The Holodeck is Broken - A Star Trek Podcast

Peak Performance/Shades of Gray (S2, E21/E22) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We have come here not to praise Pulaski, but to bury her. It’s somehow inevitable/fitting that the last straw before she is jettisoned into secondary canon forever is that she said an unkind word to O’Brien. Also we have a clip show, which… Honestly? New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite po...

Manhunt/Emissary (S2, E19/E20) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Skant… Skant… Skant… Secret pants: The Pants you wear secretly! Let’s marvel at Jean-Luc Picard’s legs, despite how much we actually came here to swoon over the majesty that is K’Ehleyr (We're all here for that). The end of Season 2 is on the horizon, and with it a format change awaits! New episodes released every other Friday o...

Samaritan Snare/Up The Long Ladder (S2, E17/E18) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Clones… Clones? CLONES! We contemplate the hell Picard must have been feeling when he woke up with Pulaski hovering over him, and dwell on who *should* have been brought in to wrap up Picard’s heart surgery. Also, Pakleds. Also, the Irish. New episodes released every other Friday on all your favorite podcasting...

Pen Pals/Q Who? (S2, E15/E16) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Data starts exchanging messages with a little girl living on an endangered planet, and we have opinions about that. That, and the prime directive, and if you stick around for the commercial break, David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery. Then we come to Q, the Borg, and just what is stored under the bar in Ten Forward, and precis...

Time Squared/The Icarus Factor (S2, E13/E14) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Katherine Pulaski and Riker have a quick discussion about his dad over some rotten eggs (question: do eggs suddenly become rotten whenever Pulaski is around? There's some anecdotal evidence to support that theory…) and then not more than one week later, she claims that she never mentioned she and her father once di...

Contagion/The Royale (S2, E11/E12) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Honest to St. Data of Omicron Theta, we don’t spend a * whole lot * of time this episode talking about the TNG episodes in question. Topics that are discussed include: The Scene in “ The AutobIography of Jean-Luc Picard ” where Picard straight-up fires Pulaski, gets over himself for just a minute, and calls Beverly just to s...

The Measure Of A Man/The Dauphin (S2, E9/E10) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries A genuinely great episode is upon us, where the crew finally comes into their own, and Pulaski is politely tolerated. The Measure Of A Man is truly an episode to love. It’s absolutely staggering that this nearly-perfect hour of television sprung up from the season that surrounds it. Hope truly does spring eternal....

Medical (ish) Emergency - Part 12, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries While Z finishes up their detail with the Klingon Podcasting Force, Captain Lora and First Office Mac take a moment to breathe in the latest edition of Star Trek - Strange New Worlds. You (and we) asked for it, and Paramount Plus is more than happy to oblige! Finally fulfilling the promise of Ge...

Unnatural Selection/A Matter of Honor (S2, E7/E8) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries It certainly wouldn’t be Starfleet’s way to just leave Pulaski at the Darwin Research Center. On the other hand… We also see some really great Klingon stuff as riker takes a brief assignment with the IKS Pagh. Were a podcast-exchange program to becoem available, Eris is on the first shuttle to Qo’NoS. New epis...

Loud as a Whisper/The Schizoid Man (S2, E5/E6) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Our ongoing frustrations with Pulaski eventually give way to the Away Team discussing the most thoughtless, dismissive, and cruel people in their lives. I’m sure the two topics are unrelated. And then The Schizoid Man happens in the process making Loud as a Whisper a masterpiece by comparison. New episodes releas...

Elementary, Dear Data/The Outrageous Okona (S2, E3/E4) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Can an episode be FUN and feature Katherine Pulaski? We’ll find out today with “Elementary, Dear Data.” Other questions pondered include: Is Rocketeer great? (It is.) Is Geordi running a speakeasy out of Engineering? (There is some circumstantial evidence). Is it someone’s job to be on lookout in Engineer...

The Child/Where Silence Has Lease (S2, E1/E2) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We knew it was coming. There was no way around it. Without, you know, just skipping Season 2. Dr. Pulaski is here. Sigh. We miss you, Bev. Come back soon. We’ll never listen to Freebird the same way again. So help me, Guinan, we’ll get through this. For now, though, courage. New episodes released every other Frida...

Conspiracy/The Neutral Zone (S1, E24/E25) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries And so, our journey through TNG season 1 has come to an end. We didn’t hate it as much as we might have! Although Conspiracy could have been at least 15% less gross (or have better special effects), and they shouldn’t really let self-proclaimed 20th Century tycoons on the bridge, especially when they’re staring down a...

