10Backward - A LowerDecks Podcast

Episode Notes Hello lovely listeners!! We continue our watch through of season 3 of Picard and... Look, you've seen it, you know what's been going down! (And if you haven't seen it, maybe go do so before you listen to this!) So what are our hot takes this episode? Find out within...

Picard Season 3 - Imposters Hello lovely listeners! Our episode by episode analysis of this season of Picard continues onwards as we hit the halfway point! What did we think of this episode? Is it continuing the dizzying highs? Find out by listening!

Picard season 3 episode 4 Welcome to our latest episode! We continue our look at the episodes of Picard's third season by examining episode 4. What did we think? Does it maintain the performance so far? Find out within...

Picard Season 3 episode 3 Hello and welcome back to our ongoing set of episodes about the first three episodes of Picard season 3! I say ongoing, this is the last one, but fear not, we are planning to carry on with this so we will pretty much cover all episodes! Anyway, enjoy this one in the meantime! It's pretty great! And still has the awesome Rob Chapman guesting!

Picard Season 3 Part 2 We're continuing our look at Picard Season 3 first 3 episodes with part two of our discussion with the awesome Rob Chapman still joining us to discuss the wonders of Picard!

Picard Season 3 - The Next Generation Hello lovely patrons! Welcome to a new episode, early released for you. With the debut of Picard's 3rd season, we're going to dedicate a little time to looking at these episodes and to help us, we've got the awesome returning guest, Rob Chapman! Here, we start of with Episode 1, The Next Generation.

Romulans - Balance of Terror Hello lovely listeners and welcome to our latest episode! We've decided we're going to have some ongoing fun looking at the way the Romulans are developed across the various Trek series, so here that begins with us looking at the first appearance, all the way back in the Original Series episode, Balance of Terror!

Obsessed with Obsession Hello and welcome to our latest episode. This time we are talking about the original series episode Obsession, which deals with some different themes and character moments for Captain Kirk renowned space hero.

Episode Notes Welcome to the latest episode of 10Backward. This time, we continue our series of defending the less celebrated episodes by looking for the good in Wolf in the Fold. Often seen as having some problematic moments, we see if these overwhelm the episode or if there's a good episode buried amongst the misogyny.

Aaron Waltke Interview In our latest episode, we interview Star Trek Prodigy Writer, Co-Producer, Co-Executive Producer and Story Editor Aaron Waltke. We ask him about writing for Trek, some of the Prodigy writing and so forth.

When they got away with it This episode, we're talking about times the crew did something questionable but... Got away with it. It was glossed over, or tucked into the background, just to advance the plot. Who are we calling out? Are they justified or will we condemn them to the brig?

Horld Pt 2 - Stranger and Newer Hello and welcome to our latest episode! Following on from our earlier discussion about Strange New Worlds, we are completing our look at it's first season by talking through the final 5 episodes. What did we think? Are we liking it? Or is it too strange and new? And Worlds? Which of us has a massive crush on Captain Pike? (Spoiler, it's all of us) Find out by listening and enjoy

Bill Blair - The Alien Actor Our latest episode has us interviewing the incredible Bill Blair, known as 'The Alien Actor' as he holds the Guinness record for most appearances in prosthetics, he's appeared in a lot of sci-fi, including Babylon 5 and most importantly, StarTrek! He is an absolute delight to speak to and has incredible stories, so we hope you enjoy this!  Bill's website: alienactor.com  Bill's Twitter: @billblair4reel https://twitter.com/BillBlair4Ree l

Strange New Worlds It is here! After all the build up and delay of Covid etc. We finally have our new series with Pike, Spock, Una and more! The question is, is it good solid Trek fun? We waited till it was available in the UK and now Paramount + is here, we can talk about it! So this is our lengthy discussion about the first 5 episodes of season 1 of Strange New Worlds! Episode Notes

Episode Notes Hello! Welcome to our latest episode, where we finish our thoughts on the second season of Picard! We previously talked about the first few episodes so here we are mainly concentrating on episodes 4-10.

