Trekology

Our final episode of season 3, we're talking about our favorite android, Mr Data! We're watching the 4th season TNG episode "Brothers" and discussing family dynamics, forgiveness, and Matthew McConaughey's struggles with AI. SHOW NOTES Data | Memory Alpha | Fandom Brothers (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Our pen-ultimate episode of season 3, join us to talk about our favorite Klingon, Worf, Son of Mogh. Greg and Jeff get to chat about marriage and childrearing, as well as New Years and our favorite Trek memories from 2024. SHOW NOTES Worf | Memory Alpha | Fandom Reunion (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're in our top 3 characters, and #3 is none other than Captain Kirk, and we're discussing the TOS episode "Arena". Join us as we chat about Greed and Violence, as well as Greg's shopping habits. SHOW NOTES James T. Kirk | Memory Alpha | Fandom Arena (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by ⁠Charles Michel⁠

This episode, we head back to TOS for everyone's favorite Vulcan, Mr. Spock (sorry Mr Tuvok)! We're watching "Amok Time" and talking about logic vs emotion, ritual vs habit, and Greg's impulse buying SHOW NOTES Spock | Memory Alpha | Fandom Amok Time (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by ⁠Charles Michel⁠

We're heading back to TNG to talk about Geordi LaForge and the episode "Booby Trap"! After Greg gets to gush over LeVar Burton, we get to chat about AI, opposites attracting, and why Millennials are the greatest generation. SHOW NOTES ⁠Geordi La Forge | Memory Alpha | Fandom⁠ ⁠Booby Trap (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom⁠ Music by ⁠Charles Michel⁠

We've got one more DS9 character this season, and it's everyone's favorite chief - Miles O'Brien. We talk about the episode "Hard Time" and discuss prison, learning from vs forgetting seasons in life, and the role of a spouse vs a friend vs a therapist. SHOW NOTES Miles O'Brien | Memory Alpha | Fandom Hard Time (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're back to DS9 talking Captain/Commander Benjamin Sisko and the legendary episode "In the Pale Moonlight". We get to chat about morality in tough scenarios as well as "leaving it at the office", in addition to Jeff's admiration for Keith David... SHOW NOTES Benjamin Sisko | Memory Alpha | Fandom In the Pale Moonlight (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're on to our last Voyager character as we're talking about Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres and the episode "Faces". We talk about racial sensitivity and what part of ourselves we most struggle with, as well as baseball! SHOW NOTES B'Elanna Torres | Memory Alpha | Fandom Faces (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode, we're talking Dax and the episode "Blood Oath". We talk primarily about Jadzia, with a little Ezri sprinkled in, but we also get to chat about immortality and vengeance. SHOW NOTES Blood Oath (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Jadzia Dax | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Join us to talk Major Kira and the 3rd season episode "Second Skin". We get to chat about our brains, memory, death, and adoption. SHOW NOTES Kira Nerys | Memory Alpha | Fandom Second Skin (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode, we're on to everyone's favorite bartender (sorry Guinan!) Quark and the DS9 episode "Body Parts". We get to chat about capitalism, what it means to succeed and the importance of community. SHOW NOTES Quark | Memory Alpha | Fandom Body Parts (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode we're talking Commander William T. Riker, the episode "Second Chances" from the 6th season of TNG, and what it would be like to meet our younger selves. SHOW NOTES William T. Riker | Memory Alpha | Fandom Second Chances (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Greg is back and we're talking Archer from Enterprise and the episode "Judgement". We chat about friendship, venerating soldiers as well as universal right and wrong SHOW NOTES Kolos was played by J.G. Hertzler (not Hertzog) Judgment (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Jonathan Archer | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

A Jeff solo episode! With Greg out sick, Jeff fly's solo to talk about everyone's favorite southern doctor Bones and the episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". Besides being a favorite for the ridiculously long name, join Jeff to chat about comrades in arms, the joys of new love, and if we do really "hold truth so dear". SHOW NOTES Leonard McCoy For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (episode) Music by Charles Michel

In this episode, we're talking Odo (short for Odo Ital) from Deep Space 9 and tackling the episode "The Begotten". We get to chat about the difference between feeling something and 'being' something and how the way we parent is both influenced by how we were parented and the affect our parenting has on our children. SHOW NOTES Odo | Memory Alpha | Fandom The Begotten (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode, we're talking about Lower Decks' Becket Mariner and the 2-part finale to Season 4. We'll discuss how who our parents are shapes who we are, as well as how difficult it is to change our family culture. SHOW NOTES Beckett Mariner | Memory Alpha | Fandom The Inner Fight (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Join us to talk about Captain Picard and the Episode "Darmok". We get to chat about language and inter-cultural relations. SHOW NOTES Jean-Luc Picard | Memory Alpha | Fandom Darmok (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode, we're talking about Tendie from Lower Decks and the episode "Something Borrowed, Something Green". We'll chat about parental pressures (again), as well as judging or evaluating other cultures. SHOW NOTES D'Vana Tendi | Memory Alpha | Fandom Something Borrowed, Something Green (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode, we're diving into Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager and the season 6 episode "Fair Haven". We get to chew on the nature of relationships, especially whether opposites attract, as well as diving into the nature of virtual spaces. All this, plus an update on Greg's Star Trek party! SHOW NOTES Kathryn Janeway | Memory Alpha | Fandom Fair Haven (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

In our latest episode, we're talking counselor Deanna Troi from TNG and the episode "Ménage à Troi". Join Jeff and Greg as they chat about family pressures, the American emphasis on having a family, and what we do with that.

