EnterpriseSplaining

We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 24: “Desert Crossing” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise responds to a distress call and the captain they rescue is so grateful, he invites Archer and Trip down to his sunny home planet for a visit. Looking forward to a boondoggle, the boys head to the planet where they drink some wine and enjoy some slow-motion space lacrosse before learning that they’re actually maybe in a terrorist camp and things switch from Baywatch to 24 REAL FAST.

Rikermendations

• Jamie: Jensen McRae Are you Happy? (album)
• Bill: The Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover episodes (TV)+ The Sparrow (book) by Mary Doria Russell
• Maria: Interior Chinatown (TV series)

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 23: “Fallen Hero” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise gets to go on its very first ambassador escort mission! All they have to do is pick up an important Vulcan ambassador and then drop her off at a ship that’s a mere two days away. Easy peasy. Even this Enterprise crew can’t mess up a task that simple, right? 

Rikermendations

• Maria: Crime Scene Kitchen (tv series)
• Bill: Lower Decks and DancingBacons (YouTube Channel)
• Jamie: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (book) and The Ghost Bride (tv series)

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 22: “Vox Sola” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Plus, we have special guest K.O. Myers from Particulate Media joining us this episode. The Enterprise has been penetrated by a very slimy tentacled creature who has captured Archer, Trip, a random ensign, and Angelica Schuyler in its sticky slime. The slime creature will slowly devour them all if they aren’t freed soon, but that’s not even the worst part; their minds are all now psychically linked and Archer’s brain is constantly thinking about nothing but water polo. T’Pol and Hoshi better find a way to free them soon before they all have to hear a full play-by-play of the 2134 water polo regionals piped directly into their brain!

Guest: K.O. Myers from Particulate Media. You can also follow him on BlueSky as @genvexed or @particulatemedia

Rikermendations

1. Maria: My Old Ass (Netflix movie) and Agatha All Along (tv series)
2. Jamie: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (book)
3. K.O.: Worlds Beyond Number (podcast) and The Originalism Trap by Madiba K. Dennie (book)
4. Bill: The Ascendance of a Bookworm (anime and manga)

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 21: “Detained” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Archer and Mayweather blunder into a military zone and get thrown into an internment camp filled with Suliban. This is definitely not a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 and certainly a nuanced and thoughtful take on a complex situation. Oh wait, no - it’s the opposite of that. But it brings the late, great Dean Stockwell back together with Scott Bakula and we’re pretty excited about that.

Rikermendations

• Maria: Shrinking - Apple TV show
• Bill: Spy X Family anime
• Jamie: My Brilliant Friends - HBO series & novels

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 20: “Oasis” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The crew comes across survivors of a ship crash and Trip flirts with a cute girl, but they have secrets and blah, blah, blah. Who are we kidding? We’re all just here to see René Aubernjonois act the shit out of his guest role on this episode.

Rikermendations

• Maria: Wolfs (Apple TV Movie) 
• Bill: Matt Berry’s album Television Themes 
• Jamie: How to do Everything podcast 

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 19: “Acquisition” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Ferengi pirates somehow manage to incapacitate every member of the Enterprise aside from a half-naked Trip, who is now tasked with saving the rest of the crew. The bad news is that the Ferengi are peak TNG-era annoying. The good news is that we will never have to see them again on this show.

Rikermendations

• Maria: Queen Pins (movie)
• Bill: Only Murders in the Building (tv series)
• Jamie: Stereophonic cast recording (music)

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A quick check in from the EnterpriseSplaining crew to give you some exciting news! We are joining the ESO Network, a collection of geeky podcasts from across the internet. Everything you love about EnterpriseSplaining will remain the same, but we’ll be adding some special ESO intro and outros to each episode and will be taking a short break each episode to tell you about some of our sister podcasts on the ESO Network that we think you would enjoy.

To learn more about ESO Network, visit https://esonetwork.com/

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 18: “Rogue Planet” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew meets a group of alien hunters on a rogue planet and Archer falls in love with a slug lady. 

Thank you to Phil Plait for sending us some science on rogue planets. You can sign up for his Bad Astronomy newsletter and follow him on BlueSky @philplait 

Rikermendations

• Maria: tv series The Brokenwood Mysteries
• Bill: Ludwig
• Jamie: movie Footloose

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 17: “Fusion” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew meets some Vulcans that are happy to see them, which in and of itself should have been a big red flag. T’Pol warns everyone that these Vulcans are dangerous, but as usual no one listens to her until it’s too late. Plus, Trip makes a new B-plot friend! 

Rikermendations

• Maria: the Vorkosigan book series by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Bill: tv series Would I Lie to You?
• Jamie: anime Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

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We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 16: “Shuttle Pod One” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Plus, we have a special guest Andi from the Women at Warp podcast, getting her first-ever dose of Enterprise. Malcolm and Trip are stuck together in a cold shuttle pod with no way to get help, and because they are straight men, they will die of hypothermia before they cuddle together for warmth.

Guest: Andi from Women at Warp. You can also follow her on Twitter/X @FirstTimeTrek

Mentioned: the Women at Warp “Where is HR episode?” episode is Episode 201: Labor Standards in Star Trek

Rikermendations:

1. Andi: books The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, donghua The Founder of Diabolism, and live action series The Untamed, plus all the related fanfics
2. Maria: movie The Fall Guy
3. Jamie’s Mom: tv shows Monk and Suits
4. Bill: tv show Kaos

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