Wait... Where's Spock?

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat discover they've watched completely different episodes - sort of! Talk about CONTROVERSY!!! Two WILDLY different responses to a Data-centric episode that should have had them united in their dislike of the android. Instead, they're now dead to one another! Can there ever be a reconciliation? You'll have to listen to find out.

This week, Amaya and Mat try to ignore the fact that Americans can't spell 'Honour' properly, and instead focus on the fact that they've arrived at the best episode of the season so far! In this Riker-tastic Klingon-fest, we get action, we get suspense, we get weird Klingon sex stuff, AND... breastfeeding! Qapla'!

Better late than never (right?...), in this week's episode, Amaya and Mat make sure the wait was worth it! We get arguably one of the best scripts we've had to date, we get Mile O'Brien, we get BIG money-on-screen sets, we get actual pathos and character development, we get more Miles O'Brien, aaand...we get CONTROVERSY, as father and daughter debate whether music is little more th...

This week, Amaya and Mat meet the greatest human mind in the universe...who might also be the dumbest! We also have the long-awaited return of our most popular segment, "Please Fix My Episode", where Amaya rips it all up and puts it back together, while Mat writes fan mail to Paramount Studios about new Vulcan hottie guest star, Lieutenant Selar, and sends it back in time to 1989 with a...

This week, Amaya and Mat may have just struck "Next Gen" Season 2 GOLD: sensitive treatment of disability - CHECK; genuinely interesting ideas - CHECK; true human moments - CHECK; Data doesn't piss us off - CHECK...I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Well, something may have...but you'll have to tune to find out!

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat learn want a joke isn't, and what a jerk is...or isn't. In possibly the most oddly structured episodes this season, Billy "The Rocketeer/Clint Webber from "Frasier" Campbell, Teri "Lois and Clark/Desperate Housewives" Hatcher, and some unsupportive supporting cast teach us the importance of making sure you understand what y...

This week, Amaya and Mat travel back to 19th-century London to discover there's something they hate more than Data...and that's Pulaski! Naaah! She's alright, and so is this episode, until it takes a strange and unforgivable narrative turn for the worse! Still, Holmes and Watson, the Holodeck, Worf dressed up like an Edwardian gentleman...how bad could it really be?...

In this episode, Amaya and Mat discover that there's arguably something worse than just a bad episode of 'Next Gen': and that is what might be THE most boring episode of the series yet! My God! "Shoot me!" - but not in a 'Arrested Development'/Uncle Jack sense. Just a staright bullet to the brain, please! Though, it is true, that along the way they also discover a lov...

Amaya and Mat are BACK!...for Season 2 of ST: TNG, and this week they learn all about un-planned parenthood, luxuriate in Riker's new beard, hang out in the spiffy new bar with the spiff new cast member, and go on maybe the least relevant tangent to date as the discuss the comedy stylings of Martin Short...no, not much has changed in the interlude!

In the final episode for this season of "Wait!...where's Spock?", Amaya and Mat look back, misty-eyed - mostly due to having watched too much tv - and re-score all of season one's episodes...particularly the ones we didn't score in the first place. And stay through to the end for the first moment of genuine shock and tears as Mat reads to Amaya the synopsis for Episode One, S...

This week, Amaya and Mat explore Mat's romantic life, also known as the Completely In Neutral Zone and...wait...no! Sorry! Different show. In this week's episode they finally come face-to-face with this series' overarching nemesis...writers' strikes (UNION PROUD!) Also, there's 80's cryogenics obsession, booze, drugs, country music and, at long last...ROMULANS!!!

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat uncover..."Conspiracy", Next Gen's "The Thing" tribute, with enough gore and body horror to leave John Carpenter whimpering in a corner of the room. Along with all the viscera comes a great idea, a really solid script, all of which contributes to what is arguably the best episode of the season...if episodes were measured by the weig...

