Star Trek: Age of Discovery

In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, we get a cornucopia of surprises and plot twists that don't disappoint. "Fissure Quest" is the best, most imaginative, and most entertaining episode of Season Five. We are confronted with the mystery of the dimensional fissures, but with answers, we could have never imagined. Let's not spoil your enjoyment by revealing too many details. Star Tr...

Mike McMahan delivers us another signature TNG trope with "Upper Decks." Wrapped in an anthology episode, five vignettes follow the lives of select bridge crew members - Captain Freeman, Commander Ransom, Lieutenant Shax, Lieutenant Commander Billups, and Dr. T’Ana - through their day aboard the Cerritos. This quintet of tales incorporates even more tropes (an alien invasion, space cows, performan...

It's two reviews in one! In "Of Gods and Angles," Mariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos is holding peace talks between two civilizations. Then, with "Fully Dilated," an undercover mission to a pre-warp society where the planetary core creates a spacetime differential resulting in time dilation. For every second on the Cerritos, a week will pass for the away team on the surface...

The Cerritos deviate to the infamous Starbase 80 to fix their navigational system or spend the next 700 years on impulse getting home. Captain Freeman is troubled knowing that her alternate dimension doppelganger was reassigned to their Starbase 80 as punishment for some failure of leadership. It inspires her to make sure this trip goes well. Unfortunately, the crew, including Boimler, gets infect...

In "A Farewell to Farms," Mariner and Boimler travel to the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, where they look up Ma'ah, a once-honored Klingon warrior now living a mundane life on his family's farm. They attempt to help him reclaim his lost rank and the command of a Klingon Battlecruiser despite the opposition of the Oversight Committee. The B-plot takes place on the Cerritos. Captain Freeman and her cre...

Mariner, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Rutherford embark on a mission to capture a nanite cluster menacing the Cosmic Duchess, a massive cruise starship. Unexpectedly, Jennifer joins them, seemingly unaware that she and Mariner broke up some time ago. At the same time, Boimler joins Ransom and Billups on an undercover assignment to retrieve an Admiral who has gone AWOL. The mission is impaired by Boimler's fe...

Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off Season Five with a double-header. In “Dos Cerritos,” a spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to come face-to-face with their faces when Mariner, Boimler, and Rutherford enter an alternate universe where they encounter their doppelgangers. In “Shades of Green,” Tendi races to end a conflict with blue-skinned Orions while Boimler and Mariner help a planet of capit...

Star Trek: Age of Discovery  is a fan podcast for the Star Trek Universe, including Classic Trek and the Paramount + shows STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS, and Netflix’s STAR TREK: PRODIGY. Subscribe to Star Trek: Age of Discovery on Apple Podcast by CLICKING HERE. The show is also available on Amazon Music, Goo...

In Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery, the crew faces a powerful cosmic threat causing catastrophic destruction across the galaxy known as the Dark Matter Anomaly or the DMA. This phenomenon destroys Kwejian, Book's home planet, taking from him his family, culture, and hope. Captain Burnham, now five months into her leadership role, must lead her crew on a mission to investigate the Anomaly while ma...

In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael and the crew of the USS Discovery travel 930 years into the future, and the 3188 they encounter is not what they expected. The Federation is in a much-weakened state. A catastrophic event known as "The Burn" has eliminated nearly all of the dilithium supply. The loss of the critical resource for faster-than-light travel has crippled interstellar travel...

Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery had the crew facing a mysterious and dangerous new threat tied to a series of puzzling signals scattered across the galaxy. Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise temporarily takes command of the Discovery after a distress call and leads the investigation into these "red bursts." Also, during this season, Saru and the Kelpien species go through a life-chang...

Today, we kick off a five-episode series for our podcast. We will look back at Star Trek: Discovery, which is the impetus for the Star Trek franchise’s current generation of success. We’ll briefly examine the structure and components of Star Trek: Discovery season by season. We’ll thoroughly analyze the show’s achievements, challenges, and controversies each week. This week, we tackle Season One....

It’s a special treat to release this Prodigy Season Two finale episode on September 8, 2024, the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek. Star Trek: Prodigy is the most authentic sequel to the spirit of the Original Series. It embodies the themes of adventure, hope, and discovery, and We hope you enjoy our analysis of “Ouroboros.”   The episode includes some Star Trek news, including Paramou...

