Kev & Rob agree that "Subspace Rhapsody" had its charms, but didn't quite live up to the hype, and that its best moment was a scene without a song at all! Taking the cue of this musical episode, they both agree that "Bride of Chaotica!" (VOY) is the last time going over the top into silliness was the point of an episode, and they talk through its highlights in detail. Finally, as a bonus, Rob re-watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and was surprised by how much he enjoyed it!

SNW 2×09 Subspace Rhapsody

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling

The Flash: Duet

Riverdale musical episodes

The Magicians musical episodes

Carol Marcus

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

David Marcus

TOS 1×15 The Menagerie, Part I

DS9 7×08 The Siege of AR-558

VOY 5×12 Bride of Chaotica!

DS9 4×10 Our Man Bashir

Arachnia

Satan’s Robot

The Delta Flyers

Chez Sandrine

VOY 6×11 Fair Haven

Other camp episodes

TOS 3×20 The Way to Eden

TOS 2×13 The Trouble with Tribbles

DS9 7×04 Take Me Out to the Holosuite

Bruce Horak

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

• (00:00) - Episode 39: Camp Trek (SNW 2×09 Subspace Rhapsody)

Rob & Kev need a sonic shower after the slow march through the Federation-Klingon war and its ugly consequences that was "Under the Cloak of War". Reflecting on the Federation at war, they look back at "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG) and "The Siege of AR-558" (DS9).

SNW 2×07 Under the Cloak of War

M’Benga appearances in TOS

Mark Piper

Phil Boyce

Clint Howard in Discovery

Gorkon

SNW 2×01 The Broken Circle

Section 31

TNG 3×15 Yesterday’s Enterprise

Rachel Garrett

DS9 6×19 In The Pale Moonlight

DS9 7×08 The Siege of AR-558

Subspace Radio #27: Taken Over

Bill Mumy

Babylon 5: The Road Home

Lennier in Babylon 5

MASH 10×17 Where There’s a Will, There’s a War

• (00:00) - Episode 39: War stories (SNW 2×08 Under the Cloak of War)

Kev & Rob would happily give several kilograms of heronium to get to see "Those Old Scientists" again for the first time. They talk through this crossover episode that had no business being as good as it was, before seeking out other examples of alien artifacts whose activation (or difficulty in activating) is a key point in an episode, including "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" (DIS) and "The Paradise Syndrome" (TOS).

TOS 2×07 Those Old Scientists

DS9 5×06 Trials and Tribble-ations

Space bug

Space koala

TNG 4×05 Remember Me

DIS 1×07 Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

Time crystal

Harcourt Fenton Mudd

DIS 1×05 Choose Your Pain

Ash Tyler

DIS 2×12 Through the Valley of Shadows

TOS 3×03 The Paradise Syndrome

Subspace Radio #37: Memory Loss

Kirok

Orbs of the Prophets

Preservers’ obelisk

TNG 6×20 The Chase

• (00:00) - Episode 37: Activating alien artifacts (SNW 2×07 Those Old Scientists)

Rob & Kev squint but fail to spot the USS Farragut in "Lost in Translation", despite its soon-to-be first officer hanging around the Enterprise like he knows he's going to work there someday! After a quick debrief on this week's episode, they consider two other prominent instances of communication difficulties when encountering non-humanoid life: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", and "Home Soil" (TNG).

SNW 2×06 Lost in Translation

How Long Can Captain Kirk Stay On Strange New Worlds?

Star Trek: First Contact – Millennium Falcon

42

Red Wedding

SNW 2×04 Among the Lotus Eaters

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Neutronium

LD 1×01 Second Contact

George and Gracie

TNG 1×18 Home Soil

Jerry Orbach

Project Genesis

• (00:00) - Episode 36: Understanding non-humanoid life (SNW 2×06 Lost in Translation)

Kev & Rob gush at the one-two punch of comedy and heartbreak delivered by "Charades" before breaking down the several different ways in which Vulcans are such jerks, revisiting "The Forge", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara" (ENT), "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" (DS9), and "Journey to Babel" (TOS).

SNW 2×05 Charades

Doctor Who: The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances

SNW 1×05 Spock Amok

Star Trek Generations

Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson

Exotica

Love & Human Remains

The Crow: City of Angels

The L Word

Roger Korby

TOS 1×09 What Are Little Girls Made Of?