In Defence of Threshold Hello and welcome to our latest episode, which is another in our series defending those episodes that take a lot of heat, we look to find the good in the Warp 10 barrier breaking, body horror, weird idea of evolution, bad salamander parent-fest that is Threshold! Usually an episode that evokes strong opinions, what do we have to say about it? Find out here.

Son of a Pitch Scome to our latest episode... This time, we have one we've been wanting to do for nearly 2 years, we felt it would work best when we could all get back in a room together and... well that took a while! But we got there and we are happy to present our special episode where we each pitch our ideas for new Trek series! Hope you enjoy!

Butt Naked Talking to Skulls Hello and hi! It's our latest episode, where we discuss 2nd and 3rd episodes of Picard season 2! How do we feel about alternate timeline shenanigans? Do we need a blackboard? What inspired this title? Find out by listening!

Problematic old Grandpa - Picard Season 2 Episode 1 So, you may have noticed that Picard has returned! The long awaited second season began and Amazon Prime have been showing it round the world. How did everyone enjoy that first episode? It was a pretty packed ride wasn't it? We recorded a reaction on Friday after watching, to go through some thoughts. And here are those thoughts!

Episode Notes Hello and welcome to our episode, where we look at the Borg beyond Best of Both Worlds in TNG. Specifically I, Borg and Descent. We discuss the idea that this began a weakening of the Borg and how they are as stories returning TNG's baddest villan. Hope you enjoy!

Piping hot tea and big hats Hello and welcome to our latest episode! We are down to discuss the new trailer for season 2 of Picard which recently dropped and we wanted to get some thoughts out about it before the season started! You may have noticed we are big fans of Picard, so this trailer was a pretty big deal and there's a lot to be excited about in it!

In Defence of: Is there in truth, no beauty? Hello lovely listeners and welcome to a new episode of 10Backward. This time, we're going back to the Original Series to look at a maligned episode that actually has some pretty awesome concepts. But also... is problematic! Can we defend it? Is there enough beauty to overcome the uncomfortable truth?

Cowboy Crossover Capers Howdy pardners! This episode is a mighty fine special event! We've gathered at high noon with the amazing Jenn Tift and Ross Webster of Snap Trek to do a special, Snap Trek comparison of Trek Western episodes! It's a high noon showdown with a lot of fun discussion and cowboy accents thrown in!

More Lower Decks Hello lovely listeners! Hope you've had a good holiday season, apologies for the delays, hopefully we'll get our schedules sorted for 2022! So here's our 2nd part of the LowerDecks season 2 discussion, to finish off 2021. Hope you enjoy and Happy New Year! Stay safe and we'll see you in 2022 for more Trek talking!

Welcome to our latest episode! We've recorded this a little while back, while LowerDecks Season 2 was on and it's our thoughts on the first half of that season! Fair to say, it's a lot of fun! We'll be bringing out thoughts on the second half at you very soon!

Welcome to our latest episode, a bit of a trip back in time, to October 2019, where, at Destination Star Trek, the 10Backward crew did Fight! 2, a sequel to our popular Fight! episode. When I say at Destination Star Trek, I mean, on stage as a schedule panel, they actually let us do that... what were they thinking? Anyway, it was quite a good one, however, we thought it might never be released as the sound quality was poor. We've been working on it and trying our best to minimise the background noise and improve the speaking. So apologies, this isn't the best audio ever, but I think you should be able to hear most of it!

Star Trek Day Reactions 2021 Hello lovely listeners and welcome to our latest episode. We discuss some of the trailers and revelations that came out of the recent Star Trek Day. That's it, that's what we're doing this episode! Its a good discussion though and a lot of exciting stuff to process.

