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03.01.2021
VOYS7E16 and 17 - Workforce, Parts 1 and 2
Chakotay, Harry and Neelix find Voyager drifting within a nebula, derelict. They discover that the rest of the crew has left the ship and have apparently taken new jobs on an industrialized planet.
08.17.2020
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 1: Second Contact
It's a new day and a new series of Star Trek, and joy of joys, it's actually....good? At least solid with the potential to be pretty good? There are pluses and minuses, but for its 21 minute runtime, the episode...
07.23.2020
VOYS7E11 - Shattered
When Voyager runs afoul of an Anomaly Of The Week, it is split between different time periods along its trek home to the alpha quadrant.
06.07.2020
VOYS7E05 - Critical Care
The Doctor's program is stolen and he is forced into working for a vast hospital ship where he fights to save the lives of people whose society has determined they aren't worth the resources.
10.26.2019
VOY S6E12 - Blink of an Eye
Voyager encounters a strange, new world where time moves must faster.
08.29.2019
Voyager S6E10 - Pathfinder
We're back with another Voyager episode and a crossover with two beloved TNG characters, Counselor Troi and Lieutenant Barclay. Barclay is hard at work trying to find a way to communicate with Voyager, but the stress is getting to him....
08.31.2018
Star Trek: Insurrection
The Enterprise is summoned to a planet deep within a chatoic nebula inhabited by a peaceful people, the Ba'ku. But their idyllic village hides a dangerous secret, a verifiable fountain of youth. The crew must now protect these people from...
08.30.2018
Star Trek: Insurrection
The Enterprise is summoned to a planet deep within a chatoic nebula inhabited by a peaceful people, the Ba'ku. But their idyllic village hides a dangerous secret, a verifiable fountain of youth. The crew must now protect these people from...
08.28.2018
VOY S5E26 - Equinox Pt. 1
Voyager comes across another starship stranded in the Delta Quadrant - one whose crew made vastly different decisions than their own.
07.17.2018
VOY S5E24 - Relativity
Seven of Nine must think on her feet when she is abducted by time travelers and charged with saving Voyager from destruction.
07.16.2018
VOY S5E24 - Relativity
Seven of Nine must think on her feet when she is abducted by time travelers and charged with saving Voyager from destruction.
05.24.2018
VOY S5E20 - Think Tank
Just as Voyager encounter a seemingly unsolvable problem, the ship encounters a travelling think tank, solving impossible problems on a galactic scales, staffed by a diverse array of the most intelligent beings in the galaxy. They are willing to help,...
04.24.2018
VOY S05E15/16 - Dark Frontier
Captain Janeway has devised a daring plan to help the crew get home: steal a transwarp coil from the Borg. In addition to the more obvious dangers, the mission will also force Seven to confront the legacy of her parents...
04.23.2018
VOY S05E15/16 - Dark Frontier
Captain Janeway has devised a daring plan to help the crew get home: steal a transwarp coil from the Borg. In addition to the more obvious dangers, the mission will also force Seven to confront the legacy of her parents...
02.08.2018
DSC S1E14 - The War Without, The War WIthin
Discovery has returned to the prime universe, only to discover that the Klingons have nearly won the war in their absence. On board the ship, the crew deals with the fallout of Tyler's betrayal in their own ways.
02.01.2018
DSC S1E13 - What's Past is Prologue
Mirror Lorca's plan comes to fruition with an all out assault on the emperor, with Burnham and Discovery caught in the middle.
02.01.2018
DSC S1E13 - What’s Past is Prologue
Mirror Lorca's plan comes to fruition with an all out assault on the emperor, with Burnham and Discovery caught in the middle.
01.28.2018
DSC S1E12 - Vaulting Ambition
Burnham comes face to face with the Terran Emperor while Saru tries to find a way to help Tyler and Stamets meets a familiar face in the mycelial network.
01.16.2018
DSC S1E11 - The Wolf Inside
Burnham remains on the Mirror Universe Shenzhou searching for the information that will lead to a way home. Tyler struggles with his identity come closer to the surface at the worst possible time. And Saru and Tilly must find a...
01.10.2018
DSC S1E10- Despite Yourself
The ship is trapped in the Mirror Universe. Burnham devises a daring plan to get home, but it involves pretending to be her counterpart on this universe's Shenzhou. Meanwhile, Tyler's sanity appears to find its breaking point as he questions...
01.07.2018
VOY S5E15+16 - Dark Frontier
Captain Janeway has hatched an audacious plan: to steal technology from the Borg in an attempt to get the crew home. But tangling with the Collective forces Seven to face the legacy of her parents work and the propsect of...
12.19.2017
VOY S5E12 - Bride of Chaotica!
A race of photonic aliens mistake Tom's Captain Proton holodeck program for reality, and try to enter it. This causes a (admittedly predictable) malfunction. To solve it, the crew will have to defeat the villainous Chaotica in his own world....
12.18.2017
VOY S5E12 - Bride of Chaotica!
A race of photonic aliens mistake Tom's Captain Proton holodeck program for reality, and try to enter it. This causes a (admittedly predictable) malfunction. To solve it, the crew will have to defeat the villainous Chaotica in his own world....
11.14.2017
DSC S01E09 - Into the Forest I Go
In the midseason finale, the crew faces off against the Klingons and attempts to find a way to circumvent their cloaking device, but the daring plan places Burnham, Tyler, and Stamets in grave danger.
11.07.2017
DSC S1E08 - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Burnham, Tyler, and Saru are sent on a sensitive mission with implication for the entire Federation war effort. Meanwhile, Admiral Cornwell is still in the clutches of the Klingons...Ed. note --- She better not be dead. I will be very...
10.31.2017
DSC S1E07 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Harry Mudd is back and he is not happy. Possessed with a device that lets him repeat the same thirty minute loop infinitely, he is trying to figure out how to capture Discovery and sell it to the Klingons. Due...
10.23.2017
DSC S1E06 - Lethe
Sarek is injured in a terrorist attack and Burnham may be his only hope. Meanwhile, Admiral Cornwall arrives on Discovery and is questioning Lorca's recent decisions and fitness to command.
