Drunk Trek — A Boozy Star Trek Podcast

The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 7 Drunk Factor: 8 We finish up this dark “Plucky Kids” month with an actually light and whimsical episode, “Rascals”! Captain Picard, Ensign Ro, Keiko O’Brien, and Guinan all get turned into children, but with all of their memories intact. They choose to reject this gift and age themselves […]

The Original Series: Season 3, Episode 4 Drunk Factor: 6 The increasingly inaccurately named “Plucky Kid” month continues! At this point, we should probably just rename it “Childhood Trauma” month, as this episode features five recently-orphaned, super-powered children who take over the Enterprise. It’s kind of a rehash of Charlie X, but with five ill-adjusted […]

Voyager: Season 5, Episode 5 Drunk Factor: 3 Our “Plucky Kid” month continues with a very special Naomi Wildman episode of Voyager, “Once Upon a Time”! Through the antics of Flotter T Flotter Water III, we discover that children’s entertainment of the future is a dark, dark place.

Deep Space Nine: Season 6, Episode 22 Drunk Factor: Impulse Drunk Trek Host Chris has a terrible pet peeve for movies and TV shows, the “plucky kid”. He can’t stand them. So without further ado, here’s “Plucky Kid” month! We explore episodes where kids take front and center! But if you think that this will be […]

The Animated Series: Season 1, Episode 5 Drunk Factor: 9 Happy New Year! We were having so much fun with our block of silly episodes, that we drunkenly decided to do a bonus episode! So here’s our first ever Drunk Trek take on the Animated Series! We discover that the animated series is really bizarre and […]

Enterprise: Season 1, Episode 25 Drunk Factor: 7 Silly month concludes with a particularly pointless Enterprise episode “Two Days and Two Nights”! We finally get to see the oft-mentioned, but never-before-seen Risa, the pleasure planet! In an episode with no less than four disparate plots we learn that the perils of perusing the planet of pleasure!

The Original Series: Season 1, Episode 15 Drunk Factor: 3 Our month of silliness continues with a perhaps the silliest episode yet, “Shore Leave”! The crew of the Enterprise beams down to a planet where all sorts of weird desires come to life. Come for the absurd Irish stereotypes and stay for the weird ovapositor […]

Voyager: Season 1, Episode 11 Drunk Factor: 2 We continue our silly romp of a month with a silly romp of a Voyager episode, “Heroes and Demons”! This month we watch the Doctor murder a person, as he enters into a recreation of Beowulf with deadly stakes!

Deep Space Nine: Season 4, Episode 7 Drunk Factor: Impulse Look, November was pretty rough on all of us here at Drunk Trek and we couldn’t bring ourselves to do another serious month. So, this month we’ve picked four light, happy, and silly episodes to bring a little joy to our hearts. We start off […]

Season 6, Episode 26 Drunk Factor: 9 We finish off death month with the most devastating (to 2/3rds of us anyway) death of them all, Jadzia Dax. We drunkenly watch space battles, laugh at demon-Garak, and grouse about fan service.

The Next Generation: Season 1, Episode 23 Drunk Factor: 4 Death month gets real with the death of our favorite security office Tasha Yar, in “Skin of Evil”. Listen as we try to process our feelings, confront our childhood fears, and Chris jinxes the election.

Voyager: Season 4, Episode 2 Drunk Factor: 2.25 Character Death month continues with the departure of our favorite Ocampa, Kes! This week we reveal our (sadly inaccurate) Presidential predictions, spill a full shot on Chris’s couch, and we discover the surprisingly reasoning behind Seven of Nine’s uniform!

Enterprise: Season 4, Episode 22 Drunk Factor: Impulse As Fall exerts its grip over nature and all the plants and trees begin to die off around us, we start an appropriate new theme month: Character Deaths! As every Star Trek fan knows, the main character deaths are as heartbreaking as they are ignominiously random; this […]

Voyager: Season 2, Episode 15 Drunk Factor: 7 We finish WTF month with the most WTF episode of Star Trek, Voyager’s “Threshold”! This is the episode where Paris and Janeway evolve into space lizards. ‘Nuff said.