For this episode, who hop to Deep Space 9 to talk about Dr Julian Bashir and the episode "Dr Bashir, I presume". After the initial confusion over which episode we're actually discussing, we dive into the concept of failure and how we interact with our children's struggles with failure as well.

In this episode, we chat about Discovery's Michael Burnham, focusing on the episode "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry". After discussing the episode's ridiculously long title, we get to dive into her style of leadership, how that works today, and what in the world "the best way to know yourself is to know others" means.

This episode, we're talking Uhura and the SNW episode "The Children of the Comet"! Join us to chat about people with disabilities, the problem of choice, and the virtues of the gig economy (or lack thereof)!

In this episode, join us to talk about The Doctor from ST Voyager and discuss the episode "Living Witness". We get to talk about history vs truth, parental choice, and the virtues of Michael Jordan.

This episode, we're talking Hoshi from Enterprise and diving into the season 2 episode "Vanishing Point". We dive into Greg's fear of the transporter, our different fears of failure, and how each of us interacts with loneliness.

Welcome back for season 3! This season, we're picking episodes to discuss based around our chosen characters, and we're starting with Trip from Enterprise! Join us as we discuss Trip, the episode "Unexpected", what we'd like about traveling to space, and how we fared as expectant fathers.

Hey, where the heck have y'all been? Just an update folks...

We're back! Well, just for a bit; join Jeff and Greg as we look back on 2 seasons, talk about the joys and struggles of podcasting, as well as look forward to season 3, coming soon! Music by Charles Michel

Our final episode of Season 2! Jeff's wife Judy returns to offer some insight on that "musical episode", "Subspace Rhapsody". Beyond analyzing the musical, scientific, and tonal qualities of the episode, Jeff, Greg, and Judy get to chew on why music affects us the way it does, what our "true selves" means, as well as how cutting figs is good parenting advice! SHOW NOTES Subspace Rhapsody (episode) Music by Charles Michel

In our second to last episode of season 2, we've finally made it to "Strange New Worlds", and we're starting with season 1's "The Elysian Kingdom" - a controversial choice (at least in Jeff's eyes). None the less, we get to dive into why adults can't be silly, how we separate out the selfish part of parenting, as well as Jeff's many allusions to "Our Man Bashir" SHOW NOTES The Elysian Kingdom (episode) Music by Charles Michel

Another episode of Lower Decks, and this time it's "The Least Dangerous Game" from season 3! As Ensign Boimler wrestles with Bajoran dirges and Kromsapod hunters, we'll wrestle with employee/employer relations, finding our value in our work (not from our work), as well as how our many cultures can all get along! SHOW NOTES The_Least_Dangerous_Game_(episode) Music by Charles Michel

On we go to Lower Decks! And we're starting with Greg's favorite episode "Crisis Point". Join us to chat about the episode, the line between video games (and holodecks) and real life, how we deal with anger, and how family cultures affect our adult lives. SHOW NOTES Crisis Point (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Once more unto the breach! We're heading back to Picard, this time season 3, to talk "No Win Scenario". We get to talk about near-death experiences, fatherlessness, and if it really "takes a village" to raise a child SHOW NOTES No Win Scenario (episode) Music by Charles Michel

We're venturing hesitantly to Star Trek: Picard, starting with the episode "Nepenthe" (mostly due to our obsession with Riker's woodfire pizza). Join us to chat about that, as well as what "doing our share" means, as well as the effect of losing a child (hypothetically). SHOW NOTES Nepenthe (episode) Memory Alpha Music by Charles Michel

We're sticking with Saru! Our love for Doug Jones continues as we discuss "An Obol for Charon" (whatever that means!). Really, we're using this as an excuse to delve into Fear, what it is, why is it, and what's the difference between concern, anxiety, nervousness, and fear. SHOW NOTES An Obol for Charon (episode) Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

A discovery of Discovery! It's true, Greg finally gets us to watch Discovery, and we're jumping right into the end of Season 1. Most importantly, we get to talk about inter-cultural interactions, how to deal with bullies, the difference between "evangelism" and "evangelicalism", as well as the merits of Will Arnett... SHOW NOTES The War Without, The War Within (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Simlitude? Simulatude? However we pronounce it, we're spending one more episode on Enterprise, this time in Season 3 with "Similitude". We'll tackle cloning, big sin/little sin, the merits of veganism, and everything in between! Join us! SHOW NOTES Similitude (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom The "Expanse", or Delphic Expanse is a region of space located in the Beta Quadrant approximately 1 light year across defined by thermobaric clouds which dissipated after the destruction of the spheres. - Delphic Expanse | Memory Alpha | Fandom Total Federation casualties in the Dominion War are not explicitly stated, but are estimated between 10-100 million. - Dominion War | Memory Alpha | Fandom Wernher von Braun was a member of the Nazi part, a part of Operation Paper Clip, and the inventor of the Saturn 5 rocket. - Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia Music by Charles Michel