10.16.2017
DSC S1E05 - Choose Your Pain
Lorca is captured by Klingons while returning from a meeting with Starfleet, leaving Saru in charge. Burnham realizes the jumps are killing the Tardigrade. Can she allow another, even if it means saving their captain?
10.14.2017
VOY S5E06 - Timeless
We continue our review of Voyager Season 5 with the series' 100th episode, and it's a doozy. The episode opens to find Voyager buried under a sheet of ice and a much older Chakotay and Harry Kim executed a daring...
10.13.2017
VOY S5E06 - Timeless
We continue our review of Voyager Season 5 with the series' 100th episode, and it's a doozy. The episode opens to find Voyager buried under a sheet of ice and a much older Chakotay and Harry Kim executed a daring...
10.10.2017
DSC S1E04 - The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry
An attack on a vital mining operation forces up the Discovery's timeline for getting its engines working. Burnham is tasked with learning what she can from the ships newest acquisition that can help their war effort. Today's triva: This, shockingly, is...
10.10.2017
DSC S1E04 - The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry
An attack on a vital mining operation forces up the Discovery's timeline for getting its engines working. Burnham is tasked with learning what she can from the ships newest acquisition that can help their war effort. Today's triva: This, shockingly, is...
10.03.2017
DSC S1E03 - Context is for Kings
On her way to a prison colony, Burnham's shuttle is damaged and rescued by the USS Discovery. Her captain quickly conscripts Burnham to assist in a mysterious experiment. She is now surrounded by a crew that doesn't trust her, and...
09.28.2017
DSC S1E01 - The Vulcan Hello and S1E02 - The Battle at the Binary Stars
Welcome to the premiere review podcast for the first new Trek series in over a decade. Despite years of vague foreboding, we both felt there was a lot to like here and have mustered just enough cautious optimism to keep...
09.27.2017
DSC S1E01 - The Vulcan Hello and S1E02 - The Battle at the Binary Stars
Welcome to the premiere review podcast for the first new Trek series in over a decade. Despite years of vague foreboding, we both felt there was a lot to like here and have mustered just enough cautious optimism to keep...
09.20.2017
VOY S5E04 - In the Flesh
Despite our joy (and apprehension) at the forthcoming Star Trek Discovery, we're going to keep working through the remaining VOY and ENT episodes that we have yet to review. This week, Voyager discovers an eerily accurate simulation of Earth and...
06.21.2017
DS9 S7E25 - What You Leave Behind
So, here we are. Seven years facing off against Bajoran separatists, possibly divine wormhole aliens, Cardassian, Klingons, the Dominion, and whatever scheme Quark is up to this week. How will our crew fare? Will the Federation win the war? Will...
03.17.2017
DS9 S7E20 - The Changing Face of Evil
The Breen have attacked Earth. Damar has staged a rebellion. Dukat and Winn take a bloody step forward in their plan to release the pahwraiths. Ounce for ounce, this is one of the most exciting episodes of DS9 ever!
02.11.2017
DS9 S7E17- Penumbra
As DS9 enters the homestretch, it embarks on an amitious, and heretofore largely forbidden plot device: the serialized story. The Dominion War is drawing to a climax, and all the cast of DS9 both friend and foe will forced to...
02.10.2017
DS9 S7E17- Penumbra
As DS9 enters the homestretch, it embarks on an amitious, and heretofore largely forbidden plot device: the serialized story. The Dominion War is drawing to a climax, and all the cast of DS9 both friend and foe will forced to...
01.05.2017
Star Trek Beyond (God, the lack of colon is driving me mad)
So, is being the called the least awful of the Abrams movies a compliment? Probably not, but it's the best this 1984b of the franchise is going to get from us. The actors are really trying, and there is some...
11.29.2016
DS9 S7E06 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
We learn a lot in this episode. We learn that the Federation's multicultural values are not just talk as we see Nog excel not just as a Starfleet officer, but as a wheeling and dealing Ferengi. We learn that the...
10.19.2016
DS9 S7E01- Image in the Sand
We return to DS9 for its final season. When we last left the show, everyone and everything was in chaos. After Jadzia's (useless) death, Sisko has taken a leave of absence and the Prophets seem to have abandoned Bajor. We...
09.27.2016
VOY S4E26 - Hope and Fear
Voyager gets some assistance from a new friend in decrypting Starfleet's message. The results appear to be a way home. Is it too good to be true? (Spoiler Alert: Yes, yes it is. Always)
09.26.2016
VOY S4E26 - Hope and Fear
Voyager gets some assistance from a new friend in decrypting Starfleet's message. The results appear to be a way home. Is it too good to be true? (Spoiler Alert: Yes, yes it is. Always)
08.24.2016
VOY S4E23 - Living Witness
The Doctor awakens to find himself centuries in the future and the only person left who can clear Voyager's name, as history has judged Janeway a genocidal monster and the crew her violent lackeys. The Doctor quickly learns, however, that...
08.23.2016
VOY S4E23 - Living Witness
The Doctor awakens to find himself centuries in the future and the only person left who can clear Voyager's name, as history has judged Janeway a genocidal monster and the crew her violent lackeys. The Doctor quickly learns, however, that...
07.16.2016
VOY S4E19 - The Killing Game, Part 2
An explosion has ripped through the holodeck and taken out several decks of the ship. But in the good news department, Janeway is Janeway again and that's always going to stack the odds in your favor. Get on your best...
07.15.2016
VOY S4E19 - The Killing Game, Part 2
An explosion has ripped through the holodeck and taken out several decks of the ship. But in the good news department, Janeway is Janeway again and that's always going to stack the odds in your favor. Get on your best...
07.07.2016
VOY S4E18 - The Killing Game
The crew has been captured by the Hirogen and is being forced to fight and die over and over again in holodeck simulations to give the Hirogen insight into Alpha Quadrant species history and capability. Neelix is a Klingon. B'Elanna...

