The Holodeck is Broken - A Star Trek Podcast

DS9, Season 5 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Rom is the smartest boy. He knows the part. That’s only part of the reason we’r judst fine learning that Crazy Lou might in fact be the Nog’s little brother. Elsewhere, the degree to which you might enjoy Trails and Tribbleations will be directly related to how much patience you have for TOS in the first place. Our results may vary. New...

VOY, Season 2 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries The episode gets off to stellar start with the Away Team not 100% sure who they are, flits about while they decide who among themselves would have been a member of the Maquis and who would be in Startfleet (while also figuring out who would stay behind with Amelia Earhart), before we proceed with the murder trial of Kathryn Janeway (#ju...

VOY, Season 2 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Well, now we’re all on the same page. We talk about our least favorite (and favorite?) episodes, a little bit about Lon Suder (as we check in on his orchid growing podcast), a singing commercial break, and Eris bringing up some of the most upsetting fan fiction categories we can imagine. New episodes released every other Friday on all y...

DS9, Season 4 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Which of your away team would do the best in prison, even if it was only for a little bit, as a treat. Also, we talk about ships, how Dukat and Kira are oddly engagin when they’re together, even though she is the best and he’s an unrepentant Nazi… Also we’re pretty on board with Wax, regardless of whether or not Dax is not long for the...

DS9, Season 4 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Join your away team as their rapidly favorite show threatens to become Klingon Frasier (note: Klingon Frasier is a good idea) but then immediately sets about making Klingon Frasier just as weird as the rest of the denizens of Space Mall (tm). We also get into our favorite episodes of the season, but time runs out before we can even fini...

VOY, Season 1 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Your away team continues their conversation about Voyager’s first season with theire favorite episodes, least favorite episodes, who they ship (not *the * ship, because who cares about bio-neuro gel packs, unless they are getting overwhelmed by dank Mac and cheese) and more! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite...

VOY, Season 1 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries The suspense is killing Lora and Mac. Do Z and Eris actually like Voyager (so far)? Also, it’s just plain-old killing Mac just precisely *what * they are liking out of Voyager Season 1. Also, also: they talk about their favorite characters. Join us in two weeks for part 2 of our discussion! New episodes released every other Friday on al...

DS9, Season 3 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Your away team continues their conversation about Deep Space Nine’s third season, and in the process wrestles with a very difficult question: Who’s worse, Pulaski or Kai Winn? There are no right or wrong answers… Except there is a right answer, and it is Kai Winn. New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting...

DS9, Season 3 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Join your away team as they get their own tough little ship, realize that practically everyone is related to a villain, and finally marvel that Mrs. Character Lady With The Coughing Fetish becomes a recurring character (Leeta, for those of you in the know). We’ll also talk our favorite and least favorite episodes from Deep Space Nine, S...

Star Trek: Generations (1994) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries And so we begin the Next Generation movies, and bid a fond farewell to… well we say goodbye to Shatner. We talk about where the movie inexplicably threw money at the screen and where they even more inexplicably slashed the budget, with all due apologies to those of you (Mac) who got suckered into buying some of the Generations ac...

TNG, Season 7 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Ro Laren, Lower Decks, Sub Rosa, Woranna (and how we’re not collectively against it), and All Good Things… are just some (well, most) of the topics we cover in our final chat forever about TNG (until we immediately start the movies, and Picard)! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portals! For more c...

TNG, Season 7 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We dismiss “Masks” (even though Brent Spiner gets to be a weird little guy one last (?) time), make our peace with Q, and give a full-throated defense of “Genesis” in this first part of our discussion of the final season of The Next Generation! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portals! For more co...

Special Report - Picard, Season 3 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Join Lora and Mac as they talk about the latest and last of Picard. For the first half, they recorded before the final episodes aired, and made some predictions. Then they picked up after the airing of “The Last Generation” and desperately try to remember the difference between Terry Matalas and Telly Savalas. It’s hard, guys...

DS9, Season 2 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Jake Sisko has made more headway with the Ferengi Alliance in two years than Jean-Luc Picard will ever make, ever. Let’s just remember that, and that Sarah J Maas miiight be a Deep Space Nine fan, and that Gul Dukat is a big sack of crap and rationalization. New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portal...

DS9, Season 2 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Here’s the thing: if you eradicate hunger, disease, and the like, it’s going to be very hard to eliminate ableism as well. But really, we came to talk about is how much (or how little) Garak might want to lick Bashir and (checks notes) just how many Nintendo Switch cartridges Eris has put in her mouth. New episodes released every other...

TNG, Season 6 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We talk about Alexander’s Big Day, a lot of Tapestry, and Data trying to master the art of small talk! Just remember: There are five lights, or you get your money back. New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portals! For more content and information, visit partyapocalypse.com. “The Holodeck is Broken” i...

TNG, Season 6 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Sure, “Rascals” is dumb on paper, but when you cast the kids that well, we all kind of want to keep one of them! Between Will, Tom, and Deanna, at least one of them came up with a particular solution to their unique domestic problem. Also, finally, MR. PICKARD!!! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting p...

DS9, Season 1 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries More from Bajor as we dig into the Bajoran religion, marvel in the Kira’s journey (this season’s objective MVP) and then talk about what we would do if we could live (please, oh please, can we?) on the station! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portals! For more content and information, visit party...

DS9, Season 1 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Let’s take a bit of a detour to Bajor, shall we? There we will meet, Prime Himbo Energy (Julian), Mega Aries Vibes (Jadzia), Space Jesus (Sisko), Pope Space Nazi Karen I (Winn… grr…) and the best one (Kira… maybe O’Brien). Join us next time for the rest of our conversation of the first season of DS9! New episodes released every other Fr...

TNG, Season 5 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Is Riker a good person or a bad person? Well, it depends on the episode. Meanwhile: Spock shows up to plug a movie, Picard eats up trauma like it is going out of style, and somewhere an archaeologist is in a cave somewhere in San Francisco needs to talk to somebody, but can’t help but bury the lede. New episodes released every other Fri...

TNG, Season 5 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We’re back from a brief hiatus to start our discussion of TNG, Season 5! After a frank conversation about Cause and Effect, and the fact that Riker should have been brought up on HR charges half a dozen times this season, we drill down with Captain Dathon and Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. New episodes released every other Friday on all y...

TNG, Season 4 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Join us for the back half of our discussion on TNG’s fourth season. Our topics include Data’s girlfriend, how great O’Brien is (just wait until we hit DS9…) and which of the Duras sisters we have a crush on (it’s B’Etor… Why would we say Lursa… That’s just crazy talk…) before we reckon with Yar’s (?) return (?)… New episodes released ev...

TNG, Season 4 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries :Vin Diesel voice: It’s about *family*. Join us as we recover (?) from the Borg invasion, meet literally every relative of a main character, and say goodbye (for now) to Wesley! Next week, we’ll conclude with (spoiler) one more relative we never knew existed, and the breakout of Klingon Civil War! New episodes released every other Frida...

TNG, Season 3 - Part 2 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries As we continue talking about Season 3 of TNG, topics include Klingon aesthetics, Picard’s cowarice (in one, crucial part of his life), Riker and Troi, and the granddaddy of all cliffhangers! New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting portals! For more content and information, visit partyapocalypse.com. “The...

TNG, Season 3 - Part 1 Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Using the better parts of the Barzan Wormhole—don’t tell them about the Bajoran one—your Away Team is travelling faster than ever before. Join them for the first part of their conversation on the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Topics include Bev’s wigs, a firm desire to renounce our American citizenship, and the dangers...