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We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “Ask Not” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Mikanhana of the Just Enough Trope podcast returns this week to talk Trek news, meeting veteran Trek stars, and going on a virtual away mission! Plus, we're putting the first season of Star Trek: Voyager on trial and asking ourselves: "Is it worth it to cross the Threshold?" I need my gooses! Follow Mikanhana on Twitter and check out Just Enough Trope and the new JET network show, Sailor Noob! htt...

Kiss the Blarney Stone and rub the Buddha's belly 'cause we're getting involved in "The Andorian Incident"! Musician and podcaster Gooey Fame returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise that spotlights the complex political situation in the Alpha Quadrant and Archer's indelicate but noble approach to it! When the NX-01's visit to a Vulcan monastery evolves into a t...

We're giving Star Trek a rest (in peace) this week as we discuss some of sci-fi's smartest and spookiest films! Plus, author Mary Fan joins the show to continue last week's discussion about the links between science fiction and fantasy storytelling. During our interview, Mary and I talk about her writing process, the artificial divisions between sci-fi and fantasy, the importance of depicting utop...

Wave goodbye to the Milky Way and meet us at the corner of thought and reality as we go "Where No One Has Gone Before"! New York Times Bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that posits that the real final frontier exists within the human mind! The USS Enterprise receives a visit from a Federation scientist who clai...

We're on the case this week as Jen Dallman of the Rosemary's Ladies podcast joins the show to talk about law in the Star Trek universe! A society with no money and no scarcity should need no lawyers . . . or so thought Gene Roddenberry . . . but it turns out to be a little more complicated than that because people and things mean laws and lawyers, no matter what century you live in. On the episode...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “The Trouble With Edward” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Lock us in our quarters this week as we merge with "Meld"! Author Scott Pearson is back on the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that asks questions with no easy answers. When a crew member is mysteriously murdered, Tuvok is prepared to investigate and apprehend the killer. But when the killer is revealed to be a motiveless, violent sociopath, Voyager's resident Vulcan will find him...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTrek “Q & A” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

This week, we're going back to school to study education (or the lack thereof) in the Star Trek universe! Every Starfleet officer is an alum of the same university, Starfleet Academy, and the egalitarian, scarcity-free world of the Federation would be a learning paradise, so why do we see classrooms so infrequently on Trek shows? Writer and educator Kelli Fitzpatrick joins the show to examine how...

Get ready to confront your complicated romantic past as we become "Rejoined"! Writer Eleanor Tremeer rejoins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that explores Star Trek's commitment to personal freedom. Dax is taken aback when she is reunited with her ex-wife, the brilliant scientist Lenara Kahn. Can she sort out her feelings for her former spouse before a danger...

We're slipping the surly bonds of Earth this week as Just Enough Trope's Mikanhana is back on the show to review "Apollo", a graphic novel about the Apollo 11 mission and the minds and hearts behind mankind's greatest adventure! Plus, we round up the Trek news of the day, from making Trek "younger and more relevant" to the Walter Mosely mystery to Trek's recent awards to some old school pedantry!...

Get ready to do it over (and over) again until you get it right as we're beguiled by "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"! Illustrator, writer, and storyboard artist Mike Collins joins the show the week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Discovery that uses familiar Trek storytelling tools to explore new facets of its characters. Michael Burnham is beginning to feel at home aboard the USS Discov...

This week, we're talking about a different kind of "canon" as Dr. James McGrath joins the show to talk about religion in Star Trek! Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future had no room for faith or superstition, but is a galaxy without God and spirituality desirable or even plausible? Trek's opinion on religion and belief has vacillated over the course of its five decades of storytelling, but faith...

Get ready to boldly stay as we meet with "Emissary"! Author, essayist, and photographer Derek Tyler Attico joins the show the week to discuss the premiere episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a series that bravely broke from the established formula of Trek to create the future of the franchise! When Benjamin Sisko arrives on Deep Space Nine, he's a grieving single father who is questioning his f...

This week, we continue our examination of representation in Trek as Thad Hait joins the show to talk neuroatypicality in Star Trek. Characters like Spock, Data, and Seven of Nine often struggle with expressing their emotions and when relating to their fellow crew members, things that many Trek fans on the autistic spectrum find all too familiar. Even though these characters weren't created with au...

Get ready to surrender control of your feelings as we negotiate with "Sarek"! Anika Dane and Liz Barr, the hosts of Antimatter Pod, join the show the week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sees the return of a legendary Trek character and actor. Ambassador Sarek is negotiating a treaty that will be the crowning achievement of a life dedicated to service and self-control....

This week, we're putting Trek on trial for its treatment of female characters! Star Trek is supposed to be a humanist utopia, but how close does it get to actually offering equal opportunity and genderblindness? We go through the magic pregnancies, the impractical costumes, and the horrors of the TNG show bible to ask: "How actually feminist was early Trek?" Jarrah Hodge is on hand to run the numb...

Just throw any old thing on this week as we get ready to pay "The Price"! Writer, artist, and podcaster Bonnie Liston joins the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sees Counselor Troi torn between a new love and her responsibilities to the crew. A seemingly stable wormhole to the Delta Quadrant is up for sale and the Enterprise in on hand to oversee the negotiations....

Prepare to Enter the Star Trek Universe and have your face rocked . . . ROCKED by the revelations from this year's San Diego Comic Con! The Kurtz and Team Trek came out swinging this year, with new revelations about Star Trek: Discovery season 3, Lower Decks, Short Treks, and Star Trek: Picard! It's almost too much to handle, so cool down with our stories from Shore Leave 41! Wibbly wobbly Treky w...

Get your hankies ready this week as we receive "The Visitor"! Author and Star Trek Adventures line editor Jim Johnson joins the show to discuss one of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's most affecting hours. An accident aboard the Defiant causes Sisko to be lost in time and Jake must struggle to overcome the loss of his father. As the years pass and Jake gets older, he sees his contentment, his family,...

Put down that book and whip out your horga'hn 'cause we're talking about sex in the Star Trek universe! Alexa and Connor of the Boldly Boinking podcast join the show to talk about the REAL mystery of Star Trek: in a healthy, hangup-free humanist utopia, where's all the sex? Connor and Alexa, aka Rocketman and the Tribble, are Trek sexperts and we're going to get to the bottom of *add your own "bot...

Batten the hatches and hold fast this week as we try to survive "Starship Down"! New York Times bestselling author David Mack returns to the show to discuss one of two DS9 episodes he co-wrote with writing partner John J. Ordover. The Defiant is attacked by Jem'Hadar warships while on a trade mission and is critically disabled. Now, Chief O'Brien and a crew of enlisted men must keep the ship afloa...

This week, Heather Rae joins the show to talk about Trek's record dealing with LGBTQ issues, seeing more gay and lesbian characters on-screen, and what the future looks like for gay characters on Trek TV! Plus, even MORE earth-shaking announcements about the future of the show! Please consider contributing to these LGBTQ charities! Human Rights Campaign https://www.hrc.org The Night Ministry https...

Take a sentimental journey with us this week as we raise a glass to the days gone by and examine "Relics"! NerdsThatGeek.com editor-in-chief John Edward Betancourt joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that pays loving homage to both the TOS era and one of the Original Series's best characters. While answering a Federation distress call, the Enterprise...