TOS 2×05 Amok Time

Subspace Radio #8: Sex in Star Trek

Vulcans are Jerks

Remembering Manny Coto, 1961-2023

ENT 4×07-09  The Forge / Awakening / Kir’Shara

ENT 1×01-02 Broken Bow

T’Pau

DS9 7×04 Take Me Out to the Holosuite

See also Subspace Radio #0: Mixing it up and Subspace Radio #18: The Holodeck

TOS 2×15 Journey to Babel

Sarek

TNG 3×23 Sarek

• (00:00) - Episode 35: Vulcans are Jerks (SNW 2×05 Charades)

Rob & Kev nearly lose themselves in their analysis of "Among the Lotus Eaters", before dipping into other instances of our lead characters losing their memories, in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", "The Changeling" (TOS), and "Conundrum" (TNG).

SNW 2×04 Among the Lotus Eaters

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Amanda Grayson

Spock’s memory test

Katra

TOS 2×08 The Changeling

TNG 5×14 Conundrum

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

TNG 4×14 Clues

• (00:00) - Episode 34: Memory Loss (SNW 2×04 Among The Lotus Eaters)

Kev & Rob are surprisingly okay with "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"'s revelations about where exactly in the timeline certain ill-fated experiments took place. In celebration, they explore two other significant rewritings, or retrospective continuity changes (retcons) that Star Trek has indulged in in the past, including "Affliction" and "Divergence" (ENT), and "The Host" (TNG).

SNW 2×03 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

TOS 3×23 All Our Yesterdays

Eugenics Wars

Doctor Who 6×06 A Good Man Goes to War

James T. Kirk

Khan Noonien Singh

TOS 1×28 The City on the Edge of Forever

ENT 4×15-16 Affliction & Divergence

DS9 5×06 Trials & Tribble-ations

ENT 4× Borderland, Cold Station 12, The Augments

TNG 4×23 The Host

Jadzia Dax

DIS 3×04 Forget Me Not

DS9 1×08 Dax

VOY 2×15 Threshold

Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley

Rob & Kev agree to overrule all objections about the trial of Una Chin-Riley in "Ad Astra per Aspera". They then explore the legal precedents for excellent courtroom dramas in Star Trek, including "Judgment" (ENT), "Court Martial" (TOS), "Dax" (DS9), and "The Measure of a Man" (TNG). Finally, they commiserate following the shock announcement that Star Trek: Prodigy has been cancelled prior to the airing of season two on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.

SNW 2×02 Ad Astra per Aspera

Yetide Badaki as Neera Ketoul

Robert April

Julian Bashir

Eugenics Wars

TOS 1×24 Space Seed

Courtroom dramas 

ENT 2×19 Judgment

The Lost Star Trek Audio Commentary Tracks

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Martok

J.G. Hertzler

Xenopolycythemia

TOS 3×10 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Rura Penthe

TOS 1×14 Court Martial

TOS 1×15 The Menagerie

DS9 1×08 Dax

TNG 4×23 The Host

Trill

DIS 3×04 Forget Me Not

TNG 2×09 The Measure Of A Man

Bruce Maddox

Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley

Kev & Rob celebrate the return of Strange New Worlds by punching a corridor full of Klingons before sitting down to share their thoughts about "The Broken Circle". They then explore other notable examples of crews operating without their Captain (or station Commander, as the case may be!) in "The Tholian Web" (TOS), "Family Business" (DS9), "Little Green Men" (DS9), "Two Days and Two Nights" (ENT), and "The Quickening" (DS9).

SNW 2×01 The Broken Circle

Jefferies Tube

Crossfield class

TOS 3×09 The Tholian Web

DS9 3×23 Family Business

Moogie

Kasidy Yates

DS9 4×08 Little Green Men

TNG 6×10 Chain of Command

TNG 3×19 Captain’s Holiday

Star Trek INtakes: Let Sleeping Doctors Lie

DS9 4×24 The Quickening

Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley

Much like "The Last Generation", this Subspace Radio had about 40 minutes of footage cut out of it, and it's *still* a double-length episode! Rob & Kev comb through every morsel of the series finale of Star Trek: Picard, before turning back the clock to other finale episodes of series past, including "All Good Things…" (TNG), "What You Leave Behind" (DS9), "Endgame" (VOY) and "These Are the Voyages…" (ENT).

PIC 3×10 The Last Generation

Planetary distress signal

Pavel Chekov

Anton Chekov

PRO 1×12 Let Sleeping Borg Lie

TNG 7×25/26 All Good Things…

TNG 1×01/02 Encounter at Farpoint

DS9 7×25/26 What You Leave Behind

VOY 7×25/26 Endgame

ENT 4×22 These Are the Voyages…

TNG 7×12 The Pegasus

Star Trek Nemesis

Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley