Twin Cities Trekkies

A discussion of "Impulse" from Season Three of Enterprise. Part of the Xindi War Saga, the story deals with the NX-01 coming across a Vulcan ship, the Seleya. The crew have been turned into mindless murderous zombies with no emotional control as the Trellium-D has damaged their brains to the point of no return. T'Pol, who is part of the landing party, begins to exhibit the same sympt...

"Tomorrow's Enterprise." In the fourth season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , the Enterprise - both in the present and one year in the future - are exploring a white and black hole respectively. However, when the ships get trapped in its grips, Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) becomes aware of the future Enterprise and try and save Scotty from being killed. In this livestream aud...

"Once La'An a Time." In the penultimate episode of the last ten-episode season of Strange New Worlds, the Enterprise returns to the world of the Elysian Kingdom. There, La'An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) faces her toughest enemy yet - herself. In this livestream audio only version of the Saturday live episode of Twin Cities Trekkies, Wes talks about the episode and exciting ne...

"Orders of Magnitude." In the second-to-last episode of Strange New Worlds' fourth season, Admiral Reeger (Joe Morton) takes command of the U.S.S. Enterprise on a chase to track down a ship that killed five million Federation citizens, including his family. James Kirk, on vacation from the Farragut, is temporarily assigned as first officer. They track the ship down, but what ensues i...

"Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass." In the seventh episode of Season Four of Strange New Worlds, the crew of the Enterprise is put into a soap opera like setting thanks to the trickster omnipotent Trelane (Rhys Darby) who is conducting an experiment with the crew to impress his fellow Q. In what is obviously a nod to the old NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, the episode became one o...

"Off-Hour." In the sixth episode of Strange New Worlds ' fourth season, the Starship Enterprise is violently thrown off-course and into a slipstream wormhole, where the ship starts to accelerate past its operational limits. Running in real-time, the crew must work together in separate areas to regain moderate control and escape before the ship accelerates out of control. In this audi...

"Level-Five Transporter Accident." In the fifth episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a transporter mishap turns the crew - sans Spock - into velvety puppets. There, they must try and fend off an Orion pirate attack on the ship, but pandemonium ensues. In an exclusive partnership with Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Strange New Worlds decided to go where no Star...

"A Case of Chiaroscuro." In the fourth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' fourth season, Una, M'Benga, and Uhura are trapped on an alien world that only works in black and white monochromatic colors and live a very 1940s esque lifestyle. Unfortunately, it has been a conquered planet of the Klingon Empire, and the occupier, Kor is being met with a quiet and subtle resistance cell, who was l...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Star Trek Beyond . Beyond is the last theatrical film to date. The film was released on July 22, 2016, to lower-than-normal box office of the three Kelvin Timeline films and also due to "Sequelitis" that plagued the summer of 2016. The film was Paramount's SOLE successful film of the year. The film's underperformance scrapped plans for a planne...

"Human Best Friend" In the third episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fourth season, the main crew takes some R & R on a vacation planet. Ortegas (Melissa Navia) wakes up with a bad hangover and tries to piece together what happened, while the Enterprise continues on course for a planet to meet for negotiations. However, while trying to piece together what happened, she runs into...

REUPLOADED WITH NEW MUSIC! Galaxy Quest . Released in 1999 to spoof sci-fi fandom culture and Star Trek , the film is a cult classic amongst the Star Trek fan community, even voted as one of the best Star Trek movies, even though it is not a Star Trek movie. It starred actors who were known or were known and went on to do better things for themselves. In this episode of Twin Cities Trekkies, which...

REUPLOADED WITH NEW MUSIC! Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: First Contact . Following the release of Star Trek Generations and how much of a success it was, Paramount told Rick Berman to prepare the next film starring the cast of The Next Generation . Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga wanted to bring back the Borg, and Berman wanted a time travel story. They decided to combine the tw...

A live discussion about Data. An artificial being created by a human, Data is everything that humans can aspire to be. However, is he more human than even his crewmates from the Starship Enterprise made him out to be? In this episode of Twin Cities Trekkies, which was recorded live at CONvergence 2026: The Geek in the Machine convention on July 4, 2026, Wes and four others examine this particular...

