NeveroddoreveN: Faith and Fiction

Take a journey with our crew into textual criticism as we explore the writers intent, entertainment and clobber texts.  

A passive take over once person at a time  gives rise to ethical community development, Also Tom and B'Elanna get shipped as their connection intensifies.

Doctrinal thought is under the microscope this week as our crew reflects on value and damage religious certainty can create. What is our soul connection to location? Why do we feel a certain what when entering distant shores? and is Lindsay a bipedal endothem?

Family values get center stage in today's holodeck episode. The Doctor creates the perfect family and discovers that he cant just program life. both the explicit and left wing rant tags are in full display as we push hard into biblical understanding of family structures.

Time to get the Spy Craft on and enter the cold war future tropes with Michelle Coffman. Feel the tension of reality and story as Garrik and Bashir explore the world of espionage. We also talk about Rom and masking as he saves the day with this clever engineering skill.

An Amazing opportunity to talk withe author and Afro-Futurist  Maurice Broaddus about Klingon Culture, Worf and the way Sci-Fi can create new narratives of inspiration for often invisible cultural groups. Our conversation explores this quest for the Klingon Holy Grail in the hopes of finding power.

The time traveler's husband is played out here  as our crew tries to make sense of temporal displacement, long and short life dissonance and eternity.

A steamy episode where Harry is called "home" to his procreative destiny, our crew explores gender roles and stereo types, fantasy and theological sexuality.

Perhaps the low point of the Voyager series, this episode combines poor acting with thin plot. Not even the undauntable Will could keep a straight face while addressing this episode. Lots of fun moments as the crew love to hate this incredulous tale remade from the flight of the phoenix. Let us hope this is the last word on this standard of Star Trek performance.    

Enter the dark-side, is darkness is more fundamental than light, cruelty before kindness, evil more primary than good, more deserving of existence? find out in this episode of shadow. 

Inevitably the as the Voyager moves through the Delta quadrant they would encounter the Borg. This episode our crew explore individuality and the collective, privacy and exposure, being known and unknown. there is also a surprise visit from Doctor Who! 

Time traveling Ferengi, Area 51 and shapeshifting dogs. come wiht us as Niall McKay and Will explore the many themes in this favorite episode

A warning to any Vulcans , this episode contains references to the Ponfarr and other private cultural rituals. Let's talk about Sex, Violence and culture in this passion filled episode

What happens when one falls in love with a computer sub-routine? Harry Kim and Tuvok end up in a Bizarre Love triangle that is more than meets the eye. Our crew explore faith and fiction through this lens of star trek once more

Come with with the crew down the rabbit hole of deception and trouble as we delve into  Nelix's past. Along the way we explore truth, community and 24th century Tupperware! We also introduce Vorik the Vulcan for the first time and discuss the fan fiction surrounding him and his family.

What if a microscopic virus could grow into the macro world, duplicating and taking over, using resources, hearing and farming hosts until as an unstoppable force it devastated everything around it? ....did i just describe humanity. check out this week as we explore the Macrocosm together

Marcel Koper, councilor and professional supervisor, joins me this week to explore boundaries in professional and person relationships. Atoning for history, confession and Klingon Dreams are all in this weeks chat.

The Mortal and immortal collide in this sexy sensual romp, we look at consensual incarnation, cosmic foreplay and procreation for self improvement! 

Cultural Norms and values come our to play in this episode, Ferengi relationships, Cardassian parenting, and Human greif. who is right and who is wrong  or can culture set values. 

Possession, power, politics, the crew also explore immortality and its social and cultures consequences. 

Joined this week by Dr Connor Morris to talk about medical ethics, grey areas and unconscious bias

In a thrilling conclusion we discover that none of the events of these two episodes ever happened, or did they. Dynamics of Power, caricature of political positions and cosmic romance are explored and the Doctor becomes foot loose and fancy free! 

Travel back to 1997 with us to discover the truth ab out the advancing computer technology. Paradox, time travel, and prophetic precedence all  on the sensors this week

An episode with faith and spiritual ritual at its heart. Our intrepid  crew explore faith and works, drugs in mind freeing experiences and the destructive power of God

Telepathy, alien sex and genocide are all up for discussion in this episode focused on Bellana Tores.