Enterprising Individuals

We beam ourselves into ourselves this week so we can relive Star Trek: Discovery Season 2! Author Dave Galanter and podcaster Aly Martinez aka the 23 Year Old Trekkie join your hosts Aaron and Ella as we look back at the highs and lows of Disco's second go around. Over the course of the episode, we discuss the way narrative storytelling has changed on TV and on Trek, revisiting and refreshing clas...

We've got a special feature this week as we present the premiere episode of BackTrekking, the new Trek and pop culture podcast from Ka1iban and GooeyFame, the host of Existence Is Futile! Every story has to start somewhere, and each week on BackTrekking, Gooey and Kal look at the real-world inspirations for your favorite Trek episodes! This week, we're talking about the TNG episode "Starship Mine"...

Just Enough Trope's Mikanhana is back this week to help sort out the latest Trek news! We've got updates on season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Lower Decks, the rumored Pike series, Tarantino Trek, the Trek "Global Franchise Group", and a Killer Grandma! Plus, a review of the new Deep Space Nine documentary, What We Left Behind, and Kal's thoughts on the Star Trek: Picard trailer! AND, a special ann...

Get your jeweler's loupe on and clutch tight your '62 Roger Maris card because we're about to play with "The Most Toys"! Writer and Forbes Magazine Associate Editor for Science and Games Alex Knapp joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sees Data's humanity put on trial once again, this time as much from within as without. Remorseless collector Kiv...

Get ready to be disavowed and to go rogue this week as New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling author James Swallow joins the show to talk about espionage and skullduggery in the world of Trek! The Federation is an open and honorable society, but there are cracks in every seemingly perfect edifice, and that's where organizations like Starfleet Intelligence and Section 31 make their home. On t...

Your mission this week, if you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate and seduce the enemy for "The Enterprise Incident"! Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series that sees our upright heroes involved in dastardly deeds. The Romulans have improved their cloaking technology and it's up to the crew of the Enterprise to s...

This week, we celebrate Avengers: Endgame and comics in general by checking out Marvel Star Trek comics! Join us for a look at Star Trek Unlimited and a quick run-through of Trek on the comic page! #saruligans Get "Captain Saru", our favorite Kelpian, on Amazon! https://amzn.to/2ZED9Ox Get your DS9 doc tickets! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GOAwjpQg908 Suit up with our Trek T-shi...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Pt. 2” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Get ready to sing some royalty-free tunes as we warm up our pipes for "Virtuoso"! Comedian, writer, and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that explores the nature of humanity, artistic expression, and working on the railroad. The Doctor becomes a singing sensation when the crew meets a race that has never before heard music. As his...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Such Sweet Sorrow” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

This week, we take a break from the grind as Mikanhana from the Just Enough Trope podcast is back to help break down the recent Trek news! We've got takes on images of the upcoming Disco finale, a beardless Spock, the theatrical release of the DS9 doc, Sonequa Martin-Greene's new movie role, and pushing a Chief O'Brien statue down the stairs! We also talk about how to spot bad Photoshop, the secre...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Through the Valley of Shadows” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Turn down your lights (where applicable) because DS9 is going noir for "Necessary Evil"! Existence is Futile hosts heelmary and Gooey Fame join the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that takes us back to the Cardassian Occupation, where talk is cheap and lives are even cheaper. Odo has been called to Terok Nor by the Prefect of Bajor, Gul Dukat, to investigate t...

We can hardly believe it but it's our LAST EPISODE of The Podpadopoulos Cast and our last episode of Webster! For 6 years and 150 episodes, we've followed the adventures of Webster Long and his loving foster parents, George and Katherine Papadopoulos, but all good things must come to an end and we've reached the series finale, "Webtrek!" But the Four Tops aren't singing just yet, and we've got a b...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Perpetual Infinity” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @soundofcosplay

Pull on your skant and replicate a pile of Demerol as we look at the enduring vision and appeal of TNG! Writer and "Behind the Bastards" host Robert Evans joins the show to talk about Star Trek: The Next Generation and how it still hits the spot, over 30 years past its debut. We talk about Robert's sci-fi past, the optimism at the heart of TNG and Trek, leaning into your permissive utopia vis-a-vi...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “The Red Angel” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @mikanhana of @JustEnoughTrope

Farpoint is CANCELLED because we're being tested by "All Good Things..."! New York Times and USA Today best-selling author David R. George III is back on the show this week for a look at the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a tour de force, feature-length episode that celebrates the genius and success of the series it concludes. Captain Picard is mysteriously travelling through the past,...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Project Daedalus” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @bleisner

Get ready to jump beyond the red line as we look at the fabric of the Trek universe! Warp drive expert and "Tattooed Gravity Queen" Dr. Erin Macdonald joins the show to talk about the astrophysics of Star Trek, the power needed for warp drive (all of it), the importance of female representation in sci-fi, the "Scully effect", the resilience of relativity, the mystery of dark matter and dark energy...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “If Memory Serves” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @tyranicus of @deltaflyerpod

Sharpen up your Zefram Cochrane statue as we take a stab at "Twilight"! Peter Aidan Byrne of Trek vs. Trek joins the show this week for our first episode about Star Trek: Enterprise, a series with a shaky reputation but a solid entry in "Twilight". Archer wakes up with a bad haircut and a Groundhog Day dilemma . . . or is that 50 First Dates? I can't remember. Meanwhile, Earth is cinders, humanity...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Light and Shadows” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @mikanhana of @justenoughtrope!

Get ready to "U" your "topia" as we look at the evolved world of the Trek universe! Lyta Gold of Current Affairs joins the show to talk about the world of Trek, the brutality of Discovery, the self-conscious "wokeness" of the Federation, and where the "light" of Discovery is! Plus, we discuss the connection of God and Shakespeare, a spa day for Burnham, the S (ocialism) word in Trek, Section 31, t...

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “The Sound of Thunder” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @SoundOfCosplay!