Trek in the Valley

As you may have noticed, there wasn't a new episode of the podcast last week and there isn't this week either. Al has officially, and on good terms, left the show because he has other positive stuff to focus on! I, Adam, the other A name on the pod, am taking this as a sign to work on other projects...such as my podcast Movies Over My Hammy where we cover movies and their food tie-in menu items. ...

"It's a dry well. It's worthless." Woooah, folks! Here we have a classic diplomacy episode of TNG with "The Price." Picard finds himself hosting negotiations between a planet who found a stable worm hole, and the grimy space capitalists that want to buy access to it - plus the Federation. Also, Lloyd Braun from Seinfeld uses his secret Betazoid powers to control the negotiations and possibly...Tro...

"Brinksmanship is a dangerous game." Romulans, man! Can't trust them to help you until you can, but then more Romulans show up that you don't have a connection with and things get weird. I think that's what this episode was about. Geordi met a Romulan in a lightening cave and there was a Neutral Zone standoff between Picard and a Romulan captain. The fate of the cease fire was in jeopardy, I tell...

"I was never a boy." Trek in the Vallites! We've got a Geordi coming in hot. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, S3 EP6, "Booby Trap" at first it seems like maybe Geordi is an incel, but it turns out he just can't relax around a lady unless she is the holographic personification of an engineer that is helping him solve a problem before everyone on the ship dies of radiation poisoning. Also, Worf ha...

"I've always believed that having children on a starship is a very questionable policy. Serving on a starship means accepting certain risks, certain dangers. Did Jeremy Aster make that choice?" This week Adam and Al dig into an emotional and philosophical episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, with S3 EP 4, "The Bonding." In this episode, pretty much every single person feels responsible for s...

"We grow, we live, and we die. In all the ways that matter; we are alike." Trek in the Vallites! We have a hot one coming on down out of the 'ol podcast tube. This episode is full of great guest stars and folks absolutely dropping hot craps on the Prime Directive. As always, Adam and Al dig into it with grace and aplomb.  Like the podcast and throw us a review! Opening Theme Produced By Al Hirt Po...

"No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill just one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand….I killed them all. All Husnock… everywhere." Woof. Kind of an intense episode this week, Trek in the Vallites. We're covering S2 Episode 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Survivors"! Picard and the gang run into the two surviving colonists of a massacre. However, an...

"Excessive honesty can be disastrous." Trek in the Vallites unite for we have a ripper of a Data episode. Picard suggests Data could be a little less honest at times to hide his weaknesses as an android pursuing command. Data uses that idea to mixed results while trying to convince some idiot settlers on some planet to not let the owners of the planet show up and vaporize them. Data and Picard are...

"I can't get the story of Gulliver out of my head; overpowered by Lilliputians." Cue "Evolution" By Edward Vedder and the Pearl Jam Gang! This week, Trek in the Vallites, we are covering the first episode of Season 3 of Star Trek: TNG, "Evolution." Which means this is technically season SIX of Trek in the Valley. In this one, the ship gets taken down a peg by tiny robo space-bugs or something! We...

"How do we know this bug doesn't like androids more than it likes humans?" This week we get our first Star Trek: TNG clip show with the Season Finale of S2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Shades of Gray." This episode tricks you into thinking it is going to be about Riker almost dying from alien infection, but then when the B-Story is supposed to kick in, it turns into a clips show. We touch o...

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." "Do you want to play a game?"...Is what Starfleet asked Picard. To which he said, "I would rather not, but I guess we need to be ready to fight the Borg so, sure." In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Peak Performance, Riker and a ragtag crew in a derelict ship, face off against the might of Pica...

"Sometimes I feel there's a monster inside of me, fighting to get out." Everyone, quick! Check it out. Adam and Al got together on the computer once again to record an episode of Trek in the Valley for YOU! This week the dudes in the Valley are covering a classic TNG episode which gets some of their highest ratings yet. In, "The Emissary" Worf is faced with a lady from his past and then he presuma...

"What a handsome race." This week the great Lwaxana Troi is back to shake things up on the Enterprise. She is going through Betazoid Super Menopause and she has her sights set on Picard. Picard attempts to hide from Lwaxana in a Dixon Hill story on the Holodeck that absolutely does not pay off in terms of action. Instead, Lwaxana becomes quite taken with a holo-bartender that she thinks is a genui...

