The Gayly Planet: The Final Fronqueer | A Star Trek Podcast

Today we are discussing season 3, episode 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Who Watches the Watchers.” 

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~9 minutes of bonus content about boycotting sodastream, physical media options, 80s new wave covers, Jessie’s foster kittens, and Lark’s art projects. 

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Happy Pride!

Know someone who wants to join our Patreon but can’t afford it? We have a gifted membership available thanks to one of our beloved Patrons!

Don’t miss our Pride specials!! 

-Our annual Pride sale is happening now, including our limited run stickers that are only available once a year!

-Our annual Patreon push is going strong all month long! The first seven people to join at a $21 or higher tier get a personalized Gay Aunt (gender neutral) Affirmation from Jessie. PLUS if you join or upgrade to a sticker tier you get a free sticker (or THREE free stickers if you join for a year up front)! 

-Our joint Pride newsletter, which is a roundup of some of our favorite queer tiktokers, is available here!

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The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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It's JUUUNE! How do we celebrate Pride at Hashtag Ruthless? Well, among other things, we solve the world's tiniest (un)problems together! In this episode, Jessie and Lark give some very serious advice for your very un-serious questions.

Go listen to (or watch!) the rest of this episode FOR FREE on Patreon! (that's also where you can see the pics of the knife from question one!)

Don't miss our Pride sale!

We have a YouTube channel now, if that's your thing.

*For legal reasons please note that we are not professional advice type people! We’re just two silly queers making a podcast. Take our advice at your own risk, or whatever. 

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Today we are discussing season 3, episode 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Survivors.” 

Happy Pride!

Know someone who wants to join our Patreon but can’t afford it? We have a gifted membership available thanks to one of our beloved Patrons!

Don’t miss our Pride specials!! 

-Our annual Pride sale is happening now, including our limited run stickers that are only available once a year!

-Our annual Patreon push is going strong all month long! The first seven people to join at a $21 or higher tier get a personalized Gay Aunt (gender neutral) Affirmation from Jessie. PLUS if you join or upgrade to a sticker tier you get a free sticker (or THREE free stickers if you join for a year up front)! 

-Our joint Pride newsletter, which is a roundup of some of our favorite queer tiktokers, is available here!

Prefer to watch, rather than listen? Here’s our YouTube channel!

Please consider joining our Patreon or sticker club—our Patrons are the only reason we can make Hashtag Ruthless happen!

Find your hosts upon the internet:

Check out Lark's art, his website, and his instagram

Follow Jessie on instagram and Bluesky

👇🏾 Get your books here and we'll make a little money from the sale! 

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Find the image roundup for this episode here!

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Listen to our other podcasts wherever you’re listening to this one!

The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Beer Bad? More like Beer Good, actually! Today we were joined by Ian Carlos Crawford of Slayerfest ’98 to talk about how Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 episode 5, Beer Bad, is actually a great work of art. Listen now to be convinced that this episode is so much better than you thought it was.

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~5 minutes of bonus content about partying with Giles, missed opportunities for Xander’s character, and our shared tendency to say fuck, like, a lot. 

You can follow Slayerfest as Slayerfestx98 on socials, youtube, and etsy; and Slayerfest98 on Patreon.

This episode is the kickoff of the return of Camp Ruthless, where we’ll be covering Campy media all summer long over on Patreon! Our next episode will be about John Waters’ Hairspray (1988), and will drop on the June full moon, 6/30! 

Check out We Are the Gayers, our past series discussing Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Want to join our Patreon but can’t afford it? We have two gifted memberships available! This one expires next month, don’t delay! If it has been claimed, this one doesn’t expire til August but still, don’t delay! 

Don’t miss our Pride specials!! 

-Our annual Pride sale is happening now, including our limited run stickers that are only available once a year!

-Our annual Patreon push is going strong all month long! The first seven people to join at a $21 or higher tier get a personalized Gay Aunt (gender neutral) Affirmation from Jessie. PLUS if you join or upgrade to a sticker tier you get a free sticker (or THREE free stickers if you join for a year up front!) 

