This week, writer, sex worker, and sex worker activist Maggie McNeill joins the show to talk about sex work in Star Trek. We've seen the Enterprise stop at its share of "pleasure planets" on Star Trek and no one bats an eye, which means that Risa either has the best roller coaster in the galaxy or the Federation is a lot cooler with sex work than our governments are in the 21st century. But how would sex work in a money-free society work? Are pleasure planets regulated by the government? Is ther...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr 16 min
We are talking the #StarTrekPicard premiere "The End is the Beginning” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Feb 07, 2020•50 min
We are talking the #StarTrekPicard premiere "Maps and Legends” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Jan 31, 2020•42 min
We are talking the #StarTrekPicard premiere "Remembrance” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Jan 24, 2020•48 min
Open your copy of Ulysses and display your horga'hn as we go on a "Captain's Holiday"! Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church is back on the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that gives the hardest working man in Starfleet a break. Captain Picard has been ordered to take some R&R on Risa and he's determined to not have any fun. But when a beautiful woman, a scheming Ferengi, and two time-travelers crash his vacation, he'll have to save the universe while o...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 12 min
We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTreks "Children of Mars” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Jan 12, 2020•41 min
We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTreks "The Girl Who Made the Stars” and “Ephraim and Dot” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Dec 16, 2019•39 min
We're limping across the finish line this year, but we've got just enough power to give you one last look at this past season of Enterprising Individuals! This collection of the best moments and guests from 2019 is so good you'll forget it's all a clip show! Happy Holidays! Help support the show when you shop on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet01-20&linkCode=ez Please consider donating to DC Fontana's preferred charities! https://www.humanesociety.org/ https://bestfriends.org/ https:/...
Dec 05, 2019•44 min
This week, Alan Gratz is back on the show to explore the intersection between Star Trek and the works of William Shakespeare! Why do the characters on Star Trek love Shakespeare so much? How does each era of Trek approach Shakespeare differently? Why does the Enterprise have scenery flats onboard? "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'” Happy Thanksgiving! Follow Alan on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! https://twitter.com/alangratz https://facebook.com/alangratz ...
Nov 28, 2019•1 hr 21 min
Dust off your cloak and shine up your dagger as we examine "Improbable Cause" and "The Die is Cast"! Author Alan Gratz returns to the show this week to discuss an epic Deep Space Nine two-parter that changes the game and proves that the Dominion are a foe not to be taken lightly. When Garak's tailor shop explodes unexpectedly, Odo goes searching for answers. But a case that seems open and shut leads to a dark turn for our humble tailor and the Romulan/Tal Shiar alliance will throw themselves at ...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 53 min
We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “Ask Not” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Nov 20, 2019•27 min
Mikanhana of the Just Enough Trope podcast returns this week to talk Trek news, meeting veteran Trek stars, and going on a virtual away mission! Plus, we're putting the first season of Star Trek: Voyager on trial and asking ourselves: "Is it worth it to cross the Threshold?" I need my gooses! Follow Mikanhana on Twitter and check out Just Enough Trope and the new JET network show, Sailor Noob! https://twitter.com/mikanhana https://twitter.com/justenoughtrope https://twitter.com/noob_sailor Get i...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 19 min
Kiss the Blarney Stone and rub the Buddha's belly 'cause we're getting involved in "The Andorian Incident"! Musician and podcaster Gooey Fame returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise that spotlights the complex political situation in the Alpha Quadrant and Archer's indelicate but noble approach to it! When the NX-01's visit to a Vulcan monastery evolves into a tense hostage situation, the crew finds themselves at the mercy of suspicious and trigger-happy Andor...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 18 min
We're giving Star Trek a rest (in peace) this week as we discuss some of sci-fi's smartest and spookiest films! Plus, author Mary Fan joins the show to continue last week's discussion about the links between science fiction and fantasy storytelling. During our interview, Mary and I talk about her writing process, the artificial divisions between sci-fi and fantasy, the importance of depicting utopian worlds, technobabble and arcane language, our hopes for DS9: The Next Generation, Marvel "magic"...
Oct 31, 2019•50 min
Wave goodbye to the Milky Way and meet us at the corner of thought and reality as we go "Where No One Has Gone Before"! New York Times Bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that posits that the real final frontier exists within the human mind! The USS Enterprise receives a visit from a Federation scientist who claims to have developed a technique that will revolutionize warp travel. But, when his ministrations ta...
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 30 min
We're on the case this week as Jen Dallman of the Rosemary's Ladies podcast joins the show to talk about law in the Star Trek universe! A society with no money and no scarcity should need no lawyers . . . or so thought Gene Roddenberry . . . but it turns out to be a little more complicated than that because people and things mean laws and lawyers, no matter what century you live in. On the episode, we talk about the legal training Starfleet officers must get, the crazy conflicts of interest in m...
Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 4 min
We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “The Trouble With Edward” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Oct 16, 2019•28 min
Lock us in our quarters this week as we merge with "Meld"! Author Scott Pearson is back on the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that asks questions with no easy answers. When a crew member is mysteriously murdered, Tuvok is prepared to investigate and apprehend the killer. But when the killer is revealed to be a motiveless, violent sociopath, Voyager's resident Vulcan will find himself struggling with such a senseless, brutal act, and he'll put his own mind at risk to find logic ...
