Talk Trek

It's been so long, we've decided to reboot. The good news is we are rebooting from where we left off so you shouldn't miss a thing - except all the old stuff.

We are back with a “new” episode!  This one was recorded during the spring of 2019, so some events might be a bit out of context.  But we’ve recorded a few more so this is only the beginning… of the return…. of Talk Trek! So join us as we investigate and critique the truth and […] The post Episode 60 – Is There in Truth No Beauty? appeared first on Talk Trek.

A new episode is coming!  But it hasn’t been recorded yet.  So in the meantime, we figured we’d release a little update.  We were planning on recording last Monday, but the Vontresc had some serious computer issues.  We’re hoping by next Monday, he’ll have everything fixed.  Feel free to write in to give him tips.

Wow, has it been a long time.  So much has happened since this episode was recorded back in January 2015.  We should probably do a little “what’s new” episode soon.  There has been so much as can be expected in four years.  This one was just edited so we might be a little rusty.  You […]

And we’re back from another long hiatus.  And to prove it, we’ve released episode 59 before 58!  So, how about them children?  Let’s find out as a group of children in some far off corner of the galaxy take control of the Enterprise from its rightful commanders! Products and ideas mentioned in this episode: Paris Cyanide […]

Acting apparently restless and irrational, Captain Kirk inexplicably orders the Enterprise into Romulan space where the ship is quickly captured by the enemy and Kirk held captive aboard their flagship. Products and Ideas mentioned in this episode: Racquetball Gloves – Our Sponsor! Ben Stiller Neanderthal Pain and Delight Cold War Kirky Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com. Follow […]

Spock has lost his brain.  What an adventure the crew will take in order to secure the controller to its rightful skull.  Join us as we travel with the Enterprise to the Sigma Draconis system and battle some Eymorgs to restore stability and progress to this primative people. Products and Ideas mentioned in this episode: […]

I think this is the longest break we’ve ever taken…  This episode was recorded back on March 6, 2013, over 20 months ago.  In that same vein, the Enterprise travels back to 1968 to meet the great Gary Seven!  Will they end up destroying this time-traveling cat seducer?  Or will they work with him to save […]

After another long break for some reason, we are back.  And as gladiators fight and die for what they believe in, so must we trod on towards another circus with a handful of bread.  Join us as we follow the crew of the Enterprise as they discover planet 892-IV and find a very peculiar situation. Kirk, […]

Have you ever been replaced by a computer at work? Maybe even a tablet? Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same as the Enterprise tests a computer that, if successful, could replace Kirk as the captain. Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode: M5 P Popper Stopper Paternoing Blacula Santorum […]

As you are all aware, it had been a while since we last released an episode of Talk Trek.  Last week, before the release of Episode 52, we decided to sit down amongst the four of us and discuss some random topics from 2011.  Hopefully 2012 turns out better from a Talk Trek perspective than […]

We’re back!  It’s been far too long, but we’ll make it up to you.  This episode was recorded back in August, 2010 (we think), so a lot of what we’re talking about might be a tad dated. The Enterprise discovers the derelict starship Exeter drifting in space, its entire crew killed by an unknown plague. […]

Talk Trek celebrates the 44th Anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek 44 years ago today with a very special – very intimate – edition of Talk Trek Bonus. So here’s to The Man Trap that got Pete! Live Long and Talk Trek!

Welcome to the very second Talk Trek Extravaganza – Episode 50, Patterns of Force. Extragalactic aliens starshipjack the Enterprise and turn the crew into inert solids, leaving the four senior officers on their own to exploit their captors’ weaknesses. Join Kelvin Johnson and the rest of the Talk Trek crew as they boldly explore these […]

Welcome to the first Talk Trek Extravaganza – Episode 50, Patterns of Force.  This episode was recorded live on March 20, 2010.  Thanks to our live listeners who were able to tune in – it was a lot of fun. So, join us as The Enterprise discovers a planet where a Federation historian has apparently interfered with […]

Three survivors from a race that died half a million years ago “borrow” the bodies of Enterprise crew members so they can build android bodies for themselves.  Join the Talk Trek crew as they Return to Tomorrow because today is almost over.  Like this episode?  Like the show?  Like us on Facebook! This episode of […]

On a planet with a primitive civilization, the Enterprise discovers that the Klingons are providing a Stone Age society with increasingly-advanced weaponry.  It may be “A Private Little War”, but you are all invited!  Does this episode prove “behind every great war, there’s a bad woman”?  Let us know on Facebook! Some products and ideas […]

It’s a problem of macroscopic proportions as the galaxy is threatened by a giant space amoeba!  Can Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the crew stop what 400 vulcans could not? Maybe… maybe not!  Join Njord4, the Newpowersoulman, Pete the Vontresc, and Jim (ClankFu) as they put this specimen under the mighty microscope that is Talk Trek! […]