The yearly Year in New Trek panel live from CONvergence. For the third straight year, Twin Cities Trekkies attended CONvergence, the annual sci-fi and fantasy convention in downtown Minneapolis. This year's theme was Geek in the Machine , which celebrated robots, cyborgs and androids. Of course, what sci-fi and fantasy convention wouldn't be complete without some Star Trek thrown in? In th...

REUPLOADED WITH NO COPYRIGHTED MUSIC! Celebrating 35 Years of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. After the release of The Final Frontier , Paramount was not keen on making another Star Trek film. There were ideas bandied about, and even a prequel got so far as the storyboarding stage before being abandoned in favor of a final film starring the original cast. Released on December 6, 1991, to c...

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. After the relative failure of The Final Frontier , Paramount likely did not want to do another Star Trek feature film. A prequel was bandied about, but the looming 25th anniversary in 1991 convinced the studio to make one more adventure with the Original Series cast. Produced in time for the 1991 25th anniversary, the film...

REUPLOADED WITH NEW MUSIC! Spaceballs . Mel Brooks' 1987 sci-fi spoof film parodied everything from Star Wars , to Alien , and even Star Trek . While this is technically not a Star Trek film, the film did parody some aspects of it - even including a cameo from future Voyager star Tim Russ. In this episode of Twin Cities Trekkies, which constitutes the second part of the podcast's second Star Trek...

Spaceballs. In 1987, legendary filmmaker Mel Brooks wanted to create a Star Wars- like spoof film. He got permission from Star Wars creator George Lucas to create such a film. Spaceballs was a modest box office hit, but in the nearly four decades since its release, the film has become an instant cult classic. The cult classic status of the original film has led to a sequel, Spaceballs: The New One...

Reuploaded with non-copyrighted music! Celebrating 40 years of  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Shortly after  Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  came out, Paramount wanted to lock down Leonard Nimoy to direct its sequel. They wanted his vision this time unlike the last film, and after an original script that included Eddie Murphy and the Klingon bird-of-prey decloaking at the Super Bowl was scra...

Celebrating 40 years of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Shortly after Star Trek III: The Search for Spock came out, Paramount wanted to lock down Leonard Nimoy to direct its sequel. They wanted his vision this time unlike the last film, and after an original script that included Eddie Murphy and the Klingon bird-of-prey decloaking at the Super Bowl was scrapped, the film was finally ready to go to...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - a discussion about Season Three and predictions for Season Four and beyond. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will premiere its fourth season on July 23rd on Paramount+, and as such we have another ten episodes to explore. In this episode of Twin Cities Trekkies, Wes talks about seasons three and four of the series. Any feedback you have can be submitted to the Facebook...

Jonathan Archer and James T. Kirk. Two legendary captains of the Starship Enterprise. Two legends who made names for themselves in the earliest parts of Humanity's trek through the stars with early Starfleet and Federation history. In this episode of Twin Cities Trekkies - which is a partial rebroadcast of episodes 21 and 39 - Wes and Kenzie analyze both Jonathan Archer and James Kirk. PROGRAM...

The cancellation of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Wes' speculation about the future of Star Trek. On March 23, 2026, shortly after the season finale of the first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , news came that Paramount+ is cancelling the series after the recently-shot second season. To many who were against the series from the beginning, the news came as a relief. To many who enjoy...

The season finale of Starfleet Academy. In the season finale, we pick up right after the cliffhanger of “300th Night.” The Federation is trapped behind a massive barrier of Omega‑47 mines , a catastrophic technology capable of destroying subspace if detonated. The U.S.S. Athena , with the cadets aboard, is stranded on the wrong side of the minefield. Meanwhile, Nus Braka —the season’s main antagon...

The ninth episode of Starfleet Academy. In this episode, Caleb Mir , who finally uncovers the truth behind the mysterious messages he has been receiving. After decrypting a hidden trail of communications, he learns that his mother—long believed dead—is actually alive but stranded on Ukeck, a planet under invasion by the Venari Ral. This revelation propels the episode into a rescue narrative with h...