Skin of Evil/We'll Always Have Paris (S1, E22/E23) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries And so it comes time to say goodbye, for now, to a character we’ve grown to love and appreciate. Of course, we’re talking about the super-annoying, fourth-of-four chief engineers we’ve been subjected to this season, Leland T. Gasbag. Also, (spoilers) Tasha Yar joins that Great Big Anbo-Jyutsu tournament in th...

Arsenal of Freedom/Symbiosis (S1, E20/E21) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Discussions about The Arsenal of Freedom descends into a discussion of Practical Magic (1998) and Sub Rosa (it all makes sense, kind of). Before the entire episode (and Star Trek itself, kinda) descends into a discussion of NFTs. They’re bad! Also, they’re kind of lame. Drugs are also discussed, because, Symbiosis. F...

Coming of Age/Heart of Glory (S1, E18/E19) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Wesley meets a girl! And his greatest fears! Much to our surprise, they aren’t one and the same thing. Then we witness live as Eris becomes a full-on Klingon stan, before reviewing a bit of Klingon language, culture, and recipes! (Mmm, Raktajino!) The Once and Future Orson Welles is now available in Kindle and paperb...

When The Bough Breaks/Home Soil (S1, E16/E17) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries The Space Atlanteans are here, and they want 8 of the smartest, cutest (cough) whitest (cough) children the Enterprise has! Also, we almost enjoy a story about terraforming, before realizing we’re ugly bags of mostly water. During our commercial Z “Stay cool” Lee catches up with the Aldeans, but with a twist. They...

11001001/Too Short a Season (S1, E14/E15) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We like Riker. Really, we do. He may need a leash. At the very least, we have some questions about why his wildest fantasies involve not being a very good trombone player, and then have his boss play third wheel on a pretend date… Meanwhile, Z has an exclusive interview with One Zero and Zero One, the Bynars who maste...

Datalore/Angel One (S1, E12/E13) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Data finds the psychotic, murdering twin brother he always wanted! Troi is once again missing. For reasons. Meanwhile, we take a trip to Angel One and see if toxic femininity is even a thing? Also, as long predicted, if Beverly Crusher were on the case of COVID, she’d have had the thing wrapped up in 44 minutes. No two-parter...

Haven/The Big Goodbye (S1, E10/E11) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Is Lwaxana Troi just that horny, or is some secret genius, like a sex Columbo? Your away team will ponder that question and more before determining what super-weird specialization (beyond fiction expert) we’d all take on the Enterprise-D . If xenocryptozoologist wasn’t a word before, it is now. Be sure and check out the new...

The Battle/Hide and Q (S1, E8/E9) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries The recording space is upgraded! Unfortunately, with Omicron still a very real thing, your Away Team (and special guest Acting Ensign CJ) are masking up for the show. Just think of it as pop filters that fit directly over your face. Oh, they also limit the spread of certain acute respiratory diseases. Meanwhile, we revel in t...

Lonely Among Us/Justice (S1, E6/E7) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Thrill as the Away Team tries to negotiate their way out of the brain cloud caused by Lonely Among Us being one of the least memorable episodes of television ever produced. We’re all thinking that Data needs to understand when he’s on the clock and when he can dress up as Sherlock Holmes. He’ll get there. Also, we hit our f...

The Last Outpost/Where No One Has Gone Before (S1, E4/5) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries We meet the Ferengi. They'll get… better? Also, we spend more time than we thought we would talking about how good a guy Riker is during our discussion of “Where No One Has Gone Before.” Soup. SOUP! Be sure and check out the new blog here at The Holodeck is Broken ( http://www.partyapocalypse.com/the-ho...

Medical Emergency - Part 11: Star Trek: Prodigy Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries While COVID is still something we must all deal with (it is bad; you should get your shot and your booster; there will be a test on this material later) Captain Lora and First Officer Mac take a moment to reckon with the newest additions to the Star Trek family, the precocious rebels of the USS Protostar! While...

The Naked Now/Code of Honor (S1, E2/E3) Party Now, Apocalypse Later Industries Here’s the good news: our friends on The Next Generation don’t think much of Code of Honor , either. It’s also the worst episode they ever ended up doing. We have nowhere to go but up from here. In the meantime, enjoy The Naked Now for what it is, the episode that launched a thousand ‘ships… Why they decided to go with...