In this edition of the podcast, we along with Tiff and Marie play a Star Trek version of the popular party game. That poses a dilemma in the form of a question beginning with "would you rather".

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In this introductory episode we’re going to be ‘dipping our toes in’ what’s most likely going to be one of the longer Species episodes we’re ever going to do. So, we’re just going to do a quick Dominion overview episode. Before we breakdown the Jem’Hadar, Vorta, and Changelings individually. Warning this episode contains swearing.

As the title suggests in this episode, we’ll be discussing Joss Whedon’s infamously cancelled cult classic show Firefly (and accompanying Serenity film) giving our thoughts and feelings.

For my second General Interest podcast I head into the fictional world for the first time with the varied works of Gerry Anderson. Something familiar to all the British 90’s kids (Millennials) due to all the repeats. We’re helped in the matter by fellow fan Mark Hughes. Warning this episode contains the occasional swear words, and unfortunately suffers from a few minor technical difficulties.

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In this episode we retrospectively look backwards at Star Trek: Picard third season, giving our opinions on what we think they got right and what they got wrong.

https://youtu.be/AnySfN02YYQ The Next Generation Cast on the Best, Worst (and Future) of Star Trek IGN YouTube

https://youtu.be/AkpOt_dC0rs Why Picard’s Story Had to End This Way (ft. Terry Matalas) IGN YouTube

Following on from our disrupted episode last year we complete our look at the most distant artificial Human-made objects. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes both launched in 1977 by looking at the scientific instruments on both probes.

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In the first episode of the year, we’re easing back into it by doing one of our infamous theoretical episodes by trying to ascertain how Starfleet upgrades happened practically and realistically. Which as you’ll find out is more complicated than it sounds!

In our final episode of this year we pick our favourite moments from our podcast! We want to wish our listeners a lovely Christmas and new year! See you all in January 2024!

In this episode we get into the Christmassy mood spirit by doing a film commentary for the 2015 film Christmas Eve. As it’s got the most tenuous link to Star Trek because it stars Patrick Stewart and Christina Chong. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Eve-Patrick-Stewart/dp/B07KNFFRFM

In this year's Absent Friends we remember and shine a spotlight on the amazing achievements of Caryl Codon-Tharp (Hair stylist), Hal Sutherland (Director), Camille Saviola (Actress) and Earl Boen (Actor).