Trek In Time

Matt and Sean talk about Kirk's family legacy and the cost of meeting your heroes in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 8, "Orders of Magnitude." Sam and Jim Kirk learn the truth about their father's stalled career. Kirk pulls a bluff any poker player would love. Uhura earns her battlefield promotion. Sean puts it right up there with "Off Hour.” Order Sean’s next book, “In th...

Matt and Sean talk about the gimmick episode that finally lands in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 7, "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass." Trelane traps the crew inside a soap opera, and only Pike knows something is wrong. Matt calls it a breath of fresh air after the puppets. Sean gives it a C plus and pitches the second draft he wishes they'd made. Order Sean’s next book, “In...

Matt and Sean talk about one of the best Star Trek episodes in years in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 6, "Off-Hour." A disaster hits the Enterprise in real time, and every crew member fights to save the ship. After a season of gimmick episodes, this one leaves them with a hard question. If the show can do this, why doesn't it do it every week? Order Sean’s next book, “In the Fields...

Three of the first five episodes this season are gimmick episodes, and Matt has had enough. Matt and Sean talk about the puppet hour, and what a 10 episode season can afford, in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 5, "Level Five Transporter Accident." The puppets are beautifully built and the jokes land, but the dream reveal arrives in the final two minutes with no setup. So is this a charming lark? O...

Matt and Sean talk about how Strange New Worlds keeps borrowing other genres in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 4, "A Case of Chiaroscuro." A musical, a horror hour, and now film noir shot in black and white. Matt calls it Andor filtered through Doctor Who, and he means that as a compliment and a complaint at once. Sean argues the story earns the style, from Una's con at the end to La'an's quiet u...

Matt and Sean ask whether Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 3, "Human Best Friend" works better as a live-action Lower Decks episode. The shore leave setup gives Strange New Worlds room for drunk-planet chaos, La’an taking over a gang, Spock mind-melding with a plant, and Scotty and Ortegas turning into a buddy comedy. But with only 10 episodes in the season, they also question whether this much goo...

Matt and Sean talk about the best horror Star Trek has ever filmed, in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 2, "The Griffin Incident." A derelict Federation ship, a baby crying down a dark hallway, and a crew that stops trusting its own eyes. Matt reaches for Solaris and The Thing, Sean reaches for Event Horizon, and they agree the landing sticks. Also in the mailbag: the Voth, dinosaurs, and one very...

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Matt and Sean talk about a fun dinosaur romp that collapses by the halfway point in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 1, "Valles Marineris." The T. Rex encounter works, Pelia's Doctor Who joke works, and then the plot logic falls apart. Nobody on the best crew in Starfleet asks the obvious question about the mysterious fifth planet. So does the season four premiere earn its time travel setup? Or doe...

One five-minute scene made Matt sit up: a man flatly refuses to accept he carries a deadly disease, and it feels ripped from 2026. Matt and Sean talk about the accidental anti-vax parable buried in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 20, "The Way to Eden." Space hippies hijack the Enterprise chasing paradise, and one man's denial of the science reads very differently today. So is this clunker secretly...

Matt and Sean talk about the rare late-season bright spot in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 21, "The Cloud Minders." After weeks of episodes that dragged, this one finally feels like real Trek again. They pick apart why it works, where it still limps, and what a bigger budget might have done for the back half of a struggling season 3. This episode first aired on February 28, 1969. Chapters: 00:00...

Matt and Sean talk about the possession horror hiding inside Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 18, "The Lights of Zetar." An alien energy takes over Lieutenant Mira Romaine, and the creepy voice, the floating body, and the "you can't have her back, she's ours" menace feel pulled straight from a 1960s Hammer horror film. So is this secretly one of Star Trek's scariest hours? Or does the show waste a...

Matt and Sean talk about what killed Star Trek in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 16, “The Mark of Gideon.” Chapters: 00:00: Intro 01:55: Feedback 03:44: Episode Description 05:40: This Time In History 12:44: Today’s Episode Discussion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptDHoaavHo Support the show directly: https://trekintime.show/join/ Audio version of the podcast: https://www.tre...

