It's Got Star Trek

Various aspects of management are examined. Join your benevolent AI-loving hosts as they discuss competent writing, excellent performances, and a somewhat underwhelming application of well-worn storylines. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Lowe...

The Lower Deckers manage to advance their careers despite variously-motivated self-sabotage. Join your Moopsied hosts as they discuss laughter and joy and fun times and good vibes and groovy stuff and also the first two episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – bewa...

Captain Archer and his new temporally-co-located friends take on the Nazis! Join your antifascist hosts as they discuss franchise Hail Marys, the conclusion to the confusing temporal cold war, and the return of Shirtless Jon. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We begin our weekly coverage o...

Captain Janeway receives a rather unlooked-for proposition from Q. Join your omnipotent hosts as they discuss the extremely male perspective of both the plot and humor in this episode, how even ostensibly progressive sci-fi often adheres to traditional and/or neoliberal gender roles in depictions of the future, and the curiously un-examined apotheosis of Tom Paris. Spoiler warning! We dive right i...

Commander Sisko and Chief O'Brien meet some perplexing people. Join your technophile hosts as they discuss social and psychological manipulation, confusing storylines, and what exactly was in the box. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We utilize Dan's patent-pending bespoke podcast-topic-s...

Just when everyone thought they had everything figured out, a bunch of lizards show up and ruin the party. Join your reptilian hosts as they discuss action, drama, gremlins, Jurassic Park, zombie films, monsters, space battles, and much much more about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season two finale! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t h...

Gather 'round the podcast speakers with your family to enjoy a celebration of 200 episodes of It's Got Star Trek! We've got audio comments and questions (and a few emails!) from our listeners, highlight clips from across our first 200 episodes, and a variety of other zany fun time nonsense. Enjoy, and thanks for listening! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episod...

A subspace anomaly causes the crew to behave strangely. Join your musically-inclined hosts as they discuss hip tunes, flash choreography, and the delightfully brazen shift towards experimentation by the Strange New Worlds creative team. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We serve up a doubl...

Doctor M'Benga tidies up a loose end. Join two-thirds of your hosts as they discuss the terrors of PTSD, powerful performances, and somewhat confusing plot elements in an otherwise excellent episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our week...

Shenanigans ensue when Ensigns Boimler and Mariner stumble back in time and encounter Captain Pike and friends. Join your portal-curious hosts as they attempt to discuss this instant classic only be be continuously derailed by their own foolishness. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We...

Uhura solves a noisy mystery with the help of a new friend. Join your deuterium-slurping hosts as they discuss how old formulas can still pack a punch when so well written and performed, muse on the likely reason Kirk keeps coming back, and offer a brief meditation on the nature of sabotage in the Star Trek universe. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so...

Spock is like "Uh oh!" and everyone else is like "Oh no!" Join your almost-entirely-human hosts as they discuss silly humor, joyful performances, and the many potential benefits of supplicating oneself to the present and future whims of ChatGPT. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We cont...

A forgetful Captain Pike beats up an old colleague. Join your slightly-purple hosts as they discuss memory, forgetting, local interlocutors, memory, and forgetting. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We continue our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' second season with the...

Captain Kirk waves his Canadian hot dog at La'an while she works to save the future from the past. Join your temporally-disjointed hosts as they discuss quasi-Kirks, futures' ends, and odd buns. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next episode: We return to our regular schedule with Strange New Worlds...

Lieutenant Commander Chin-Riley and her old buddy Neera kick prejudice's ass. Join your harried hosts as they provide an embriefened catchup conversation about the timelessness of talky episodes, parallels to other classic court case-based Trekisodes, and, of course, Bergmann's ecogeographical rule regarding surface-area-to-volume ratios in high latitude endotherms. Spoiler warning! We dive right...

Kirk deals with all sorts of hassles and it turns out Spock is less dead than before. Join your transwarped-hosts as they conclude their discussion of Star Trek III: The Search for More Opportunities to Upset the Audience. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We return to our full-time covera...

After Spock dies the entire quadrant goes batty. Join your under-appreciated hosts as they discuss heavy storylines, excellent grammatical constructions, and the sheer amount of impactful lore developed throughout the course of this often-overlooked but ultimately worthy entry into the Star Trek film canon. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you hav...

Spock starts breaking laws left and right as soon as Captain Pike leaves to run some errands. Join your blood-wine-slurping hosts as they discuss Klingons, Lanthanites, over-extended fights, brilliant production design, subtle character development, and so much more in the exciting season two premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of...

After Captain Kirk is accused of negligent homicide, Spock plays chess. Join your law-leery hosts as they discuss peculiar prosecutorial strategies, the motivations of missing madmen, and how the show Arrested Development influenced the ending of this episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a cha...

Commander Riker goes rogue after Captain Picard dies. Join your rag-tag gang of artifact-coveting hosts as they discuss 80's villains in the 90's, the combination of new ground and old hat common to most episodes of TNG's seventh season, and, of course, all manner of ploys, ruses, and maneuvers! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a c...

Captain Archer deals with past trauma while Trip encounters Vulcan drama. Join your homebody hosts as they discuss clever character moments, a few missed opportunities, and just a little bit about Freudian Vulcan vegetables. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary al...

Captain Janeway navigates a series of increasingly intense social interactions while Harry plays engineer for a day. Join your ANTIMO (anti-Mokra Order) hosts as they praise balanced plotlines, applaud excellent performances, and somehow even squeeze in a mention of that fabled Jerry Lewis holocaust clown movie! Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if yo...

Captain Sisko helps an old friend bring his whole self to his work. Join your cave-loving hosts as they discuss despotic narcissism, the confluence of top-tier writing and acting, and the perennial power of soup. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We look to Dan's proprietary algorithm to s...

Captain Kirk unsettles the crew with his fully-justified - but poorly explained - quest to kill a cloud creature. Join your corpuscular hosts as they discuss retroactive tropographic weariness, the psychology of duty, and the Vulcan concept of "showing ass". Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven’t had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next wee...

Spock and Kirk join a rag-tag group of soul-searchers and then in a separate adventure wander their way through a fairly pedestrian tale. Join your slightly confused hosts as they discuss bizarre production choices, hilarious green monsters, and whether or not that lizard fellow is on an unusually high dose of lysergic acid diethylamide. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion...