Out of Contreks

Ryan and Brady take a detour into the recent Star Trek Day announcements before going long on the third season of Strange New Worlds, a very pleasant show that is also maybe out of ideas? Join us as we talk about what a difference a good cast makes, prequels that could be spiritual but end up being literal, and baseball metaphors.

Ryan and Brady limp to the end of their mini-Discovery run with this Breen-centric episode. But did the showrunners miss an opportunity to reveal the look of the race for the first time? Why are the details of this episode so hard to remember?

Ryan and Brady talk about the old reliable of Star Trek Voyager: A Doctor episode! A goofy outing for the Delta Quadrant crew becomes, if you think about it, a kind of touching meditation on who could survive their innermost thoughts being put on display for all to see.

Max and Michael of the Star Trek miniatures game Into the Unknown join us again for another Deep Space 9 episode. Come for their sneak peek at the new Klingon expansion content coming for the game later this year, and stay for us talking about this episode's strikingly naturalistic writing and the brilliance of Michael Dorn and Terry Farrell.

Interested in purchasing Into the Unknown? You can check it out here!

Note: We had to reschedule which episode we were doing this week because a power outage limited Ryan’s ability to edit the show.

Ryan and Brady explore some Klingon stuff and some Spock stuff and try to remember what the hell was going on in Star Trek Discovery Season 2. Is this the most confusing Star Trek season to watch out of context... even if you've already seen the whole thing front to back?

Ryan and Brady talk about their first ever series finale to come up on their random number generator, and for once, their two-months-ahead-of-time schedule actually turns out to line up perfectly. Not for their discussion about the premiere date of Strange New Worlds Season 3, which was announced shortly after the episode was recorded, but for the premiere of James Gunn's new Superman movie, which opens this coming weekend and which catches some strays in this episode as Ryan and Brady talk about the unremarkability of commonly expressed artistic statements.

Ryan and Brady reteam with Caitlin and Nicole of That's Not How Science Works to discuss this late season Voyager episode that seems to be the writing staff taking another bite of the Tuvix apple. Come for the discussion of Neelix and Tuvok as characters, stay for the weirdly long discussion of Tenet at the end of the show!

Ryan and Brady kick off an unexpected journey into many episodes of Discovery over the next few months with a look at the nu-Trek era's cool Andorian makeup, the limitations of "decompressed" prestige TV storytelling, and how to nail the tone of inserting an important social issue into your work.

Ryan and Brady dig into the pilot of Enterprise, talking about what works, what doesn't, whether it's pronounced "bow" or "bough," and why Brady wasn't allowed to watch Enterprise when he was a kid (it was too horny!).