Humanist Trek

When Star Trek stops hiding the humanism behind the sci-fi filter, American™ racism and hatred is put on blast. They didn't even bother hiding the mirror on this one. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your...

When Star Trek revisits the Plane'arium storyline, the proverbial inmates have taken over the asylum led by a shapeshifting madman. Once again questions of rehabilitation, medication, and individual rights and liberty come to the fore. What effect does this new medication have on the inmate? Do inmates have the right of refusal of "care" in Star Trek? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Ch...

When Star Trek trades in Cowboy Diplomacy for Marriage Diplomacy, Sarah and Allie find themselves in a very discomforting place. Why is the Federation forcing this woman to go through with the diplomatic marriage she doesn't want? Why are the Klingons even in this episode? What even are those stones in that necklace, anyway? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episo...

When Kirk and the Gang find the missing scientists dead, they also discover some cousins of the bootyheads from the pilot. With a sun going nova imminent, can good ol' human emotion save a planet full of mute aliens that we only ever see one of? Did they even try saving any of the other aliens on the other planets in this system? Why don't people just ask for help? Play along with our Starfleet Ac...

Just how far would humans go to ensure our survival as a species? What would we kill to save ourselves, and where's that line? Why aren't we willing to try new things? What's Sarah's "clicker story"? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patr...

Star Trek often asks the question, "What would a civilization based on 'XYZ' look like?" This week it's the ancient Greeks and KSM find themselves in the position of defending against another powerful alien species drunk on their own power. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  hu...

When Star Trek runs out of story ideas, it's time to revisit that old idea of Logic v. Emotion and how Kirk uses the best of both to be an effective leader. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at...

McCoy catches a terminal case of xenopolychlamydia, the crew stumbles upon a Truman Show asteroid ship, and Allie's back on the dating apps. Could Allie find love at first sight like McCoy? Will she avoid the dick pics and the xenopolychlamydia? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  a...

Snoop Claus visits the studio for the weediest Christmas ever!  Thanks to everybody who sent us gifts, you're the real MVP's. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Social...

When a hate vampire sets the Federations and Klingons against each other, can Uhura's sweet sweet singing bring them all together? Can we identify the hate vampires active in our own lives today before it's too late? They are EVERYWHERE! Do we even have the power to stop them?   Guest:  X. Ho Yen - https://xhoyenauthor.com/ Author of  Minimum Safe Distance and Custodians of the Future   Play along...

When Sarah and Allie are depressed and not excited about decorating for Christmas, the Ghost of Christmas Past yoinks them back to the past - 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona, to be exact. Will this stupid episode of Star Trek reignite their Christmas spirit? Not likely. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   V...

When Dr. Pulaski returns, 1960's beauty standards come under fire. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Starfleet Off...

When a bunch of Children of the Corn on a scientific outpost cause their parents to Jim Jones themselves, they call to the guardians of the watchtowers of the East and release "he who walks behind the rows" back into the galaxy.   Star Trek continues to be relevant as ever as we question whether innocent followers who don't know any better are just as liable as the evil people pulling the strings?...

When Kirk suffers from amnesia, will the big Manhattan musical go on? How many awful "native American" tropes can one 1960's TV series cram into one episode? Is the transporter a killing machine? Find out this week on Humanist Trek! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all of Dr. Noor's socials, wa...

When the Enterprise crosses into the Romulan DMZ, Spock fingers a Romulan Commander while Kirk steals a cloaking device (treaty be damned). Is it "OK" to do things during war that would otherwise violate your values? Why does this episode seem to say "yes"? Just what does a Vulcan penis look like, anyway?   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hasht...

When Spock's brain is stolen by dopey aliens, Kirk, Bones, and Scotty take RC Spock on Star Trek: The Search for Spock's Brain - Weekend at Bernie's style. Brain and brain! What is brain?! You're not high enough for this episode.   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttre...

How much do we even remember from Season 2?  And what do we have to look forward to next season? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram...

What's Allie's great idea? Is Data's cat Spot canonically also a hot chick? Why do time travelers always act powerless? Will Kirk allow Marty to make sure his parents bang at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance? What are the rules of time travel anyway? How short can a miniskirt get? This episode asks more questions than it answers. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share th...

The TOS writers once again explore the idea "What would have happened if 'x' hadn't fallen?" Not 1920's Chicago. Not Nazi Germany. No, this episode of Star Trek: The Original Series begs the question, "Men: How often do you think about the Roman Empire?" Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our  w...

People's fear of automation operates on "Sarah's Pendulum Theory of Everything". In the 60's? Vehicle Manufacturing. Today? AI. Can AI and the like coexist with capitalism or will ChatGPT take over the starship and start torpedoing the shit out of everything? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit o...

When the Enterprise discovers their sister ship Exeter in orbit of a planet, they find the Exeter crew has been raptured.  What's "Left Behind" is just piles of crystal meth. Meanwhile, in a different episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, some people are doing some performative jingoistic American Christian nationalism.  How are these two stories connected?  Very tenuously. Play along with ou...

When powerful aliens capture Kirk and the gang with another Landru device, the crew defeat them with irritation, jealousy, and boners. Roll for initiative! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our  website  at  humanisttrek.com Support  the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  h...

Sarah and Allie slip on some armbands and kick march around the studio... No, I'm not doing this. I refuse to put swastikas on our cartoons and there's no good jokes to write here about this literal Nazi episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Listen to this episode, punch a Nazi, and learn from history.   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the has...

It's the 1-year Anniversary of Humanist Trek! Allie and Sarah's bodies are taken over by ancient aliens that may be our great great great grandparents, Dr. Pulaski's excited to host an alien katra, and Nurse Chapel finally gets Spock inside her. OH MYYY. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   William Shat...

When Kirk and company discover the Klingons providing arms to one side of what used to be a peaceful planet, we're reminded of the many times the USA has gotten itself involved in wars across the globe. Is it right to step in and maintain equal firepower--and where does that end?  You say Gumato, I say Mugato. Let's call the whole thing off.   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge...