Humanist Trek

Sarah and Allie board the Magic School Bus and shrink down to microscopic size. As the bus penetrates a giant space amoeba's boundary... actually, maybe this is all too dirty to make jokes about a kid's TV show. Join us as we blast some antimatter inside a nucleus. Seriously, did these writers know what they were doing? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode us...

When Allie and Sarah find themselves on a planet based on a book about 1920's Chicago mobsters, the episode encounters way more tangents and accents than usual. What might happen to a culture if a people came along and just dropped off a book? Ask Africa. And Haiti. And... Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social me...

When Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura find themselves captive to "Providers" and forced to fight for their amusement, slavery is put on blast in this progressive episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.co...

When Uhura doesn't follow the young Chinese boy's instructions and gets her Tribble wet, Fred, Scoob, and the gang find themselves waist deep in a furry mystery! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch...

On this episode of CSI: Argelius, Piglet investigates the suspicious murder of a dancer from the nudie bar and Scotty's the primary suspect. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com...

Captain Ahab encounters an old nemesis - a cloud whale that sucks blood for nourishment - and loses himself in the hunt.  Will he break his little ships? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  hum...

The shot clock is running to find out how to stop Kirk and the gang from rapidly aging. How many times do we let Grandpa run his starship into the neighbor's mailbox before we take away his car keys? Is American Capitalism to blame for our lack of respect for the elderly? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social med...

The Enterprise arrives at a planet to sign a mining agreement to find the Klingons have beat them to the punch. Chaos ensues as the leader is murdered and his very pregnant wife appoints McCoy as the new baby daddy. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the...

Tensions run high as various alien races - including Spock's parents - gather on the Enterprise for a city council meeting, but when a delegate is found murdered, Fred, Scoob, and the gang have a mystery to solve. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the s...

When the Galileo Shuttlecraft is hijacked by an energy being, Kirk discovers Zefram Cochrane trapped on a planet with a jukebox that only plays Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby". Will our heroes be able to rescue this historical hero? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.c...

When the Enterprise is hijacked by a sketchy new crewman, Kirk is reunited with Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Would you be tempted to put your brain in a robot body? Just how many different versions of one woman do you actually need? Which model of robot is into butt stuff? We're tackling all the hard questions on this episode! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode us...

Have you ever wondered why Star Trek doesn't usually do "holiday specials"? This episode holds the answer! It's the episode that asks, "What if Star Trek did a Halloween episode?" The answer is not great. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  p...

Chasing his planet-killing whale, Commodore Ahab makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to save the Enterprise crew from a weapon so powerful, it would destroy all sides in a war. Sometimes Star Trek doesn't hide it's themes in sci-fi. Occasionally they come right out and say it. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge o...

When the Enterprise finds yet another planet being run by a computer, our heroes must once again debate the merits of freeing a population who appears stagnant by human standards against the merits of allowing a culture to make their own choices and develop as they see fit. It's the episode that asks, "What would happen if we destroyed this people's god?" but never answers it. Play along with our...

A transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura to an alternate universe filled with distrust, espionage, assassinations, and some midriff uniforms. Spock is consistently logical and Uhura is a total badass in any universe! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  hum...

When an old Earth probe goes on a killing spree, Kirk must play logic chess to keep from being destroyed, too.  It's the episode that has nothing to do with a changeling despite being titled "The Changeling". Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show...

Time to crack out those old college textbooks on Greek mythology!  It's the episode that asks, "What if our idea of god(s) came from aliens?" Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Starfleet Of...

When Spock gets the 7 year itch, Kirk must return his friend to Vulcan to marry his betrothed. But T'Pring's been riding Stonn on the side, and the only way out of the engagement is to make Kirk and Spock fight to the death? I'm glad my first marriage wasn't so hard to get out of! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all...

Allie and Sarah reflect on the first season of TOS, then Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. (aka Rod) joins us to talk about growing up in a humanist house, carrying the Star Trek legacy, respecting viewpoint diversity and breaking down silos, and even wokeness.   Find all things Rod at Roddenberry.com   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social med...

When Kirk's brother doesn't answer the phone, the Enterprise finds an infestation of parasitic pancakes.  When Spock gets inseminated by one, the crew must find a way to … genocide a whole species? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pic...

While investigating a strange rock donut portal, McCoy, OD'd on space molly, leaps back in time and butterfly effects the Federation's very existence away.  To put things right, Kirk and Spock go back in time to stop McCoy from getting the Sports Almanac and ruining the future.  It's the episode that puts Roddenberry's hopeful vision of the future front and center in stark contrast with 1930's Dep...

Star Trek writers go on a mushroom trip and forget almost everything they know about science. Do you experience turbulence in space? What exactly is the scientific definition of "winking out"? It's the episode that sends Captain Ahab across universes to catch his… other… Captain Ahab.  This one is weird, y'all. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChall...

When Klingons take control of Organia, a strategic planet between them and the Federation, Kirk rolls in to make the argument that while they, too, are basically colonizers, they're not as bad as those other colonizers.  Does the Federation's lack of effort around trying to understand both the Organians and Klingons make war too easy?  Shouldn't war be the last resort? Play along with our Starflee...

A mining colony of New Yorkers starts reporting mysterious deaths in the caves.  When Kirk and crew arrive, Spock makes a new friend and find that sometimes killers aren't necessarily devils after all?   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttr...

While visiting Planet Disney Ranch, the crew of the Enterprise get so high on flower spores that only a good ol' fashioned Star Trek Fight will do. Are humans destined to work toward paradise forever? And why does this show spend so much energy on this "paradise" narrative? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all our soc...