Bonus Interview: T'Pons Theater on Subspace Hello and welcome to our bonus episode featuring the full interview we did with the excellent Rich Masters, who writes for the brilliant T'Pons Theatre. Originally recorded for our 100th episode we had such a great chat with Rich we had more material than we could fit in the episode again so here it all is!

Way of the Warrior Greetings gentle listener and welcome to the latest episode. Here we discuss what is arguably one of Deep Space Nines finest episodes the 4th season opener, Way of the Warrior. Basically we flipping love it and can bang about the great moments and how it compares to The Rock joining the fast and the furious movies. Yeah... That is actually part of it!

In defence of Shades of Grey Hello lovely listeners and welcome to our latest episode, where we take on our toughest challenge and attempt to find something great about The Next Generation's season 2 finale, Shades of Grey. A clip show, in the worst sense of the term, but surely a bunch of clips of Star Trek can be only awesome? What possible defence can we mount for such a widely lambasted episode? Find out by listening!

Bonus Interview - Snap Trek In another of our bonus full interviews recorded for our 100th episode, we talk to Jenn Tiftt and Ross Webster of the excellent Snap Trek podcast and just have a really lovely time, because they're so flipping lovely!

Favourite Enterprise Episodes Hello lovely listeners and welcome to the latest episode of 10Backward. Join us on a long road, getting from there to here, as we all discuss our favourite episodes of Enterprise! It's a pretty happy Enterprise lovefest, with a lot of input from our twitter followers who all tweeted us with their favourites... we couldn't mention them all lest the episode be about 4 hours long, but it gave us a bit to talk about.

In Defence of... Profit and Lace Our latest episode is here early for your wonderful people. We try and find some good things to say about oft crticised DS9 episode Profit and Lace. The one where Quark has to pretend to be a lady! With sexy... wait not sexy, with hilarious... wait, not that hilarious... with results. Just results. Do we find anything good about it? Or can we only conclude everyone is right and this is a rare misfire on the part of DS9?  You... you have to listen to find out. I can't tell you here, I'd get in trouble!

Bonus interview - Vintage 1983 of Trek This Out Hello and welcome! Its another bonus episode, from our full interviews that we recorded for our 100th. Well they were all so flipping good and we couldn't use the full amount of talking so we are releaseing them seperately. Here we chat with Andrea, oft known as Vintage 1983, from the Trek This Out Podcast

The Alternative Factor Hello and welcome to our latest episode. This time is actually an old one. You might remember waaaaay, back in 2019, the beforetimes, Rick did a couple of episodes as a test bed for an idea. Basically he'd have one guest and they'd try to find the good in an episode generally considered not so great. One of these he recorded with the lovely Johnny Staggs where they talked about The Alternative Factor. But... then he lost it! Yeah... the idiot! However, it's turned up from the electronic wilderness and here it is, a bit under 2 years late! Hope you enjoy!

Bonus interview - Trek Ranks Hello and welcome! Its another bonus episode, from our full interviews that we recorded for our 100th. Well they were all so flipping good and we couldn't use the full amount of talking so we're releaseing them seperately. Here we chat with Jim Moorhouse, also known as Enterprise Extra and the genius behind the amazing Trek Ranks podcast.

Dolphins on the D Hello, welcome to a new 10Backward! This time we're talking with some porpoise, discussing the potential of the heard about but never seen Cetecean Ops department on the Enterprise D. We also cover other sea bound life in Trek, such as George and Gracie!

Whom Pods Destroy Hello listeners... this is not an episode! Well it obviously is, but not in our usual run, but another in our series of bonus interviews that we carried out for our 100th episode. So much fun material was recorded, but ended up cut out lest episode 100 end up almost as long as Kirk's journey to the refit Enterprise in the Motion Picture! So here is the full interview with the brilliant Terry Duffelen of excellent UK Trek Podcast, Whom Pods Destroy, which you should also go listen to if you don't already!

Discovery Season 3 Part 2 Hello! Our new episode continues our discussion about season 3 of Discovery. We continue talking about the Burn, the characters and wander off on some strange tangents as always!

