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Trek Marry Kill

Trek Marry Kill•www.trekmarrykillpod.com
TV & Film
TV Reviews

There are 950 episodes of Star Trek. Some are good, some are great, and the rest are ones we'll watch because why not? Star Trek is like pizza or sex: even when it's bad it's still good. 

Join Bryan and Kristen (and the occasional special guest) as they grade episodes from every series by asking specific questions like "What part of the story will they teach at Starfleet Academy?" "What are the Best Trek Tropes in the episode?" "What's the most cosplayable character or moment?" and many more in order to arrive at a final judgment of TREK, MARRY, or KILL. It's more fun than playing F***, Marry, Kill because it's about Star Trek!

Keep track of our grades at www.trekmarrykillpod.com

This show is not affiliated with Paramount, Viacom, CBS Television Studios, Roddenberry Entertainment, or Secret Hideout Productions. 

Our theme music is "70's Synth Funk Jam" by Phill_Dillow on Pixabay.

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Episodes

TNG: "Manhunt" (s2e19) with Tamar & Nathan

COUNSELOR TROI'S MOM has a problem: she wants to sleep with Captain Picard, only, he's nowhere to be found. So in the meantime, she takes to interviewing all the males on board the Enterprise to see he would be a worthy mate. And just where is Picard? He's hiding in the holodeck playing a Dixon Hill adventure. How do Bryan and this week's guests, Tamar and Nathan, feel about this season two adventure? You'll just have to listen to find out. This one was an in-person record, so the sound quality ...

Dec 27, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 12

VOY: "Tsunkatse" (s6e15) with AndyMoney69 & FanSince09

THE ULTIMATE CROSSOVER? UPN decided to attack a two bird problem with a single stone: corporate synergy. Does special guest star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson boost a Seven of Nine storyline in the 6th season of Star Trek: Voyager ? According to Nielsen ratings, yes, it did, making "Tsunkatse" the highest rated episode of that season. With Kristen away, Bryan has on two of his favorite Twitter follows: @andymoney69, now a writer-director of the Award-winning short film TITO, which you can watch on Y...

Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 11

PIC: "Remembrance" (s1e1) with Hector Navarro (Nerdist, YouTube's Heroes Reforged)

JEAN-LUC PICARD has meant so much to audiences that his return to TV in Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard was an event, one that this week's guest, Hector Navarro (YouTube's Heroes Reforged ) actually attended -- and quite by accident! Hear his story about being in the audience at the Las Vegas convention where Patrick Stewart made the announcement , and then stick around for not just our usual grades, but also Hector's view on why Bryan and Kristen should pay more attention to Lower Decks and Prod...

Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 10

ENT: "Broken Bow" (s1e1)

THE FIRST PREQUEL to bear the name Star Trek , and it's incredible that so much of Enterprise has remained canon despite all the changes to the universe following the Chris Pine movies. Bryan and Kristen explore the big 2-hour premiere episode of the last Trek show of the Rick Berman era to see if Scott Bakula works as the first captain of a starship named Enterprise and if humanity's first adventure into deep space lives up to those adventures in the previous pilots. Is this the greatest Star T...

Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 9

DSC: "The Vulcan Hello" & "Battle at the Binary Stars" (s1e1-2)

WEIRDEST TREK EVER. That's the only way to describe Star Trek's return to television after a thirteen-year hiatus since the end of Enterprise . Bryan and Kristen tackle the first two hours of the show that helped launch Paramount+ (née CBS All Access) and try to figure out just what the adventures of Michael Burnham are supposed to be about. We don't even get to the USS Discovery by the end of these first two hours. Bold choice or shaky planning? This is the five-year anniversary of Discovery's ...

Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8

VOY: "Caretaker" (s1e1)

MINOR BIPEDAL SPECIES? Captain Kathryn Janeway has a problem: in order to save a childlike race of people called the Ocampa, she must strand her ship and crew 70,000 light years from their home quadrant of space, or else risk the Ocampas future as slaves to the evil Kazon. What is a Starfleet captain to do? This week, Bryan and Kristen grapple with Captain Janeway's decision and a lot of the behind the scenes decision that went into creating Star Trek: Voyager along with "Caretaker," its pilot, ...

Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 7

TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" (s1e1)

GRIEVOUSLY SAVAGE RACE? Join Bryan and Kristen as they decide whether or not the pilot of their favorite Star Trek, The Next Generation , deserves to be Trek'd, Married, or Killed. Patrick Stewart steps into the role of Jean-Luc Picard, which would eventually set off a pop culture debate as to who's the best captain: Kirk or Picard? In the 2-hour premiere episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , Picard and the crew of the new Starship Enterprise are tasked with discovering the "mystery" behin...

Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 6

DS9: "Emissary" (s1e1) with J. Holtham (Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale)

THERE'S YOUR WORMHOLE! Writer-Producer J. Holtham ( The Handmaid's Tale , Supergirl , Pitch ) joins Bryan and Kristen to decide if Deep Space Nine 's 2-hour premiere warrants a Trek, Marry, or Kill. And where does Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek's first black captain, land on their list of favorite captains? Michael Piller is responsible for bringing Star Trek: The Next Generation from pale spinoff of a cult TV show to pop culture phenomenon. And he got first crack at a post-Gene Roddenberry Star Trek...

Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 5

TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (s1e3)

A SECOND PILOT? Star Trek spent three seasons defying the odds, and it all started here in this second pilot, a rare occurrence by TV's standards even today. What did NBC see in this show? Why, the promise of action adventure and solid science fiction, of course. They get all that and more with William Shatner as Captain James R. Kirk of the USS Enterprise and a script by novelist-turned-TV writer Samuel A. Peeples. As the Enterprise probes the edge of the known galaxy, they encounter an energy ...

Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 4

SNW: "Strange New Worlds" (s1e1)

Our first regular episode kicks off a look at all the Star Trek pilot episodes. MEET CAPTAIN PIKE and the crew of the Enterprise *before* Captain Kirk took command. In this episode, Bryan and Kristen examine the first episode of the newest Star Trek series and try to figure out if it's a sequel to Star Trek: Discovery , a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series , an alternate timeline, or all of the above. The Enterprise voyages to a pre-warp civilization to locate a lost survey team led by th...

Nov 01, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 0 - Welcome Aboard

WELCOME TO TREK, MARRY, KILL! We're another modest Star Trek podcast with a modest goal: to determine which episodes devoted fans and curious viewers should find and "Marry," which are good enough to "Trek" out again and again, and which episodes we should "Kill," but only in the metaphorical sense; because, let's be honest: even when Star Trek is bad, it's still pretty good. In this initial episode, meet your hosts, Bryan and Kristen. They'll discuss their relationship with the franchise, which...

Oct 31, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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