Come talk Star Trek with us! Strange New Takes is a Trek podcast brought to you by seven Trekkies from the United States. Nominally covering Strange New Worlds, our podcast also reviews other new Trek like Lower Decks and brings you retro reviews of older Star Trek shows and movies. We unapologetically love all Star Trek and hope you'll join us on our continuing mission to discover strange new takes. To seek out new views and new opinions. To boldly go wherever the heck we want to go! @strangenewtakes on Insta, FB & Twitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Nachiket Karnik, Dinah Macphail, Bill Woywod, Rudy Kasbekar, Emily Bowen-Marler, Adam Bowen, Max
Emily and Nach recap the multiverse mania from Lower Decks! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lower Decks turns the camera over to the Cerritos command crew. Nach and Rudy share their Strange New Takes with the episode recap! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nach and Emily take on Lower Decks' Inner Light moment and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Emily and Nach recap this geometric romp and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ADdm and Emily take you to Starbase 80 and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Emily, Bill and Nach share their Strange New Takes on the third and fourth episodes of Lower Decks season 5! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nach and Rudy share their Strange New Takes on the first two episodes of Lower Decks Season 5! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Emily, Adam and Nach recap the Prodigy season 2 finale two-parter and the season! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Star Trek Prodigy heads towards its finale as Nach and Emily return to share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bill and Nach share their recap and Strange New Takes on "Ascension" Parts I and II! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prodigy returns to classic Trek lore with Tribbles, Klingons and the Mirror Universe. Nach, Adam and Emily recap "A Tribble Called Quest" and "Cracked Mirror". Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The kids find an old Chakotay who just wants them off their lawn. The result is heartwarming. Listen now as Emily and Nach recap the two-parter and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Adam, Nach and Emily recap the Star Trek Prodigy two-parter: The Devourer of All Things. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nach and Adam were stuck in a car together and decided to use their time to recap two Star Trek Prodigy episodes. Sorry for the poor quality audio, we'll be back to our usual quality next week. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prodigy's season is heating up as the kids set up yet another romp on the Infinity. But before they get there, they need to figure out where they're going and how to avoid suspicion. Adam, Emily and Nach get together to recap the next two episodes of Star Trek Prodigy and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get out your favorite bird puns! Nach and Adam recap the next two episodes of Star Trek Prodigy: Who Saves the Saviors and Temporal Mechanics 101! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Star Trek Prodigy is back and we're reviewing two episodes from season 2 each week! Listen now as Nach, Bill and Adam review the season premiere two-parter, Into the Breach! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Discovery's finale is a double episode and so we've got a longer podcast to recap the episode and share our thoughts on the series! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Star Trek Discovery's penultimate episode is a thrill ride. Listen now as Nach, Emily and Bill recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Did you guess Hy'rell the librarian was an Effrossian? Emily did. Listen now for that insight and our Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Listen now for our recap of Whistlespeak and our Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Discovery continues it's exciting run with another heist episode. We share our recap and Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's timey-whimey all over again in Discovery as Burham and Raynor scramble to save the future. A bit tired? Sure. Does it work? Yes! Hear our recap and Strange New Takes now! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us as we give you a recap of the Discovery episode 'Jinaal' and share our Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us as we review the first two episodes of the final season of Discovery: Red Directive and Under Twin Moons Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We're back! And we're preparing for Discovery season 5 with a recap of the four seasons we've had to date. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lower Decks finishes it's fourth run with a fast-paces finale and Emily joins Nach to recap the episode and share Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lower Decks' season-long arc comes to a crescendo with a boatload of Star Wars references. Emily, Reed and Nach return to recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nach and Emily get together to review the newest Lower Decks episode on Caves! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our three favorite villainous robots/AIs are back and Emily joins Nach to recap the episode! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's just Nach this week to review the latest Lower Decks! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
T'Lyn gets her 'Data's Day' episode complete with a deep personal insights. Nach, Adam and Reed get together to recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We've got a new member on our crew! Reed joins Nach and Adam to recap the new Star Trek Lower Decks episode: Something Borrowed Something Green Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lower Decks takes us to a classic sci fi trope: The Ringworld! Emily, Adam and Nach recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lower Decks returns and so does Strange New Takes! We recap the Voyager romp 'Twovix' and the classic Menaj episode 'I Have No Bones But I Must Flee'. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
SNW brings a stellar season to an end with another TOS character brought back into the fold! Nach and Emily recap Hegemony, review the season and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Strange New Worlds delivers the first Star Trek musical! Nach and Emily recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
SNW channels In The Pale Moonlight to give a dark tale filled with moral ambiguity. Did M'Benga murder Dak'Rah? Or did Dak'Rah try to clean up a loose end? Nach and Adam share their thoughts and Strange New Takes on the episode! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Two episodes dropped this week and we have Strange New Takes for them both! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week sees a lighter episode with Spock feeling all the feels. Nach, Emily and Adam get together to dicuss "Charades" and share their Strange New Takes Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The crew of the enterprise must learn from their mistakes without the ability to remember. Emily and Adam discuss this episode, and accidentally keep talking about Ad Astra per Aspera and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow instead. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Star Trek returns to the courtroom to deliver a thinly veiled metaphor for today's discussions on gender and sexuality. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
SNW comes out of the gates with a bang! The Broken Circle gives us a M'Benga & Chapel focused tale with some incredible Spock moments thrown in. We can't wait to see what's next! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In our final installment of the Imposters series, Nach and Bill recap the TNG classic Second Chances! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Course Oblivion might be the biggest downer in all of Star Trek. It's all bad news. Nothing good happens. And yet it's one of Voyager's best episodes. Emily, Adam and Nach get together to recap the Course Oblivion and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
DS9 takes on the balance between freedom and security; predicting political debates for the next two generations. Bill, Emily and Nach get together to recap the two-parter 'Homefront' - 'Paradise Lost' and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
And now the end is near....or rather, it's here. Star Trek Picard finally draws to it's end. So what are we left with after 3 seasons of this show? What did it all mean? Nach, Rudy, Emily and Adam discuss their Strange New Takes on Season 3 and Picard as a whole. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Well they stuck the landing. Picard season 3 ends with a bang....and a new Enterprise! Emily and Nach return to recap the series finale and share our Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Picard lobs a couple big reveals at us! First we're introduced to the Borg as this season's big bad. Then we get the D and the it's the fat one just like the bartender in episode 1 promised. Adam, Rudy, Emily and Nach come together to recap Vox and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Goodbye T'Veen. 'Surrender' brings us some of the most grim deaths we've seen before giving us the conclusion of Vadic's arc in the series (or is it?) Bill, Adam, Emily and Nach return to recap the episode and share their Strange New Takes! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.