IT'S TIME FOR THE NEWS FROM TREKNEWS.NET! This week, we look at a Jonathan Frakes interview, a group of Star Trek alums coming together to promote free and fair elections, and comments by Zachary Quinto!
This week, we bring you the first in a two part series on Captain Christopher Pike, Vina, and Talos IV! We'll take a look at the episode that could have started it all 1965's pilot for Star Trek, "The Cage," with a particular focus on the characters of Pike and Vina and what they mean to one another, as well as to Star Trek at that time. FIVE YEAR MISSION The music of Trek Geeks comes from none other than Five Year Mission and Episode 21 of Five Year Mission: The Podcast is available now! This t...
It's time for The News From TrekNews.net! This week, we look at rescheduled dates for Destination Star Trek in London, new Star Trek novels and authors, panel events for NYCC's Virtual Metaverse, and an exclusive field report from Chris Tribuzio on the brand new TNG Slot Machine in Las Vegas!
Five categories. Twenty-five questions. One gargantuan bonus round. This week, Stump The Geek gets turned on its ear. Dan will face a board of questions designed to torture him. He's never faced a challenge like this and this week, we'll see how well his two brain cells recall random trivia! This one's guaranteed to be an instant Stump the Geek classic! FIVE YEAR MISSION The music of Trek Geeks comes from none other than Five Year Mission and Episode 21 of Five Year Mission: The Podcast is avail...
It's time for The News From TrekNews.Net! This week, Dan & Bill look at new ads for Uber Eats, awards for Star Trek, and what might have happened in the TNG movies! It's the Oldest Brand New #StarTrek News Podcast & we've got you covered!
Our celebration of #Voyager25 rolls on with another episode in our fan favorite series, "See It or Skip It!" We'll focus in on Season 5 of Star Trek: Voyager and go episode by episode rating each one and telling you why we'd See It or Skip It. Joining us for the conversation to referee the chaos is our old friend and Trek Geeks producer, Matt McGonagle! Plus, we'll have the results from our Season 5 poll in our Official Facebook Group, Camp Khitomer! FIVE YEAR MISSION The music of Trek Geeks com...
It's The News From TrekNews.net! In the news this week, an interesting photo from the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour, a special award for Star Trek, and a rebranding of CBS All Access in 2021. Join Bill & Dan for a look at this week's stories!
It's time for The News From TrekNews.net! This week, Bill and Dan look at cast additions to Star Trek: Discovery, the new offerings of Star Trek Wines, an update from FanSets, the new OFFICIAL Star Trek podcast (which still isn't us), a special guest star on Star Trek: Lower Decks, and reaction to the Star Trek: Discovery third season trailer which debuted on Star Trek Day!
They've boldly gone and explored strange new worlds. They've made the decisions of life and death for those under their command. They've upheld the best traditions of Starfleet. With the 54th anniversary of Star Trek being celebrated this week, Bill & Dan take a look at the central figures from most of the Star Trek series: the Captains. From Captain Christopher Pike in "The Cage" to Acting Captain Saru in Star Trek: Discovery, we'll look at what makes these characters worthy of the Center S...
As we continue our celebration of Star Trek: Voyager's 25th Anniversary, this week we take a look that a character that came on board almost mid-way through the series but very quickly became nothing short of legendary. Born Annika Hansen, she was assimilated by the Borg at six years old. Eighteen years later, she would be separated from the Collective and become a valued member of the Starship Voyager's crew. This week, we look at the character of Seven of Nine! This was a character that added ...
A cliffhanger. A new crew member. A crew member on her way out. An old threat. A new threat. The third season cliffhanger and fourth season premiere covered a lot of ground and really changed the stakes for the crew of the USS Voyager. "Scorpion" added new elements that in a way that really turned the show on its ear by introducing an adversary that even the Borg feared! This is definitely one of Voyager's best and we can't wait to talk about it as our celebration of #Voyager25 rolls on! Plus, n...
