Mariner reveals the source of her arrested development while Captain Freeman brutalizes an alien. Join your jipper-slurping hosts as they discuss tying up loose ends, cross-franchise character development, and Boimler being a #BevHead. Oh, we also discuss the Star Wars stuff. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Link to Trek Time's Prose and Khans episode with Dan and Patrick: https://youtu.be/qOpDHeL...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 212
Friendship overcomes a variety of challenges. Join your friendly hosts and their old friend Tariq as they discuss caves, grottos, caverns, chasms, hollows...and being friends! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "The Inner Fight" Note that this and all episodes of the It’s Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit l...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 211
Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler help wrap up some loose AI ends. Join your fully human hosts as they discuss digital apotheosis, excellent voice acting, and the infectious joyfulness of Tendi building sand castles in Ecuador. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "Caves" Note that this and all episodes of the It’s G...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 210
Tendi and Rutherford navigate an awkward situation while other members of the crew encounter a variety of separate challenges. Join your latinum-craving hosts as they discuss Orion blushes, lieutenants junior grade, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "A Few Badgeys More"...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 209
T'Lyn navigates an emotionally-charged situation. Join your telepathic hosts as they discuss boozy Betazoids, soothing security, and replicated regurgitation. Plus this week Dan provides his review of Zen Studios' Williams Pinball: Star Trek: The Next Generation while Patrick and Jesse thoughtfully avoid interrupting him. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage ...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 208
Tendi heads home to resolve some lingering family drama. Join your Chalnoth-snuggling hosts as they revel in long-neglected Orion world-building, traditional storylines with creative twists, and a clever (if somewhat distasteful) new contraction of the term "pheromones". Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "Empat...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 207
Various aspects of management are examined. Join your benevolent AI-loving hosts as they discuss competent writing, excellent performances, and a somewhat underwhelming application of well-worn storylines. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "Something Borrowed, Something Green" Note that this and all episodes of...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 206
The Lower Deckers manage to advance their careers despite variously-motivated self-sabotage. Join your Moopsied hosts as they discuss laughter and joy and fun times and good vibes and groovy stuff and also the first two episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with "In the...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 205
Captain Archer and his new temporally-co-located friends take on the Nazis! Join your antifascist hosts as they discuss franchise Hail Marys, the conclusion to the confusing temporal cold war, and the return of Shirtless Jon. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We begin our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season with its first two episodes, "Twovix" and "I Have No Bones Y...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 204
Captain Janeway receives a rather unlooked-for proposition from Q. Join your omnipotent hosts as they discuss the extremely male perspective of both the plot and humor in this episode, how even ostensibly progressive sci-fi often adheres to traditional and/or neoliberal gender roles in depictions of the future, and the curiously un-examined apotheosis of Tom Paris. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware!...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 203
Commander Sisko and Chief O'Brien meet some perplexing people. Join your technophile hosts as they discuss social and psychological manipulation, confusing storylines, and what exactly was in the box. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We utilize Dan's patent-pending bespoke podcast-topic-selecting-algorithm. Keep an eye on our social media and/or website to discover what episode we'll be...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 202
Just when everyone thought they had everything figured out, a bunch of lizards show up and ruin the party. Join your reptilian hosts as they discuss action, drama, gremlins, Jurassic Park, zombie films, monsters, space battles, and much much more about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season two finale! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We return to utilizing Dan's patent-pending bespoke p...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 201
Gather 'round the podcast speakers with your family to enjoy a celebration of 200 episodes of It's Got Star Trek! We've got audio comments and questions (and a few emails!) from our listeners, highlight clips from across our first 200 episodes, and a variety of other zany fun time nonsense. Enjoy, and thanks for listening! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next epiosde: It's already in your feed! I...
Aug 14, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 200
A subspace anomaly causes the crew to behave strangely. Join your musically-inclined hosts as they discuss hip tunes, flash choreography, and the delightfully brazen shift towards experimentation by the Strange New Worlds creative team. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We serve up a double-helping with two new episodes of IGST - first, our 200th episode Specialtacular; then a full on re...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 199
Doctor M'Benga tidies up a loose end. Join two-thirds of your hosts as they discuss the terrors of PTSD, powerful performances, and somewhat confusing plot elements in an otherwise excellent episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season with the ninth episode, "Subspace Rhapso...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 198
Shenanigans ensue when Ensigns Boimler and Mariner stumble back in time and encounter Captain Pike and friends. Join your portal-curious hosts as they attempt to discuss this instant classic only be be continuously derailed by their own foolishness. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season with the eighth episode...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 197
Uhura solves a noisy mystery with the help of a new friend. Join your deuterium-slurping hosts as they discuss how old formulas can still pack a punch when so well written and performed, muse on the likely reason Kirk keeps coming back, and offer a brief meditation on the nature of sabotage in the Star Trek universe. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of...
