Out of Contreks

What would the human body look like if you sucked all the water out of it? What is an acceptable trade-off for immortality? Why is Captain Kirk patriotic about the USA when he was born more than a century after it ceased to exist? Brady and Ryan explore all of these questions and more in an episode of The Original Series that really goes for it in the best way.

This episode of Star Trek: Enterprise features two dogs. We know one of them is an Earth dog, but where's the other one from? Ryan and Brady talk about this and more quandaries in our discussion of "Two Days and Two Nights," a Star Trek episode that could almost be an episode of a modern day soap opera instead.

Why don't Ryan and Brady *get* DS9? We continue to explore this question in DS9's first episode set in the Mirror Universe! Tell us why we're wrong at [email protected]!

Join Ryan and Brady as they cast a skeptical gaze on this highly mystical episode of Deep Space Nine. Apologies for the sounds of yard work and children in the background; it was a busy day at Ryan's old apartment. This is a pretty fun episode, though!

To be honest, we just can't get away from the subplot where an ensign is assigned to find out a crew member's favorite food during the middle of a life-threatening attack in this, our auspicious first watch of an Enterprise episode.

We discuss what might be the most emblematic Star Trek episode we've yet covered, digging into the metaphors for parenting and the overall human experience in "The Offspring." Plus, we note a throwaway moment where The Next Generation was ahead of its time and mull the merits of Troi.

"One" is the loneliest Star Trek you'll ever dooooooo... We get down to brass tacks on what is and isn't a hallucination and why Seven of Nine is great in our 10th episode!

We reminisce about a staple of our upbringing and talk about what makes good fiction in this Voyager holodeck episode.

It's episode 6's better half! We talk about Riker's ambition, a good Star Trek guest star and how the Borg complement the emotional arc of one of the best Next Generation episodes.

Who to trust, man or computer? Ryan and Brady disagree on the answer, and even on the validity of the question, in the show's first discussion of an original series episode. Come for the philosophical discussion, and stay for the least effective pick-up line of all time and ruminations on the future of paper.