Enterprising Individuals

Get ready to catch an important arrow as we wonder "Who Watches the Watchers"! Data visualization engineer and designer Millie Pettit joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that presents a pitiless examination of Starfleet's most sacred law: the Prime Directive. While assisting a team of scientists observing a developing world, the Enterprise crew accident...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Unification III”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, The Star Trek Communist Will Nguyen joins the show to talk about Marxism and socialism in the Star Trek franchise! Everyone gets that no money, replicators, and an equal distribution of wealth is how the Federation became a utopia, but maybe it's not quite that simple. On the show, we talk about the flaws in Trek's "socialist" utopia, how money doesn't equal capitalism, the parallels be...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Scavengers”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Slip on your lobe enhancers because we're learning the "Rules of Acquisition"! Author and educator Cassandra Rose Clarke joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which Quark gets a lesson in Ferengi inequality. When Grand Nagus Zek wants to expand Alliance trade into the Gamma Quadrant, he picks Quark as his front man. But when Quark picks a female Ferengi po...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Die Trying”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Josh Zelikovitz of Star Trek and the Jews joins the show to talk about Jews and Judaism in the Star Trek franchise. So many of the actors, writer, and creators behind Star Trek have been Jewish and yet Trek has never featured an explicitly Jewish character. On the show, we talk about depicting religion in a secular future, the Jewish coding of Trek elements, Gene Roddenberry's strained...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Forget Me Not”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Pick up a horga'hn and put down those pamphlets as we head to Risa to check out "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."! Fandom Forecasts host and meteorologist Katie Nickolaou joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that had a mixed reception among fans but presents a fascinating look at the sexual mores of the 24th century. When Dax drags Worf to the pleasure planet R...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “People of Earth”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Mark A. Altman joins the show to talk about his life with Trek, including Free Enterprise, The Fifty-Year Mission, and Inglorious Treksperts, plus his CW series Pandora, watching TOS on an 11" black and white screen, being a nerd who got inside Hollywood, writing the definitive Galactica 1980 text, and poetry of episode titles, and how a rerun of Star Trek II got us Star Trek VI! Plus,...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Far From Home”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

The cons are closed but our annual live panel is open for business as we host a virtual round table discussion of the much-maligned Star Trek: Nemesis, with featured guests Jen Dallman, Ella Pearson, Gooey Fame, and Thad Hait! Join us for a look at a Star Trek "film" that was hampered from the start, with a shrinking budget, way too many storylines, and a director who'd never seen Star Trek! We do...

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “That Hope Is You. Part 1”! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

This week, Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the show to talk about data rights, intellectual property, and digital free speech in Star Trek and our own world.. On the episode, we talk about the EFF's efforts to create a Star Trek future and not a Mirror Universe one, how the Federation protects the digital rights of its citizens, IP law of the future, the obsolesce...

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode “No Small Parts”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress

Get out your dermal regenerator as we sit down for "Indiscretion"! Podcaster Mikanhana returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that introduces us to Dukat's more "human" side. When Kira finds a long-lost freighter carrying Bajoran slaves, she's forced to take Legate Dukat on her expedition. But when a Dukat "family secret" is revealed, she'll have to risk...

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode “Crisis Point”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Singer/songwriter and activist Tae Phoenix joins the show this week to talk about political activism, protesting, and Star Trek. On the episode, we discuss what protesting looks like in the Federation, the unfathomable empathy of Trek characters, staring down the barrel of history, finding (or lacking) a moral center, scaling the helping impulse to systemic issues, conservative Trek fans, socialis...

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode “Veritas”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Get ready to make an impossible choice this week as we examine "Similitude"! Writer, producer, and podcast host Jason Inman joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Enterprise that pushes the crew of the NX-01 to the breaking point. The ship becomes mired in the Delphic Expanse and Trip is fatally wounded in an engineering accident. When Phlox creates a "disposable" copy of Enterprise's e...

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode “Much Ado About Boimler”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Mikanhana of the Just Enough Trope and Sailor Noob podcasts is back on the show to round up the latest Trek news! We've got stories about tardigrades, Star Trek Day, Lower Decks, Discovery season 3, Star Trek 4, and new Disco characters! Plus, some Enterprise talk, name theories, scary Trills, dumb Christopher Nolan, Team America, healing snakes, and the debut of Tacoguy! Goo goo ga ga...

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode " Terminal Provocations”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Try to resist the siren call this week as we get tied up in "Favorite Son"! Duke University Dean of Natural Sciences and Star Trek science consultant Dr. Mohamed Noor returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that proves Trek can be educational even when the science is bad. The ship discovers a planet of beautiful women who are eager to welcome Harry "home". Will Vo...