Strange New Worlds season four is here. Jodi and Mike talk through the premiere — what it means for Pike, the crew, and the season ahead. Watch it first, then join the conversation.

Star Trek: First Contact turns 30. Jodi sits down with Ashlyn and Rhianna from The Duras Sisters Podcast to celebrate the film and the woman at its emotional core — Lily Sloane. A survivor, a builder, and the only person in the 24th century willing to tell Picard he was wrong.

Ron Jones scored 42 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation — including The Best of Both Worlds — before being let go for making the music too good. He joins Seo to talk about TNG, the Borg, DuckTales, Family Guy, and a career built on refusing to write sonic wallpaper.

Cadet Pickford swallowed her combadge on the first day. Raffa Virago — the Brazilian-Canadian actress behind the role — joins Jodi to talk about life at Starfleet Academy, winning the 2024 Imagen Award for Dying in Plain Sight, and what it means to be part of a brand new era of Trek.

André Dae Kim played Transporter Chief Kyle on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Christian Ozera in Vampire Academy, and spent years as Winston Chu on Degrassi. Mike sits down with André to talk about all three worlds — what it means to step into a character with TOS roots, and how you build a career across some of Canada's biggest genre productions.

Hannah Cheesman played Lt. Commander Airiam in Star Trek Discovery — a character whose death stopped fans in their tracks. Mike and Jodi sit down with Hannah to talk about taking on that role, the experience of performing under full prosthetics, and a creative career that goes well beyond acting into writing, directing, and producing.

Raven Dauda played Dr. Tracy Pollard across all five seasons of Star Trek: Discovery — and she'll tell you it was the best set she's ever worked on. Mike and Jodi sit down with Raven to talk about life on the USS Discovery, working with Sonequa Martin-Green and Doug Jones, and a career built across stage, indie film, and some of Canada's biggest TV productions.

Ronnie Rowe Jr. won a major Canadian film award for playing a Black cop navigating racism from both sides of the law. Then he joined the crew of the USS Discovery. Mike and Seo sit down with Ronnie to talk about both worlds — indie film, Star Trek, representation, and what it means to build a career on your own terms.

Rekha Sharma is a Canadian actress of Indo-Fijian descent, best known for her role as Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica (2006–2009), and Ellen Landry on Star Trek: Discovery. Mike and Seo sit down with Rekha to talk about two of sci-fi's most iconic roles and what it's like to be a beloved fixture in the genre. Sharma played the tough, doomed Commander Ellen Landry in the episodes "Context Is for Kings" and "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", and later returned as the Mirror Universe version of Landry. We dig into her work on Discovery, her game-changing turn as Tory Foster across 31 episodes of BSG, and a career that's made her a sci-fi legend. A conversation about two franchises, two unforgettable characters, and an actress who's shaped some of the most important genre television of the past two decades.Welcome aboard the Clonestar Podcast, where we explore the Star Trek universe through interviews, deep dives, and thoughtful conversation with the people behind the stories.

Michael Horton has appeared in over 150 network television shows, a dozen films, and 1500+ commercials. He's been Lt. Daniels in Star Trek: First Contact and Insurrection, Kovin in Voyager's "Retrospect," Grady Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, voiced Chip Chase in Transformers, and appeared in Dances with Wolves. Seo and Jodi sit down with Michael to talk about a career that spans everything—from Trek to voice acting to working with Angela Lansbury—and how he pivoted from acting to founding the Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group, now 6000+ members strong.Welcome aboard the Clonestar Podcast, where we explore the Star Trek universe through interviews, deep dives, and thoughtful conversation with the people behind the stories.