Gimme That Star Trek

This week, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine celebrates its 25th Anniversary, so Siskoid and Yardsale Artist and leadership expert Jarrod Alberich join forces to talk about Captain Benjamin Sisko and HIS leadership style. It's a love letter to the character, in podcast form! So... Benjamin Sisko... Best Star Trek captain? Listen to Episode 17 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This po...

Between The Original Series and The Next Generation, how did you express your Star Trek fandom? Siskoid meets with Rob Kelly to talk about the Trek Gap of the 70s and early 80s, a wilderness, but not quite a wasteland. And perhaps, fertile ground for fandom to grow anyway. Plus, Siskoid continues his Trek reviews by covering The Animated Series and the original cast movies, with a little help from...

Siskoid sits down with Mike Lacroix of the Canadian Military History Podcast to ask the big question: Is Starfleet a military organization? And if so, how do its practices compare to those of the military in our own world? What's wrong with Michael Burnham's court martial? Could Dr. McCoy really be recalled into active service in The Motion Picture? And where are all the non-coms? All that and mor...

The Irredeemable Shagg joins Siskoid to talk about Peter David's New Frontier series of Star Trek books, for their money, the best non-TV Trek you can get! A spoiler-lite discussion of the characters, stories and style of New Frontier, which they hope will encourage you to discover Sector 221-G for yourselves! Listen to Episode 14 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast...

Is Sulu the best Original Series character? Siskoid says yes. Let's see what his guest David Ace Gutiérrez thinks. A conversation that spans the length and depth of Hikaru Sulu's career, from astrophysicist to helmsman to captain of the Excelsior, and from George Takei to John Cho, in an attempt to dissect and explain the appeal of one of Trek's most well-developed "lower deck" characters. Listen...

At the heart of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is one of the great Trek pairings: the Bashir-O'Brien friendship. Siskoid and DS9 super-fan Kurt "Speedball" Onstad track how, across seven years, it organically grew into the cherished relationship it eventually became. Plus, Star Trek news and listener feedback! Listen to Episode 12 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is...

Happy 4th of July! To celebrate, the Fire & Water Network has arranged a study in imperialism, as Canadian Siskoid and American Cory Drew compare and contrast their two favorite shows, Star Trek and Doctor Who! Is each a product of its own specific empire? They go in deep, discussing the shows' attitudes towards authority, individualism, professionalism, interventionism, and even the controver...

Star Trek's is a utopian future, but how true is that epithet? Is the Federation as great as the show makes it out to be, or does it have a dark underbelly? Siskoid sits down with actor and fellow improviser Fred Melanson to discuss and debate the matter. Listen to Episode 10 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK...

Out of nowhere they both came - FINALLY a Star Trek: Discovery trailer, and beating it by a day, Seth MacFarlane's The Orville's - so Siskoid and guest David Ace Gutiérrez got together in an impromptu recording session to discuss both. Engage! Helpful - the trailers on YouTube: Star Trek: Discovery The Orville Listen to Episode 9.5 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcas...

In 2003, Futurama ended with a special Star Trek episode that reunited most of the original Star Trek cast. In 2017, Siskoid and the Lonely Hearts Romance Comics Podcast's Furn have giggly, but sometimes philosophical, chat about that episode. Get ready to go... "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"! Listen to Episode 9 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member...

Siskoid goes way overboard and tries to review all 80 episodes of The Original Series, with guests pitching in with additional material. But Siskoid has always been a man overboard... Listen to Episode 8 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER...

Siskoid and his fellow Lonely Heart Bass Levesque tackle the subject of wedding ceremonies in the Star Trek universe - how do the Vulcans, Betazoids, Bajorans, Ferengi, and Klingons get hitched? Listen to Episode 7 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us...

Siskoid and Chris Franklin tackle Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, a film they claim isn't as bad as you remember. They might even be fans of it. And their reevaluation is going... where no man has gone before. Listen to Episode 6 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcas...

Star Trek: The Animated Series. That most forgotten of Star Trek series. Is it even canon? Is it worth watching? Siskoid and frequent Fire and Water contributor Aaron Bias dare answer yes to both questions. It's time to reevaluate Filmation's entry in the greater Trek story... Listen to Episode 5 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND...

Secular humanism, scientific curiosity, the Prime Directive, and IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - this is the philosophy of Star Trek that became so important to what many Trekkies became as people. Among them, Fire & Water's Siskoid and Pulp2Pixels' Dr. G Man of Nerdology. Let's listen in... Listen to Episode 4 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This po...

The day after Halloween winds us back down to normality as the dead go back to their graves, and Siskoid is joined by oHOTmu or NOT's Art-Girl, Josée Robichaud, to talk about her favorite book, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and how it was used in a trio of Voyager episodes as a holonovel/waking nightmare. Listen to Episode 3 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a p...

Siskoid and infectiously enthusiastic guest host David Ace Gutiérrez tackle Star Trek: The Next Generation and each present a handful of characters they wish had gotten more play on TNG. Are your favorites among them? Listen and see. (Wait, is that a mixed metaphor?) Listen to Episode 2 below! Or subscribe to Gimme That Star Trek on iTunes! This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODC...

Welcome to the newest addition to the Fire and Water Podcast Network, and just in time for Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Week, too! Join Siskoid and his guests once a month for Star Trek discussion in the mold of Ryan Daly's Give Me Those Star Wars. We start with the beginning, Trek's original pilot "The Cage", and wonder what would have happened if it had gone straight to series. Where would the E...

This is it! Star Trek's 50th Anniversary has forced Siskoid to create a companion show to that Star Wars thing Fire & Water's own Ryan Daly has been doing so well with. The first episode to launch almost 50 years to the day Star Trek was first broadcast. Join Siskoid and a wide cast of guest hosts, all boldly going where many have gone before! Listen to the trailer below! This podcast is a pro...