X-Treks

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where it's just.... really fucking cold? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Ice". Yeah! Nailing this theme!   Join Stella and Erin as they watch both the Federation and The Feds battle inner turmoil and frostbite alike. Remember, if you're cold so is your baby snake in...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where someone get's a crime pinned on them that they didn't commit (even if it's only VERY briefly)? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Court Martial" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Fire". Revenge is in the air and jet fuel is in the paint as Stella and Erin figure out whodunnit and who didn't. That old friend? Your spic...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have... Ok, you know what? We don't have to do this for this one. Kirk wears tight red pants and Mulder wears a red speedo at some point in these episodes. That's it. That's the theme. Do you need more?! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Charlie X" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Duane Barry" and "Ascension" (the red speedo happens in...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters struggle with the immense weight of familial friction? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Journey To Babel" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Beyond The Sea".   Sad dads, mad lads, assassins and ghosts, egads! Join Erin and Stell as they untangle intergalactic espionage and ethereal investigations all sung...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where humanity grapples with it's own technological creations and the concept of what it means to be human? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Kill Switch".   Join Stella and Erin as they discuss what it means to be "living", if machines created by humans could ever...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where mankind struggles with it's relationship to other animals whether they be invisible, alien, or intangible? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Arena" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Fearful Symmetry".   Tigers, Elephants, and Gorn! Oh, gosh! Join Stella and Erin as they watch space sensualists and spooky smolderers...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the men are just like... the worst? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Is The In Truth No Beauty?" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Mulder And Scully Meet The Weremonster." Join Stella and Erin as they UGH and BLEH at these bros and their confidence issues. Don't Starfleet and the FBI have health plans that pay for t...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters undergo a mental transference and trade physical forms with someone else? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Return To Tomorrow," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Dreamland 1 & 2." For real this time! On purpose! Join Stella and Erin as they discuss all the freaky Friday friction that ensues when our hero...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode that attempts to retroactively fix something within it's universe's continuity, or create an issue that needs to be fixed later?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Errand Of Mercy" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"... at least, until we change it later.   Join Stella and Erin as they discuss...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where spectral entities or unseen forces haunt and taunt the main characters? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Tholian Web," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas." Join Stella and Erin for tales of innerspace specters, aspirational apparitions, and the contentious couples they come across!...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where villains use tricks of the eye or change their physical forms to fool the unsuspecting heroes? For Stella Cheeks, it's (kind of) the Star Trek TOS episode "Mudd's Women," and for Erin Cline, it's (maybe) the X-Files episodes "Terms Of Endearment." Ok look, no amount of alliteration will cover up the fact that the theme of this episode is looser...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where doctors or dictators dabble in DNA debauchery? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Space Seed," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Eve." It's season 2 of X-Treks, and it starts with two tales of ribosomal rumbles! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen...

Please enjoy the first episode of our very real, totally not a joke, podcast - Unofficial Channels. As a result of X-Treks, Stella has a new tsunami level thirst for Mitch Pileggi. Unfortunately, he's not in every X-Files episode they watch, so consider Unofficial Channels a thirst triage! Normally, this is a Patreon exclusive podcast, but to celebrate X-Treks Season Two and announce our Patreon's...

Erin Cline & Stella Cheeks are back for X-Treks season two. The beliefs are bolder, the truth is seekier and the ships are PROUD and LOUD.  Buckle up and bring a friend. It's going to be a wild ride!  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriously, they used...

What's it like to watch an entire season of a show in order after you've only ever seen 20 random episodes? Will it change your perspective of the show? Or is your gut instinct right? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Bobby gave Stella the green light to watch X-Files season one (mostly) and Stella finally learns that aliens are the least interesting thing about the X-Files a...

What's the worst version of your favorite tv show, and how can you convince your friend to hate it with you? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Stella watch the movie Star Trek (2009) and discuss how something as clever as an alternate Star Trek TOS universe could have gone so straight and so wrong! Join us as we go out of our Vulcan minds discussing the brief highs and deep l...

It's our season 1 retrospective episode!   Join Erin, Stella, and Bobby as we look back on our journey through season 1 of X-Treks in which two old friends share their favorite sci-fi shows with one another for the first time ever! We reminisce over all we've seen and learned while hinting towards the show's future. No episodes, ALL FEELINGS! --- About the podcast:   Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks h...

What's your FAVORITE episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show (that your friend hasn't seen yet)?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "A Piece Of The Action," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Goldberg Variation."  Grab your heater and count yourself lucky with a surprise Chicago gangster showdown (that's never actually in Chicago) as Erin and Stella put these two gre...

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where one of the main characters gets reunited with a long-lost or even a previously unknown sibling? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Operation -- Annihilate!" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Colony" and "Endgame"... at least for the first time it happens.   Brother!? (DUN DUNNN) Sister?! (BWOONNG) Join Stella and Eri...

Does your favorite TV show have an episode that takes it's characters into a parallel dimension where everything you thought you knew has changed?  For Stella Cheeks, that's the Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Lost Art of The Forehead Sweat".  It's the granddaddy of all AU fics and the X-File to end all x-files! Spock's got a beard, Reggie m...

What episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show also brings in an element of the mystical, fantastical, or just blatantly theatrical art of magic to the forefront? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Catspaw," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Amazing Maleeni."  Can the X-Trekkies remain cool cats in the face of such spectacle, or will they lose their heads? You won't h...

What episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show properly illustrates the horrors of humanoid military conflict? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "A Taste of Armageddon" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Kitten." Lopsided in title, yes, but not in social commentary! War, what IS it good for? Episodes for this podcast, apparently. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stell...

Which episode from your favorite TV show gives a sense of altered reality and perspective? (Or just references Alice In Wonderland directly and also rules?)  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Shore Leave" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Monday."  It's two top-tier episodes from each show in a podcast, so nice you could relax and listen to it twice! (Or has it been th...

Space...the final frontier... it's out there. Which episode of your favorite show depicts the exploration and impact of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Changeling" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Space." (Just ... "Space"? Really? Nice work Carter.)  Join us as Stella and Erin face off against rogue probes and...

What's the episode of your favorite show in which EVERYTHING goes completely batcrap crazy? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Naked Time" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Fight Club."  Swords, songs, sewers, and submissions! Grab an extra scoop of ice cream and watch out for broken glass as we give in to the total chaos of these episodes.  --- About the podcast: E...