Casual Trek

Right, everyone quit Oo-moxing for two minutes because we’ve got another episode talking about those hyper-capitalist scamps, the Ferengi; literally one of the few times here on the show where we can say without doubt that it’s a metaphor for capitalism! The post 97. Ferengi: I Apologise for the Amount of Times I Say “Capering” in this Episode first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

It's time for another tangent cut out of the main show. Here we talk about the Absolute DC books and Charlie getting back into Hitman! The post Casual Tangent – Absolute Hitman first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Happy Monday, everyone! To celebrate the start of the working week, we’re looking at Star Trek episodes where people mess with the memories of our cast and put them through menial, awful work. The post 96. It’s a Metaphor for Capitalism! first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Miles and Charlie have come down with a case of the ‘too British for Star Trek’ and are coping with it the only way they know how, by once more becoming Space Scamps and hopping over to Moonbase Alpha for three more episodes of Space 1999! The post 95. Space Scamps – Oh Good, Another Breeding Program! first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

A conversation cut from an earlier episode. See, we do some edits! The post Casual Tangent – The Time Miles’s Mum Called Him a Wanker first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Casual Trek’s month celebrating Red Shirts continues as we have a look at Star Trek episodes which have thrown away the lives of extras in order to raise the stakes. The post 94. Press F to Pay Respects first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Red shirts might be one of the biggest pop-cultural tropes given to us by Star Trek, but what does it mean, in-universe and out, the first of our two part look actually gives us both as Miles describes the IDW miniseries ‘Star Trek: Red Shirts’ to Charlie and neither can hide their dissatisfaction while following up with a brief discussion of the John Scalzi novel ‘Redshirts.’ Next episode, we’ll...

Miles and Charlie are climbing a mountain, why are they climbing a mountain? Is it to meet God? The Devil? Their approaching mid-life crises? Whichever, we have now approached the 199th and 200th episodes of Trek on Our Big List and we are celebrating, if not in style, then with a movie - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier to be exact. But before that, we have a little animated amuse-bouche with ‘The...

Hark, what podcast through yonder window breaks? It’s Casual Trek! We have a fun topic today with Star Trek episodes with titles which are Shakespeare quotes! The post 92. A Tale Told By An Idiot first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Grab your Bat’leth and prepare to experience bij as our Casual Heroes once more find themselves dealing with the Shakespearean Shouty Men of Space, the Klingons! The post 91. Qapla’, I Guess first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

We tend to run long, so this tangent from our Starfleet Academy episode was cut out. If you want to hear a little chatter about comics and RPGs, then it's here. The post Casual Tangent: Akira and Game Design first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Welcome to Starfleet Academy, students, we hope you survive the experience! It’s the grimdark future of the 32nd century and a bunch of weird, traumatised kids are stuck together having to learn and grow into Starfleet officers! Will the main character be too annoying a main character? How many The O.C. references will Charlie make? How much will Miles lust after an espresso machine? And how delig...

Do you hear the siren song of synergy? That means we’ve got a brand new Star Trek show on the horizon and Miles and Charlie want in. With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the horizon, our brave lads are going to squeeze back into their school uniforms and try to remember how school works as they approach three episodes of Star Trek which deal with students at SFA. The post 89. Starfleet Academy Pre...

Due to various medical emergencies, our Starfleet Academy episodes are going to have to wait a little while. Instead, here's an old favourite episode: "They Exploded Odo!" We experience the original Mirror Universe episode and try to understand a system of government entirely based around betrayal (that isn't the Romulans'), also a fantastic episode of DS9 with some shock as there's a pretty bruta...

Casual Trek's still in recovery mode from life and the festive period and we've wanted to fix the "Gamers" episode which was cursed with bad attempts to compress the file. The post Casual Trek Rewind: Gamer Picard (Remastered) first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network .

Charlie and Miles have ‘gifted’ each other episodes of Star Trek to talk about, both good and bad. The problem with being casual about Star Trek is you just don’t know all of what’s out there. That’s what the Casual Trek mission is for, after all. This year the gang are doing something different, talking about a film that’s adjacent to Star Trek, and even some Trek actors say is the best Star Trek...

Welcome to an emergency bonus episode! Miles is off, but the fortnightly schedule continues. Charlie’s played a solo roleplaying game based on Star Trek. No, not the official one, but "We Saved This Vessel Once." After that, there’s the unhinged pitches from our Section 31 episode, which includes Sean Corse of Famicom Dojo, and Celeste Startwin of Stormwood & Associates! The post Bonus – We S...

We’re still concerned with the Delta Quadrant as this episode of Casual Trek covers episodes from Modern Trek’s animated series concerning the Voyager, the Delta Quadrant and all those assorted antics. First up is the Prodigy Season One mid-season two-parter ‘A Moral Star’ where Dal and the Protostar gang plan to actually do a Starfleet with a little bit of heist antics as they try to break out th...

It’s time for a podcast about a podcast! Yes, we’re talking about Star Trek: Khan, the official Star Trek podcast. What happened between Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Dr Rosalind Lear wants to know and brings some familiar faces to Ceti Alpha V to dig up some old recordings. Does she want to humanize this space tyrant or exonerate Kirk for his actions? Flashbacks, being stranded...

It’s that time of year where we try and delve into the strange and scary for our Halloween episode and this time, we’ve hit upon altered states (not the Ken Russell film) where our heroes undergo a strange transformation. In the TOS episode ‘Wolf in the Fold,’ Bones’s obsession with getting Scotty laid ends in a lot of mysterious stabbings that date back to Victorian London, while in Voyager’s ‘Da...