Punch It: Writing in Star Trek

As Star Trek fans, we lead rich fantasy lives.

Char and Tristan discuss what it was like growing up Star Trek fans and how they either wrote down their Trek fantasies or just played them in their head. Imagining themselves on the bridge of the Enterprise or lost in the Delta Quadrant, it didn't matter because it was a place to escape. They discuss this as well as how certain fantasies can become unhealthy.

What are some of your Star Trek fantasies that you go to?

What would an R rated Star Trek movie look like?

Listen, neither Char nor Tristan want an R rated movie. That's why they think it would interesting if they were forced to write one. With news of the possibility of a Tarantino Trek coming getting more and more serious, they wanted to see what it would take to get a Trek amped up to R. How much language, how much sex, how much violence would be "appropriate"? More importantly, what kind of story would be ideal?

Listen to find out the direction they go.

What happens right before Star Trek: Picard?

There is zero way of knowing for sure but your Punch It crew loves a good "What if?" This week, we take a look at the Picard trailer again and see if we can fill in the gaps between when Jean-Luc leaves Starfleet and when the show picks up. So many direction to go in it's hard to choose one, but we try.

Listen to see how we tackled it.

What if "Year of Hell" was on other iterations of Star Trek?

This was a listener suggestion that we were itching to try out. We started developing scenarios for Deep Space Nine and The Original Series and got really excited. As we moved on to The Next Generation and Enterprise we started seeing a pattern in the existing writing of the show.

Listen to find out what we learned.

Our honest and hyped reactions to the Star Trek: Picard trailer

We started out the episode thinking this would just be an intro topic but it ended up filling the entire episode. This week we ponder the ramifications of this type of show as well as the possibilities of directions that show as well as the character of Picard could take.

20 years is a long time and the world, as well as our former Captain, is very different.

What do you hope to see in this upcoming show?

On-the-fly episode about Phlox

Phlox is an extremely interesting character from Star Trek: Enterprise. His backstory is extremely colorful and this week we explore a scenario where it comes back to haunt him.

In this episode on-the-fly, we create a story where a husband of one of Phlox’s wives is bad news.

What if Deep Space Nine's wormhole went to the Delta Quadrant?

The Bajoran wormhole has given us some amazing stories in Deep Space Nine by taking us to the Gamma Quadrant. But what if it didn't? What if it went to the Delta Quadrant and Star Trek: Voyager never existed?

In this episode, we talk about how DS9 would change and what familiar faces we could possibly see. How do you think the show would have looked?

How would the other captains react to the Caretaker?

In another "What if?" scenario, this week's episode of Punch It tackles Star Trek: Voyager's series opener, "Caretaker," and how Archer, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Pike would have reacted to the situation of being stranded in the Delta Quadrant​.

What do you think each captain would do?

Kirk and Crew take on the Borg

You read that right! In this episode of Punch It, we craft a story that postulates what the Borg would look like and how the events would go down if it was a TOS episode first. But we couldn't stop there; we tackle a sequel movie as well. If you're thinking this is reminiscent​ of Space Seed/TWOK then you are very perceptive.

Please listen and write us what you think the episode and the movie should be called.

Everyone, I mean everyone, is in the Nexus

You read that right. Your Punch It hosts create an absurd story that gets every single lead Star Trek character into the Nexus.

How did they get in there? Do they try to get out? How do they find each other? Who gets along and who doesn't?

Listen to hear this off-the-wall tale of heaven and plot devices.