Transporter Room 3: The Star Trek Podcast

Welcome back. It's been awhile! This week, it's a love fest as we catch up on the past several episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, including the latest segment, "Much Ado About Boimler."

We're back with our review of the Star Trek: Lower Decks pilot, plus we revisit Star Trek: The Animated Series' final episode -- "The Counter-Clock Incident." And then Lower decks creator Mike McMahan and star Tawny Newsome (Ensign Beckett Mariner) beam in to TR3 to talk canon, uniforms, cameos, and to take a Star Trek quiz!

Cardassians and Romulans working together ends about as well as you would expect in this gripping Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-parter which made Trek history. (You'll have to listen to find out how.)

“Mr. Worf... Fire.” When Riker uttered those three words 30 years ago today in “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I,” they forever changed the course of Star Trek. This week, Justin Bolger joins us once again, this time for a deep-dive into the legacy of the first season-finale cliffhanger in Trek history.

Recent days have been troubling at best. Star Trek is many things to many people, but right now? Its mission statement is important to all of us. The only way through this is together. And this week, we break down how key Star Trek episodes and movies prove that.

In honor of the 26th anniversary of the classic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Wire,” we’re taking a deep dive into why this great Garak story still holds up.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “In the Pale Moonlight” only gets better with age. 22 years ago this week, Sisko got one Romulan killed to save millions and decided he could “live with that” - forever changing Star Trek in the process.

Star Trek: Picard's first season finale ended with one hell of a twist -- a couple of them, actually -- calling back to things in two other Patrick Stewart movies: X3 and Star Trek: Nemesis! And showrunner Michael Chabon beams in to TR3 to break it all down!

Picard's first season has given us many surprising and interesting additions to the Final Frontier, but this week's first half of the season finale, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1," is A LOT. From another [BLANK] to an evil [BLANK], we unpack everything happening here.

With Phil still away on Risa, special guest host Matt Fowler -- yes, THE Matt Fowler -- takes Phil’s seat for the week, bringing his casual, normal person’s amount of Star Trek knowledge to Transporter Room 3! We dig into this week’s episode of Picard, hit the Reader Mailbag for a potential Star Trek: First Contact connection to the show, ponder the eternal struggle between the Borg and the Smiths...

Man, Star Trek: Picard just nailed it in Episode 7, “Nepenthe,” the episode that reunites Jean-Luc with Riker and Troi. We discuss that, and then Hugh actor Jonathan Del Arco uses the Sikarian spatial trajector to visit TR3 for a chat about his beloved character! Featuring special guest host Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg.

This week on Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc steps foot on a Borg cube for the first time in 30 years and sh** gets real!

Jonathan Frakes, who directed "Stardust City Rag," beams on down to chat about the latest episode of Picard! Picard and Seven have a mini Borg Survivors Anonymous meeting this week on Star Trek: Picard, and in doing so give Trek one of its great scenes. There is A LOT going on in this episode and we unpack it all.

Four episodes into Star Trek: Picard, and Space Legolas is finally here. This week, we review "Absolute Candor" with nothing less than what the episode's title promises. More Reader Mailbag is in store as well, as we try to figure out why Synths are bad but EMHs are good. And, obviously, another Red Shirt beams down. (Don't lose your heads over it -- pun extremely intended). 

"The End Is the Beginning" is a fitting title for Star Trek: Picard's third episode, as it starts with Picard's Starfleet resignation and ends with his first deep space mission in 14 years.

This time out we review "Maps and Legends," an uneven episode full of backstory, Borg, Romulans and Picard playing Space Matlock. Oh, and we also take a quick side trip to hear all about Phil’s visit to the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour!

Patrick Stewart is back as Jean-Luc Picard, after an 18-year absence. It's the first time since 1994 that Picard has been on television, and we got to see the first Star Trek: Picard episode on the big screen (yay!). So, how was it? We have some thoughts...

It's our season finale of TR3, so we're doing something a bit different -- talking about Star Wars! O.K., we also discuss Star Trek, including the new animated Short Treks, Picard Season 2 news, and more. May the Trek be with you!

Our review for the new Short Trek, "Ask Not," is finally in, we discuss the latest Star Trek 4 news, and we also celebrate Star Trek: First Contact's 23rd anniversary and Star Trek: Generations' 25th. (Insert Nexus puns here.)

Happy 175th episode to us! We’ve spared no expense, gang: This week we have Christopher Pike himself, Anson Mount, a special guest host, and a great DS9 episode - “Hard Time.” Yup, the one where O’Brien goes to prison in his head and comes out, well, messed up.

We got a look at Michael Piller’s never-produced but awesome plan for Voyager’s Season 4 cliffhanger featuring Q. And CBS and Viacom have finally reunited and Star Trek is primed for some truly big things...

Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only: William Shatner is beaming in to Transporter Room 3.

Make it so, Number One, because Jonathan Frakes is beaming into Transporter Room 3!

Star Trek: Picard can't get into our eyeballs fast enough. This week we obsess over the new trailer (Data! Seven of Nine!) from Comic-Con over the weekend, along with all the other Trek news coming out of the show.