-The deadline to submit your questions for our silly advice episode is TODAY—June 1st! Send them now! 

theme song: Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Industrial Music Box" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

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Today we are discussing season 3, episode 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Ensigns of Command.” 

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~9 minutes of bonus content about Drop Dead Gorgeous, the inefficiency of the PADDs in this show, The Acolyte/flipped perspective takes on things like Star Wars/ Trek, kittens, and lilacs. 

Send us your advice questions by June 1st!!

It's almost Pride month! We've got lots of bonus goodies for you this month, like a silly advice episode on June 18, and the return of Summer CAMP with an episode on Hairspray (1988) on June 30. We've also got a Patreon pledge drive starting on June 1st with rad incentives, and our annual Pride merch sale! Check out our Pride 2026 Newsletter for the full details and discount codes!

Here's the Land Back movement primer Lark promised

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Please consider joining our Patreon or sticker club—our Patrons are the only reason we can make Hashtag Ruthless happen!

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Find your hosts upon the internet:

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Find the image roundup for this episode here!

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Here are all the ways you can support us

Listen to our other podcasts wherever you’re listening to this one!

The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Today we are discussing season 3, episode 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Evolution.” 

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~12 minutes of bonus content about Starfleet Academy, video games, Jessie’s mini-vacation, and unfortunate hangover TV decisions. 

Prefer to watch, rather than listen? Here’s our YouTube channel!

Please consider joining our Patreon or sticker club—our Patrons are the only reason we can make Hashtag Ruthless happen!

Find this episode’s image roundup here!

Send us your Cozy Corner content here!

Find your hosts upon the internet:

Check out Lark's art, his website, and his instagram

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👇🏾 Get your books here and we'll make a little money from the sale! 

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Want to support us in other ways? Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of all the ways you can do so! 

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Listen to our other podcasts wherever you’re listening to this one!

The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

-edited from the original-

"Inner Light" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This month's bonus episode is The Mummy! (1999) Listen to the full hour and three minute episode by joining our Patreon 

This teaser ep doesn't contain any haterade, so don't worry about that!

theme song: Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Industrial Music Box" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

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Today we are discussing season 2, episode 22 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Shades of Gray.” 

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~9 minutes of bonus content, including mysterious germ transmission; Jessie’s weekend adventures including Jurassic Park, fiber arts, and baby goats; and Lark’s birthday adventures including playing pool (finally!!!!) and a trip to the bug zoo!

Check out the Voyager therapy tiktok Jessie talked about, and the This American Life episode "and the call was coming from the basement".

And here's the artist's instagram for Lark's new piece of art.

Please consider joining our Patreon or sticker club—our Patrons are the only reason we can make Hashtag Ruthless happen!

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Find your hosts upon the internet:

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👇🏾 Get your books here and we'll make a little money from the sale! 

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Here are all the ways you can support us

Listen to our other podcasts wherever you’re listening to this one!

The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

-edited from the original-

"Inner Light" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Today we are discussing season 2, episode 21 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Peak Performance.” 

The Patreon version of this episode contains ~6 minutes of bonus content about our joint vaycay to San Diego, childhood toys seemingly only we owned, and the weird experience of coming across something you wrote but you’d completely forgotten about. 

Please consider joining our Patreon or sticker club—our Patrons are the only reason we can make Hashtag Ruthless happen!

Send us your Cozy Corner content here!

Find your hosts upon the internet:

Check out Lark's art, his website, and his instagram

Follow Jessie on instagram and Bluesky

👇🏾 Get your books here and we'll make a little money from the sale! 

Physical or eBooks on Bookshop

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Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on what we are doing!

Find the image roundup for this episode here!

Want to support us in other ways? Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of all the ways you can do so! 

Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky

Check out our rad merch

Here are all the ways you can support us

Listen to our other podcasts wherever you’re listening to this one!

The Gay Pirate Podcast is about Our Flag Means Death

EsGAYpe From Reality is about the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

seasons 1-3 covered the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell

Music credit: "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

-edited from the original-

"Inner Light" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Listen to the full hour and thirty seven minute episode by joining our Patreon!

theme song: Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Industrial Music Box" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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