The Engage Podcast

We’re both interested in Television game shows. So, this week we are joined by our friend Mark, who works behind the scenes on those shows to find out what it takes to make them! Warning this episode contains swearing and unfortunately suffers from a few minor technical difficulties. https://markstephenhughes.com/

For Jamie’s General Interest we’ll be looking at the Lost Records: Bloom & Rage game. Jamie’s newest video game love after the Life is Strange games. As it’s got all the 1990’s nostalgia wrapped up in a mystery he looks for. Warning episode contains spoilers

In this episode we continue to celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by answering some more Star Trek franchise related questions.

In the second part of our DS9 Season 4 Review we look at the rest of the season from “Return To Grace'' all the way up to the finale ''Broken Link'' Please note we had minor sound technical difficulties whilst recording.

In the first part of our DS9 Season 4 Review we look at “The Way of the Warrior, Part I” all the way up to “Crossfire”. Please note that we had some sound technical difficulties whilst recording (both parts).

In this episode we continue to celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by answering some more Star Trek franchise related questions

In this week’s episode we look at the history of the most famous commercial supersonic plane in the world the Concorde. A supersonic plane with a complicated Anglo-French history. That had many competitors who failed to compete against it.

In this episode of the podcast, we welcome back on Wayne and Jude to debate an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise we have widely differing views on to see whether we can come to some form of consensus. Warning this episode contains swearing throughout.

As the title suggests, in this episode we’ll be looking at the life for one of Jamie’s favourite characters Seven of Nine (otherwise known as Annika Hansen).

In this episode we are once again joined by Samuel to talk all thing’s literature ranging from novels and graphic novels all the way to the reference books and everything in between. Please note that the episode unfortunately suffers from a few minor technical difficulties.

In this episode we are once again joined by Marie who’s the biggest Star Trek: Voyager fan I know. Giving our thoughts and feelings on the crowdfunded Star Trek: Voyager Documentary To The Journey. We also briefly talk about the recent news of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy cancellation.

Join us in this episode of the podcast as we get nostalgic about the Star Trek: The Collectors Edition which is a series very close to our hearts from the early 2000s that's celebrating it's 20th anniversary

In this episode of the podcast, we celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by starting to answer some Star Trek franchise related questions. Based on Star Trek 50th Anniversary Year Challenge Simon wrote a Blog post about it back in 2016: https://theengagepodcast.blogspot.com/2016/09/simon-star-trek-50th-anniversary-year.html

In this episode of the podcast, we celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by doing an episode commentary for Simon's favourite Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Doomsday Machine” in its remastered format.

As the title suggests we’ll be once again taking a deep dive into the depths of Reddit. Looking in particular at the interesting (and sometimes strange) discussions found within the Star Trek subreddit pages, giving our thoughts and feelings on particular conversations we think are interesting!

In this episode we retrospectively look backwards at Star Trek: Strange New World's third season, giving our opinions on what we think they got right and what they got wrong.

As the title suggests in this episode we attempt to answer the age old question what do Starfleet Admirals actually do?

In our final episode of the year as usual we pick our favourite podcast moments to share with you! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all our listeners!

As the titles suggests, in this episode we’ll be discussing the positive elements that modern Star Trek under Alex Kurtzman has brought to the franchise in recent years!

In this year's Absent Friends we shine a spotlight on the amazing achievments of Jeri Taylor (Producer), Roberto Orci (Producer), Gary Graham (Actor) and Layla Sarakalo (Background Actress). With focus placed on people related to Star Trek Voyager which had it's 30th anniversary this year.

In the first part of two, we discuss our favourite Star Trek facts trivia. First up is Simon talking us through twenty-five of this favourite Star Trek facts (kindly assisted by Jamie). Who's stretching the rules… as always!

As the title suggests, in this quickfire episode we’ll be talking about (and theorising) how people take time off in the future.

In this week’s episode we conclude looking at the history behind one of the most famous spy planes in existence the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. A supersonic plane with a complicated history which broke many height and speed records.

Following on from Jamie’s 2019 original Life is Strange game General Interest podcast. We follow it up by talking about the third game Life Is Strange: True Colours, and their latest game entitled Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. Warning episode contains spoilers and Platypus facts! 

Inspired by the famous (and long running) BBC radio show Desert Island Discs. We put a Star Trek spin on the format by asking a guest to choose eight episodes, a book, and a luxury to take with them as they’re marooned on a mythical desert planet.