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 196
Spock is like "Uh oh!" and everyone else is like "Oh no!" Join your almost-entirely-human hosts as they discuss silly humor, joyful performances, and the many potential benefits of supplicating oneself to the present and future whims of ChatGPT. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season with the sixth episode, "Lo...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 195
A forgetful Captain Pike beats up an old colleague. Join your slightly-purple hosts as they discuss memory, forgetting, local interlocutors, memory, and forgetting. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season with the fifth episode, "Charades" Note that this and all episodes of the It’s Got Star Trek podcast contain...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 194
Captain Kirk waves his Canadian hot dog at La'an while she works to save the future from the past. Join your temporally-disjointed hosts as they discuss quasi-Kirks, futures' ends, and odd buns. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We return to our regular schedule with Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 4 - "Among the Lotus Eaters" Note that this and all episodes of the It’s Got Star T...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 193
Lieutenant Commander Chin-Riley and her old buddy Neera kick prejudice's ass. Join your harried hosts as they provide an embriefened catchup conversation about the timelessness of talky episodes, parallels to other classic court case-based Trekisodes, and, of course, Bergmann's ecogeographical rule regarding surface-area-to-volume ratios in high latitude endotherms. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware...
Jul 08, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 192
Kirk deals with all sorts of hassles and it turns out Spock is less dead than before. Join your transwarped-hosts as they conclude their discussion of Star Trek III: The Search for More Opportunities to Upset the Audience. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We return to our full-time coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 with a couple of quickie reviews of episodes 2 and 3 ('...
Jul 03, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 191
After Spock dies the entire quadrant goes batty. Join your under-appreciated hosts as they discuss heavy storylines, excellent grammatical constructions, and the sheer amount of impactful lore developed throughout the course of this often-overlooked but ultimately worthy entry into the Star Trek film canon. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We remain out of pocket due to poorly-scheduled...
Jun 26, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 190
Spock starts breaking laws left and right as soon as Captain Pike leaves to run some errands. Join your blood-wine-slurping hosts as they discuss Klingons, Lanthanites, over-extended fights, brilliant production design, subtle character development, and so much more in the exciting season two premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: Due to poorly-sched...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 189
After Captain Kirk is accused of negligent homicide, Spock plays chess. Join your law-leery hosts as they discuss peculiar prosecutorial strategies, the motivations of missing madmen, and how the show Arrested Development influenced the ending of this episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We begin our coverage of season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New W...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 188
Commander Riker goes rogue after Captain Picard dies. Join your rag-tag gang of artifact-coveting hosts as they discuss 80's villains in the 90's, the combination of new ground and old hat common to most episodes of TNG's seventh season, and, of course, all manner of ploys, ruses, and maneuvers! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We dive into Star Trek: The Original Series' "Court Martial...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 187
Captain Archer deals with past trauma while Trip encounters Vulcan drama. Join your homebody hosts as they discuss clever character moments, a few missed opportunities, and just a little bit about Freudian Vulcan vegetables. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary algorithm to select our next episode - check our website or social media to find out which one! Note t...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 186
Captain Janeway navigates a series of increasingly intense social interactions while Harry plays engineer for a day. Join your ANTIMO (anti-Mokra Order) hosts as they praise balanced plotlines, applaud excellent performances, and somehow even squeeze in a mention of that fabled Jerry Lewis holocaust clown movie! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary algorithm to ...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 185
Captain Sisko helps an old friend bring his whole self to his work. Join your cave-loving hosts as they discuss despotic narcissism, the confluence of top-tier writing and acting, and the perennial power of soup. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary algorithm to select our next episode - check our website or social media to find out which one! Note that this and...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 184
Captain Kirk unsettles the crew with his fully-justified - but poorly explained - quest to kill a cloud creature. Join your corpuscular hosts as they discuss retroactive tropographic weariness, the psychology of duty, and the Vulcan concept of "showing ass". Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary algorithm to select our next episode - check our website or social m...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 183