It's the latest Star Trek series and the first animated series set in the Star Trek Universe in almost fifty years. In this bonus episode of Discovering Trek and Trek Geeks, Dan and Bill sit down to talk with Star Trek: Lower Decks creator and executive producer, Mike McMahan about the show, its comedy, the DNA it shares with The Animated Series, and how it's inspired fans already. WE COVER LOWER DECKS LIKE NO ONE ELSE Interested in great talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks? Look no further than t...
This week, we took to YouTube and Facebook Live to answer your questions in an all-new Ask Us Anything! What is our favorite uniform? Which episodes are most proud of? What's Bill's favorite moment in Star Trek: Generations? These questions, and many more, will be answered in this week's episode of The Flagship! FIVE YEAR MISSION The music of Trek Geeks comes from none other than Five Year Mission and Episode 19 of Five Year Mission: The Podcast is available now! This time, the guys answer fan q...
Our year-long celebration of Star Trek: Voyager's 25th Anniversary continues and, this week, we examine the character of Captain Kathryn Janeway! We'll take a look at this unique and bold character in the Star Trek Universe and discuss why this Captain is among Starfleet's all-time best. Joining us in the discussion is our dear friend, Amy Imhoff ! You've probably seen her in panels at Star Trek Las Vegas or even read her writing about Star Trek, The X-Files and Battlestar Galactica. This week, ...
In this special full-length preview of Infinite Trek: Exploring the Star Trek Universe , hosts Aaron Harvey and Brandi Jackola introduce us to their brand new podcast on the Trek Geeks Podcast Network! Infinite Trek will cover EVERYTHING Star Trek from animation to live action, comics to novels, from games to real life tech—if it’s Star Trek or even Star Trek adjacent, it’s here! So, get ready to talk about Trek no matter what your knowledge level is. Whether you’ve been watching since the 1960s...
We continue our celebration of Star Trek: Voyager's 25th Anniversary with another installment of See It or Skip It! We'll look at the fourth season of this fourth live action Star Trek series and joining us to look at each and every episode is our dear friend, Marina Kravchuk from Shore Leave on the Tricorder Transmissions Network of Podcasts! Plus, we'll tell you how our official Facebook group, Camp Khitomer voted on each and every episode. Which ones will we see and which ones will we skip? F...
It's cited by many fans as one of their least favorite Star Trek movies, but is it really that bad? When Star Trek V: The Final Frontier hit theaters in 1989, it was on the heels of the wildly successful fourth movie that had a wide appeal. Expectations and anticipation were high, but the movie left fans feeling somewhat disappointed. We'll take a look at some of the challenges this movie had to overcome. We'll also look closely at the things that work extremely well in this movie and why the mo...
Some episodes of Star Trek are just so epic, they can't be contained to a mere hour of television. The precedent started in 1966 with Star Trek's, "The Menagerie," and it's a format that occurred all the way up through Star Trek: Enterprise: the two-part episode! Sometimes they're a cliffhanger to give us something to anticipate over the summer hiatus and, other times, they're stories that happen mid-season. In any case, there are things to love about all of them and we'll dive into some of that...
This week, we're incredibly proud to bring you the audio from our Feeding America Charity Livestream with Star Trek: The Next Generation's Jonathan Frakes! We'll talk about his career, returning to the Captain's Chair as Captain William T. Riker, and we'll even put Jonathan in the hot seat and play a game of "This or That!" It was an amazing night and we raised money to provide just over 56,000 meals to people in need! While our campaign is over, you can still help those in need by donating to F...
Star Trek has always told stories about the human condition and, this week, we look at an episode that truly explores "the final frontier." "Coda" from the third season of Star Trek: Voyager is part time loop and part alien infiltration. In it we see Kathryn Janeway die over and over and over--and we learn things about her crew that we might not have learned otherwise. It is an amazing episode with layer upon layer of character building. We'll dive in on this hugely underrated episode in this we...
