Star Trek The Next Conversation - a comedy Star Trek podcast currently about TV's Deep Space Nine DS9 (or TNG)

Andy is excited that Dax is finally employing the main reason it'd be cool to be a Trill, Steven Webber kills it as a slimy Bjoran (doing double-duty on WINGS?), and Matt shares a dumb opinion on French Onion Soup.

[Episode discussion starts 55:00ish. If you're the type of crewman that wants to follow our next day coverage of STRANGE NEW WORLDS, season 3, check us out in the Patreon this month! www.patreon.com/startrektnc ]

It's Part 2 (?) of this three-parter, and the boys are in fine mistake form here on "the best Star Trek podcast." Matt rebounds from his boredom in part 1 and is back on board, while Andy asks if Kira just had sex with that glowing orb.   

[Episode discussion starts roughly 56:00 in - a blistering pace!]

LET'S GET READY TO SERIALLLIZZZZZE! Or at least start to as Matt and Andy discuss Frank Langella's refusal to take credit, whether Cardassians and Bjorans are into each other in general, and the fastest and most uneventful prisoner breakout in Trek history.

Also, SOMEWHERE IN TIME (starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour) spoiler at 1:06ish.  Yes, SOMEWHERE IN TIME. 

[Episode discussion begins around 1:09]

There's been a murder and nobody's on the case!  O'Brien sort of is, but he's mostly looking for one of his tools.  Matt fends off the reaction to his take on "Duet" in a super long hailbag, we hear from Maurice Hurley, and Andy wonders why Vedek Winn didn't pick someone who was a better shot.

(Episode discussion finally starts around 1:33)

Major Kira goes head-to-head with an alleged Cardassian war criminal as Matt and Andy go head-to-head over whether this episode deserves its highly-ranked status - or whether it even has that status? Also - is this file clerk the greatest living actor of the 24th Century?

Episode discussion starts around the 50:00 minute mark.

Are we getting Naked Now?  Are we back wearing our Masks?  Is Masaka waking?  Not really, but it’s definitely another “the crews’ minds are being messed with and they’re not acting like themselves” episode!  Matt and Andy try to untangle who’s paranoid, who’s spacey, and who’s inexplicably building a weird clock prop.  But mostly – what is this story? 

Episode discussion begins around the 1:09:00 mark.

Andy likes the character development in this episode and Matt was putt off by the utter lack of stakes and or plot movement.

Episode discussion begins around 1:07:00

Matt and Andy watch an episode where the crew's imaginations start to become reality. Sadly not a single crew-member imagines a plot or stakes.

episode discussion begins around the 1:07:00 mark.

Great news, we get to visit another Bajoran village this week. But instead of a cloud monster, we are greeted with a curmudgeonly Brian Keith!

episode discussion begins around the 01:05:00 mark.

After sifting through the ashes of season 2 of Picard, I wanted to know if I was crazy so we recorded an episode with everyone's opinions being heard.

Season 3 starts this week and you can hear us talk about it in the Patreon