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Treknobabble episodes:

VOYS7E16 and 17 - Workforce, Parts 1 and 2

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 1: Second Contact

VOYS7E11 - Shattered

VOYS7E05 - Critical Care

VOY S6E12 - Blink of an Eye

Voyager S6E10 - Pathfinder

Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection

VOY S5E26 - Equinox Pt. 1

VOY S5E24 - Relativity

VOY S5E24 - Relativity

VOY S5E20 - Think Tank

VOY S05E15/16 - Dark Frontier

VOY S05E15/16 - Dark Frontier

DSC S1E14 - The War Without, The War WIthin

DSC S1E13 - What's Past is Prologue

DSC S1E13 - What’s Past is Prologue

DSC S1E12 - Vaulting Ambition

DSC S1E11 - The Wolf Inside

DSC S1E10- Despite Yourself

VOY S5E15+16 - Dark Frontier

VOY S5E12 - Bride of Chaotica!

VOY S5E12 - Bride of Chaotica!

DSC S01E09 - Into the Forest I Go

DSC S1E08 - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

DSC S1E07 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

DSC S1E06 - Lethe

DSC S1E05 - Choose Your Pain

VOY S5E06 - Timeless

VOY S5E06 - Timeless

DSC S1E04 - The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry

DSC S1E04 - The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry

DSC S1E03 - Context is for Kings

DSC S1E01 - The Vulcan Hello and S1E02 - The Battle at the Binary Stars

DSC S1E01 - The Vulcan Hello and S1E02 - The Battle at the Binary Stars

VOY S5E04 - In the Flesh

DS9 S7E25 - What You Leave Behind

DS9 S7E20 - The Changing Face of Evil

DS9 S7E17- Penumbra

DS9 S7E17- Penumbra

Star Trek Beyond (God, the lack of colon is driving me mad)

DS9 S7E06 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

DS9 S7E01- Image in the Sand

VOY S4E26 - Hope and Fear

VOY S4E26 - Hope and Fear

VOY S4E23 - Living Witness

VOY S4E23 - Living Witness

VOY S4E19 - The Killing Game, Part 2

VOY S4E19 - The Killing Game, Part 2

VOY S4E18 - The Killing Game