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 15 min
We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “Q & A” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!
Oct 07, 2019•41 min
This week, we're going back to school to study education (or the lack thereof) in the Star Trek universe! Every Starfleet officer is an alum of the same university, Starfleet Academy, and the egalitarian, scarcity-free world of the Federation would be a learning paradise, so why do we see classrooms so infrequently on Trek shows? Writer and educator Kelli Fitzpatrick joins the show to examine how learning has changed in the 24th century, and we discuss topics such as the way education breaks dow...
Oct 03, 2019•52 min
Get ready to confront your complicated romantic past as we become "Rejoined"! Writer Eleanor Tremeer rejoins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that explores Star Trek's commitment to personal freedom. Dax is taken aback when she is reunited with her ex-wife, the brilliant scientist Lenara Kahn. Can she sort out her feelings for her former spouse before a dangerous wormhole experiment threatens to consume the ship, her erstwhile paramour, and their history? St...
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 12 min
We're slipping the surly bonds of Earth this week as Just Enough Trope's Mikanhana is back on the show to review "Apollo", a graphic novel about the Apollo 11 mission and the minds and hearts behind mankind's greatest adventure! Plus, we round up the Trek news of the day, from making Trek "younger and more relevant" to the Walter Mosely mystery to Trek's recent awards to some old school pedantry! Somebody get me Matt Damon! Follow Mika on Twitter and cozy up to the Just Enough Trope podcast! htt...
Sep 19, 2019•58 min
Get ready to do it over (and over) again until you get it right as we're beguiled by "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"! Illustrator, writer, and storyboard artist Mike Collins joins the show the week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Discovery that uses familiar Trek storytelling tools to explore new facets of its characters. Michael Burnham is beginning to feel at home aboard the USS Discovery, but that peace is shattered when a vengeful Mudd arrives and destroys the ship! Michael Burnham...
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 9 min
This week, we're talking about a different kind of "canon" as Dr. James McGrath joins the show to talk about religion in Star Trek! Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future had no room for faith or superstition, but is a galaxy without God and spirituality desirable or even plausible? Trek's opinion on religion and belief has vacillated over the course of its five decades of storytelling, but faith in a higher power may be the one thing humanity will always possess, whatever planet we live on. Du...
Sep 05, 2019•56 min
Get ready to boldly stay as we meet with "Emissary"! Author, essayist, and photographer Derek Tyler Attico joins the show the week to discuss the premiere episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a series that bravely broke from the established formula of Trek to create the future of the franchise! When Benjamin Sisko arrives on Deep Space Nine, he's a grieving single father who is questioning his future in Starfleet. But when a startling discovery in Bajoran space promises to change the balance o...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 9 min
This week, we continue our examination of representation in Trek as Thad Hait joins the show to talk neuroatypicality in Star Trek. Characters like Spock, Data, and Seven of Nine often struggle with expressing their emotions and when relating to their fellow crew members, things that many Trek fans on the autistic spectrum find all too familiar. Even though these characters weren't created with autism in mind, they still have served as an inspiration to those on the spectrum and can serve as an ...
Aug 23, 2019•52 min
Get ready to surrender control of your feelings as we negotiate with "Sarek"! Anika Dane and Liz Barr, the hosts of Antimatter Pod, join the show the week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sees the return of a legendary Trek character and actor. Ambassador Sarek is negotiating a treaty that will be the crowning achievement of a life dedicated to service and self-control. But, when a rare disease causes his turbulent emotions to infect those around him, he'll have to ce...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This week, we're putting Trek on trial for its treatment of female characters! Star Trek is supposed to be a humanist utopia, but how close does it get to actually offering equal opportunity and genderblindness? We go through the magic pregnancies, the impractical costumes, and the horrors of the TNG show bible to ask: "How actually feminist was early Trek?" Jarrah Hodge is on hand to run the numbers and to point out that female creators mean female characters, to examine Trek's depiction of wom...
Aug 09, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Just throw any old thing on this week as we get ready to pay "The Price"! Writer, artist, and podcaster Bonnie Liston joins the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sees Counselor Troi torn between a new love and her responsibilities to the crew. A seemingly stable wormhole to the Delta Quadrant is up for sale and the Enterprise in on hand to oversee the negotiations. But, when a Troi falls for a rival negotiator, she'll be forced to examine the ethics of her empathi...
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Prepare to Enter the Star Trek Universe and have your face rocked . . . ROCKED by the revelations from this year's San Diego Comic Con! The Kurtz and Team Trek came out swinging this year, with new revelations about Star Trek: Discovery season 3, Lower Decks, Short Treks, and Star Trek: Picard! It's almost too much to handle, so cool down with our stories from Shore Leave 41! Wibbly wobbly Treky wekky! Get all the news that's fit to cast in the world of nerdy entertainment with Just Enough Trope...
Jul 25, 2019•1 hr 23 min