Greetings from Talk Trek! We’re setting up right now for the LIVE Talk Trek Extravaganza tonight!  And you are invited! No R.S.V.P. necessary just click the link below at 8pm CDT (3pm HST — for our Hawaiian listeners) ((0100 UTC)) http://extravaganza.talktrek.com (Windows Media Player recommended – especially for Macs) We’ll be reviewing the Original Series […]

So you want A Piece of the Action, buddy boy?  ‘Nuff said!  The Talk Trek bosses deliver the “assets!” Returning to a planet last visited by a Earth ship 100 years ago, the Enterprise finds a planet that has based its culture on the gangsters of Earth’s 1920s. Some products and ideas mentioned in this […]

It is Super Bowl Sunday everybody!  We’ve had many requests to release this latest episode before the Super Bowl so that listeners can play it during their respective parties.  Well, the Crew has obliged as always. In this latest Original Series episode, Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are kidnapped by aliens and forced to fight other […]

A dispute over control of a planet brings Enterprise to a space station, where they must deal with Klingons, edgy Starfleet Command officials, and a previously-unknown race of small, unbearably cute, voraciously hungry and rapidly-multiplying furry creatures. A fan favorite indeed, The Trouble with Tribbles gives a whole new meaning to “pet peeves!” Some products […]

Does danger fall to those who we suspect the least? Are mountains sometimes obscured by thick fog? How are we supposed to know what lurks in the night? Are the sheep safe? We won’t answer these questions in this episode. In fact, we won’t even ask them. However, join us on our journey through Wolf in […]

First Talk Trek of the new year!  Can’t wait until we make the switch to stardates though. It’s Star Trek meets Twilight meets Moby Dick when a survey of Argus X brings the Enterprise crew in confrontation with a vampiric cloud that killed a crew Kirk was on years ago, captained by the father of an […]

Welcome to 2010! We kicked off the new year by testing out some new audio equipment and having a bit of a Talk Trek Pre-Extravaganza party.  The actual Extravaganza (known from now on as TTE) will be held in March 2010.  It’s going to be huge! The Pre-TTE was held at an undisclosed location in […]

It’s been a long time coming… I’m sure most of you thought we had gone down that deadly year route. But alas, we have returned – more refreshed than ever! This episode is sort of a scary one. When Enterprise discovers a colony full of rapidly-aging scientists, whatever caused the rapid aging afflicts them as […]

The Talk Trek crew is beaming toVegas for the big Star Trek Convention 09!  Join Njord4 (aka Erik), Damien the Newpowersoulman and Pete “the Vegas Lovin'” Vontresc as they cover all the fun in Vegas… including a scheduled photo opp with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy! Here’s a rundown of all the scheduled events we’ll […]

Turn up your tri-corders and set your communicators to voice mail, Talk Trek is hailing you for adventure! The Enterprise becomes involved in a local power struggle on planet Capella IV, where the Klingons want mining rights. If you like the good Doctor Leonard H. McCoy, you’ll love this Bones-rich episode.  But beware!  Even if […]

Who’s ready for a journey?!?!  I know the Star Trek crew is, so I’m sure the Talk Trek crew is…  However, what kind of a journey will it be?  Let us find out! As the Enterprise comes under attack on the way to a diplomatic conference on Babel, one of the alien dignitaries is murdered, […]

Talk Trek brings you a post-Super Bowl/pre-Spring Training podcast that’s sure to delight you!  Join the Talk Trek crew on an isolated asteroid, where Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years! Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows: Slowly-cooked rabbit – our […]

The indomitable Harcourt Fenton Mudd returns – and with a new trick up his sleeve!  Will Harry Mudd use his pompous accent to finally thwart the Enterprise crew or will Capt. James T. Kirk save the day yet again?  Join us for another Talk Trek adventure and we will find out together! Harry Mudd, now […]

Follow us, if you dare, on an adventure that’s out of this world… and on another!  Will the Enterprise crew survive its close encounter with the strange kind?  Its witches, black cats, zombies, missing fingers, skeletons, castles, Spock, Kirk, McCoy and the Talk Trek boys (with special guest baby girl) all rolled into an hour […]

A favorite of many, The Doomsday Machine has arrived (albeit a few days late).  This episode is ripe with weapons of mass destruction, Commodores who pull rank, and antiproton beams.  Can Kirk save the densely populated Rigel system before the planet killer has his way with the crew? Join us as the Enterprise discovers a […]

