Synthaholics: A Sci Fi Podcast

David Duncan, Brian Bannister•synthaholics.com

Synthaholics is a group for friends that love to talk about Star Trek, that started with David Duncan and Aaron O'Brian. Over time our little Star Trek podcast family has grown with the addition of Guy Davis. We look to bring you a weekly highly irreverent, somewhat comedic and yet clearly passionate take on all things Star Trek! So what are you waiting for click download for your weekly shot of Star Trek!

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Episodes

Book Club Episode 26: Dune Part 26

Book Club Episode 26: Dune Part 26 Aaron and David discuss the final chapter of Dune. Paul meets with The Emperor and makes a power play to get himself wed to his daughter so he can become the new Emperor. But before he can do that he must have a battle with the Harkonnen Feyd-Rautha to the death. Even though Paul marries Princess Irulan for possession he promises Chani that Irulan will never know his love and that Chani will always be his special one. Dune is a groundbreaking work of Sci-fi and...

Dec 11, 2020•34 min

Episode 294: Star Trek Discovery "The Sanctuary"

Episode 294: Star Trek Discovery "The Sanctuary" "The Sanctuary" is the eighth episode of season three of Star Trek Discovery and unfortunately this episode puts the breaks on what the previous two weeks had been building up to. We are happy to see this episode finally see some of the side characters get something to do. It's just said it's not really in service to the overall seasonal arc. (as far as we can tell at this point in the season) Hopefully next episode will get us back on track with ...

Dec 04, 2020•56 min

Book Club Episode 25: Dune Part 25

Book Club Episode 25: Dune Part 25 Aaron and David discuss the next two chapters of Dune. Paul, Silgar, and Gurney are about to use atomics on the shield wall so the Fremen can ride worms into the final battle now that the Emperor himself has arrived. The Emperor has the next Leto murdered and Paul's sister Alia kidnapped. We also see the baron Vladimir Harkonnen basically become a completely different character who loses all his brains and cunning. This happens just in time to have a disastrous...

Dec 04, 2020•21 min

Episode 293: Star Trek Discovery "Unification III"

Episode 293: Star Trek Discovery "Unification III" "Unification III" is the seventh episode of season three of Star Trek Discovery and we found this to be a well done bottle episode. The Vulcan's and Romulan's now live on Vulcan and have renamed the planet to Ni'Var. Ni'Var has some information Michael needs to understand the burn. They will not give up the information freely so Michael evokes an ancient Vulcan ritual to try to forcibly recover the information. This episode is a worthy successor...

Nov 27, 2020•55 min

Episode 292: Star Trek Discovery "Scavengers"

Episode 292: Star Trek Discovery "Scavengers" "Scavengers" is the sixth episode of season three of Star Trek Discovery and the Synthaholics found this episode rather enjoyable. It was a lot of fun and it had some crazy good effects even for Star Trek Discovery. We finally may have a clue to what the burn is but we don't know for sure yet. Hopefully we will find out next week if this week's MacGuffin pays off. Is anyone else feeling like this season of Discovery is kind of like the movies where t...

Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min

Book Club Episode 24: Dune Part 24

Book Club Episode 24: Dune Part 24 Aaron and David discuss the next two chapters of Dune. Paul calls for a big meeting so he can murder Stilgar to make all the Freman happy. But he decides to Knight Silgar instead. After Knighting Stilgar Gurney Halleck decides he should murder Lady Jessica but luckily Paul is able to talk him out of it. Once his mother is safe Paul decides it would be a great time to take a three week coma and so he drinks the water of life. We are nearing the end of the first ...

Nov 20, 2020•22 min

Episode 291: Star Trek Discovery "Die Trying"

Episode 291: Star Trek Discovery "Die Trying" Aaron has escaped this transporter accident and he joins David to discuss "Die Trying" the fifth episode of the third season of Star Trek Discovery. This episode started off strong with a nice captains log and a brief look at some new StarFleet ships. We see the USS Nog, the Voyager - J, and what they called a new version of the constitution class. The StarFleet Admiral isn't too happy to have the time traveling crew but that's nothing a classic fetc...

Nov 13, 2020•54 min

Book Club Episode 23: Dune Part 23

Book Club Episode 23: Dune Part 23 Aaron and David discuss the next two chapters of Dune. Paul rides his sand worm and takes his fremem brothers south. They run into an ornithopter with none other than the now smuggler Gurney Halleck on board. Paul introduces his old mentor Gurney to his new Mentor Stillgar. Paul is ready to start a war, so he releases a Sardaukar captain so the emperor can know that the new Duke of Dune is still alive and well. We are nearing the end of the first dune book; the...

Nov 13, 2020•18 min

Episode 290: Star Trek Discovery "Forget Me Not"

Episode 290: Star Trek Discovery "Forget Me Not" Long time friend of the show Natalie Schlichtmann joins David this week to discuss "Forget Me Not" the fourth episode of season three of Star Trek Discovery. Aaron has unfortunately been caught in a transporter beam with poor Franklin. Natalie and David both enjoy the great Trill call back getting to spend some time with some familiar aliens is always fun. We also hope we get to run into more familiar races later on in the season. We also muse on ...

Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 19 min

Episode 289: Star Trek Discovery People of Earth

Episode 289: Star Trek Discovery People of Earth Aaron and David are here to discuss "People of Earth", the third episode of Star Trek Discovery Season 3. After hugs and tears the reunited crew of the USS Discovery and book head to earth. Things are a lot different than they expected them to me. Earth provides for itself and doesn't seem to know what's going on beyond its atmosphere. This has us scratching our heads as to why this would be. On the bright side we meet a young human named Adira wh...

Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min

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