Matt and Sean talk about the release of all stakes in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 14, “Whom Gods Destroy.” Sean’s comic collection goes on sale July 3rd. Details here: https://www.whatnot.com/s/VMjS3uri Chapters: 0:00: Intro 3:26: Today's episode 5:12: This time in history 7:51: Episode discussion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-BfLoDcrk Support the show directly: htt...

Matt and Sean talk about the never-ending battle for good storytelling in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 15, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.” Sean’s comic collection goes on sale July 3rd. Details here: https://www.whatnot.com/s/VMjS3uri Chapters: 00:00: Intro 00:53: Listener Feedback 03:16: This Time in History 09:58: Today’s Conversation Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKR...

Matt and Sean talk about more pulp, but not as well aged, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 17, “That Which Survives.” Chapters: 00:00: Time Code and Chapters 03:13: Today’s Episode 03:38: This time in History 08:53: Today’s Discusion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBtTZKZ0LA Support the show directly: https://trekintime.show/join/ Audio version of the podcast: https://www.tre...

Matt and Sean talk about why straightforward, pulpy scifi is often the best, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 11, “Wink of an Eye.” Chapters: 0:00: Intro 01:55: Viewer feedback 11:16: Today's episode 11:30: This time in history 17:42: Episode discussion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0qkT_2otuc Support the show directly: https://trekintime.show/join/ Audio version of the...

Matt and Sean talk about one of the most historic episodes of Trek (for multiple reasons), Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 10, “Plato’s Stepchildren.” Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:47 - Viewer Feedback 07:22 - Today’s Episode 08:01 - This Time in History 19:44 - Episode Discussion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iqLsXJYWY Support the show directly: https://trekintime.show/join/ Au...

Matt and Sean talk about a simple yet timely message, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 7, “Day of the Dove.” Chapters 00:00: Intro 02:34: Viewer feedback 04:48: Today's episode 05:16: This time in history 09:56: Episode discussion Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqn3T99GLvk Support the show directly: https://trekintime.show/join/ Audio version of the podcast: https://www.t...

https://youtu.be/3tNbHklGoYs Matt and Sean talk about Oracles, Asteroids and Marriage, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 8, “For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky”  (00:00) - - Intro (02:16) - - Viewer Feedback (04:28) - - Today's Episode (05:13) - - This Time in History (15:47) - - Episode Discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version o...

https://youtu.be/JgJ9kUYSTrk Matt and Sean talk about rips in space, space madness, and Tholians, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 9, “The Tholian Web.”  (00:00) - - Intro (01:23) - - Viewer feedback (04:53) - - Today's episode (06:00) - - This time in history (10:14) - - Episode discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version of the podcast: https://w...

https://youtu.be/NFX_zA9iHMI Matt and Sean talk about feeling the vibes and torturous experiments, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 12, “The Empath.” (00:00) - - Intro (01:12) - - Viewer feedback (05:18) - - Today's episode (06:00) - - This time in history (08:40) - - Episode discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version of the podcast: https://www.t...

https://youtu.be/KIXnP7lp690 Matt and Sean talk about where ugliness truly dwells, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 5, “Is There No Truth in Beauty.”  (00:00) - - Intro (01:34) - - Viewer Feedback (04:28) - - Today's Episode (04:57) - - This Time in History (09:42) - - Episode Discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version of the podcast: https://www....

https://youtu.be/cQBJ79vM7cE Matt and Sean talk about doubling down on empathy in the season finale of Starfleet Academy Season 1, Episode 10, “Rubincon.”  (00:00) - - Intro (01:40) - - Viewer Feedback (04:33) - - Today's Episode (05:05) - - This Time in History (07:18) - - Episode Discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version of the podcast: https://w...

https://youtu.be/iFLREcGjtNc Matt and Sean talk about end of year celebration turning dark in Starfleet Academy Season 1, Episode 9, “300th Night.”  (00:00) - - Intro (01:58) - - Viewer Feedback (04:57) - - Today's Episode (06:37) - - This Time in History (07:53) - - Episode Discussion YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime Audio version of the podcast: https://www.trek...