May Talk Trek be one of the first podcasts to bid you a Happy New Year! And what better way to usher in 2009 than with Episode 34 – The Apple?  TheEnterprise crew discovers an Eden-like paradise on Gamma Trianguli VI, controlled by a machine that is revered by the local humanoid primitives as a […]

You asked for it, we delivered!  The winner of our Listener’s Choice lotto is Daniel N!  But don’t we all really win since N’s pick was Yesterday’s Enterprise?  Get a taste of Talk Trek: The Next Generation today! A temporal rift opens, and the USS Enterprise-C emerges, changing the timeline into a reality where the […]

Oh, how much do we love parallel universes?  Let us count the ways… Bearded Spocks… Wonderfully dressed Uhuras…  Vixens with beauty…  I’m sure we could all live in this new reality.  Or could we?  In Mirror, Mirror, a transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe, where in lieu of the […]

Talk Trek returns from a retirement it should have never taken! The good ship Enterprise has a close-encounter with Nomad, an ancient interstellar probe from Earth that has somehow mutated into a powerful trophy-shaped machine bent on sterilizing whole planets that do not meet its standards of perfection. What can the unit Kirk do to stop Nomad from destroying all humanity? Please […]

Dear Listeners – We are terribly sorry for the delay.  Perhaps “Who Mourns for Adonaïs?” is such a great episode from the original series that we had to spend so much time getting the podcast right.  Yeah… that sounds like a good excuse! 

Talk Trek takes you maximum warp speed into the second mighty season of Star Trek!  Throwing soup at nurses? Demanding PTO? Taking over the ship? Is it that time of the month for Spock?… or maybe it’s that time of the ancient Vulcan mating cycle!  It’s mate or die for our favorite Vulcan! Things really […]

Listen in on our first audio newsletter! Though Clankfu is on shore leave, Njord4, NewPowerSoilMan (sic), and the Von discuss a few items of interest: Unveiling of the Listener’s Choice Talk Trek Blog (http://blog.talktrek.com) Upcoming Star Trek convention in Las Vegas iTunes ratings! Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com! We’d […]

We’ve come to the season finale of Talk Trek!  Star Trek’s last show of season one is a blast, an operation fraught with danger and a little bit of malaise on the side.  But have no fear; the crew of the Enterprise can tackle any undertaking. In this episode, the Deneva colony is attacked by […]

A little late but worth the wait… The Newpowersoulman is over his ailments and so the shows will go on! A constellation of six stars may very well shine over The City on the Edge of Forever! Join the motley crew of Njord4 (aka Erik), Damien (the Newpowersoulman), Jim (Clank Fu) and Pete (The Vontresc) […]

Have you ever wondered what the alternative factor is in The Alternative Factor???   Well,  you can bet that we have.  In this episode, we discuss such topics and also delve into hug fighting, various human body parts, and even touch upon current events!  Extra!!! Extra!!!  Read all about it!!!  Don’t listen to what you have […]

The Talk Trekkers go on yet anotherErrand of Mercy to deliver you yet another episode of fun, enlightenment and, as a bonus, Klingons! Please email us atTalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We’d love to hear from you.

A haunting episode indeed, The Devil in the Dark will scare even the most stoic of men!  Join the Talk Trek crew as they search for light and debate the role the Prince of Darkness plays in our every day lives.  Let us not lead lives of quiet desperation, but attack with brute force the […]

Loosen your confinement beams and be transported to the emerald planet where when the spore count is high, so are you! Based on the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise is one of Trekdom’s most beloved episodes. But how will it rank with Njord4 (aka Erik), Damien (the New), Jim […]

For those of you who thought that the end of the world had come and Talk Trek had been banished to the underworld, the TT boys come roaring back with A Taste of Armageddon.  Join us as we ponder the morality of war and the validity of General Order #24. Please email us atTalkTrek@gmail.com and […]

Welcome one and all to Talk Trek! We are not your typical Star Trek podcast. We use the Original Series as a springboard for our conversations ranging from the philosophical to just plain geek speak. We aim to entertain and maybe even possibly. . . enlighten. Be ye a lover or a hater, please email […]

Talk Trek returns with a vengeance.  And so do the Archons.  Or do they?  The Enterprise discovers a planet ruled by a computer, and it’s up to the crew to talk their way of it.  Come join the cast of Talk Trek as they wade through the moral misgivings of “man” named Landru, and a […]

Is Pete’s orbit of love around Rachael One decaying? Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We’d love to hear from you.  If you have any suggestions for the Vontresc and his lady trek, please let him know! Live Long and Lady Trek!

Can Spock save Kirk from court martial by beating a computer at chess? Check, mate! Join the Talk Trek jury as they bring in their verdict on Episode 20 – Court Martial! Please email us atTalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We’d love to hear from you.  If you have any suggestions for the […]