Trekkin Up North Podcast

It's another fantastic episode from our Dabo Wheel of Honour. This week we're reviewing the season 3 Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Similitude" with special guest and Enterprise's Ensign Walsh, Duncan K Fraser! Similitude is an episode that delves into the ethics and morality of medicine in desperate situations as Captain Archer gives permission to create a clone of the critically injured Chief En...

Science Officer Synoiz and Captain Goodwill are back with another episode from the Dabo Wheel of Honour! "Yesterday's Enterprise" from Star Trek The Next Generation is the episode that sees the return of fan favourite Natasha Yar, leads to the birth of the villainous Sela, and gives us the amazing Captain Rachel Garrett (let's hope she doesn't get ruined as a character in future media eh?). It's a...

The Prophets of Bajor have smiled upon us with this choice from the Dabo Wheel of Honour. This episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine has everything, espionage, space battles, murder, dastardly villains, divine intervention, and of course: hasperat soufflé.  Telling the season 6 story of Captain Benjamin Sisko's retaking of DS9 from the Dominion, "Sacrifice of Angels" is one of the pivotal mome...

A controversial one here from our Dabo Wheel of Shame. Will "Profit and Lace" from Deep Space Nine be seen as a progressive episode today or has it aged terribly? In this we see Quark's misogyny turned on its head when he's forced to become a she and fight for the rights of all Ferengi women. We get a lot of great performances in this, a threat against both women and the Ferengi alliance, and the...

Well thanks to Science Officer Synoiz failing last week's challenge we're reviewing one of our worst episodes of Star Trek from the Dabo Wheel of Shame™ this week. "The Fight" is from season 5 of Voyager and is one of the most confusingly structured episodes of the entire show. We've got all the usual tropes: Chakotay's awkwardly written Native American catchphrases, plot device aliens that are ne...

Another episode from our Dabo Wheel of Honour, this time picked by Science Officer Synoiz. This is one of the finest episodes of Enterprise where we get to see Trek at its finest. Season 2 episode 14: "Stigma" where vulcan first officer T'Pol has to deal with her ongoing medical condition and the stigma associated with it from wider vulcan society. This episode is a very poignant way for Trek to a...

We're gonna be honest, this attempt at an "epic conclusion" to season 3 just doesn't really land and we struggled with it. A lot happens, there's a lot of flashy special effects, and the return of the evil "not a pah-wraith but probably should have been" from earlier in the season that I don't think we really cared about. The most important part of the episode is the loss of Captain Batel and an i...

Finally! We've waited so long but we at last get our first proper Erica Ortegas (she flies the ship) episode of Strange New Worlds. Despite being one of the incredible ensemble cast of three seasons we've never gotten a plot centred around her before now, but in "Terrarium" we see her stranded on a dead planet and having to make friends with an unlikely ally (spoilers it's a gorn). There's themes...

A controversial episode here in season 3 of Strange New Worlds. A comedy episode that some fans felt didn't quite hit the mark where members of the crew are transformed into vulcans and find that they don't want to be changed back (where's Janeway when we need her?). Spoilers but we absolutely loved this episode and found the comedy to be nicely refreshing after so many edgy episodes this season....

It's an awkward one here as we find out (from the perspective of an incredibly biased source) "What Is Starfleet?" in what can be seen as a very cringe critique of guerilla journalism. This episode has a lot of potential but the premise is one we've had too many times before and while the series has been setting it up with the inclusion of Ortegas' brother, it both feels too soon and not foreshado...

The crew of the Enterprise come across an infamous ancient scavenger ship while Kirk is thrust into his first role as Captain. What are the mysterious origins of these scavengers? Will they all survive? Who cares, we have Pelia, telephones, and a very niche Grateful Dead reference so we're fine. Check out our review of "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" (should it be "that ate its tail"?) here on Trekk...

We've got very mixed feelings about this episode of Strange New Worlds. It's very dark and fairly grisly with seemingly big reprecussions for elsewhere in the lore. Plus a character who'd they'd been building up gets red-shirted in a way. It feels a bit too much like Discovery at times but you'll have to listen to our Trekkin Up North review to see how we really feel as we break down each part of...