What happens when you take someone who is an astrophysicist and consults on Star Trek and subject her to explaining the science behind things to...well...us? We're not sure, either, but we're pretty sure that her head exploding might be a possible outcome! You might have seen her at STLV or maybe even in her online series, "Dr. Erin Explains the Universe." This week, we welcome Dr. Erin MacDonald to the podcast to talk about the science of things in Star Trek and whether or not some of these thi...
It's only taken us four years but this week on Trek Geeks, we'll right a grievous error. If you recall our 100th episode, "A Journey to Future's Past, Part I: Beaming Aboard Star Trek Continues," we told the story of our trip Kingsland, Georgia and visit to sets of this legendary fan film series. We told you about the people we met and how our love for The Original Series had been rekindled. We brought you a story of family. It was the most ambitious episode we've ever done: an audio documentary...
Our celebration of #Voyager25 continues and, this week, we bring back the all-time fan favorite "See It or Skip It" series focusing on Star Trek: Voyager's third season! Joining us as Guest Geek in this episode is none other than The 24 Year Old Trekkie herself, Aly Martinez! Aly is one of the most positive Trek fans on social media, and she has the job of refereeing Bill and Dan--certainly no easy task. Plus, find out how our official Facebook Group, Camp Khitomer, voted on each episode. How di...
Over the decades, Star Trek has become part of international pop culture--to the point where references and parodies turn up in other productions. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and, if that's true, Star Trek is probably one of the most imitated and referenced shows in history. This week, we'll take a look at some of our favorite occurrences of Star Trek popping up in other media. Joining us for the conversation is our dear friend and fellow podcaster, Hayley Stoddart! Plus...
For seven seasons, he played Dr. Julian Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and, this week, actor Alexander Siddig sits down with Bill and Dan to chat about his time on Star Trek as well his experiences on other shows such as Game of Thrones and Gotham. Plus, find out how he's passing the time during this period of self-quarantine--and what games he's fond of playing! It's a truly delightful conversation and we hope you'll join us! SPECIAL THANKS to Mel at Sid City for her assistance in helping...
Star Trek has always given us things to think about and topics to examine and discuss, but few episodes have generated the type of reaction as the one we'll discuss this week. We'll continue our salute to Star Trek: Voyager's 25th Anniversary this week as we look at the second season episode, "Tuvix." Part Tuvok, Part Neelix, and all the makings of a legendary hour of the franchise. Did Captain Janeway do the right thing--and what did it cost her? We'll discuss that and more this week! Plus news...
Over the decades, Star Trek has provided us with some incredible moments that have run the gamut of emotion. In this week's episode, Bill and Dan will examine Trek's best Tearjerkers--those episodes that have provided moments so emotional that they've made us shed a tear or two...or a thousand. Of course, this is by no means a definitive list. We want to know your picks for Trek's most emotional moments. Let us know! Plus news, your weekly discount code from FanSets, and we welcome a brand new S...
The return of Jean-Luc Picard to Star Trek was truly epic. The first season may have been only ten episodes, but it truly took viewers where no Star Trek had gone before. It also marked the first Trek series since Trek Geeks began that Bill & Dan just got to watch and enjoy as fans. For the first time, they'll talk about their reactions to the season--from the time it was announced at Star Trek: Las Vegas to the final moments of the season finale, they'll talk about it all. Plus, one sentenc...
During this time of global pandemic, we thought to ourselves, "What could we do to give people a fun distraction and make them forget about COVID 19 for a while?" Then, we had the idea to take the normal episode of Trek Geeks we'd do and do it as a Live Stream! On Tuesday night, April 7, 2020, we did just that! We had a great time with everyone during "Say Something Nice, Part III," and we share the recording of that with you this week. Bill and Dan will each pick five things to say nice things ...
As our year-long celebration of Star Trek: Voyager's 25th Anniversary continues, this week we examine a character that we've really grown to love. As First Officer of the USS Voyager, he was responsible for executing the Captain's vision--but that wasn't how his path began in "Caretaker." A Maquis terrorist, he was thrust in to the role when stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Over time, he became indispensable to Captain Janeway and the epitome of what an outstanding Starfleet Officer should be. Jo...
