Humanist Trek

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...

Sarah and Allie board the Magic School Bus and shrink down to microscopic size. As the bus penetrates a giant space amoeba's boundary... actually, maybe this is all too dirty to make jokes about a kid's TV show. Join us as we blast some antimatter inside a nucleus. Seriously, did these writers know what they were doing? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode us...

When Allie and Sarah find themselves on a planet based on a book about 1920's Chicago mobsters, the episode encounters way more tangents and accents than usual. What might happen to a culture if a people came along and just dropped off a book? Ask Africa. And Haiti. And... Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social me...

When Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura find themselves captive to "Providers" and forced to fight for their amusement, slavery is put on blast in this progressive episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. 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.co...

When Uhura doesn't follow the young Chinese boy's instructions and gets her Tribble wet, Fred, Scoob, and the gang find themselves waist deep in a furry mystery! 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...

On this episode of CSI: Argelius, Piglet investigates the suspicious murder of a dancer from the nudie bar and Scotty's the primary suspect. 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...

Captain Ahab encounters an old nemesis - a cloud whale that sucks blood for nourishment - and loses himself in the hunt.  Will he break his little ships? 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  hum...

The shot clock is running to find out how to stop Kirk and the gang from rapidly aging. How many times do we let Grandpa run his starship into the neighbor's mailbox before we take away his car keys? Is American Capitalism to blame for our lack of respect for the elderly? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social med...

The Enterprise arrives at a planet to sign a mining agreement to find the Klingons have beat them to the punch. Chaos ensues as the leader is murdered and his very pregnant wife appoints McCoy as the new baby daddy. 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...

Tensions run high as various alien races - including Spock's parents - gather on the Enterprise for a city council meeting, but when a delegate is found murdered, Fred, Scoob, and the gang have a mystery to solve. 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 s...

When the Galileo Shuttlecraft is hijacked by an energy being, Kirk discovers Zefram Cochrane trapped on a planet with a jukebox that only plays Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby". Will our heroes be able to rescue this historical hero? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all our socials at  humanisttrek.c...

When the Enterprise is hijacked by a sketchy new crewman, Kirk is reunited with Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Would you be tempted to put your brain in a robot body? Just how many different versions of one woman do you actually need? Which model of robot is into butt stuff? We're tackling all the hard questions on this episode! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode us...

Have you ever wondered why Star Trek doesn't usually do "holiday specials"? This episode holds the answer! It's the episode that asks, "What if Star Trek did a Halloween episode?" The answer is not great. 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 at  p...

Chasing his planet-killing whale, Commodore Ahab makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to save the Enterprise crew from a weapon so powerful, it would destroy all sides in a war. Sometimes Star Trek doesn't hide it's themes in sci-fi. Occasionally they come right out and say it. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge o...

When the Enterprise finds yet another planet being run by a computer, our heroes must once again debate the merits of freeing a population who appears stagnant by human standards against the merits of allowing a culture to make their own choices and develop as they see fit. It’s the episode that asks, “What would happen if we destroyed this people’s god?” but never answers it. Play along with our...