I've Never Seen Star Trek!

S3E16. In order to traverse a trans-dimensional disturbance safely, Phlox must put the rest of the crew in stasis and pilot Enterprise himself. Lauren walks you through the classic and new Trek viewing order as she experienced it for anyone looking to take on this monumental task! We then make you listen to us say nice things about Enterprise again.

S7E4. When Captain Solok of the Federation starship T'Kumbra challenges former classmate Sisko and his crew to a game of baseball, Sisko refuses to lose to the arrogant Vulcan and begins to take the game too seriously. It's a beach episode! If you're curious about Trek having fun but still want a good story with an emotional found family core, you really can't do better than this. Paul Goetz joins and dazzles us!

S6E13. Experiencing a vision from the Prophets, Sisko sees himself as Benny Russell, a science-fiction writer in the 1950s, who struggles with civil rights and inequality when he writes the story of Captain Benjamin Sisko, a black commander of a futuristic space station.  A singular episode of Trek, a powerful hour of TV, and completely emphatic, empathetic, and accessible science fiction. If you were only going to give Star Trek one and only one look, make it this one.

S2E7 -  Mariner and Boimler are stranded on an uninhabited planet with a sentient computer. On the Cerritos, Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary.  Pitched as the funny, reverential, referential, animated Trek series  with all the fun of a haywire holodeck, we check how much love for cartoons and Star Trek is needed to enjoy Lower Decks if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!

S1E1 - A group of lawless teens, exiled on a mining colony outside Federation space, discover a derelict Starfleet ship. Dal must gather an unlikely crew for their newfound ship if they are going to escape Tars Lamora, but the Diviner and his daughter Gwyn have other plans. The series premiere of the CYA animated series is a big hit with the crew! How much Trek can you take out of a show and it still feel like Trek? How does it balance old and young audiences alike? Join us to hear how it all fits together, even if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!

S4E1: After months spent reconnecting the Federation with distant worlds, Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery are sent to assist a damaged space station – a seemingly routine mission that reveals the existence of a terrifying new threat. Young minds, fresh ideas! New Trek is here, it's weird, get used to it! Everyone gets to experience what Trek can do when with a bag of brand new tricks (and a few old ones). Negative reactions turn to positive, the timeline and canon is a mess, and you will believe butterfly people can fly even if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!

Season 4, Episode 7: When Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed, the investigation puts Archer and T'Pol on the trail of a Vulcan religious faction hiding in a treacherous desert.  We close a chapter in Trek history (and the Willennium) with the show that started Lauren's journey into Trekdom. She takes the captain's seat this episode, plays the piano, and finally puts to bed Mario's anti-Enterprise rhetoric! Hear how CSI and turn of the century fearmongering factor in if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!

Season 6, Episode 6: Tuvok loses his memory along with his Vulcan emotional self-control when he is attacked by mysterious aliens.  It's not Threshold, stop bullying Threshold. Just like in the 90s, opinions on Voyager are all over the place but everyone agrees Kate Mulgrew is a powerful force. The Trek web continues to ensnare Tiffany, Lauren has notes, and the boys all talk over each other. It's a fun episode of the Trek series that grew under pressure and under appreciated in it's own time, beam on down to hear what it all sounds like if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK

S6E19. With mounting losses in the Federation-Dominion war, and the specter of defeat, Captain Sisko enlists Garak's help to "persuade" the Romulans to join the Federation/Klingon alliance to win the war. However Sisko soon learns that to save the Federation he may have to betray the values it stands for.  Deep Space Nine was revolutionary in many ways, and encapsulating all of them in a single episode is next door to impossible. Luckily this episode does exactly that! Easily a top ten episode of all of Trek, it's not much a spoiler to say it was a home run. Baseball references is just one of the many surprises you'll find aboard the space station Deep Space Nine!  Trekommendations returns (for now) and we dive into Travis' favorite Star Trek and how it all sounds if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!

Season 2 Episode 9. Picard must prove Data is legally a sentient being with rights and freedoms under Federation law when transfer orders demand Data's reassignment for study and disassembly. The presumed heir of the Trek crown DOESN'T win everyone over. Considered by many to be Trek at it's finest, we weigh it in the balance and someone finds it wanting. We talk about Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, how many Data's there are and more! Everyone learns something new as we get into how Next Gen plays to fresh eyes!  

Season 1, Episode 2. Spock travels back in time to prevent his own demise during his youth on Vulcan. Star Trek filtered though 1970s animation on a budget was warily regarded as a novelty at best, but expectations were low for this funky often ignored chapter in Trek's history. Join us to find out why it was unanimous loved by the crew (with some asterisks and howevers) and why you (yes you!) may already be familiar with a scene from this very episode!

Season 1, Episode 7. The Enterprise takes seventeen-year-old Charles Evans aboard for transport after he spent fourteen years alone on a deserted planet, but his inability to reintegrate with his fellow Humans is compounded by his very un-Human powers. A controversial choice for introducing the show that started it all produces some surprising reactions in the crew. Some are disappointed, some are strangely intrigued, but everyone is the better now for knowing what Charlie X looks like if I'VE NEVER SEEN STAR TREK!  

S2E2. Newly-minted Captain Lynne Lucero is excited to take command of the USS Cabot. That is, until she meets Edward Larkin, an ornery scientist who believes he has found a revolutionary new use for tribbles. Meet the cast of the pod, we've got two newbies(Tiffany and Tony), two oldbies(Travis and Mario), and a mediumbie(Lauren). Who will YOU follow along with? We've got both extremes and everything in between, join us in episode 0 and meet the crew as we discuss what Star Trek means to each of us!