Bonus - Trek Book Club interview Remember our 100th Episode? Sure you do, it was only recently! Anyway, we recorded some excellent interviews with some awesome folk and they were so awesome that we talked for ages but couldn't use everything in the episode. So we're releasing full interviews as bonuses! This is our first one, with the excellent Rob Chapman, who created the Trek Book Club.

Discovery season 3 Hello, it's a new episode of 10Backward! We're talking season 3 of Discovery. While we did start discussing this earlier (episode 99, 'Feel the Burn') now the season has concluded, we thought we'd look at the rest. And we did! Here it is, or at least part one of this nacelle detatching discussion!

Voyager Beginning and Ending Part 2 Hello lovely listeners, it's time for part 2 of our discussion about the beginning and ending of Star Trek Voyager. This time we're mainly discussing Endgame, the finale and the end of the journey.

102 Voyager beginning and end - part one Hello, welcome to the latest 10backward. This time we're talking Voyager again, originally because last year was the 25th anniversary but this discussion was bumped to 2021 due to circumstances. Anyway, we decided to discuss the pilot and finale and unsurprisingly, we blathered on so much... It's a two partner! So this episode largely focuses on Caretaker, the pilot and be sure to come back to get more thoughts on Endgame! Enjoy!

101- Noah Averbach-Katz Hello and welcome to a new episode of 10Backward. We were going to talk about Voyager, but an opportunity came up and instead we bring you an interview with Noah Averbach-Katz, who plays Ryn on Star Trek Discovery! We were so pleased to talk to Noah, who is actually even nicer and cooler than he seems on social media! He's bloody lovely and we hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did!

100! Hello! Welcome to our one hundredth flipping episode! We're delighted we've kept going for this long and decided to have a look at why? Why podcast? Why talk about trek? And we enlisted some special guests to help, so we have interviews with Jim Moorhouse of TrekRanks, Ross Webster and Jenn Tift of Snap Trek, Rob Chapman of the TrekBook Club, Rich Masters of T'Pons theatre, Terry Duffelen of Whom Pods Destroy and Andrea of Trek This Out and Team Basement! And thank you listeners for joining us on this journey! We hope you've been enjoying our ramblings, we plan to continue for some time yet!

Feel the Burn Hello and welcome to the latest episode of 10Backward. This time we are discussing the first four episodes of season 3 of Star Trek Discovery. Obviously, if your behind on this series then spoiler alert! Otherwise, we hope you enjoy!

Spooky Halloween Special Hello! We have a special episode this time, we're joined by patrons Rebecca Lockley and Dan Caseley to talk spooky or scary Star Trek episodes for Halloween! It's a long chat, so settle in, dim the lights, grab a bowl of Halloween chocolate if that is your preference and prepare to be scared in no real way as we take a silly look at Trek's spookier side!

Favorite Voyagers Part 2 Welcome to a new episode of 10Backward! This time we're continuing our conversation about our favourite Voyager episodes, with Rick E and Will still to go, what will they choose? Find out by listening!

Favourite Voyager Episodes - Part 1 Hello and welcome to the latest 10Backward! This time we're talking our favorite episodes of Voyager, as part of our marking the 25th anniversary. As expected, we talked so much, we've split it into two parts, so after this, keep an eye out for part 2 coming soon!

The Lower decks Lowdown Hello and welcome to the latest episode of 10Backward. This time we're bringing you a new episode where we discuss the first three episodes of new series, LowerDecks. Obviously if you haven't had chance to watch these yet, spoilers abound so you may wish to hold off till you've seen them! Otherwise, go nuts and give it a listen!

Enterprise Finales Part 2 Hello and welcome to part 2 of our discussion around the Enterprise finales! This time we discuss the actual, official finale, These are the Voyages... Are we as harsh as we were about Demons and Terra Prime? Has age improved this maligned episode? Find out within!