"Now that's what I call a wee drop of the creature." We are Looney Toons 2: Back in Action. Meaning, Al is off of his adventure with trying to decide if fish is bad or not (it was), not, we are talking about the Joe Dante Looney Toons sequel. What an episode with which to return to coming back with...returning to! Picard is right in his element solving a space mystery. Hundreds of years ago a grou...

"I'll fix you for that! You cheated! You haven't played the game right! I'll show you!" Happy Sunday, gang. Hope you're all having a good long weekend if you can get it. We've got a bit of a curve ball this week. Al is out sick with some sort of disease. He is waiting on an intrepid starship crew to bring him his medicine but they are delayed by an all powerful what have you and such. Adam went do...

"We are smart." Wowie-zowie, Trek in the Vallites, Adam is incredibly dumb. We know this about Adam. He's funny. He's handsome. He's charming. He's even pretty smart. He's also very dumb. What did he do this time? While, he did put together that, yes the "Snare" in the episode title refers to a trap, however he missed that the "Samaritan" in the title refers to the fact that the Pakleds run this c...

"You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far: the Romulans, the Klingons. They're nothing compared to what's waiting." Listen up, everyone! This is one of the most important episodes of TNG ever. It is a **Top Rated** episode on IMDB for Satan's sake! In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Q-Who?", Q is back and he is up to some even more extreme tricks!...

"Your whisper from the dark has now become a plea. We cannot turn our backs." Well well well. Well. If it isn't another week of Trek in the Valley. I am going to pop on Polymarket or Kalshi and just bet that maybe Adam and Al are going to come zipping in to town from outerspace to walk you through an episode of Star Trek where Data breaks the law! I think that bet would get me fine pile of credit...

"You choose your enemies. You choose your friends. But, family, that's in the stars."  This week Adam and Al are in a bit of a disagreement over if this episode is low mid (Al) or mid plus (Adam) when they discuss Star Trek: TNG, "The Icarus Factor." A lot goes on this episode, gang, but primarily it is about Polaski being gross with Riker's dad. Riker's dad who is an old adult man named Kyle! Get...

"Before we move forward, the cycle must end." Happy 4/20, Trek in the Vallites. I hope you aren't too honked out on that super dank greenage, because if you are, this episode is going to straight to your dome, bro. There is a strong possibility, you will flip your lid. This week, Adam and Al cover the Star Trek: TNG episode "Time Squared". This episode has twice the Picard and not enough Data. We...

"I don't believe this dialog. Did humans really talk like that?" The Enterprise gets a tip, from the Klingons of all space people, regarding the remains of a straaaaaange vessel. Adam and Al are here to tell you about it. In the Star Trek: TNG episode, "The Royale", we get another entry in the "Holodeck w/o Holodeck" sub-genre of Star Trek episodes AND the "Crew Finds Some Nasa Crap" sub-genre. Th...

"Fate...protects fools, and little children and ships named Enterprise." You're telling me that they don't have computer viruses figured out hundreds of years in the future? This week Adam and Al cover Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Contagion." The Enterprise crew runs a foul of an ancient computer virus. It seems like the Enterprise's sister ship may have clicked on some questionable pop-ups. T...

"Go to her door. Beg like a Human."  We have another Wesley episode. Adam and Al are able to put a lid on their cliched loathing of Wesley to discuss Star Trek: TNG Season 2 Episode 10, "The Dauphin". The guys never get around to figuring out what a Dauphin is because Adam is too distracted by all the rad bug-eyed costumes.  ***If you hear a couple of audio hiccups, be glad they weren't worse than...

"I am the culmination of one man's dream. This is not ego or vanity. If, by your experiments, I am destroyed, something unique – something wonderful – will be lost. I cannot permit that. I must protect his dream." WOWIE Trek in the Vallites. This one is a double dog doozy. We start with Al discussing how he is in the process of playing the field for a new guru, and then that segues nicely into thi...

"If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we can get one of the females to breast-feed you." "'Dear Trek in the Vallites,  We hope this missive is finding you well. This week we have placed, in this glass bottle you have found on the beach that is your podcast app. The water of...podcasts lapping against the podcast...shores... Time is short and I need to get this message in the water. Pleas...