Treks and the City

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twenty three, "Blaze of Glory." Topics include getting immediately off topic, Skyler's little daily sandwich ritual with his dog, Bodie, re-wrapping up storylines that already felt quite wrapped up, cool little practical space jails, loving you baby, which Tana French specifics are the most immediately recognizable, doing Mor...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twenty two, "Children of Time." Topics include sandwich places upholding strict gender ideologies, the issues with Subway not giving fans of its tuna enough of its tuna in 2026, the degree to which all things are both caused by and solved by therapy, getting a little time travel paradox in your trolley problem, Odo becoming l...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back, and they're once again joined by Zila Treks ( @ZilaTreks ) to discuss all the recent happenings at the cons she and Alice attended. Topics include good sandwiches, couples getting married at conventions, big stars ordering big donuts, low level crytpids, cool shirts, whether or not Alice hugged a lama, how much it might run a person to Uber cross country, and...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twenty one, "Soldiers of the Empire." Topics include the show being Nolan-esque, sneaky little pop musicians being all big and successful without having the courtesy to cross Skyler's radar, a little 7am Raging Bull , some great Wikipedia pages, old west justice in space, how much the show does and doesn't differentiate Kling...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twenty, "Ferengi Love Songs." Topics include new segment ideas, that sick bow-pluck in The Odyssey , what the name of the Lucky Charms mascot is, the everlasting comedy dynamic of "big guy/little guy," the power of country music, responding to receiving the wrong cream cheese very maturely, those damn Ferengi being gross, Ali...

Listeners, Alice and Skyler are back... but not to discuss a DS9 episode. This week, they're covering the completely controversy-free Strange New Worlds puppet one-off, season four, episode five, "Level-Five Transporter Accident." Topics include the very chill reaction to this fun, riff-y Star Trek outing, Alice and Skyler running into each other out on the big LA streets, men checking out sandwic...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode nineteen, "Ties of Blood and Water." Topics include lizard privilege, the very big movies Skyler knows about, how to snag yourself an ovenful of hot plastic, cat heart health interventions, this episode returning to the "bad episode name" Star Trek naming convention, characters showing up just to die, drunk Vorta, and much, m...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eighteen, "Business as Usual." Topics include scoring baseball equipment from your trainer before he decamps to Brazil, a restaurant Skyler goes to constantly, some classic Bob Marley cuts, good movie theater business ideas, Ferengi strip clubs, the sweet camaraderie of the Sandler project, O'Brien being completely at sea rai...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode seventeen, "A Simple Investigation." Topics include the dulcet sounds of Ireland, Sisko's extremely normal reaction to Odo sleeping with someone, why Bashir's plot this episode is legally NOT a James Bond riff, the career of Paul Feig, why watching Shutter Island half-asleep is the best way to watch Shutter Island , just how...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode sixteen, "Doctor Bashir, I Presume." Topics include Alice's therapy breakthroughs, the kinds of shoes Skyler knows about, squeezing a little prison time into your schedule, Leeta and Rom's very grounded romance, what song should become Spain's national anthem, episode name games, and much, much more! Listen!!! To hear episode...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode fifteen, "By Inferno's Light." Topics include everybody's favorite contrite comedian's Netflix comeback, what the hell actually happens in this episode, Skyler's dog, Bodie, hiding under the bed, difficult-to-find clips, that laugh-a-minute Italian poet Dante, just how many Cardassians there actually are, so-so makeup work, a...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode fourteen, "In Purgatory's Shadow." Topics include Alice's upcoming trip to Spain, the sheer number of apartments some Europeans have, Skyler's recent little jaunts to the movies, when and where Bashir got kidnapped, the shame of wasting a cool name like "Enabran Tain" on character as dull as Enabran Tain, Bradley Cooper's fil...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode thirteen, "For the Uniform." Topics include getting back to the warm bath of a so-so episode, what you're allowed to bring into a Best Buy, whether or not Skyler's too cagey about the people he knows and the life he leads, Alice being wrong about which house was the Mary Tyler Moore house, Scott Pelley absolutely going off on...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twelve, "The Begotten." Topics include Skyler's trip to France, what "Philadelphia" evokes in the imagination, the sheer workload David Remnick is under on any given week, the silliness of acting when your scene partner's a jar of honey, tapping your pals who don't play music to play music at your delivery, their feelings on...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eleven, "The Darkness and the Light." Topics include the career of Bryan Fuller, the songwriting skills having cats leads to, smoky transporter skeletons, having a low-key birthday with some low-key vegan Italian food and bad service, loving the song "My Hometown" from Eurovision Song Contest , Kira's Bajoran terrorism backgr...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode ten, "Rapture." Topics include Alice being in New York, what kind of rapture Sisko's actually experiencing, Dax "Mona Lisa"-ing the big Bajoran painting of the cold open, what Bane actually said, where the hell a certain signature in Alice's "get well soon" card is, filling in Jarmusch blind spots, the power of National Treas...