Deep Space Nine: Season 1, Episode 10 Drunk Factor: 4 WTF Month barrels right along with “Move Along Home”, Deep Space Nine’s blatant Jumanji rip-off! When a group of aliens—that are totally-not-celts—make first contact with the Federation, they bring along their strange board game with them! Now the command team is in the board game for […]

The Next Generation: Season 7, Episode 19 Drunk Factor: 1.5 WTF Month continues! We turn the weirdness factor up to 11, as we watch the patently bizarre Next Generation episode “Genesis”! After encountering a mysterious virus, the crew of the Enterprise begins traveling leftward down the evolutionary chart! Will they re-evolve by the end of […]

The Original Series: Season 3, Episode 1 Drunk Factor: Impulse It’s Drunk Trek’s one year anniversary! To celebrate, we’re watching the most WTF episodes of Star Trek! Our first episode this month is the supremely weird Season 3 opener, “Spock’s Brain”! Take a listen as we discuss the most improbable search party in history, the […]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home The crew of Drunk Trek celebrate Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary by getting drunk and watching the delightfully weird Star Trek film The Voyage Home! We talk about bobcats, how ill-equipped technology has made future Earth to handle natural disasters, and, of course, lady boners! Beam aboard, you’ll have a whale of a good […]

The Next Generation: Season 7, Episode 17 Drunk Factor: 7 We finish off Matt’s birthday month with the surreal episode “Masks”! This week we sidetrack ourselves early and often with tales of supplication, revisit Geordi LaForge’s Space Tinder, and talk a surprisingly small amount about masks.

Voyager: Season 2, Episode 1 Drunk Factor: 5 We kick up our Drunk Factor a notch in this week’s episode  “The 37’s!”  Guest starring Amelia Earhart and introducing the rarely-seen Blue Alert, we dive head first into a bevy of off-topic conversations, including our places on the Kinsey Scale, our unrequited crushes on Harry Kim, […]

Deep Space Nine: Season 6, Episode 13 Drunk Factor: 2 Matt’s Picks continues with the critically acclaimed Deep Space Nine episode, “Far Beyond the Stars”! This week we marvel at all the alien actors out of their makeup, air our grievances, and discover the greatest Drunk Trek moment since “Scott Bakula, Dracula”!

The Next Generation: Season 5, Episode 25 Drunk Factor: Impulse Matt and Star Trek were both born on September 8th! So this month instead of celebrating 50 years of Star Trek, we’re instead going to celebrate 32 years of Matt! Matt’s first pick this month is the acclaimed Next Generation episode “The Inner Light”; in […]

Enterprise: Season 4, Episode 19 Drunk Factor: 9 We conclude “Alternate Universe” month with a surprisingly fulfilling episode of Enterprise! Our drunkenness reaches its limits as we watch terrible 2000s CGI, find new life for the Jurassic Park theme, and celebrate the return of the ‘delta tummy’!

Enterprise: Season 4, Episode 18 Drunk Factor: 6 Our rollicking “Alternate Universe” month continues! This week we drunkenly dive into the first of a two-part Enterprise episode. Don’t let the fact that it’s an Enterprise episode dissuade you, this Episode is a blast! We discuss the unfortunate fate of Porthos, the prominence of Alt-Universe Midriffs, […]

Deep Space Nine: Season 2, Episode 23 Drunk Factor: 2 Put on your goatees, get cool facial scars, and bare your midriffs, because Alternate Universe month continues! This week we take in “Crossover”, the first Star Trek episode that returns to the dark AU since The Original Series! Come for the fan service moments and […]

The Original Series: Season 2, Episode 4 Drunk Factor: Impulse This week, we kick off our most fun themed block yet, “Alternate Universe” episodes! We start off the month with the classic Original Series episode “Mirror Mirror”, an episode that revolutionized portrayals of evil duplicates for decades to come. Don your evil goatee and join […]

The Original Series: Season 1, Episode 24 Drunk Factor: 8 We finish up our month of “Chris’s Picks” with the classic episode that spawned “The Wrath of Khan”, “Space Seed”! Listen in as we drunkenly marvel at Ricardo Montalbán, and determine what, exactly, a “Space Seed” is!

