Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery, Short Treks & Podcast

Jack (cohost of the APECAST!) gets so excited about the meeting of the classic ape-like Mugatos with villainous laser-whippin' Ferengis that he has to call Ferengi expert Kregg (obviously!), Barm (as you do) and brother Sam (why not?) to go absolutely APESHIT over this wacky adventure. In the spirit of the episode, they have plenty of pronunciation problems of their own, while talking the Kzinti, Stephen King, Dark, Australian Tellarites, REFERENCES, What If…, Shang-Chi, and just about every movie currently in theaters. It's as sexually arousing as watching two Mugatus go at it.

Sean Davis is back to talk Lower Decks and the return (in very different ways) of both Tom Paris and Shaxs with Jack and Barm, but not before they try to remember any time Tom Cruise has died in a movie. After that, it's on to discussing some great Tendi/Mariner material, our feelings on the Shaxs revival, , separating our feelings on Voyager and Tom Paris, the implications of the Pakled threat, mayonnaise as the instigator of the only conflict between Japan and America, and touching tales of the early days of the Jack/Barm alliance. The listener's joy from this will EASILY power a FULL-SIZE Dyson Sphere.

The Lower Deckers, when the ApeCast hosted Jaxilly. Geoff, when Jack referenced LOST. Boimler, Will and Thomas on Nervala IV. Jack and Geoff, selecting dub/subs on Amazon Prime. TNG fans, when Boimler spoke of the D! Mariner and Jet, in the collector galleries. The Titan Strike Team, the Pakled snacks uncovered. Mariner and Boimler, in the Cerritos bar again. Star Trek Nerds, seeing the Spock Two skeleton. You, when you heard this episode!

Lower Decks is BACK, and so are the PD Crew (RTW+Barm), and Geoff (The ApeCast), to talk about it! Or rather, spend a few hours goofing around with each other and occasionally talking about the episode, which is a fine thing including giant heads and Gary Mitchell references. In other words, we've become GODS. One listen, and you'll agree: We're using way too many napkins.

IT'S THE BOOK BOOK! Or is it?? Three smart people who are Jack, Barm and Sean put on their glasses for Jaxilly's third dalliance with the literary Wonderlands of Uma McCormack! As they catch up on Michael and Book (and Grudge and Indian Desmond)'s adventures between episodes 1 and 2 of Season 3, they'll also revel in their undying love for Discovery's Alice in Wonderland references, make an excessive amount of Lord of the Rings references, just start ranting about Discovery plotting some more, and most importantly, check out FOUR Trek Trailers and finally open the mailbag! This is one Wonderland where you won't get BURNED.

Get out the Cheeza, because Jack and Kevin have made their third annual musical discovery: Disc-overy, by Tinie Tempah! They've already delved into 70's British Disco/Rock and early aughts French electronica, why not early teens British hip-hop? And this time, it's the first listen-through for both involved. Will they fancy TT? Will they ever look at Discs or Ovaries the same way again? WILL THEY TALK ABOUT EMINEM AND SNOOP DOGG?? Only one way to find out!

Jack and Lauren finally get up in that ass to talk about The Lefty Call, in their fourth annual Jaxilly Curb Your Enthusiasm Extravaganza! This year, Lauren picks the episode, and she chose to finally give us the gift of Leon in his starmaking moment. It's a shitstorm, it's just shit, as they not only delve into Leon, but also talk about winter fruits, getting eaten by whales, their severe neuroses about toilets, their first Richard Lewis episode also, how many times Jack can say "get up in that ass" and the wonders of the alimentary canal. GET UP IN THIS ASS, LISTENERS.

The Picard Debut Crew sits down to hang out and do a commentary on Total Recall! It's one of the most fun movies ever, and here is the best commentary on it. We also count down the many, many Star Trek characters who appear in the movie. 'Nuff said! GET YOUR ASS TO THIS COMMENTARY.

In the thrilling conclusion to the last episode, Jack, Sam and Barm talk about another twenty commercials with Star Trek characters in them, and then read some emails and shit. (Follow along with the gang by checking commercials 22-39 yourself on Jack's Youtube playlist "Star Trek Character Commercials")

Jack perverts Sam's very reasonable idea of watching every commercial they can find of Star Trek actors playing their characters in TV commercials by creating exceptions and watering down the concept until the episode becomes a bloated, overly long mess that needed to be split into two parts to even approach being manageable, yet still manages to be a lot of fun! Barm is along to assist in this process. (Follow along with the gang by checking out the first 21 commercials yourself on Jack's Youtube playlist "Star Trek Character Commercials")