This week, Amaya (and now you) has to put up with Mat doing his dodgy Patrick Stewart impersonation, which is really a dodgy Ian McKellan impersonation from "Lord of the Rings). We also get to see LOTS of Datas (as well as some excellent stuntman tumbling action), creepy Crusher action, and the occasional bit of adult emotional interaction.

This week, Amaya and Mat experience great loss...for Mat, mostly the hour lost watching this episode! But seriously, it's a great case of the parts being better than the sum of the total, but also a time of learning, and they both discover that they love...David Cronenberg's "The Fly"...and f**king "Buffy" comes up again! When will it stop?!!

In this week's episode, Amaya and May learn to say "No!...to drugs"...and a HARD no to dodgy PSA announcements masquerading as drama. Seriously though, turns out "Symbiosis" is some good s**t, man, and if you want some meet us 'round the corner for a fix of solidly written drama and great performances...first time's free... ...and apologies for the poor audio...defi...

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat learn that a Death Sphere isn't always what it claims to be...like a sphere, for instance...that Crusher and Picard really just need to get a room, and that maybe this episode is "the best" of Season One...oh! And apologies for more 'Buffy' chat and comparisons. Last time, we swear*. * We totally don't swear.

"Maj po" this week from Amaya and Mat, who say "tlhIngan maH" in order that we have "qapla"! Yes, it's our first Klingon episode of the season (and the series), and while Amaya's love of Worf continues to grow, Mat almost spoils - close to 40 years on - the TV mini-series "V" - that's right! It's "Wait...where's Marc Singer?", o...

This week, Amaya and Mat learn the meaning of self-understanding...as well as just how high Riker can throw his leg over a chair and thrust his crotch at someone! There's also young love, daring rescue, and 'sweet as' Starfleet after-hours fashion, in what amounts to a solid episode...but not without some rewrites, of course.

This week, Amaya and Mat explore the universe's BIG questions: what actually constitutes *real* life, and; what the Hell was the secret name of this podcast for the last eighteen episodes?! They also find time for some of your two favourite segments: Amaya's Phasers on Fashion and Mat's Minute of Miniatures and Matte Paintings.

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat pretty much forget everyone's name, confusing characters with actors, then spend quite a bit of time dissecting the social constructs of the High School Musical-verse - but don't worry: they do end up rating episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...and somewhere in here actually discuss this quite nicely made episode of ST: TNG.

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat debate whether Mat is just a young man wearing a lot of prosthetics to appear much older, and, in fact, is not even her father! We also talk about this episode of ST: TNG which, coincidentally, also features unconvincing prosthetics and a storyline that can't make up its mind what theme it wants to settle upon.

On this week's episode, Riker gets his weird on, Mat gets even weirder about Riker's weirdness, then Picard seems to want to join in, and Amaya has to put up with the lot. There's a lot to discuss here, including the possibility that this might be the best episode yet for Season One, and the fact that Amaya might at last be coming around to Data!

This week, Amaya and Mat visit a planet ruled by a matriarchy, in an episode written by a man seemingly with an anti-matriarchal agenda - SHOCK! Stop the presses! Man scared of women! But seriously, there's just a whole lot of confusion going on here, but not without some redeeming qualities...did I mention Riker's nipples?...

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat have to deal with TWO Datas...Day-tahs...Dar-tahs...Day-tahs - WHATEVER! There are two of them...sort of...and it turns out they kind of like both of them. Yup, Brent Spiner is acting up a storm, Wesley is being a "little b*tch" (according to Amaya), and Mat really, REALLY needs to decide how to pronounce Data...and also take better notes when wa...

In this week's episode, Amaya and Mat learn that Picard does have a sense of humour, that Data CAN be funny, but most of all...that Beverly Crusher is the real QUEEN of COMEDY on ST: TNG. And, like Martin Sheen travelling upriver to kill Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now", we travel deep, deep into the treacherous territory of episode rewriting...