Strange New Pod | A Star Trek Podcast

Join Cadet Cecily, Emcee, Girafe. and Julian for this very special Star Trek Prodigy Day edition of SNP, as the crew goes down a list of their wants and don't wants for the show's upcoming season! Plus, Julian sits down with Prodigy executive producer and writer Aaron Waltke,  who talks about the Netflix pickup, the fan's campaign to save Prodigy, and so much more. Collective wants...

Join the SNP Crew for their review of the penultimate episode of Star Trek Lower Decks season four, "The Inner Fight!" What happens when Captain Freeman puts Mariner on an “easy” assignment after she realizes she’s trying to get herself killed? What do we finally learn about Beckett’s past and how does it connect to the much wider TNG universe? On a pirate friendly planet, how does Carol...

Join Emcee, Hawk, and Julian for their review of Lower Decks episode 408, "Caves!" What happens when Boims, Mariner, Rutherford, and Tendi are reunited for an away mission together, only to get trapped in a cave? How do each of their stories affect one another, and how are the Vendorians involved? The crew breaks it all down! Plus, the mailbag, another code word for our Yosemite shuttle...

Join Emcee, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian for their review of  Star Trek Lower Decks  episode 407, "A Few Badgeys More!" What happens when Badgey ambushes the Cerritos , and how do we wind up with Goodgy and Logicy? Also, when Peanut Hamper is up for parole, and Agimus tells Starfleet he has intel on all the ships getting destroyed, are they really reformed or have something up their digital...

Join the SNP Crew for their review of Lower Decks episode 406, "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place," with our friend and resident Ferengi collective member Jessko! What happens when the Cerritos and Toronto visit Ferenginar to begin the negotiations for their entry into the Federation? Why doesn’t the Admiral listen to Carol when Rom and Leeta are clearly playing him? How do Tendi and Ruth...

Join the SNP Crew for their review of Lower Decks episode 405, "Empathalogical Fallacies." What happens when the Cerritos ferries a group of Betazoids to Risa, but things start to get whacky in the bar? How is T’Lyn at the center of it? And what does the Bear Pack do to help Boimler get through overworking himself once again? The team breaks it all down! Plus, the mailbag, a VERY special...

Join Emcee, Hawk, and Julian for their review and deep dive into the final season of Star Trek Picard, with special guests Production Designer Dave Blass and Lead makeup artist James MacKinnon ! The crew talks about the new and returning characters on the show, like Liam Shaw and Ro Laren, and then go through the show act by act, before finally getting into favorite and least favorite moments! Plu...

Join the SNP Crew, along with their dear friend and special guest Jessie Earl , for their review of Lower Decks episode 404, "Something Borrowed, Something Green." What happens when Tendi is given leave to attend her sister's wedding (with Mariner and T’Llyn in tow), only to find out she’s been kidnapped? What do her friends learn not only about Tendi but Orion culture? Meanwhile, o...

Join Emcee, Erik, Girafe, and Hawk for SNP's review of Lower Decks episode 304, "In the Cradle of Vexilon!" What happens when the environmental computer on the ringworld of Corazonia begins to malfunction, causing the system to go back to its base settings? How does Boims handle his first away mission command as a Lieutenant? Is T’Lyn impressed? And onboard the Cerritos , what happe...

Lower Decks season four is finally here, Moopsy and all! Join Emcee and Julian for their live review and deep dive of episode 401, "Twovix," and episode 402, "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" with our friend and special guest Nari Ely from The Legal Geeks! Plus the mailbag and so much more on episode 152 of Strange New Pod! Follow The Legal Geeks: Twitter | I nstagram | TikTok...

With just a week to go until Lower Decks season four, join the SNP Crew for a look back at season three! From favorite moments to least favorite moments, adventures with peanut hamper and more, Lower Decks season three was a wild ride! Emcee, Girafe, and Julian also take an in-depth look into all of our lower decker's arcs in the show's third season. Plus the mailbag and so much more on...

Join Emcee, Erik, and Julian as they record in the same room together for the first time! Coming to you from FAN EXPO Canada, the crew takes on the newest members of our Best of Species series, THE GORN. From Slar's appearance in Enterprise to the reimaging of the species in seasons one and two of Strange New Worlds, the Gorn finally take their place as one of the powerhouse species in Star T...

