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This is the fifth episode of my series Star Trek Conundrum. Now, while I'm on my holiday break, I'll post the rest of the series to keep you entertained. Have a wonderful and safe Holiday season!

And we continue as this is the fourth episode of my series Star Trek Conundrum. As my holiday break continues, I'll post the rest of the series to keep you entertained. Have a wonderful and safe Holiday season!

This is the third episode of my series Star Trek Conundrum. While I was on summer break, I posted the first two episodes. Now, while I'm on my holiday break, I'll post the rest of the series to keep you entertained. Have a wonderful and safe Holiday season!

Star Trek Toy Pitches

First, there was Star Trek. Quite quickly thereafter, there was ... merchandise! Trek has been a franchise full of toys for over 50 years. From Mego to Playmates to Diamond Select to Eaglemoss, there have been many manufacturers of Trek action figures, playsets, accessories, and more. The trio looks back at the 90s era of Trek and asks - what would have been other great choices down the Trek toy aisle?

AGT 119: Get Off My Ship, Pt3: DS9 Civil Defence

Attention Bajoran Workers: Kelvin, Mark, Christos, and Amy take a deep dive into Civil Defence, where this time it’s the station itself trying to expel our heroes! We also give our final thoughts on Picard S03 after the dramatic finale.

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Trek Trivia

It's the holiday season - so it's time to settle down for a round of Trek trivia. Grab a pen and paper, and get ready to answer 8 rounds of Star Trek quiz questions, along with a special "pre-" and "post-" round to rack up extra points. Can you beat Daniel and Darren? Were the questions too easy or too hard? Let us know your score as you play along with Trek trivia.

René Auberjonois (1940-2019)

Star Trek, and the world, lost a good man with the passing of Deep Space Nine's Odo, René Auberjonois. The trio talk about the characters René portrayed and how they evolved and, ahem, changed shape over the years. Let us know your favorite Odo moment.

Command Styles

Over the centuries, Starfleet has produced a variety of leaders with a different command styles. How distance are you from the crew? How accessible are you do junior officers? The trio looks at how Archer, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway differ in their captain abilities. They examine the pros and cons of each leader from the perspective of a young ensign serving under their command. Which captain do you think has the best command style?

The Fathers of Trek, Part 2

The trio continue their celebration of Trek dads with a look at TNG, DS9, and VOY. Who were the fathers that really left a galactic mark on their progeny? Let us know your favorites from the 24th Century.

For our 150th episode blowout… the boys are bringing you just another classic bog standard RTW outing!  That means promises unfulfilled, nonsensical tangents, drunken disorderliness, and hot takes on the kind of topics Trek fans WANT TO HEAR ABOUT, like the Scarlet Letter, the enduring popularity of C-3PO, Fungi Babble, and what Jerry Seinfeld’s take on warp zones would be.  On the other hand, we’re also coming at you with a bunch of great songs, great camaraderie and heartfelt discussions on matters of science, philosophy, ethics and character drama.  This episode has it all… but then, don’t they all, faithful listeners?  Don’t they all?

2018 is the year the Dax symbiont was born!  To celebrate, we’re talking about Invasive Procedures, the episode where the Dax symbiont is forcibly removed from Jadzia and stuffed into a criminal.  Also, we’re doing our best NOT to talk about that too, not as long as we can talk about Dr. Dre, Kefka, the parallels between Mario and the Pillsbury Doughboy, Cylons, Twilight Princess, the disturbing world of Pokémon, another involved conversation about Changeling abilities, stand-up comedy, and so much more.  Also, Jack casually asserts that time is a spatial dimension and free will is an illusion!  Happy Birthday, Dax!  We love you. 

In a very special episode, cohost Jack’s other project, The ApeCast joins forces with Reopening the Wormhole (a podcast crossover!) to talk about a nutty comics crossover!  That’s right, two dream teams come together, as we finally delve into our hitherto endlessly  teased episode about Star Trek / Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive!  In more ways than one, two great flavors are coming together as Kirk and the Enterprise crew meet with Taylor, Zira, Cornelius and the rest of the Planet of the Apes!  It’s not all fun and games though, especially when Kor, the most devilish Klingon of them all, and treacherous gorilla General Marius have their sights set on world domination.  (Trek) Jack, Sam and Kevin join (Apes) Jack and Geoff for a huge free-wheeling conversation about, among other things, comic art, what happens when apes and aliens meet, the differing approaches of Japanese and American comic storytelling, how Star Trek and Apes handle the aftermath of nuclear devastation, the appropriate level of fan service, the enduring appeal of kooky crossovers, and, most improbably, the relative merits of the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber!  Beam up to this MADHOUSE to experience what is possibly the geekiest thing you will ever hear!

Happy New Year, Faithful Listeners!  To head into 2018 with a clean slate, we are reading EVERY SINGLE EMAIL we haven’t read on the ‘cast yet, some dating all the way back to September!  If you sent in an email and we didn’t read it, you either left it in your draft folder, sent it after we recorded this, or we’ve made a horrible mistake that you need to tell us about!  But before we do that, Jack forces Sam and Kevin to sit down for a chat about a season six episode of everyone’s favorite classic 80s sitcom, Webster!  In a freak accident, the title character is transported to the Enterprise-D and meets Worf!  Yes, this really happened, and the world needs to know.  We use that as a springboard to talk about Dalekmania, Liszt, the patience and skill of Michael Dorn, South Park, and what the hell is wrong with Jack.  BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EMAILS.  They’re all here, and we had a BLAST talking about them, and we hope you will hearing them.  Before we open the wormhole into 2018, this is one holiday treat you won’t want to miss.  (For those of you who want to skip straight to the emails, start at minute 30!)

Welcome to another wild and wacky episode of everyone’s favorite DS9 Podcast!  We’re delving deep into this serious and heartfelt episode about Nog dealing with the horrors of war by escaping into a world of fantasy, specifically Vic Fontaine’s 1960s Las Vegas nightclub, but we’re ALSO blowing the lid open on the legend of Jimmy Dar Dar, the greatest podracer of all time and TRUE winner of the Boonta Eve Classic, something you WON’T find in the history books!  Beyond that, we’re also talking about superhero roller coasters, the 1994 Best Picture nominees, some classic Final Fantasy games, Clydes, The World of Vic Fontaine, an amazing reimagining of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and so much more!  We will NEVER APOLOGIZE for the things we do, and neither should you for loving them!     

Black Alert!  The boys fire up the spore drive and take another trip into the exciting and wacky world of Star Trek: Discovery, this time to take stock of the first nine episodes of the show and spin their craaaazy theories about what's in store for us come January.  You'll find out what they think works and doesn't work about the show, how it fits in to the Star Trek paradigm, who their favorite characters are and more.  Tardigrades!  Gormaganders!  Lorcas!  Plugs for Jack's other Discovery podcast!  It's all here, at Mr. T'Kuvma's house.  

The gang decides to spend their 98th episode talking about Batman Forever, and also the DS9 episode Heart of Stone!  Seriously though, there’s a little something for everyone here, in that we’re having yet ANOTHER discussion about what changelings can and can’t do, everyone’s love of crystals, Hearthstone, founder poop, Benjamin Linus and his problem, or the actual two big important DS9 things that happen in this episode!  Now that’s a cake you can put a cherry on top of.  You better believe that’s a paddling!