Beam Me Up: A Star Trek Podcast

Did You Hear About This? This humorous pop culture podcast discusses the latest retro stories and pop culture news. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Did You Hear About This? This humorous pop culture podcast discusses the latest retro stories and pop culture news. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Did You Hear About This? This humorous pop culture podcast discusses the latest retro stories and pop culture news. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Did You Hear About This? This humorous pop culture podcast discusses the latest retro stories and pop culture news. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Now that Matt has completed his journey up through the Berman era of Star Trek, and we have finished this part of the journey, it's time to take a step back and revisit the journey with Matt and Brent.  What stood out to them over the last 3-4 years?  What were their favorite moments?  Maybe their not-so-favorite moments?  And most importantly, what comes next for Beam Me Up: A Star Trek Podc...

When the Romulan star explodes, a single mining vessel tracks Ambassador Spock's ship through a black hole and a tunnel in time back to when Spock and Kirk were students at Starfleet Academy.   This is end of Beam Me Up's weekly release schedule.  As we explain in the episode, this was always our ending point for the show.  However, please stay subscribed as you'll be getting extra...

Set during the events of The Next Generation episode, "Pegasus," Riker looks back on some decisions by the crew of the NX-01 in order to get some guidance on how to deal with current problem.  Specifically, he's watching the parts where Trip had to choose to disobey Archer and he lost his life over it.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be our podcast finale, c...

A terrorist group holds earth Hostage unless all aliens leave the solar system immediately.  And to make matters worse, they taken DNA from both Trip and T'Pol to clone a baby. the first human/Vulcan hybrid, which could spell danger for the group that claims to be "Earth First." If you're watching with us, the next episode will be the other series finale of Enterprise, which is...

The Klingons get ahold of Dr. Soong's work with the Augments and try to create their own group of genetically modified inviduals, but they screw it up and wind up giving themselves a disease that causes them to lose their forehead ridges and act far more aggressive than normal.  Now they have kidnapped Dr. Phlox in hopes that he can find the cure. If you're watching with us, the next epi...

Humans, Andorians, Vulcans, and Telarites are thrust together against a common enemy, in an uneasy alliance that will pave the way for the coming Federation.  In the process, we meet a whole new species of Andorians and meet our favorite bad guys, the Romulans.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be a two parter that we will call, "The Klingon- Augment Duology" cover...

T'Pol's mother goes missing, and it is suspected she has joined a rebel faction of Vulcan society, one that says it embraces the true teaching of Surak, and that Vulcan society, led by the High Council, has lost it's way. The High Council is eager to track down this "cult," despite interference from Archer and T'Pol, who encounter a Vulcan with the actual spirit of Su...

An ancestor of Dr. Soong has gotten his hands on the cryogenically frozen embryos of the human auments from the late 1990s (you know, Khan's people), and he has birthed them, raised them, and now they're on a mission to rescue all of their brothers and sisters to continue the work that was started by their predecessor.  When their aggressive tendancies began to manifest, Dr. Soong loses...

The Enterprise has returned home, triumphant over the Xindi, preventing a much larger attack.  While everyone is singing their praises, the crew is having trouble readjusting to their new status as celebrities while the mood on Earth has shifted to fear and retaliation against anyone who is not human.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be a three parter that we will call &quo...

While deep in the expanse, Shran catches up to the Enterprise, offering to help repair and resupply the ship, while Shran harbors a secret about what his real intentions are of being there.  An act will result in pitting the allies against each other. If you're watching with us, the next episode will be from season 4 of Enterprise, entitled, "Home."  Contact the show: email: beammeu...

When an alien craft arrived above Earth and proceed to cut a swath through the Earth from Florida to Venezula, the Enterprise is ordered home.  Devistated by the attack, Archer and the crew prepare to find out who did this and why, traveling into an area of space called the Expanse, a sort of Bermuda Triangle of space, much to the dismay of the Vulcans. If you're watching with us, the next ep...

Archer is arrested by the klingons and put on trial, with the lead witness being an ancestor of Duras.  But in this court, the guilty verdict has already been decided and Archer's lawyer has to be reminded of what real honor looks like, even amongst the Klingons.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be the season 2 finale, "The Expanse."  This is not a cliffhange...

As all out war is erupting between the Andorians and the Vulcans, Lt Shran asks for Archer's help to mediate a cease fire agreement between him and Ambassador Soval.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be the episode "Judgment." Contact the show: email: beammeuppod@gmail.com Twitter: @beammeuppod Instagram: @beammeuppod Website: beammeuppod.com Support the show...

It's our final adventure with our intrepid crew of the 1701-D...errr...1701-E.  When an explosion blows up the Romulan Senate, the new leader of the Romulans requests an audience with Captain Picard.  When Picard meets him, he is surprised to discover that this new leader, Shinzon, is actually a clone of Captain Picard himself, and the clone is bent on the destruction of the Federation.  Mean...

The Enterprise stumbles on a ship full of Vulcan pilgrims, a sect of Vulcans seeking the freedom to practice embracing their emotions as well as the freedom to perform the strictly prohibited practice known as a Mind Meld.  One of the pilgrims helps T'Pol experience emotions, a sensation that is scary but exciting to her, but then he goes too far when he forces a mind meld on her.   If you&ap...

While visiting a Vulcan monastery, Archer, Trip, and T'Pol stumble into a hostage situation, where the monks are being held by the neighboring Andorians, who suspect the monastery is really being used an espionage base.  When that turns out to be true, Archer exposes the Vulcans, setting off a sequence of events that may lead to further hostilities between the Vulcans and the Andorians, with...

In an era before the prime directive exists, the crew of the Enterprise picks up a dying humanoid that represents an entire species on the brink of death.  Their request, for Archer to give them Warp drive capabilities, Dr Phlox has second thoughts about it, thinking that their extinction may actually be a part of the evolution of their planet as a new species is about to rise.  Man, if only there...

It's been a while since we've had a new series.  So we do the thing in this episode where we not only talk about the episode itself, but we meet the new crew, the new ship, and set the stage for where we are going as finish out this podcast.   In this episode, the first starship Enterprise, the NX-01, launches humanity into deep space, with a mission to return a klingot...I mean klingon....

It seems like just last week that we were saying goodbye to the crew of Deep Space Nine, and now we are saying goodbye to the crew of Voyager (of course only doing 3 episodes from season 6 helped).  In this episode, Admiral Janeway travels to the past to attempt to bring Voyager home earlier to avoid the tragic deaths of Seven of Nine, Chakotay, and eventually even Tuvok.  What does Matt think of...

The crew comes upon a colony of Talaxians under mob rule.  Neelix feels compelled to help his fellow countrymen, and in the end, he decides to stay with them and leave the crew of Voyager. It's one of the very few episodes that make Brent tear up, but will also get the feels in this episode?  Let's find out.   If you're watching with us, the next episode will be the series finale of...

Seven begins to explore romance via the holodeck, and the object of her affection...Chakotay.  This is the episode where we get the much maligned Chakotay/Seven relationship.  But, it also marks some major steps forward for Seven's growth toward regaining her humanity, and it has major implications for the series finale coming up in a just 2 weeks.   If you're watching with us, the next...