In the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, sometimes the only way to understand each other is to literally get inside someone’s head. But even shared memories can lead to very different conclusions. Jim and Talitha reflect the duality of a Star Trek fan as they trade perspectives on the episode’s highs and lows.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend in the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Surviving a hostile planet full of centipedes is no problem. Disagree. Learning to trust your worst enemy? Never easy. Agree. Jim, A.Ron, and Talitha discuss this episode’s lost-in-translation moments and the character arc of one Lieutenant Ortegas.
Jim, A.Ron, and Talitha felt this episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds deep in their katras. A slightly fantastical plan leaves the crew even more logical than usual, but does Captain Pike’s new hairstyle really hold up under scrutiny? Our hosts dig into the humor of over-analysis in this season’s requisite comedic Star Trek episode.
What IS Starfleet? Militaristic colonists? Kind-hearted explorers? Beto really ruffles some feathers with his documentary, mostly Jim’s feathers. Can Talitha and Jim find and face the truth in this documentary about our beloved Starfleet? Or are your hosts taking vast amounts of copium?
Kirk is bored by the USS Farragut’s mission. But just as he vents his frustrations, a behemoth of a ship destroys the planet they were studying. With the captain injured and ship functions critical, the USS Enterprise beams over its best and brightest to help acting captain Kirk find his confidence in the chaos. Join Jim, A.Ron, and Talitha as they discuss the sehlat of it all.
Star Trek. The final frontier. These are the podcasts of three enthusiastic nerds. Talitha is back from her deep space mission to talk Trek with Jim and A.Ron. In this episode, the landing party deals with drama, demons, and disappearances. Can the party make it out alive? And can the hosts survive the gut-punch of this usually light-hearthed series?
Mystery and murder on the holodeck! La’an steps into the shoes of her favorite fictional detective, Dixon Hill Amelia Moon, to solve the case and escape a malfunctioning holodeck. No surprises there. After all, this is Star Trek. Holodeck malfunctions are a familiar plot device. The solution might surprise you though.
*You got your zombies in my Star Trek!* – *Mom, Jimmy got his Star Trek in my zombies!* Join us for a discussion about what Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is doing right and wrong by dipping its toes into the zombie waters.
Ready for some tonal whiplash? Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – S03E02 – “Wedding Bell Blues” goes straight from Hegemony all the way to Darby with a light comedy episode featuring some nods to the original series.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is on us like a swarm of Gorn on digestion chamber intruders. There’s lots of good stuff including the some impressive action sequences, a healthy dose of Treknobabble, and a well-acted tearjerker of a scene. And then there’s the bad, which mostly consists of our chair-focused pitches…