We go where no one has gone before --- into a cube! Bonnie Gordon joins the gang to discuss the Star Trek episode that launched a thousand holodeck programs. Moriarty returns from the clutches of Dr. Pulaski to demand Barclay take him to the Captain. You see, the fictional foil to Sherlock was locked in limbo for nary four seasons. Flimflammery and tomfoolery abound as left-handed people ruin all the double-bluffing by Edward P. Hindenburg. Don't worry - this is one of Re:Engage's most musical episodes thanks in no small part to the awesomeness of a Library Bard. Check out Star Trek: Prodigy and hear our guest Bonnie Gordon go even deeper into Trek lore. In the meantime, a planet crashes into the sun.

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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG) 

Special Guest: Bonnie Gordon (BonnieBellG on IG, Bonnie Gordon.com, voice of the computer on Star Trek: Prodigy!

Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)

Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e13 "Acquiel" hosted by Jimmie!

Hey, got a light? To be continued leads us right into Picard singing like a songbird, as Kate says. He's in the well-lit torture room with David Warner as Gul Madred. Then we move to Cardassians showing their ipads and threatening Picard's life to our crack negotiating team. Riker's pissed Jellyroll won't admit Picard was acting for the Federation, and Jericho relieves him of duty. No really! Picard learn how to eat eggs and piss off torturers by not taking their shit. Riker's shit-eating grin goes into the nebula, plants some mines, and rescues Picard. Jellico's unchanged, but Picard has PTSD before we knew what that was. Hoo boy. This is a lot to unpack. No wonder we talk about a 47 minute episode for 86. :)

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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG) 

Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)

Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e12 "Ship in a Bottle" hosted by Greg and featuring special guest Bonnie Gordon, voice of the computer on Prodigy!

It's a mid-season two-parter! Let's jump into an extremely important episode full of editing choices and amazing performances around the horn. Captain Jericho is a real sociopath, and he takes over the Enterprise as Picard, Worf, and Crusher train in secret for the secret mission involving Cardashians. Riker's beard is bristling, Geordi is flabbergasted at Jellico's changes, and Crusher is gassed from running through caves. Captain Jellicle Cat insults Riker straight to Picard's face, then tells Troi to put on a proper uniform when she tells Jellico to cool it down with the crew. The mission goes off, with Picard telling them they are infiltrating a Cardassian weapons lab. It's a trap, and Picard is captured. TO BE CONTINUED.

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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)

Audio Editor: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e11 "Chain of Command, part 2" hosted by Greg!

Those little robots are so dang cute! Geordi meets with Dr. Firalalalon... who has a new mining technique she's perfecting on a new planet. The good doctor also made these cool little floating tools with self-replicating circuitry. One of them saves itself from destruction in a mining accident and Data pauses on that bit for a moment. Then he figures out there is life behind their oval-shaped exterior. "Do we think it's alive?" he asks Crusher, Picard and eventually Dr. Frialalalalala. And she is pissed, until one of the Exocomps saves the day by sacrificing itself. Back to the mining laser, Doctor!

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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)

Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Audio Editor: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e10 "Chain of Command" hosted by Erik!

Wagon Train to the stars, INDEED! Worf gets cajoled into playing cowboy with Alexander in the holodeck program he wrote with Barclay (who's mentioned but doesn't appear.) Troi gets in on the fun as the mysterious stranger, but then it all goes wonky when Datas start breaking the computer systems all over the ship. Crusher's play gets corrupted by Data's poem, Picard's flute music sucks, and cat food is in all the replicators. Cat food? This Western-themed holodeck-gone-wrong episode is also a slice-of-life one, too. Cicero Holmes, host of Discovery Debrief, rejoins to shoot the shit on this Monte Cristo as Brent Spiner eats so much scenery he's in danger of losing his foot.

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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG) 

Special Guest: Cicero Holmes (@stubbystan on Twitter, host of Discovery Debrief)

Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e9 "The Quality of Life" hosted by Kate!

The kids are on the prowl and this ain't no Space Camp situation! An accident puts a unique combination of characters into crisis mode as Ensign Ro, Keiko O'Brien, Captain Picard and Guinan all turn twelve to seven years old. Guinan and Ro learn to love jumping on beds while Keiko can't console Miles or her daughter. Picard's young self doesn't get the respect he deserves either, and the Ferengi take advantage of the Enterprise. But it's fine, we're going to get the Alexander's ipad to work and then, ultimately, color with some crayons. Good times.

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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter) 

Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Audio Editor: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e8 "A Fistful of Datas" hosted by Greg with special guest Cicero Holmes!

The return of Lohn JeDancie as the inimitable Q! This time, he's here to test an intern, but not like that. Well, kinda like that actually in that one scene. Olivia D'Abo, the older sister from Wonder Years fame, does a bangup job as a Q spawn left orphaned on Earth after a freak tornado accident in 24th Century Topeka. It seems the Q Continuum didn't like it when her parents quit the firm and our Q was sent to investigate her powers. Which are mostly puppy-based until he trains her up in an omnipotent game of hide-and-seek and messes up Dr. Crusher's experiment. The relationship between Crusher and Ms. Amanda Rogers is a high point of the episode, and Q is much more believable as a villain. Erik hosts this one and edited it all by himself!

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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)

Audio Editor: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e7 "Rascals" hosted by Jimmie!

Data reads poetry, and Riker is sleepy as fuck! Clicking aliens, this episode is heavy on the horror side of genre. The fishmonks are assholes and have been stealing crewmembers of the Enterprise away from this dimension. We follow Riker's perspective, but it's happening to Geordi, Worf, and that other lady, too. To figure it all out, Troi takes them into the holodeck where they recreate from memory together where they've been abducted to. The climax is a bit of a disappointment, but the premise of Schisms is solid. Just make sure you stay awake for the end of the poetry reading. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)  

Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG),  and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)

Audio Editor: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e6 "True Q" hosted by Erik!

We need more development, Scotty! It's the return of Captain Montgomery Scott by way of James Doohan by way of a jury-rigged transporter buffer. The Enterprise encounters a Dyson sphere in the middle of space, and a Federation transport ship crashed on its massive surface. Geordi rescues Scotty from the transporter, but can't rescue him from feeling old. Like a relic from the past, if I may be so bold. The bridge of the Enterprise from the original series - NOT the movies - is visited in the holodeck, and the ambiguously engineer duo of Scotty and Geordi team up to get the ship out of the garage before the door closes. All in all, more was desired from this TOS incursion, but it was a good drink, nonetheless. Bright green, of course.

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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)

Panel:  Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) , Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG),  and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)

Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG) 

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e4 "Schisms" hosted by Kate!

I gotta say, Troi sure knows how to pick 'em! But I blame the writers here. A diplomat comes in hot from an exploding transport ship but it's his mom that steals the show being angry at Troi's existence. Ambassador Alkar forms a bond with her, noting her empathic abilities, before his mom is found dead. Troi and Alkar touch crystals. Then she goes whackadoo: wearing revealing dresses, sleeping with ensigns,  scratching Riker, stabbing Picard, etc. We find out Alkar has got a shit-ton of these receptacles and Picard's not standing for it!

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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter) 

Panel:  Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) , Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG),  and Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)

Audio Editor: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)

Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com

Theme music: Ryan Marth

Next up is the s6e4 "Relics" hosted by one of Greg!