Boldly, Tho

Turns out this is episode 350?? We forgot! So we're just wrapping up a cycle, normal-style with Strange New Worlds and Lost in Translation (plus some discussion of the now known bounds of SNW as a show). Hear a weird noise with us as we discuss how to respond to zombie hallucinations, the daddy issues of the Kirk brothers, and basically your whole crew kinda letting you down so a recurring character can shine.

We here at Boldly, Tho are rallying the troops to bring you the best episode we can, and even our bad moods can't withstand Lower Decks' Trusted Sources! Let's revisit old TNG episodes, try to explain the Breen, and prepare for pie! What?? No pie?!

Are you ready for a backdoor pilot? How about mild politicking? MORE sorrow?! It's All is Possible from Discovery, and, well, maybe some stuff is possible? We're really not sure any more, not about this show.

First of all, sorry if my audio is weird this record - I am fighting programs. Hopefully that will iron itself out. Anyway! It's flashback time with Enterprise's First Flight, so kick up your heels, shoot some flares, and mourn the dead as we hear from Archer about what it was like to try and fly the VERY fast space plane.

Boy, I hope you like hearing about Los Angeles! That's right, Voyager is taking a tour of both where and when the actual show was filmed with Future's End Part 1! Join us for big asks with little to no explanation, the horrific mutation of tennis, the wackiness of 90's LA, and our crew not thinking things through!

It's time for a low key episode of DS9, Equilibrium - I mean, an episode that starts with a fun dinner won't escalate to massive conspiracy, right?? Oh, I'm hearing it's still kind of low key? We have a lot to talk about, so get in a milk pool with us!

Okay, we don't quite know what this TNG title means, but we're here to have a good time anyway! Join us for adventure game dialog, hilarious boss moments, and high levels of aqueduct pride.

TOS is doing some body trading and robot building with Return to Tomorrow and we have some questions: why would you bring a guy who sucks with you? How are these orb guys so chill after half a million years? Is risk our business? Plus, we discuss the Star Trek food that's on the other coast!

REAL chaotic energy here in our late in the week discussion of Strange New Worlds and Charades! Does Mom get up and leave the podcast at one point and I decided to leave it in? Yes! Do we pitch 1-3 other podcast projects we could be doing? Yes! Do we get heated about Vulcan kitchens??? YES

Do you like sequels? Star Trek does, it basically always has, so it makes sense for Lower Decks to think about it with Crisis Point II - Paradoxus! Follow a back map with us as we discuss cute little guys, what makes a classy sequel, and also finding meaning in art, silly or otherwise.

Bad news folks: this episode of Discovery was so forgettable that I nearly missed editing it! But it's here, we got it! Join us for Choose to live, where we discuss baffling mac and cheese feelings, trips into robots, delicious rock candy, and how many plot lines are too many plot lines.

It's a fun one this week! It's Enterprise's Regeneration, and we've got some Thing vibes, some high stakes, some full cast plotting! It's good!

We're here! We did it! Mere minutes ago we underwent trials and challenges to finally discuss Voyager's Sacred Ground, and then we trusted that the subdermal bio probe would send you the data, so that you could get the scoop on getting a crewmate's soul back, hissing baskets, and the Three Genders. We're free!

After a couple of flabby eps, DS9 is bringing the heat with House of Quark! Join us for a good, good time as we discuss knifepoint weddings, Miles O'Brien doing his best, and more than one filthy ledger.

We got another slight one! It's Evolution, TNG's third season opener - join us for baseball-loving jerks, moms trying to get back in touch, and inconvenient little robots.

Unexpected in person record! It means Mom is a little quiet, and there's a dog jangling around for a bit, but we're talking about a true expression of Gene Roddenberry's vision: A Private Little War! What that mostly means is: horny. Join us on yet another Garden of Eden, as we discuss supposedly nocturnal predators, doctors reacting to blood magic, and insistence upon the Vietnam war.

