We combine two of your favorites this week: our "abstract" topics with another "convention live show"! This week it is "Abstract V" live from Las Vegas with host Jim Moorhouse and a panel of five expert Trek fans (Alex Perry, Claire Little, Matt Hansen, Jamie McGregor and Ken Reilly) targeting their abstract picks related to the letter V (or is that a Romulan numeral V?!?). Anything is on the table for our abstract topics and for our live shows from Las Vegas, and there are more than a few surprises this week (including a surprise guest appearance).

On this week's Weekly Trek Shashank Avvaru is joined by Bill Smith of Trek Geeks. Together, they discuss new QMX merch, Fleet Command's release, L'Rell battling sexism on Season 2 and more!

On this Part 2 of a two episode special Weekly Trek, hosts John Krikorian, Jamie McGregor and Shashank Avvaru reminisce fondly over Star Trek in 2018. They discuss their three favorite news items from the year, what they are looking forward to most in 2019, and one favorite piece of merch each!

This one is a deep cut. It's the "Top 5 Two-Hander Episodes" in Star Trek, which in television parlance is a production term referencing stories centered around two characters who are often isolated together in contrast. There are plenty of examples in Trek history where scripts have focused on a pair of characters who share a number of scenes together as the focus of the story. Our expert panel of host Jim Moorhouse and guests Chris Burris and Lee Hutchison go through an array of picks in this classic TrekRanks topic.

Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss! Chris and Abby are getting to know the Xindi Arboreals better, watching minds change, and are chatting about "The Shipment."

After infiltrating a Xindi-Arboreal plant that synthesizes vital explosive materials for the Xindi super-weapon, Archer, Reed and Major Hayes capture and interrogate the plant foreman, Gralik, who upon learning of the Xindi council's attack on Earth, establishes an uneasy alliance with Archer.

Season 3 Format:

-Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning)

-Captain's Log & Haiku (episode recap)

-Pros and Decons (analysis of episode)

- Viewscreen On (calling out a beautiful visual shot or director&s choice of shot)

- Flipping Duras and/or VAMF (Vulcan as a Mother Flipper) Awards as needed

-Porthos& Pick (our favorite parts)

-Trivia

-Vulcans& Verdict (rating the episode on a scale of 1-10 grapplers)

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"My mind to your mind…" Not sure there is anything more pervasive on Star Trek than a psychic transfer, where someone&s consciousness ends up some place it is probably not supposed to be! Which sounds like the perfect reason for TrekRanks to tackle the "Top 5 Psychic Transfers or: Fal-tor-panDEMONIUM" on this week&s amazing new episode! From Freaky Friday mind swaps to Vulcan mind melds and all the bonkers examples in between, our panel of host Jim Moorhouse and expert guests Jenn Tifft and Ross Webster explore it all. This is an essential episode of TrekRanks!

Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss! Chris and Abby are chatting about "Exile" and all spheres, crystals and castle cliffs it brings.

While working to translate the Xindi database, Hoshi is contacted by a mysterious telepathic alien who offers to help Enterprise on their mission to find the Xindi. His motives are far from altruistic, though - he wants Hoshi for his own, and he'll do anything to keep her with him - even kill the crew of Enterprise.

Season 3 Format:

-Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning)

-Captain's Log & Haiku (episode recap)

-Pros and Decons (analysis of episode)

- Viewscreen On (calling out a beautiful visual shot or director&s choice of shot)

- Flipping Duras and/or VAMF (Vulcan as a Mother Flipper) Awards as needed

-Porthos& Pick (our favorite parts)

-Trivia

-Vulcans& Verdict (rating the episode on a scale of 1-10 grapplers)

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Honestly, sometimes nothing quite hits the spot like a good, solid mediocre episode of Star Trek, and we put that theory to the test this week on TrekRanks with a gloriously fun topic: the "Top 5 Mediocre Episodes" in Trek! This one is an absolute celebration of those mid-level, mid-tier, mid-table, mediocre episodes of Trek, that deep down, we all love. Our panel of host Jim Moorhouse and guests Alex Perry, Dana Kenedy and Matt Finbow reveal a lot about their Trek psyche in this raucous episode of TrekRanks in which everyone is shooting from the hip and having a blast.

First Flight loves ALL Trek and today The Carrot Crew knows that Abby and Chris ADORE Star Trek Prodigy and, since Season 2 just dropped on 7/1, they binged it all day one. They even got to live text with each other for a chunk in the middle of the season! Here is a bonus episode that has their initial - less than 18 hours from first full watch - thoughts.

If Prodigy is NOT your flavor of Trek, don't worry, we'll be back with Enterprise S3 Ep 6 "Exile" next week at our usual time.

If Prodigy IS your flavor of Trek, don't worry, we'll be back with a full length review of the season after some time has passed and all have time to watch.

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First Flight loves ALL Trek and today we bring you a bonus episode that let's Abby and Chris reflect and chat about the entire series of Star Trek Discovery, which just finished its last season.

We could talk for hours, but we have distilled our five season discussion down into the following format.

Bonus Discovery Reflection Format:

- Welcome & Black Alert (spoiler warning)

- Main Character Review

- Secondary and Supporting Character Review

- Season Features (5 words and a hashtag, haiku on the captain, haiku on the threat/villain, Top 3 Eps and Season grappler rating) - Grudge Grumbles (our favorite theme, production element and wild card)

- Spore Jump Rating (a final haiku & rating the series on a scale of 1-10 spore jumps)

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