The Next Generation: Season 1, Episode 25 Drunk Factor: 6 We continue Chris’s picks with one of the most tonally bizarre episodes of The Next Generation, “Conspiracy”! Listen to our hosts as they discover the secret of the walking crewperson, enjoy some mad Tae Kwon Do skills, and watch the most gruesome death in Star […]

Deep Space Nine: Season 2, Episode 22 Drunk Factor: 3 Chris’s birthday month continues with the exceptional Deep Space Nine episode “The Wire”! Come join the fun as we make up twitter hashtags, ship our favorite Deep Space Nine pairings, and believe the lies!

Enterprise: Season 3, Episode 10 Drunk Factor: Impulse Control It’s a new month and time for a new themed block of Drunk Trek episodes! This month, Chris exercises his birthday privileges and takes over the programming! Chris’s first pick is the critically acclaimed Enterprise episode “Similitude”. Will this episode redeem our hosts rather cold view […]

The Next Generation: Season 1, Episode 1 Drunk Factor: 7 We give you double the commentary this week, as we finish our celebration of Q by watching his first appearance in The Next Generation pilot “Encounter at Farpoint”! Marvel at the man-skirts, listen to Chris’s overly-excited battle bridge theme song, and cringe at McCoy’s space-racism!

Voyager: Season 2, Episode 18 Drunk Factor: 5  In Albert Camus’s essay The Myth of Sisyphus, the philosopher says “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Should a person who wishes to die be allowed to take their own life? This question has vexed humanity since the dawn of civilization, and is the […]

The Next Generation: Season 4, Episode 20 Drunk Factor: 2 The Q-love continues this week as we check in with the bizarre Robin Hood themed episode “Qpid”!  This week we learn that Picard does a mean Riker impression, how adulthood is like a video game, and watch Picard literally murder a man. Pour a stiff drink […]

TNG: Season 3, Episode 13 Drunk Factor: Impulse We’re back with a new month’s worth of episodes! This month we snap our fingers and summon our four favorite Q episodes along with a special guest host! We kick it off this week with the classic “Deja Q”, the episode that brought us such delights as […]

The Original Series: Season 3, Episode 22 Drunk Factor: 9 We wrap up “Amanda’s Favorites” with one of the most bat-shit crazy episodes of The Original Series, “The Savage Curtain”! This episode we can barely handle the arrival of Abraham Lincoln into the Star Trek canon; we also get a heaping dose of Vulcan Jesus, Space […]

Deep Space Nine: Season 4, Episode 2 Drunk Factor: 5 This week, we skewer one of the most critically acclaimed Deep Space Nine episodes of all time! Captain Sisko dies and we follow along with Jake Sisko as he mourns his dad for decades after his death. Meanwhile, Amanda, Chris, and Matt talk about the terrible […]

The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 15 Drunk Factor: 3 Continuing our March theme of “Amanda’s Favorites,” we go straight into one of our favorite episodes: “Tapestry”! In this episode we discover how unpractical Dom-Jot is, marvel at all the cool one-shot aliens, and discover how bad Picard is in the sack!

