for Engage. We're going to be taking a little hiatus and will back late January/Early February 2018.  Happy Holidays to all and Live Long & Prosper!

This week on Engage we discuss the first Star Trek:Discovery tie in novel, "Desparate Hours" by David Mack, with our special guest Karen Han of the Daily Beast!  Taking place a year before the battle at the binary stars, we get a glimpse into the Shenzou crew's past and maybe see a few other familiar faces along the way.  BLACK ALERT! This episode does contain major spoilers for both "Desperate Hours" and what has aired of Star Trek: Discovery, so consider yourselfs warned!

This week we talk about Quentin Tarantino's rumored Star Trek pitch to J.J. Abrams and finish up our Discovery rountable with Matt Patches of Thrilist, Emma Stefansky of Vanity Fair and Dave Sims of The Atlantic.

This week Jordan is joined by Matt Patches of Thrilist, Emma Stefansky of Vanity Fair and Dave Sims of The Atlantic to discuss the front 9 of Star Trek: Discovery as a whole (a half of a whole?). Topics include the intergration of discovery into the lore, Michael Burnham's Human/Vulcan Character arc and more!

This week on Engage we welcome Star Trek Discovery's Co-Executive Producer and writer of "Lethe", Ted Sullivan!  Recorded shortly before the mid-season finale, Ted is here to give us a behind the scenes look into the Discovery writer’s room.  Special appearance by #jasongorn!

This week we review episode 108 of Star Trek Discovery, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" or "If you want peace, prepare for war".  We finally get a classic Trek planetary away mission, check in with our klingon friends and continue the debate on Lt. Tyler.  

This week on Engage we review episode 7 of Discovery "Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad".  Discovery has its most self-contained episode to date, and it’s a time loop to boot! Harry Mudd is back to wreak havoc on the enterprise and we see some sparks fly between two crewmates.  Did Mudd go too far? And how does this episode affect a certain popular fan theory? Tune In To find out!

This week we review the 6th episode of Star Trek Discovery "Lethe".  This episode gives us some more insight into Lorca and we get to see a defining moment in the lives of Burnham and Sarek.  We also talk about the popular fan thory involving Shazad Latif's Lt. Ash Tyler.

A few weeks back we interviewed Rainn Wilson for his charity Lidè Haiti. Now, that we've met Harry Mudd on Discovery, we can share the rest of our interview.

This week we review the 5th episode of Star Trek: Discovery "Choose Your Pain".  In this episode we learn a bit of history of Captain Lorca, meet a potential new crew member in Lt. Ash Tyler and see the introduction of the one and only Harcourt Fenton Mudd!  And how about the ending!? We speak to Lt. Paul Stamets himself, Anthony Rapp to elaborate on his character's new situation.