Treks and the City

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode fourteen, "In Purgatory's Shadow." Topics include Alice's upcoming trip to Spain, the sheer number of apartments some Europeans have, Skyler's recent little jaunts to the movies, when and where Bashir got kidnapped, the shame of wasting a cool name like "Enabran Tain" on character as dull as Enabran Tain, Bradley Cooper's fil...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode thirteen, "For the Uniform." Topics include getting back to the warm bath of a so-so episode, what you're allowed to bring into a Best Buy, whether or not Skyler's too cagey about the people he knows and the life he leads, Alice being wrong about which house was the Mary Tyler Moore house, Scott Pelley absolutely going off on...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twelve, "The Begotten." Topics include Skyler's trip to France, what "Philadelphia" evokes in the imagination, the sheer workload David Remnick is under on any given week, the silliness of acting when your scene partner's a jar of honey, tapping your pals who don't play music to play music at your delivery, their feelings on...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eleven, "The Darkness and the Light." Topics include the career of Bryan Fuller, the songwriting skills having cats leads to, smoky transporter skeletons, having a low-key birthday with some low-key vegan Italian food and bad service, loving the song "My Hometown" from Eurovision Song Contest , Kira's Bajoran terrorism backgr...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode ten, "Rapture." Topics include Alice being in New York, what kind of rapture Sisko's actually experiencing, Dax "Mona Lisa"-ing the big Bajoran painting of the cold open, what Bane actually said, where the hell a certain signature in Alice's "get well soon" card is, filling in Jarmusch blind spots, the power of National Treas...

This week on the Star Trek podcast Treks and the City , Alice and Skyler are of course wrapping up the Garry Marshall Day trilogy by covering its final entry, 2016's Mother's Day . Topics include actually spotting Timothy Olpyhant, people bringing babies to bars, what's going on with the number of characters named "Trey" in the Tana French Cal Hooper novels, Margot Martindale being saddled with a...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode nine, "The Ascent." Topics include the types of pastries they're both fans of, period yurts, what day of the week it in fact is, the kinds of people who'll talk to painters painting, off-the-beaten-path workplaces, screwing up Godot , chic survival looks, whether the station is "huge" or "enormous" or a mystery third size, th...

This week, Alice and Skyler are detouring from DS9 with another Danny Solomon-led BLOCKBUSTER return to The Next Generation to rank the times other members of the crew filled in for Picard. Together, they discuss rushing into the sun, what Garret's up to, the need for space gossip, where Geordi's rizz is, ensigns forgetting their place, how King Ralph surely influenced TNG , the kinds of sports re...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eight, "Things Past." Topics include enriching the art-museum-going experience with some live commentary, the way Alice was like a certain element of Mulholland Drive at the start of the record this week, getting jealous about the Artemis II astronauts, book talk, dialing back the "Odo as a solid" story decision, Bashir and W...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode seven, "Let He Who Is Without Sin...." Topics include ruined horny getaways, proper inviting-yourself-to-carpool-on-a-trip etiquette, Worf not being able to hang with Dax, how good " White Lotus on a distant planet" sounds as an idea, annoying finger-wagging space moralizers, the erotic power of clay, just how hot a misused g...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode six, "Trials and Tribble-ations" AND Futurama season four, episode eleven, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before." Topics include this DS9 episode absolutely rocking, checking for Gump, helping your aunt navigate contacting you, not seeing celebrities at restaurants, good fans and bad fans, sending a new crew to work in the general v...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode five, "The Assignment." Topics include the effectiveness of book marketing on Skyler, where Garret has gone and what the hell he's doing there, Tony Gilroy's upcoming cello movie, dogs under the bed, adding muscle to your back, all the cool ads Memory Alpha's providing its visitors, Alice's dance moves, Keiko getting possesse...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode four, "Nor the Battle to the Strong." Topics include birthday planning, the recent sort-of Trek live show, Sex and the City rocking, whether or not Jake really has any business in battle, space The Pitt , Bashir the bad interview subject, just how smart it is for the show to keep trying to recreate extremely complicated work...

