Strange New Pod | A Star Trek Podcast

Ten weeks have warped by as quickly as Q snaps a finger, and the SNP team has their review and breakdown of the Lower Decks season three finale, "The Stars at Night." Trek Untold's Matthew Kaplowitz lends his voice as the show's special guest for this week's finale review! What happens when Carol challenges Admiral Buenamigo's Texas class to a second contact race with...

Star Trek Prodigy  is back with its mid-season premiere with episode 111, "Asylum!" Join Girafe, Hawk, and Julian as they welcome the show back and break down the latest adventure onboard the  Protostar! What happens when Dal and the team rolls up on a Deep Space Relay Station and request asylum? How does the hidden weapon aboard the Protostar put everything in jeopardy? Why is Dal’s spe...

Join the Section 31 contingent  of Strange New Pod (Erik, Girafe, and Hawk) for hijinks and chaos as they review and break down the penultimate episode of Star Trek Lower Decks season three, "Trusted Sources." What happens when a reporter from the Federation News Network comes on board the Cerritos to cover Carol’s new Second Contact checkup initiative? What does Mariner do to finally ge...

With only two more weeks to go before  Lower Decks  season three wraps up, the show gives us one of its best episodes to date, "Crisis Point II: Paradoxus!" Join Erik, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian as they break this one down. Even numbers are usually better in the Trek universe! Did that theory hold? What happens when Boimler is hit with some tragic news? Does he find the meaning of life ins...

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of arguably the best of the Star Trek films, The Wrath of Khan. To celebrate, Fathom Events had a weekend of screenings celebrating Khan's milestone. Join Ashlyn Gelman ( The Duras Sisters Podcast ), Matt Reppert, Girafe, and Julian as they give their thoughts on the Wrath of Khan at 40, their experience seeing it in theaters for the first time, and much more o...

Join the SNP crew as they wrap up all the festivities from  Star Trek's  big Empire Hall panel from this year's New York Comic Con! Erik, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian break down and deep dive the trailers for  Star Trek Discovery  season 5,  Star Trek Prodigy season 1.5, and finally, Star Trek Picard's third and final season. Plus, the mailbag and much more on this bonus edition of SNP....

There are only three more episodes of Lower Decks season three left after this week's seventh installment, "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption." Join Erik, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian as they review and break down this divisive Peanut Hamper-centered episode.  This episode is all about redemption….or is it? Does the little Exocomp that couldn’t redeem herself? How many times does she...

This week the SNP crew review Lower Decks' sixth episode of season three, "Hear All, Trust Nothing." The Cerritos crew unexpectedly spends a day on Deep Space Nine! We also welcome Lt. Shaxs himself onto the pod! Fred Tatasciore joins SNP to talk about his role on Lower Decks and his amazing voice-over career. Plus, the Strange New Loop and so much more on episode 102 of Strange New...

We've hit the halfway point on  Star Trek Lower Decks' third season! Join Erik, Girafe, and Hawk as they break down and review what is arguably one of  the show's best episodes ever, "Reflections." What happens when Rutherford’s younger self and personality takes over his body? What do we learn about him and his implant? And when Boimler and Mariner are on Starfleet Booth...

On this very special edition of Strange New Pod, the crew celebrates the show's 100th episode! Join Julian, Erik, Brittany, Hawk, and Girafe for a night of throwbacks, fun, and of course, their review of this week's episode of  Lower Decks,  "Room For Growth." What happens when a senior officer room comes up for grabs on Deck One? Who knows the Cerritos better, Boimler, Mariner...

Another Star Trek Day has come and gone, and Strange New has all the details and reactions you need to catch up on yesterday's announcements! Join Hawk and Julian as they welcome Michael Schaus and Simon Stager back to the show as they break down the Star Trek Picard season three trailer, scenes from Prodigy, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds! Girafe also joins the team live from LA to talk...

Join Erik, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian for another week of Lower Decks shenanigans with their review and deep dive of episode 303, "Mining the Mind's Mines!" The Lower Deckers are on clean-up duty again, this time helping the crew of another Cali class ship, the Carlsbad, clean up fantasy orbs and tear down a research station. But not all is as it seems on the planet home to the Scrubb...