Emcee and Julian are back for part two of what was just a wonderful conversation with Star Trek's Lead Creature and Makeup Designer, Neville Page. In part two, Neville talks about using complexion in his makeup designs, designing the awesome (and eerie) skulls we saw Picard collect as trophies in season two, and of course, his work on the Borg, including designing the Borg Queen with the late...

Join the SNP crew for a fun sit down with Strange New Worlds Editor John Wesley Whitton and Assistant Editor Matt Capocci! Wes and Matt talk about their work on three of this season's episodes: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," "Lost in Translation," and "Subspace Rhapsody!" What's a day in the life of an editor like? What was it like editing the first-e...

Join Emcee and Julian for this very special bonus pod as we sit down with the man behind so many of the makeups that we've come to love since Star Trek 09 , Lead Creature and Makeup Designer Neville Page . His new book, Star Trek: The Art of Neville Page, was released last week, and we've had the pleasure to read it and now speak with him about it. In part one of two of our sit down with...

Join the SNP crew for their review of the second season finale of Strange New Worlds , "Hegemony!" What happens when the Cayuga is destroyed while in orbit over Parnassus Beta by the Gorn? And when the Gorn set a demarcation line with Parnassus on their side, how does Captain Pike proceed? When they mount (no pun intended) a rescue mission, which legacy character do they meet on the surf...

Join the SNP crew for their review of episode 209 of Strange New Worlds . That's right, it's the musical one, "Subspace Rhapsody!" "The Admiral" Karyn Brown from Everything is Permitted joins the crew for this one! All systems stable! What happens when a subspace rift that Spock and Uhura are experimenting on sends a wave that puts the crew of the Enterprise in a pock...

Join the crew for their review of episode 208 of Strange New Worlds , "Under the Cloak of War" with our besties Ashlyn and Rhianna from the Duras Sisters Podcast ! What happens when Klingon defector turned Federation ambassador Dak’Rah is welcomed aboard the Enterprise ? How do M’Benga, Chapel, and Ortegas react? What do we learn about Chapel and M’Benga’s roles during the Klingon War an...

Join Emcee, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian as they wrap up all the Star Trek news and trailers that came out of San Diego Comic-Con 2023! We will have reactions to the five-minute preview of Star Trek Discovery season five's season premiere, a breakdown of the Lower Decks S4 trailer, and more. Plus news, a GIVEAWAY , the mailbag, and much more on this bonus edition of Strange New Pod! Send us Fan M...

Did I just time travel?! That's right, the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover is finally here! Join the SNP crew along with our friend Matthew Kaplowitz from Trek Untold as we review "Those Old Scientists." Time to Brush up on those temporal protocols! What happens when Boimler falls through a portal and winds up with the crew of Captain Pike’s Enterprise? Does his blatant dis...

We're now past the halfway point of Strange New Worlds season two. Join the SNP team for their review of episode 206, "Lost in Translation," which the team all really adored! What happens when the Enterprise and Farragut run a joint mission to get a deuterium refinery operational, but Uhura begins to hear a signal that can’t be heard by anyone else? How does Hemmer factor into this...

Join the crew for their review of episode 205 of Strange New Worlds , "Charades!" Guess who’s coming to dinner... What happens when a shuttle accident leaves Spock without his Vulcan DNA? How does he cope onboard the Enterprise dealing with feeling the full brunt of human emotions for the first time? Why is Sam Kirk such a messy eater? And why is Spock becoming fully human and forgetting...

Join Emcee, Erik, Girafe, and Julian for this very special edition of the pod as they perform a table read of the Star Trek Prodigy  episode, "All the World's a Stage." And remember to please spread the word: #SaveStarTrekProdigy Cast of Characters: Emcee as Gwynn, Ascensia, Janeway, and Scott'ee Julian as Jankom Pog, James’T, and Doctor Noum -Girafe as Zero, Dr. Boones, The Di...

Join Emcee, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian for their review of episode 204 of Strange New Worlds , "Among the Lotus Eaters!" What happens when the Enterprise is tasked with cleaning up the mess they made on Rigel VII five years ago? Who does Captain Pike find on the surface? And what happens when the away team AND Enterprise crew begin to lose their memory? The SNP team reviews and breaks this...

Get in, we’re going back in time to Toronto! Join Emcee, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian for their review of this fun La'an and Jim Kirk centered time travel romp.  What happens when a dying time agent shows up on the Enterprise and asks La’an to complete his mission? How does she wind up in the company of Captain Kirk, who is in command of…the Enterprise? Do sparks fly (spoilers, they do)? What two...