Star Trek Lower Decks makes its first appearance on the podcast! We continue our Spotlight Series, discussing the Star Trek Pilots, with Lower Deck's "Second Contact". We discuss our favorite moments, funny lines, main characters, where Lower Decks fits into the Star Trek Timeline, easter eggs and more!

In this episode, we are finally diving into Star Trek Discovery. We have not covered Star Trek Discovery on the podcast until now, however as part of our 'Spotlight Series', it was time to discuss the 6th show in the franchise. We welcome back a special guest to the podcast: artist Jenny Johnson! You've undoubtedly seen her work all over the internet and know how incredible it truly is. She brings her perspective to this, somewhat, controversial show as we discuss the best, and worst, of Star Trek Discovery's first episode "The Vulcan Hello"!

In this episode, we continue our Spotlight Series with Enterprise's "Broken Bow". Enterprise is the final legacy Star Trek series before we jump into 'New Trek'. Just like its predecessors, Enterprise was vastly different, this time jumping back in time to approx. 100 years before Kirk and Spock. This pilot was jam packed with action, adventure, a brand new type of intro song, new species and more! We hope you enjoy this wonderful pilot as we bring you are thoughts and feelings about the beginning of the NX-01 crew!

We're continuing our spotlight series look at the Star Trek pilots with Voyager's "Caretaker". The fourth series in the Star Trek franchise takes us on a very different journey...to the Delta Quadrant. Headlined by the first leading female captain in the franchise. Join us as we head across the galaxy and follow the daring crew of the U.S.S. Voyager as they find themselves 70,000 light years from home dealing with the Caretaker!

In this episode we continue our current Spotlight Series, Star Trek Pilots, with Deep Space Nine’s “Emissary”. Originally airing on January 3rd 1993, the third installment in the franchise was VASTLY different. Looked at as the “black sheep” of the franchise for a long time, Deep Space Nine’s fan base has grown exponentially in recent years due to binge watching during the pandemic, streaming services, and more. This incredible series begins in a very unexpected way. We cover all this and more on our look at Zach’s favorite Star Trek series!

In this episode we're going back to where Star Trek started....1966. We dive into the original pilot episode entitled "The Cage" which was not originally aired as well as the second pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" which actually aired after "The Man Trap" out of order because it has to be confusing right? We will dive into the differences between the pilots, the Captains and more!

This year (2024) was the 30th anniversary of the first Star Trek The Next Generation movie. This movie had some great moments and some wonderful themes but overall, we have our issues. From the death of Kirk to the destruction of the Enterprise-D to Geordi's visor there are many points in the movie that we feel they just plan messed up. We dive into all of that and more as we finally get down to ranting about this movie.

In this episode, we sat down with actress Kandyse McClure. Kandyse is an incredibly talented actress who, born in South Africa, has an amazing career highlighted by appearances on the post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama "Jeremiah", Syfy channel’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn, NBC’s 2002 Carrie another Stephen King novel, Sanctuary, Smallville, Andromeda, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Snowpiercer, The Flash, Charmed, Virgin River and so much more. You probably know her best as Anastasia Dualla from Battlestar Galactica. We had such a blast learning more about Kandyse and her career and how she got started in the industry and we laughed a TON! We hope you enjoy this discussion as much as we did!

On this episode we start a brand new Spotlight series! We're deep diving the Star Trek pilot episodes! Yes, we are starting out of order with TNG, but don't fret, we will get to both of the Original Series pilot episodes soon. But first, TNG. This episode spawned what is widely regarded as the best Star Trek series in the franchise. If TNG had not done well, we would not have any of the follow-on series. We dive deep into the relationship between Picard and Q, the introduction of new characters, a new Enterprise, the awkward first encounter between Picard and Riker and much, much more! Come along with us as we explore each episode that started its respective series.

In this episode we sit down with Fanboys director, New York Times best selling author and producer Kyle Newman! Kyle is a wonderful guy and fellow nerd whose passion for D&D, Star Wars, Star Trek and more is evident. We discussed his career, passions, hobbies, future projects/books his company "Pop Culture Coffee" and more!