Voyager: Season 6, Episode 12 Drunk Factor: Impulse March is Drunk Trek host Amanda’s birth-month; so this month we’ll be watching a selection of her favorite episodes! We kick the month off with one of Voyager’s great episodes: “Blink of an Eye”. Listen in this week as we discuss the best possible Voyager spin-off, discuss […]

Enterprise: Season 1, Episode 4 Drunk Factor: “Yeaahh” for Matt, 6 for Amanda and Chris Our “Weird Sex Stuff” month comes to a close with a genuinely weird and awful episode of Enterprise! Amanda, Chris, and Matt give this episode all of the respect it deserves, as we drunkenly slog through Willy Wonka-esque shenanigans, Captain […]

Voyager: Season 3, Episode 16 Drunk Factor: 4.5 for Chris and Amanda, “Fuck Me” for Matt. We continue our month of strange Star Trek sexing with “Blood Fever”! Ensign Vorik is Pon Farring all over the place and infects B’Elanna Torres with his seasonal horniness disorder. Also there are rock people. Amanda, Chris, and Matt […]

The Next Generation: Season 1, Episode 3 Drunk Factor: 4 In this week’s episode, the crew of the Enterprise is infected with a virus that makes everyone act drunk; unsurprisingly, the Drunk Trek cast can relate! Join us, as we: find out how fully functional Data is, discuss Picard and Crusher’s great unrequited love, and […]

The Original Series: Season 1, Episode 4 Drunk Factor: Impulse We’re back from our long holiday hiatus! In (dis)honor of St. Valentine’s day, our theme this month is “Weird Sex Stuff”. Star Trek has a long history of weird sexy episodes, so we’ll start with this Original Series gem “The Naked Time”! In this episode, […]

The Original Series: Season 2, Episode 7 Drunk Factor: 9 We drunkenly cross the finish line with this month’s theme of holiday episodes with the classic Star Trek Halloween episode “Catspaw”! This week Chris inexplicably (drunkenly) develops a terrible accent, we play a game of Fuck/Marry/Kill, and we express our love for cats.

Voyager: Season 4, Episode 3 Drunk Factor: 6 We continue our holiday episode theme with “Day of Honor”! In this episode we discover the best time to profess one’s love, feel Seven of Nine’s pain, and figure out the best way to have sex in space.

The Original Series: Season 1, Episode 7 Drunk Factor: 4 We continue to get drunk with the holidays with Episode Two of our “Holiday Episode”-themed block of episodes, “Charlie X”! In this episode: we see (and can’t un-see) Kirk’s dick, we ponder the rules of Space Chess, and we discuss our love of reptiles…

Deep Space Nine: Season 3, Episode 10 Drunk Factor: Impulse This week we kick off our Holiday Themed block of Episodes with the Deep Space Nine episode “Fascination”!  On this episode we explore the subtext between Bashir and O’Brien, get frustrated with O’Brien and Keiko, and are horrified by Bashir and Kira’s make-out techniques…

Enterprise: Season 3, Episode 11 Drunk Factor: drunk. Our theme this month is Time Travel! This week we watch our first Enterprise episode and the last in our time travel series, “Carpenter Street.” Our drunk selves are barely able to handle it; but we manage to discuss our disappointment with the Quantum Leap finale, Chris proves […]

Deep Space Nine: Season 5, Episode 6 Drunk Factor: 7 Our theme this month is Time Travel! This week we check out the Star Trek 30th Anniversary episode of Deep Space Nine “Trials and Tribble-lations.” We discover the trouble with using tribbles as explosive devices, discuss the finer points of distinction between a trill and a symbiote, […]

The Next Generation: Season 3, Episode 15 Drunk Factor: 5. This month our theme is Time Travel! Darken the bridge lights, because we’re going to a dark alternate present with this week’s episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise!” In this episode we drunkenly babble about our love for Tasha Yar, our feelings about Wesley Crusher, and the surprising […]

The Original Series: Season 1, Episode 28 Drunk Factor: 1. This month our theme is Time Travel! We take our first dive into The Original Series with one of it’s most highly regarded episodes, the classic “City on the Edge of Forever.” We learn about how to use 60’s technology to predict the future, Kirk’s […]

Voyager: Season 5, Episode 12 Drunk Factor: 8. Our theme this month is Holodeck Mishaps! We finish our Holodeck theme month with Voyager’s take on Flash Gordon, “Bride of Chaotica!” This week we finally remember what class of starship the Stargazer was, we talk about our Voyager crushes, and we get real familiar with Tom Paris’s […]