"Brink" and "Touch of Grey" tie up several things nicely while including some strong character development with an exciting adventure, especially for the Protostar crew. In "Brink," war looms between the Federation and Solum. Gwyn leads the cadets on an undercover mission to gather intelligence and rescue Ilthuran. In "Touch of Grey," Janeway devises a plan to liberate her crew from Asencia's pris...

"Ascension" delivers a heart-pounding two-parter filled with a new set of challenges to the crews of Voyager and the Protostar. The lives of Chakotay, Janeway, and the cadets are endangered when a forgotten enemy suddenly resurfaces with a surprising new power-draining weapon. Will Gwyn and Dal's quest to close the time loop be achieved or will the Loom return to fix things their way?    Star Trek...

In "A Tribble Called Quest," while harvesting bosonite on a barren world, the crew encounters aggressive, genetically modified tribbles—and the Klingon scientist who created them. In "Cracked Mirror," the Protostar's reunion with Voyager has unexpected side effects, bouncing the crew between alternate realities—including the mirror universe.   Star Trek: Age of Discovery  is a fan podcast for the...

When the cadets find Chakotay, he is a bitter and resigned man. Marooned for ten years on the planet - Ysida. Since the death of his first officer – Adreek, Chakotay has spent much of that time alone. His only companion is the Protostar’s hologram, Janeway. But the arrival of Dal, Gwyn, Rok, Zero, Jankom, Murf, and Ma’jel changes everything. Through their inspirational modeling of hope, they can f...

Dal and the crew arrive at the designated coordinates but are puzzled by how they will detect the hidden planet. After Gwyn figures out the planet is out of phase like her, Rok figures out a way to reveal it. They land the Infinity on the planet and head toward an ancient temple-looking structure known as a ziggurat. Strangely, one of the interior doors looks like a giant 20th-century door to a va...

In "The Fast and the Curious," after using a Borg conduit to travel through time faster, Dal and his friends find themselves at the mercy of a demanding Kazon. Later, the crew detours to a colony of non-corporeal entities that offer Zero an opportunity to obtain a physical body in "Is There In Beauty No Truth?"   Star Trek: Age of Discovery  is a fan podcast for the Star Trek Universe, including C...

In “Observer’s Paradox,” Dal and the others process a hard-learned lesson that leads to great collaboration while Janeway weighs a very hard decision that she feels will destroy her last chance of rescuing Chakotay. In “Imposter Syndrome,” the kids run around the ship before stealing the Infinity - AGAIN!  Star Trek: Age of Discovery  is a fan podcast for the Star Trek Universe, including Classic...

In “Who Saves the Saviors” and “Temporal Mechanic 101,” Star Trek: Prodigy brings to a close the first chapter of this season’s story. But even as it resolves some conflicts, it sets up new ones. Gwyndala fears being removed from reality. Chakotay is still missing. The Vau N’Akat are speeding up their plans to defend themselves against the threat they believe the Federation poses. Despite these ch...

The Season Two opener, "Into the Breach, Part I & 2," kicks off with the former crew of the Protostar - Dal, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, & Murf - all reacting differently to their new status as Starfleet interns. Gwyn is preparing for a more critical mission: convincing her people, the Vau N'Akat, to avoid a devastating civil war. All this happens while Admiral Janeway breaks in the new USS Voyager-A. B...

Just a quick note to share with our listeners how Addell and I are looking to cover the Star Trek we're planning on receiving this summer. Specifically, we plan to cover Season Two of Netflix's Star Trek: Prodigy with a weekly episode schedule devoted to analyzing two Prodigy episodes per week. The first of these episodes will drop beginning next Monday, July 8, and continue over the next nine wee...

Star Trek: Discovery comes to a close with "Life, Itself," the final episode of its final season. Captain Michael Burnham follows Moll into the structure they found at Lagrange Point between two black holes. What they encounter is unimaginable, and they discover new information about the device she seeks. However, it does help Michael to make the most important decision of her life: whether or not...

In "Lagrange Point," Captain Burnham and the Discovery crew reach the hidden Progenitor Technology location just in time to watch Moll and the Dreadnaught snatch in their tracker beam. Burnham leads an away team to the Breen vessel to claim the structure for the Federation. Addell and Gary offer an analysis of the penultimate episode of the entire series. Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podca...