This week, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian review and break down Lower Decks'  second episode of season two, "The Least Dangerous Game."  Brad Boimler is a new man…he’s BOLD Boimler? But does he go too far when he lets K’Ranch hunt him? Meanwhile, Ransoms makes Mariner fix a space elevator with him, but when things go wrong on the surface with Billups and Rutherford, does Mariner follow Ra...

Join Julian, Karyn, and Matt for the final episode of their Orville New Horizons three-part review series! Part three covers the following episodes: 309: "Domino" 310: "Future Unknown" The team also wraps up the season, discusses The Orville's unknown fate, and much more! Send us Fan Mail Support the show

Star Trek Lower Decks  is finally back, and the SNP crew is joined by the Borg Queen of Puns herself, Brittany Tomes , who makes her puntastic return to help break the third season premiere down. How long did it take for Mariner to go rogue? How bad does Captain Freeman's trial look? And why are our lower deckers heading to the site of first contact? Brittany and the rest of the team take a d...

SNP's Orville New Horizons bonus pod series continues with reviews of the back half of season three. Join Julian, Karyn, and Matt as they dive into the following episodes: 305: "A Tale of Two Topas" 306: "Twice in a Lifetime" 307: "From Unknown Graves" 308: "Midnight Blue" Send us Fan Mail Support the show

It's part two of our courtroom drama series, as the crew welcomes  Josh Gilliand and Nari Ely from The Legal Geeks to the show, bringing their expertise to this week's deep dive into both Number One and Captain Freeman's upcoming trials. What will the outcomes be when both Una and Carol have their day in court? How hard can Starfleet go if they are found guilty? And what weight do t...

This week, join Hawk and Julian as they head to the courtroom to deep dive a handful of Trek  episodes from  Enterprise, TNG, DS9,  and  Voyager. Is Klingon judgment more theater than law? Should the holodeck be used as a means to present "evidence?" Should a Trill be convicted of a crime due to the actions of a previous host? We ask these questions and many more! Plus, the Strange New L...

Join Girafe, Julian, and special guest David Majors from the Promenade Merchants Podcast for this very special edition of Strange New Pod celebrating the life and accomplishments of Nichelle Nichols. Tributes From: 9:05 - Heather Rae From Mission Log Live 16:15 - Heather Kirby From Promenade Merchants 30:00 - Fatheree From Tex Trek 35:04 - Emcee Frodis 46:00 - Ashlyn & Rhianna Herd From The Du...

We're back after a week off with  all  the news from  Star Trek's  big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022! Our friend Myrriah Gossett from Star Trek Discovery Pod joins Girafe, Hawk, and Julian to break it all down. Will Jean-Luc and the cast of TNG  visit the  Enterprise  one more time in  Picard's  final season? Is there beef between Jean-Luc and Beverly? When  Lower Decks ...

Join Julian, Karyn, and Matt for episode one of our three-part Orville review series! This bonus podcast covers The Orville New Horizons episodes "Electric Sheep," "Shadow Realms," Mortality Paradox," and "Gently Falling Rain." Send us Fan Mail Support the show

For the first time in 29 weeks, Strange New Pod doesn't have a new episode of  Star Trek  to review. Not to worry, though, as Strange New Worlds gave us plenty to deep dive and dissect. This week, it's the pod of old as the crew deep dive  all  the similarities and differences between the Strange New Worlds finale "A Quality of Mercy" and the classic TOS season one episode &quo...

After an amazing freshman season, Strange New Worlds' first run has come to an end with an explosive finale! Join the SNP crew along with one-half of the Duras Sisters, Rhianna Herd, as they deep dive and review "A Quality of Mercy." What happens when Captain Pike is visited by the ghost of Balance of Terror’s future? How does Captain Kirk factor into the future events Pike inadvert...

It's the penultimate episode of  Strange New Worlds  season one, and "All Those Who Wander" Proves to be the series' most divisive episode yet.  Join Erik, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian as they review this classic sci-fi horror episode with a tragic and heartbreaking ending. What happens when the Enterprise responds to a distress call from the USS Peregrine ? What shocking and terri...

On this special edition of Strange New Pod, the crew welcomes Strange New Worlds  Costume Designer Bernadette Croft to the show! Plus, Erik, Erin, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian review the fantastical 8th episode of the series, 'The Elysian Kingdom." Timestamps:   2:05-30:07: Bernadette Croft Interview - Bernadette shares what it was like attending her first convention at Missions Chicago, her...