Humanist Trek

A transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura to an alternate universe filled with distrust, espionage, assassinations, and some midriff uniforms. Spock is consistently logical and Uhura is a total badass in any universe! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  hum...

When an old Earth probe goes on a killing spree, Kirk must play logic chess to keep from being destroyed, too.  It's the episode that has nothing to do with a changeling despite being titled "The Changeling". Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show...

Time to crack out those old college textbooks on Greek mythology!  It's the episode that asks, "What if our idea of god(s) came from aliens?" Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Starfleet Of...

When Spock gets the 7 year itch, Kirk must return his friend to Vulcan to marry his betrothed. But T'Pring's been riding Stonn on the side, and the only way out of the engagement is to make Kirk and Spock fight to the death? I'm glad my first marriage wasn't so hard to get out of! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all...

Allie and Sarah reflect on the first season of TOS, then Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. (aka Rod) joins us to talk about growing up in a humanist house, carrying the Star Trek legacy, respecting viewpoint diversity and breaking down silos, and even wokeness.   Find all things Rod at Roddenberry.com   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social med...

When Kirk's brother doesn't answer the phone, the Enterprise finds an infestation of parasitic pancakes.  When Spock gets inseminated by one, the crew must find a way to … genocide a whole species? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pic...

While investigating a strange rock donut portal, McCoy, OD'd on space molly, leaps back in time and butterfly effects the Federation's very existence away.  To put things right, Kirk and Spock go back in time to stop McCoy from getting the Sports Almanac and ruining the future.  It's the episode that puts Roddenberry's hopeful vision of the future front and center in stark contrast with 1930's Dep...

Star Trek writers go on a mushroom trip and forget almost everything they know about science. Do you experience turbulence in space? What exactly is the scientific definition of "winking out"? It's the episode that sends Captain Ahab across universes to catch his… other… Captain Ahab.  This one is weird, y'all. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChall...

When Klingons take control of Organia, a strategic planet between them and the Federation, Kirk rolls in to make the argument that while they, too, are basically colonizers, they're not as bad as those other colonizers.  Does the Federation's lack of effort around trying to understand both the Organians and Klingons make war too easy?  Shouldn't war be the last resort? Play along with our Starflee...

A mining colony of New Yorkers starts reporting mysterious deaths in the caves.  When Kirk and crew arrive, Spock makes a new friend and find that sometimes killers aren't necessarily devils after all?   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttr...

While visiting Planet Disney Ranch, the crew of the Enterprise get so high on flower spores that only a good ol' fashioned Star Trek Fight will do. Are humans destined to work toward paradise forever? And why does this show spend so much energy on this "paradise" narrative? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all our soc...

The Enterprise encounters a sleeper ship full of GMO people from the eugenics wars of the 1990's. Khan and the GMOs take over the Enterprise, but in the end Kirk dumps them on Ceti Alpha V. Is this wild west cowboy diplomacy out of place in 2267? Why all the admiration for GMO people anyway? And how does Khan remember Chekov in #TWOK if Chekov wasn't even part of the cast yet?   Play along with ou...

Kirk is marched back to #Starfleet to defend his actions that led to the apparent death of Lt Cmdr Finney. Does Kirk's prosecutor being a former fuck buddy create a conflict of interest? What's a pod, where is it, what does it do, and why would you eject it? Why is Spock fucking off playing chess again? Why are there buttons & switches on the command chair anyway? Play along with our Starfleet Aca...

Seven crew members embark on a shuttle mission - never a smart move in the #StarTrek universe - and this is the episode that sets that standard as the Galileo 7 become the Galileo 5 when the monster-of-the-week starts taking out crewmen. Why is everyone still obsessed with burials in the future? Are officers not trained to show a little respect to their CO? All these MFers are racist. Play along w...

Spock and the Talosians force Kirk to sit through more home videos while delivering Captain Pike back to Talos IV. But is that even the right thing to do?   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch...

Spock hijacks the Enterprise and Gene Roddenberry hijacks old footage to bring us this thrilling first classic Star Trek clip show. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.com Support the show at  patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your  merch at  humanisttrek.com/merch Starfleet Officer make...