A really interesting new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds here as the crew are asked to test out an experimental new technology: The holodeck. It's a fun take on the holodeck concept with each of the cast taking on different roles inside the murder mystery which parallels the run of the original series and even includes a proxy for Roddenberry himself. What did we think of it though? Well...

Zombies? In Star Trek? Ooooh would you believe! This is a crazy episode of the show where we see M'Benga (with some help from Pike) slipping back into his assassin training to find a cure for Batel's condition on a seemingly deserted planet. All of this while the Enterprise have to deal with not upsetting the Klingons! We had slightly differing opinions on this episode which all come out in the di...

We've massively enjoyed the first two seasons of Star Trek Strange New Worlds and can't wait to begin our review of season 3. How will this compare to the previous ones? In this edition we're reviewing the first two episodes of the new season, "Hegemony (Part II)" and "Wedding Bell Blues", two very different stories. The first sees more lore on the mysterious Gorn and resolves the cliffhanger from...

Captain Goodwill and Science Officer Synoiz finally get the chance to review an extremely pivotal two-parter in Star Trek history from The Dabo Wheel of Honour. The Best of Both Worlds was where Star Trek changed forever and the repercussions of these amazing episodes are still felt to this day. Whether it's through the plot of Star Trek Picard or the spin off movies from TNG, the events of Voyage...

It's clunky, it's badly paced, part two kinda forgets about most of the setup from part one, but is "Time's Arrow" Star Trek The Next Generation's worst two parter? Join Captain Goodwill and Science Officer Synoiz as they have a Lower Decks inspired "Twain Off" (in full costume if you watch on the YouTube) as they discuss this infamous episode of the show from The Dabo Wheel of Shame in which the...

One of Science Officer Synoiz's favourite episodes of Star Trek ever here, finally reviewed on the show. "The Drumhead" from Star Trek The Next Generation goes deep into themes that are still very relevant to the modern day. What happens when distrust is so firmly set into a culture that conspiracies are seen everywhere and justice becomes more about proving yourself right than being impartial? In...

One of Captain Goodwill's picks for The Dabo Wheel of Shame here. While Prodigy is an excellent show in our opinion, is "Kobayashi" one of its weakest episodes? Dal is getting to grips with his self-appointed rank of captain and calls on training from holograms of famous Trek characters to help. This episode is notable There's disagreement between our two hosts here but can the Captain be talked r...

What could be better than reviewing an episode of The Original Series on Trekkin Up North? How about one about PTSD! One of the most iconic episodes of Star Trek ever is covered this week as The Dabo Wheel of Honour gives us "The Doomsday Machine" from season two of TOS. We meet Commodore Matt Deck and the infamous ship swallowing, planet destroying machine itself. What did we think of this episod...

Seen by many as the point where Star Trek Voyager finds its footing and cements itself as a fan favourite, in "The Gift" we welcome former Borg drone Seven of Nine into the regular cast and say farewell to one of the show's worst used characters Kes. In this episode of Trekkin Up North we go over what makes this episode so noteworthy and discuss a lot about the character of Kes, why she was such a...

A controversial choice for the Dabo Wheel of Shame from Science Officer Synoiz here despite Deep Space Nine being his favourite series of Star Trek. Was the premier two-parter episode "Emissary" a shaky start to the show? What are our thoughts on this, and following the discussion does it really deserve to be in the Dabo Wheel of Shame? Join Captain Goodwill and Synoiz on this episode of Trekkin U...

We love a court room episode of Trek here at Trekkin Up North, and this one is no exception. We covered "Ad Astra Per Aspera" back as part of season two of Strange New Worlds and it set our phasers to stunned. From the stellar performances of the guest stars and the joy of an Una episode, to showing how well the show can work even without Pike being front and centre, there was no way this wasn't g...

We're back after a long absence on the streaming platforms and what better way to herald our return than with our review of one of the most terrible movies either of us has ever seen. Section 31 was the long-heralded new Star Trek movie starring Hollywood heavyweight Michelle Yeoh, based upon her character from Star Trek: Discovery.  You really should listen to this review as it was one of th...

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