I am maybe the tiredest I've ever been recording this show! It's half an hour before it drops, and I'm tired. We're Among the Lotus Eaters with Strange New Worlds, and we have to talk about amnesia, topiary, and Mom adding a surprising number of new segments when I just want to go to sleep.

It's time for a revisit of the one bad Lower Decks episode, and we are asking the most fundamental question: is it actually that bad? Find yourself a handsome bird man, give out some vitamin supplements, and find out with us!

Are you telling me there's a chance to skip watching Disco this round? All we have to do is watch the Discovery-derived spin off movie about Section 31?? What could possibly go wrong??? Thanks, monkey's paw!

Listen, this episode is a bit of a rant, so get ready for Enterprise's Cogenitor. We've got: gender opinions, tv writing opinions, Reed opinions, and I, at least, Get Mad. Oh well! Enjoy!

It's kind of a grim topic with Voyager's Remember, but we're still gonna have a time! Mostly because the episode kind of bites of more than it even seems to have an interest in chewing. So join us for psychic sexting, public executions, distracting sartorial choices, and also my power being weird for no reason. Cool!

We're wrapping up The Search on DS9 right now, an episode so important that we aren't skipping a week! We had to get into it: Mom's concerns and possibly changing feelings, what the heck is up with the Dominion, Odo family secrets, how to foment revolution without talking about it, and people getting So Mad for very justifiable reasons. It's good!

Happy New Year! We're kicking off with the end of season 2 of The Next Generation, and it's basically an anti-doozy: Shades of Gray! Join us on a wet planet for about 15 minutes of new footage and, then, well... you'll see!

What's that? Is it a blob? Is it... a different blob? No, it's the Original Series and it's Immunity Syndrome! Join for a real grumpy mission as we long for vacation, answers, and enough energy to fight an amoeba.

We're going to the future-past again with Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! Whoops! Meet yet another alternate Jim Kirk with us as we wander around Toronto, learn about the unceasing push of time, and drive slightly better than you might expect.

Lower Decks is visiting Deep Space Nine, so you know what that means: I am too excited! It's time for Hear All, Trust Nothing! Keep circling as we discuss piracy, insufferable candle parties, and revisiting old friends.

An in person record has rendered this episode a little janky, but we're still here, telling you about Discovery's Anomaly! Fly into... well, an anomaly with us as we discuss gravity hijinks, the ambivalence of MANY characters, and how, once again, the stakes are much too high.

Do you like... caves? Enterprise's The Breach sure hopes you do! We are decidedly negative on caves this time around, but we still have fun picking at some lazy/tired Trek writing, discussing legit Archer anger, and absolutely destroying an ankle.

False Profits? More like false starts! Still, even with a delay and a recording error, we're here to discuss Voyager, dammit! Join us for TNG sequels, shoe trading, and potential immolation.

Today we're starting season 3 of DS9, and we're looking around with The Search Part 1! Hope on our brand new ship with us as we cruise into the Gamma Quadrant to analyze Quark's body language, hang for a bit in a scary computer room, and Way Too Invested in a nebula.

Sorry an episode titled Peak Performance is running late, we are doing our best! Join us for inscrutable board games, unfair war games, and distant murderous cousins (fanon only).

Well, my favorite TOS episode is here, and we do our best to cover the very silly good time that is A Piece of the Action! Hop in an old time car with us as we discuss confusing lingo, made up card games, clever street urchins, and real blasé attitudes towards people pointing tommyguns at you.

You know how I said last hurricane that hurricanes wouldn't stop us? Sometime they stop us, briefly. Still, we're here, ending another cycle with Strange New Worlds' Ad Astra Per Aspera! We're back in the courtroom and we're discussing the Prime Directive, bosses who suck, and our, uh, mild feelings about Una.

On Lower Decks it's time for Reflections, so ask yourself a few things with us: do you like pears? Have you ever wanted to trash a job fair? Would you win a drag race with yourself from ten years ago?

New Disco this time! New to us at least, and NOTHING, not hurricane evacuation or the show being ehhhhhhh, will keep us from discussing this particular Kobayashi Maru! Slo mo moppets, evil(?) presidents, ICE?! It's all here!