This episode we're sticking in Enterprise Season 1 to tackle "Dear Doctor". We get to mispronounce "Valakians" every way imaginable, talk about cats versus dogs, as well as what it looks like for cultures to interact and how to have judgement without being judgemental. SHOW NOTES Phlox actor is John Billingsley, best known for The Man From Earth (2007), Out of Time (2003), and 2012 (2009). John Billingsley's IMDB page Dear Doctor (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This week, we're boldly moving to Enterprise episodes, starting with season 1's "The Andorian Incident". We get to chat about espionage, Emannuel Kant, "The Good Place", as well as whether violence is actually ever the answer. Join us! SHOW NOTES Madagascar actually has a population of 28 million, a semi-presidential representative democratic multi-party republic government, but has historically remained outside the mainstream of African affairs Madagascar - Wikipedia The Andorian Incident (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're concluding our journey through Voyager this week with the two-parter "Year of Hell". We get to chat about the effect small things have on our lives, value judgements on seasons in our lives, and what makes a house a home! Plus, we get to chat about Patrick Stewarts bare chest... SHOW NOTES Year of Hell (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're still talking Voyager, and we're on to Season 5's 'Latent Image', which brings us somehow back to if synthetic life is really life (again?). So, we'll chat about that, but also about compassionate medicine, the importance of mental wellbeing and grief. It's a fun one! SHOW NOTES Latent Image (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Our latest episode has us moving 'boldly' onto Star Trek Voyager and tackling season 7's episode "Lineage". After we get to gripe/apologize for our feelings towards Voyager, we get to chat about genetic manipulation, childhood trauma, as well as a spoiler/teaser for when we get to Strange New Worlds... SHOW NOTES Corrections: Lineage (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Greg is back! We wrap up our 3-episode arc through DS9 by looking at Season 2's "The Wire", talking again about Communism/Community and drug addiction, while also getting to chat about Strange New Worlds and gripe about Discovery! It's a full episode, come join us! SHOW NOTES Corrections: Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien) appeared in 19 episodes Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) appeared in 71 episodes (41%), though he's in the credits for all 173 The Wire (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Greg is off for another episode, so we're bringing in special guest stars Jackson and Matt! Together, we're diving into "In The Hands of the Prophets" from DS9's season 1 and chewing on religious fanaticism, the conflict between science and religion, and if violence is the best way to resolve conflict. Join us! SHOW NOTES In the Hands of the Prophets (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom "In the Hands of the Prophets" | Treks for All Time Music by Charles Michel

We're off to Deep Space Nine with special guest star Judy Campbell-Smith! Join us as Jeff and Judy chat about the episode and compare it to their own wedding experience. We'll tackle Mother-in-laws, bachelor parties, and wedding planning too! Fun times! SHOW NOTES You Are Cordially Invited (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We're back to tackling the movies, this time with "First Contact"! Though Jeff and Greg disagree on their admiration for the film itself, join us to wrestle with the pursuit of perfection vs being more human, as well as the cost/value of being remembered. SHOW NOTES Star Trek: First Contact | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

We've got one more episode of TNG to tackle, so we picked "The Offspring" from season 3. Join us as we dive into the episode and wrestle with the gravity of "creating a new life form", as well as living vicariously through our children! SHOW NOTES The Offspring (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode we "boldly" tackle "The Outcast" from season 5 of TNG! Thankfully, we find that an episode from 1992 about sexuality has aged surprisingly well, and we have a lot to talk about. Sadly, we did have to cut the talk short (for us), but we still get to dive into the idea of gender roles and the effectiveness of subtle storytelling. Join us, wont you? SHOW NOTES The Outcast (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode we're changing gears and heading to the Next Generation! We start with the episode "The Inner Light", and get to discuss "walking a mile in someone shoes" and if married life is actually a better life! All this, plus some reflections on Thanksgiving. Join us! NOTE: We're still working out our audio issues, so this episode might not have our normal high quality audio. We're working on it! SHOW NOTES The Inner Light (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

This episode we're diving into the Animated Series! We picked on the episode "Yesteryear", but instead of talking about time travel or alternate realties, we're chewing on the Vulcan way versus the Human way and how pressures affect children growing up. Join us, wont you? NOTE: We're still working out our audio issues, so this episode might not have our normal high quality audio. We're working on it! SHOW NOTES Yesteryear (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel

Just when you thought we were done with Kirk, Spock, and Bones, we still have movies to cover! We're diving into Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and we're bringing back fan-favorite Robert to dive in with us! After debating just how mouthy a trainee should be on the Enterprise, we get into the nuts and bolts of "How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life", and "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". SHOW NOTES Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Memory Alpha | Fandom Music by Charles Michel