SyFy Sistas

Just sit back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of The Star Trek Cruise. All the Sistas went this year. All the Sistas had a blast. Good friends, good music, good times. Bad news on the last day of the cruise when Doug Jones confirmed that our beloved Star Trek Discovery will come to an end in Season 5. So join all the Sistas as they reminisce, about seven glorious days, you're sure to get a laugh, H...

Andreea Kindryd joined the Sistas from Australia for a chat about her sampler book "From Slavery to Star Trek." Ms. Kindryd drops names of 1960's icons, a little bit of Star Trek and letters from Octavia Butler. Thank you to Larry "Dr. Trek" Nemececk for telling us about Ande's book at the Star Trek Mission Chicago Convention. You can follow Andreea Kindryd: @akindryd Look for Andreea's upcoming b...

The Special that became an Episode. Jay and Kayleigha, the creaTORS of Star Trek Interactive Tribbles, join the Sistas to share their love of Trek and Tribbles, how they got started, and why they're not opting to renew their Star Trek license with Paramount. Jay and Kayleigha come bearing gifts. They have site-wide discount deals and an exclusive SyFy Sistas deal until the end of March. Find Scien...

Alexander Siddig stopped by for a chat with Sistas. We fangirled out first (forgive us Sid). Then we spoke of his varied career in TV and Movies, 30 years of DS9, his virtual social group SidCity and the importance of Black and Brown representation. Find out more about Alexander Siddig: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796502/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 https://www.sidcity.net Twitter @alexsiddig Please support...

The Sistas sat down and talked to Children's Librarian Stefanie Gangone, founder of Library of the Kind and the Star Trek Long Island Convention. Trek Long Island is a new Science Fiction convention hosted by the Library for the Kind. The Librarian run organization promotes books and resources that celebrate diversity, inclusion, gender equality, LGBTQ+ and kindness. The Trek Long Island conventio...

The Sistas are kicking off their month-long celebration of 30 years of Star Trek Deep Space Nine with David Livingston. David has directed, produced and even co-written an episode of DS9. But what we are most grateful for is that he is the one the suggested Avery Brooks for the part of Benjamin Lafayette Sisko. Find out more about David Livingston here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515237/ Follow...

Paramount granted us not one, but two interviews with Kevin and Dan Hageman, the producers of Star Trek: Prodigy. You heard Part 1 on our You Tube channel or website, but Part 2 is new! Watching twenty episodes of some terrific Trek, we were full of questions. Join in as Kevin and Dan give us inside information on the kids' epic journey, the Protostar, Chakotay's fate, the Diviner as Dad, Holo Jan...

The Sistas are kicking off season 3 with the woman that started it all: Sonequa Martin-Green. Sit back and enjoy being the proverbial fly on the wall for a conversation of love, support, pride and laughter between 5 Black women. Let's Fly! Find out more about Sonequa Martin-Green here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2792296/ Please support the SyFy Sistas podcast on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.co...

It's the Season 2 finale! And the Sistas are ending this memorable season with our third Special. John Billingsley drops by for a leisurely chat. The Sistas and John talk about the upcoming TREK*talks2, the 8-hour telethon and the charity that it will benefit, The Hollywood Food Coalition (HoFoCo). Not to worry, there are plenty of Dr. Phlox/Star Trek Enterprise fan-girl moments. The mission of th...

In this episode the Sistas refer to storylines from Star Trek Discovery and Legacy Trek that went absolutely nowhere. *A hanging chad refers to a small piece of paper intended to be punched from a larger sheet of paper, but still remaining attached. Please support the SyFy Sistas podcast on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/syfysistas Thank you Dena Massenburg for our dope logo: @blackbeanz70 Th...

It all started in Vegas and the Sistas are going to talk about it! A discussion about Black hair is NEVER just about style, but neither is a discussion about Star Trek hair. Man or woman, neither or both, alien or Starfleet, there's always something crazy going on with the hair. We discuss...the long and short of it. Please support the SyFy Sistas podcast on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/syf...

Our Trek Geeks colleague and founder of Esther's Echo, Matthew Cimone, drops by to share with the Sistas his important charity and how we can all donate. Esther Kanu is a leader. Esther is a survivor. After experiencing the horrors of female genital mutilation, poverty, forced marriage, and war, she dedicated herself to a mission: that no young woman in Sierra Leone should have to face the life Es...

