We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 11 “Precious Cargo.”  An extra-long bumper episode this week with a very special guest explainer! Join us as Rebecca Watson, having never watched Enterprise OR listened to our show explains this episode to us. Trip gets stranded in a swamp with Padma Lakshmi and Rebecca tries to tell us what is happening, all while getting everyone's name wrong.

• Rebecca: Mickey 7 (book) and Mickey 17 (movie)
• Maria: The Great North (tv show)
• Jamie: Hip Hop Family Tree - Ed Piskor
• Bill: Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (video game), Necessary Roughness (movie)

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10 “Vanishing Point” now that Jamie, Bill, and our guest Kevin from The Flopcast have watched it, and we all have a lot of thoughts on how much we all kind of hated the twist ending. 

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “It was Misogyny All Along!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week. 

Plus, in our Mammary Alpha segment we talk about the Memory Alpha page on “nipple”!

Both Kevin Eldridge and Jamie Bernstein are going to be at DragonCon 2025 -- Just search for their names in the DragonCon app to find what panels they will be on and please come say "hello" if you see us there!

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10 “Vanishing Point,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Watch as Jamie, Bill, and our special guest Kevin try to figure out what the heck is going on in this episode. Is it an alternate universe? A time shift? Or just plain old misogyny? The answer will almost certainly disappoint you. We're joined by Kevin, from The Flopcast podcast, who is just as confused as the rest of us!

Mentioned in episode:

• Here’s the photo of Trip on the gyroscope thing

• Kevin: Sharing Space by Katie Coleman and Dragon Tales 
• Bill: Comrade Detective
• Jamie: Murderbot
• Maria: Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 9 “Singularity” now that Jamie and Maria have actually seen it. Also, we inexplicably have not yet scared away Nicole Gugliucci who came back this week to chat with us about the episode and tell us about her favorite and least favorite examples of astronomy science in Star Trek. 

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Three Body Problems!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week. 

Links for things we mention in the episode:

The trinary system image that looks like boobs (surprisingly safe for work)

Feet Photos (sorry – blame Maria):

• Phlox’s Feet
• Malcolm’s Feet
• Archer’s Feet

Giant Comb in Archer’s Bathroom 

Interview with Dr. Erin McDonald

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 9 “Singularity,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. It's the Enterprise version of a three body problem as mysterious radiation coming from a black hole causes the crew to start taking their jobs seriously. Too seriously, in fact, as Hoshi obsesses over a recipe, Trip obsesses over fixing a chair, and Phlox obsesses over cutting Travis's skull open. Can T'Pol convince the crew to, you know, lighten up a bit before they're all dead? 

We also had a special guest joining us this week, the Noisy Astronomer themself, Nicole Gugliucci.

Here’s an actual photo of what a black hole looks like!

• Nicole: Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
• Jamie: Poker Face 
• Maria: Thunderbolts* 
• Bill: Asobe Asobasi

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 8 “The Communicator.” Now that Bill and Maria have watched it, we get to hear their thoughts on how Captain Archer messed up getting back a piece of equipment they left on a planet so hard that he managed to start a full-on world war.

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Dude, Where's My Communicator?!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week.

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 8 “The Communicator,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. Malcolm accidently leaves his communicator on a pre-contact planet and attempts to recover it go sideways when Archer, for the first time ever, decides to take advice from T'Pol, which he then misapplies to disastrous consequences for everyone living on that planet. Sure he may have started a world war, but the important thing is that he learned an important lesson about... something.

Rikermendations:

• Bill: Cyberpunk 2077
• Maria: Taskmaster
• Jamie: Going to the theater (and specifically, for Chicagoans, going to see Francis Guinan in Ashland Avenue at the Goodman Theater and Amadeus at The Steppenwolf

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 7 “The Seventh,” now that Jamie and Bill have watched it. A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Mission T'Polsible!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week.

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 7 “The Seventh,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. T'Pol has some unfinished business with a fugitive she never managed to capture. She asks Archer to join her on the mission, which is good because it starts to trigger memories she didn't know she had. Much like the EnterpriseSplaining crew, who, for weeks after recording this, kept asking "What was that episode about again?"

Rikermendations:

• Bill: The Fall (2006) - movie
• Jamie: The Women (1939) - movie
• Maria: Carmen Sandiego for Switch - video game

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 6 “Marauders,” now that Maria and Jamie have watched it. Plus, in the first ever Enterprise podcast crossover extravaganza, we are joined by Abby and Chris from the First Flight Podcast. 

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “The E-Team!,” we recommend listening to that first because this is a follow up to last week. 

Rikermendations:

• Abby: Storytime with Wil Wheaton 
• Chris: Andor

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