This week, Alice and Skyler are getting Side Trekked again to celebrate February, which is both Black History Month and the month in which Valentine's Day happens to cover Garry Marshall's 2010 film Valentine's Day . Topics include the ways the film is like Crash , how simple headphone tech is in 2026, Kristen Schaal rocking, Emma Roberts not rocking, kids who are fans of things kids aren't always...

This week, Alice and Skyler are joined by the incredible Zila Treks ( @ZilaTreks ) to discuss DS9 season five, episode three, "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places." Together, they cover Zila's Trek s history, how fun it is to see a horny episode, catty Odo cocking his head, ignoring the Dax right in front of you, angry lore reply guys, how happy you should be for someone checking out TNG...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five episode two, "The Ship." Together, they cover the value of re-introducing the show for any car passengers, why Skyler found this episode cool while Alice found it "boring," what band originated the song "Africa," acceptable mansplaining, making friends via flyer, Worf's apartment habits, The Thing , and much, much more! Listen!! Links...

Production note! Going forward, Patreon will be where you can hear the episodes early and without ads!! Free episodes will come out with ads on this feed a few days later. This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five episode one, "Apocalypse Rising." Topics include how any and all Sex and the City chat is entirely on-topic for this show, pulling a Samantha (i.e. not doing the Tr...

Production note! Going forward, Patreon will be where you can hear the episodes early and without ads!! Free episodes will come out with ads on this feed a few days later. This week, Alice and Skyler are joined once again by the great Paul F. Tompkins ( BoJack Horseman , Varietopia ) to cover the DS9 season four finale, "Broken Link" (which we really DO get to this episode, no apologies!!!). Topic...

Production note! Going forward, Patreon will be where you can hear the episodes early and without ads!! Free episodes will come out with ads on this feed a few days later. This week, Alice and Skyler are joined once again by the great Paul F. Tompkins ( BoJack Horseman , Varietopia ) to cover the DS9 season four finale, "Broken Link" (which we really don't get to at all this episode, apologies!!!)...

This week, Alice and Skyler are wrapping up their month of holiday-centric Side Trekked specials (sorry to the fans of them/you're welcome to the haters of them)!! To ring in 2026, they could think of no better way than to discuss Garry Marshall's extremely on-theme 2011 film New Year's Eve . Topics include the sheer tonnage of famous people in it, ruining "Auld Lang Syne," wrapping their minds ar...

This week, Alice and Skyler are joined yet again by the great Ben Rodgers ( ActionBoyz , Star Trek: Lower Decks ), for another holiday-centric Side Trekked special!! Together, they're discussing the 1989 Tales from the Crypt Christmas episode "And All Through the House." Topics include where Ben knows the Lawrence brothers from, what Ben and Skyler thought of Hamnet (mild spoilers for Hamnet aroun...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back for another holiday-centric Side Trekked special episode, this time with the amazing Danielle Perez ( Ballard , @DivaDelux) !! Together, they're discussing 2021's Mistletoe Mixup . Topics include how Andrew Lawrence is the film's Ben Affleck, clever uses of Covid restaurant bubbles, whether or not the titular "mixup" is all that clear, the online knot-tying com...

This week, Alice and Skyler are kicking off their month (save for last week, their mistake) of holiday-centric Side Trekked specials!! First up, they're discussing two Futurama Christmas episodes—S2E04, "Xmas Story," and S3E03, "A Tale of Two Santas." Together, they cover robots whose naughty/nice standards are too high, whether or not parents should be lying about their ability to get mail to San...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss saying things on podcasts, what really constitutes "beachfront" in this day and age, a restaurant Skyler likes (which Skyler found out after recording HAS CLOSED), making listeners become out of money, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode twenty five, "Body Parts." Topics include whether or not the writers n...

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss what the film Entrapment is REALLY about, the ways in which Alice is exactly like The Dodgers, scheduling schemes, the best way to deflate Cillian Murphy's big ole' ego, listener comments, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode twenty four, "The Quickening." Topics include whether or not this episode's a littl...