The 59 year old franchise will conclude the Thirteenth Doctor era this October with the BBC special "The Power of the Doctor". The franchise's first female Doctor, Jodi Wittaker, will make way for its first Black Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in 2023. Before the Time Lord regenerates join the SyFy Sistas as they get a Doctor Who primer from devout Whovian Jamal Taylor. Follow Jamal Taylor on the following...

FYI: The Sistas have officially commandeered Jean-Luc Picard's Aunt Adele. Picard's Aunt Adele was mentioned in three episodes of The Next Generation (TNG). The namesake of Picard's Aunt Adele was the Assistant Director of TNG for its entire run, as well as several seasons of Voyager. Ms. Simmons tells us all about TNG via the L.A. night club scene of Nat King Cole and Lena Horne, her 400 days in...

According to Paramount Plus, Strange New Worlds holds the record from most watched original series in the franchise over its first 90 days. But is it the best first season of any Star Trek series? Inquiring Sistas wanted to know. So, they sent Sista Subrina, CPA into the depths of the IMDb ratings armed only with her vintage HP Scientific Calculator to search for the truth. Standby as the Sistas r...

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR! This week the SyFy Sistas travel back through Legacy Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT) in search of the answer to the deep question…Who's invited to the cookout? Which of your favorite Trek characters made the cut? Which series had the most invites and which one had none? Somebody put on the Frankie Beverly and Maze and break out the cards cuz it's cookout time, SyFy Sist...

The Sistas sat down and talked to Roy M. Evins II, founder of The Urban Nerd Con (TUNC). Join us and find out why Roy & the SyFy Sistas believe that the The Urban Nerd Con will become the Premier Urban and Multi-Cultural Comic, Gaming, Cos Play & Tech event in the South East! Providing Creators of African descent across the diaspora an opportunity to show case and sell their work! This is also a p...

WARNING this episode of the SyFy Sistas Podcast is full of SPOILERS! If you have not watched season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds please head to your Paramount+ streaming service and watch it now.  The Sistas met Melissa in April and the assignment was to ask questions about this great new Star Trek Show but in the end; we bonded over short hair, the authentic portrayal of military women and...

If you haven't watched the latest episode of For All Mankind: "Game Changer" (season 3; episode 2), head to your nearest AppleTV streaming service and watch it now. WARNING this episode of the SyFy Sistas Podcast is full of SPOILERS! The Sistas came to For All Mankind a season late. But as soon as we started watching and were introduced to Krys Marshall's character Engineer/Astronaut and Trekkie C...

Tamia and Yvette go to Star Trek Mission Chicago and get to meet and interview the delightful Actor, Writer, Comedian and Musician Tawny Newsome. We bond, we laugh, we cry and we don't record...ruh roh! Fast forward to post Awesome Con and we hit record for a conversation with our friend Tawny Newsome. For more on Tawny Newsome checkout her website: www.tawnynewsome.com Star Trek Mission Chicago:...

We experienced so many cool things, people, and places thanks to Anson Mount's kind invitation to the NYC Premiere. He is the real deal. We got to do something we never dreamed we'd do and had to share it with you. We'd like to thank Trek Geeks Bill and Dan (Hi, Ted!) for getting us on the screeners and junket lists, which starting this whole incredible thing. We'd also like to acknowledge Mackenz...

The SyFy Sistas sit down with Jayne Brook, a film and TV actor that has earned three Screen Actors Guild nominations for Chicago Hope and a Prism Award for Performance in a Drama Series for Boston Legal. We know her for her role as Star Trek Discovery's Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell. This role finally redeems StarFleet Admirals in every Star Trek "universe" and/or "timeline". Our conversation rang...

It's been a while, so the SyFy Sistas present our 12" Disco Version of Star Trek: The Cruise V. This is our love letter to Royal Caribbean Cruises and Entertainment Cruise Productions, some of the hardest working people at sea. But we aren't the only ones telling sea stories. We taped a few of our new friends while on board for a real "And You Were There" feel.

David Benjamin Tomlinson, the alter ego of Star Trek Discovery's favorite Saurian science officer, Linus, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. The talented writer, producer, and actor spills the tea on keeping up as a Klingon, his cast buddies, and how he made Sonequa Martin-Green crack up his first day on the set as Linus.

Far Beyond the Stars, one of the most celebrated episodes in the Star Trek franchise, was written by one of the most creative, thought-provoking, and prolific tv science fiction writers of our time, Marc Scott Zicree. The Sistas sat down with Marc to talk about how the then controversial Deep Space Nine episode made it to the screen, why Avery Brooks had to direct it, and the efforts of the cast a...