Enterprise is chugging through season 2 and has decided to finally give Travis an episode with Horizon! Hold on, I'm looking at my notes, kind of half an episode? Go home to your generational ship with us as we discuss strained sibling relationships, a ship full of no names, and MOVIE NIGHT

Sometimes an episode is named after the B-plot, which is the case with Voyager's The Swarm - this is mostly about dementia! Whoops! Join us anyway for some space sneaking, some ill-considered surgery, and Trek once again having some fun with a double roll.

Deep Space Nine is ending its season both strong and weird with The Jem'Hadar! Come on a camping trip with us as we discuss dangerous chip removal, dinosaur guys, and bug eating.

This week we have to focus on The Next Generation (and not Ben Sisko) as we discuss TNG's The Emissary. It isn't so bad - a cool new lady and her million costumes have shown up! So strap into a space coffin with us as we discuss diplomatic dead ends, poker, and getting sky married.

We're starting another round with what turns out to be a divisive episode, TOS's The Gamesters of Triskelion! Get zapped to a gladiator planet with us as we discuss insubordination, flirting as a tactic, robot vampires, and quatloos.

We finish another cycle with The Broken Circle! Well, I think it's kinda funny anyway. Start season 2 of Strange New Worlds with us as we discuss fighting Klingons, Vulcan emotions, and we even give James T. Kirk a new middle name.

We're back! And we're talking a low(ish) key charmer from Lower Decks, Room for Growth! Join us on a grand odyssey to cheat the system as we discuss adorable puppies, Shax's emotional state, and churro wives.

Discovery season 3 has ended! Time to move onto other, doubtlessly bad seasons of TV! Join us for one last revisit of the season 3 finale as we talk about mashing two truncated episodes together, unnecessary plans, and our hopes for season 4.

Our Law Time is ending sooner than I thought (because I kinda can't remember most of season 2 of SNW) with Enterprise's Judgement! Get ready for a visit to Klingon Shout Court with us as we discuss Klingon lineages, very short trials, even shorter lifetime sentences to prison planets, and Mom picking a new boy.

Prison time! Take a ride down Voyager's The Chute, get your brain scrambled, barter your boots, maybe murder your best friend?? Have fun!

The law gauntlet begins! As we mentioned a couple episodes ago, our Trek methodology is mostly serving up episodes about court rooms and jail this cycle. Weird! Anyway, DS9 is offering us Tribunal, which asks: how different is the Cardassian legal system, and also does anyone know about it? Join us on a ruined vacation as we discuss teeth removal, lawyers desperate to quit, and your coworkers teaming up to solve a mystery.

Woof. WOOF. Hop aboard the Next Generation with us if you dare, as we discuss Manhunt. Remember the joys of comedy? We sure don't! Topics of discussion include: fish men, horny women, and being bad at chilling on the holodeck.

Tribble Time!!! Tune for an absolute love-fest for one of the famous TOS episodes, The Trouble with Tribbles, where we're celebrating the episode's INTENSE bitchiness, thinking about the thoughts in this comedy episode's head, and just enjoying everyone having a hell of a time. Tribbles!

Strange New Worlds is ending its first season with A Quality of Mercy and it wants to think about some things, like TOS with Pike instead and who the most important character is, and how much anyone paid attention to various history classes. Jump 7 years into the future with us! It's fine!!!

We're back to Trek! Join us for Lower Decks' tongue-tying Mining the Mind's Mines, where we discuss hating on Federation scientists, weird reactions, and lots of rock talk. Plus: we discover a new fear therapy for Mom.

Happy 300 episodes! We decided to celebrate by not watching the next episodes of Lower Decks, but by watching one of its spiritual cousin's, 1999's Galaxy Quest! Get covered in goo and shot into space with us as we discuss practical creature design, how much alien blood you can have in a PG movie, when a fan might stab an actor with a knife, and, y'know, Star Trek.