This week on the Star Trek podcast Treks and the City , Alice and Skyler are of course wrapping up the Garry Marshall Day trilogy by covering its final entry, 2016's Mother's Day . Topics include actually spotting Timothy Olpyhant, people bringing babies to bars, what's going on with the number of characters named "Trey" in the Tana French Cal Hooper novels, Margot Martindale being saddled with a...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode nine, "The Ascent." Topics include the types of pastries they're both fans of, period yurts, what day of the week it in fact is, the kinds of people who'll talk to painters painting, off-the-beaten-path workplaces, screwing up Godot , chic survival looks, whether the station is "huge" or "enormous" or a mystery third size, th...

This week, Alice and Skyler are detouring from DS9 with another Danny Solomon-led BLOCKBUSTER return to The Next Generation to rank the times other members of the crew filled in for Picard. Together, they discuss rushing into the sun, what Garret's up to, the need for space gossip, where Geordi's rizz is, ensigns forgetting their place, how King Ralph surely influenced TNG , the kinds of sports re...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eight, "Things Past." Topics include enriching the art-museum-going experience with some live commentary, the way Alice was like a certain element of Mulholland Drive at the start of the record this week, getting jealous about the Artemis II astronauts, book talk, dialing back the "Odo as a solid" story decision, Bashir and W...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode seven, "Let He Who Is Without Sin...." Topics include ruined horny getaways, proper inviting-yourself-to-carpool-on-a-trip etiquette, Worf not being able to hang with Dax, how good " White Lotus on a distant planet" sounds as an idea, annoying finger-wagging space moralizers, the erotic power of clay, just how hot a misused g...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode six, "Trials and Tribble-ations" AND Futurama season four, episode eleven, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before." Topics include this DS9 episode absolutely rocking, checking for Gump, helping your aunt navigate contacting you, not seeing celebrities at restaurants, good fans and bad fans, sending a new crew to work in the general v...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode five, "The Assignment." Topics include the effectiveness of book marketing on Skyler, where Garret has gone and what the hell he's doing there, Tony Gilroy's upcoming cello movie, dogs under the bed, adding muscle to your back, all the cool ads Memory Alpha's providing its visitors, Alice's dance moves, Keiko getting possesse...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode four, "Nor the Battle to the Strong." Topics include birthday planning, the recent sort-of Trek live show, Sex and the City rocking, whether or not Jake really has any business in battle, space The Pitt , Bashir the bad interview subject, just how smart it is for the show to keep trying to recreate extremely complicated work...

This week, Alice and Skyler are getting Side Trekked again to celebrate February, which is both Black History Month and the month in which Valentine's Day happens to cover Garry Marshall's 2010 film Valentine's Day . Topics include the ways the film is like Crash , how simple headphone tech is in 2026, Kristen Schaal rocking, Emma Roberts not rocking, kids who are fans of things kids aren't always...