First Flight Podcast

EP 96 BONUS - April 2025 Trek of the Month Welcome to First Flight's Bonus Trek of the Month thematic episodes chat! Chris and Abby love ALL Trek and have given themselves, and the Carrot Crew, some franchise spanning, thematic episode choices for each month.   This month of April the themes are April Fools Day and Easter, and our episode picks are (Chris: "Rightful Heir" TNG S6 Ep 23) and (Abby:...

Episode 95- Season 3 Ep 21 "E2"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby Talk generations of our crew and subspace corridor shenanigans. An accident during an attempt to use a Xindi subspace corridor places the Enterprise in a bizarre confrontation… with itself. Season 3 Format: -Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning) -Captain's Log & Ha...

Episode 94- Season 3 Ep 20 "The Forgotten"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby. Two members of the Xindi Council offer to stop the launch of the weapon if Archer can prove that the Xindi have been manipulated; the crew mourns and hold a memorial for their dead shipmates. Season 3 Format: -Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning) -Capt...

EP 93 BONUS - March 2025 Trek of the Month Welcome to First Flight's Bonus Trek of the Month thematic episodes chat! Chris and Abby love ALL Trek and have given themselves, and the Carrot Crew, some franchise spanning, thematic episode choices for each month.   This month of March the themes are Spring and St. Patrick's Day, and our episode picks are ("Moist Vessel" LDS S1 Ep 4) and ("Fair Haven"...

Episode 92- Season 3 Ep 19 "Damage"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby discuss morality and grey areas with the repercussions from last episode impacting the crew. As the crew of Enterprise struggle to make repairs following the Reptilian attack, the Xindi council begins to shatter as questions arise on who they can truly trust. Me...

Episode 91- Season 3 Ep 18 "Azati Prime"    Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby have been on a long road getting from there to Azati Prime!  Now that we're here, there is so much to talk about.   When Enterprise discovers a means of destroying the weapon, Archer takes the suicide mission upon himself, but temporal agent Daniels tries...

Episode 90- Season 3 Ep 16 "Hatchery"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are feeling very protective of hatchlings and  chatting about "Hatchery."  Do we need to be removed from podcast hosting duties?! Enterprise finds a crashed Xindi-Insectoid ship containing an incubation chamber filled with Insectoid eggs. The crew must now dec...

BONUS- February 2025 Trek of the Month Welcome to First Flight's Bonus Trek of the Month thematic episodes chat! Chris and Abby love ALL Trek and have given themselves, and the Carrot Crew, some franchise spanning, thematic episode choices for each month.   This month of February the theme is Valentines Day and our episode picks are (His Way DS9 S6 Ep 20) and (Cupid's Errant Arrow LOW S1 Ep 5).  T...

Episode 88- Season 3 Ep 16 "Doctor's Orders"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are feeling a bit lonely since it's just the two of them chatting about "Doctor's Orders," or is it? It's Phlox and Porthos time! While Enterprise travels through a section of the Expanse lethal to human neurology, Dr. Phlox must put the entire crew to...

Episode 87- Bonus Lower Decks Series Reflection First Flight loves ALL Trek, and today we bring you a bonus episode that lets Abby and Chris reflect and chat about the entire series of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which just finished its last season.   We could talk for hours, and we did go on for more than three. We have distilled our five season discussion down into the following format. Bonus Discov...

BONUS- January 2025 Trek of the Month Welcome to First Flight's Bonus Trek of the Month thematic episodes chat! Chris and Abby love ALL Trek and have given themselves, and the Carrot Crew, some franchise spanning, thematic episode choices for each month.   This month of January the themes are Martin Luther King Day, New Year's Day or Winter. Our episode picks are (11:59 VOY S5 Ep 23) and (Far Beyo...

Episode 85- Bonus Section 31 Review With only 11 new episodes of new Star Trek premiering in 2025, First Flight wanted to take a moment to review Star Trek's first made-for-TV-movie, Star Trek: Section 31! This brief conversation follows this loose structure: Pros (2 each) Decons Grappler Ratings Feel free to let us know your Porthos' Picks and Grappler Rankings, and/or your general thoughts on St...

Episode 82- Season 3 Ep 15 "Harbinger"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are discovering aliens in anomalies, and trying to relieve headaches caused by an overabundance of machoness while discussing "Harbinger." Enterprise rescues a dying alien from a colossal spatial anomaly, and he refuses to reveal why he was there. Meanwhile,...

BONUS- 2025 Trek of the Month Introduction Welcome to First Flight's Bonus Trek of the Month thematic episodes chat! Chris and Abby love ALL Trek and have given themselves, and the Carrot Crew, some franchise spanning, thematic episode choices for each month. In this introductory episode, we share all of our picks for each month for 2025. Feel free to let us know your thoughts on these monthly epi...

Episode 82- Season 3 Ep 14 "Stratagem"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are peeling away layers of the truth while discussing "Stratagem." Archer finds himself face-to-face with Degra, the designer of the Xindi superweapon, and tries to trick him into revealing its location. Season 3 Format: -Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning...

Episode 81- Season 3 Ep 13 "Proving Ground"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are thrilled to have Shran drop in and are discussing "Proving Ground." An Andorian ship led by Commander Shran arrives in the Delphic Expanse to help Enterprise hone in on the Xindi superweapon Season 3 Format: -Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler warning) -C...

Episode 80- Season 3 Ep 12 "Chosen Realm"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are getting hijacked and discussing "Chosen Realm." A Triannon crew which Enterprise rescues from a crippled ship turns out to be a group of religious extremists who hijack the NX-01 to eradicate the "heretics" on their homeworld.   Season 3 Format: -Welco...

Episode 79 - Mailbag Part 4 (Season 3) First Flight is chatting about Season 3 and we have YOUR thoughts to discuss. Chris and Abby respond to the feedback they have gotten from the First Flight Community over the first part of the season.  The conversations range from fun to serious and there are many great contributions from the Carrot Crew! Feel free to let us know your Porthos' Picks, Grappler...

Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are hanging out in the past, ordering fast food and discussing "Carpenter Street." Daniels appears on Enterprise and sends Archer and T'Pol back in time to 2004 Earth to learn why three Xindi-Reptilians have been detected in the timeline. Using 22nd-century technology, Archer and T'Pol locate an ab...

Episode 77- Season 3 Ep 10 "Similitude"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are hanging out in the polymorphic area of the NX01 again and discussing "Similitude." After an accident in Engineering leaves Trip mortally injured, Phlox attempts to save the chief engineer by creating a clone of him to harvest neural tissue from it. In it...

Episode 76- Season 3 Ep 9 "North Star"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are saddling up to chat about "North Star." When a settlement of humans living a 19th-century Western lifestyle is discovered on a Delphic Expanse planet, Archer and crew set out to learn how they got there. Season 3 Format: -Welcome & Reed Alert (spoiler war...

Episode 75- Season 3 Ep 8 "Twilight"  Season 3 is here and First Flight, and the Carrot Crew, have many things to discuss!  Chris and Abby are experiencing time shenanigans, loving hairdos and are chatting about "Twilight." After an accident on Enterprise, Archer loses his short-term memory and begins to wake up every day not remembering anything from the day before. Despite the crew's best effort...