Lower Decks: A Star Trek Podcast

Join Valerie and Glenn as they discuss the first episode of Discovery's second season, repel down the wreckage of the failed Star Trek pilot, and question everyone's identity.

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Join Valerie and Glenn as they discuss the fourth episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, wax poetical about cudgels, and say the word "jipper" as many times as possible. Also, they talk about taxes.

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Join Valerie and Glenn as they discuss the third episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, compare it to some classic TNG and TOS episodes, and argue about the Prime Directive.

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Join Valerie and Glenn as they discuss the second episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, read excerpts from The Odyssey, and get new tattoos.

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Runaway with Valerie and Glenn as they discuss the first episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, gush over Tilly, and confront their own addiction to coffee.

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Are you a person? Are you sure you're not just a machine? How do you know? Join Valerie and Glenn for a discussion of personhood, grief, and Italian poetry in Star Trek: Voyager's "Latent Image."

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Check out The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast, our science-fiction book-club show. In August we're starting The Fifth Head of Cerberus, a novel that also addresses the issues raised in "Latent Image," and we'd love to have you read along with us.

A sad goodbye to too short a season. Join us as we give out awards, discuss character arcs, and speculate about what's in store next season.

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SPOCK IS ON THAT SHIP!!!!!! Join Glenn and Valerie as they discuss the first-season finale.

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Create life from lifelessness with Glenn and Valerie as they discuss "The War Without, the War Within."

Can't get enough Valerie this week? Listen to her talk about her scholarship on Agnus: the Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast.

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War crimes, anger, and justice. Join Valerie and Glenn for a discussion of Deep Space Nine's "Duet."

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