Gimme That Star Trek
Siskoid and his co-hosts discuss Star Trek! Any show. Any medium. Any topic. Boldly going where many have gone before!
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August 27, 2025 • 60 mins
It's Halloween! And on this episode of Gimme That Star Trek, Siskoid and his guest Paul Kien watch a bunch of Star Trek episodes deemed among the scariest in the franchise to ascertain if Star Trek and horror can mix! Catch all the chills (and insights) as two podcasters dare enter the darkened holodeck with the safeties off.
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August 27, 2025 • 68 mins
On this episode of Gimme That Star Trek, Siskoid and his guest DC Dave (making his Network debut) each draw up a list of Trek's most underused - or perhaps misused - main characters, and discuss how they might have been better utilized in their various shows.
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August 27, 2025 • 74 mins
Gimme That Star Trek goes western with Siskoid inviting Captain Entropy to discuss Trek's relationship with the western genre, and going deep into three episodes that overtly homage westerns: TOS' "The Spectre of the Gun", TNG's "A Fistful of Datas", and Enterprise's "North Star". Come on in, pardner!
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August 27, 2025 • 55 mins
Gimme That Star Trek tackles the Orions (or Oreeons!) in this special alien spotlight, as Siskoid and his guest Ryan Blake - the go-to in these cases - try to unlock what makes the Orions special, whether they be slave girls, pirates or the actually very nice Tendi from Lower Decks. Does it all connect? Only one way to find out.
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August 27, 2025 • 61 mins
Gimme That Star Trek is back for a new season! A few weeks ago, Siskoid went to see a science fiction play from Satellite Théatre called Bouée ("Buoy"), which leans hard into Star Trek concepts. On this episode, he sits down with its writer Céleste Godin, and two of its actors, Ludger Beaulieu and Philip-André Collette, to talk about how the franchise inspired the play's philosophy, text an...
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August 27, 2025 • 56 mins
Corey Moosa joins Siskoid on the final episode of the season to discuss a growing phenomenon in live action Trek - Recasting! What makes a good recasting and what are some of the better ones we've gotten in movies and TV? And indeed, which failed in our opinion? Warning: Spoilers abound for Strange New Worlds' first season!
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August 27, 2025 • 66 mins
What if Assignment: Earth, the infamous backdoor pilot from Star Trek's second season, had gone to series? Or what if it were revived today? Siskoid and guest Rich Hendley discuss the adventures of Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln and Isis in canon and spin-off media to extrapolate what it might have been like!
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August 27, 2025 • 51 mins
Gimme That Star Trek presents the first of two episodes on Star Trek toys, this one taking us through the Mego era and a little bit more thanks to the toyetic knowledge of Chris Franklin!
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August 27, 2025 • 63 mins
Gimme That Star Trek presents its annual Alien Spotlight, discussing the Jem'Hadar and the notion of free will for this clone race. Siskoid and Ryan Blake read between the lines to get to the heart of the Dominion's fierce warriors!
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August 27, 2025 • 69 mins
How does the Robin Hood legend fare in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Qpid"? Siskoid calls on that Bold Outlaw himself, Allen W. Wright, to discuss the episode, its obvious and not so obvious sources, and whether or not in properly pays homage to the myth!
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August 27, 2025 • 68 mins
Siskoid welcomes military expert Mike Lacroix back to Gimme That Star Trek, this time to talk about promotions and whether they are handed out realistically on Star Trek. Did Harry Kim get shafted? Find out!
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August 27, 2025 • 83 mins
In the Pocket Books continuity, Spock had a son! Siskoid and the Irredeemable Shagg answered a call from FW Patron Corey Moosa and spent the summer reading Ann Crispin's Yesterday's Son and Time for Yesterday. Their impromptu book club has yielded some thoughts about this sequel to Star Trek's "All Our Yesterdays"...
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August 27, 2025 • 51 mins
Siskoid and guest philosophy professor Ryan Blake discuss ethics as they related to the controversial Voyager episode "Tuvix". How does Captain Janeway's decision hold up according to various modes of thought?
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August 27, 2025 • 52 mins
In the studio this month, Siskoid welcomes Rich Handley, the editor of Eaglemoss's Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, to talk about this attempt to collect every Star Trek comic ever published. What work goes into such a project, and what has Rich learned along the way?
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August 27, 2025 • 56 mins
Do Captain Kirk's fighting moves make sense in a real world context or are they just hogwash? Siskoid invites real-life personal combat instructor Jarrod Alberich on the show to discuss Kirk's catalog of moves and rate them on effectiveness. How will Starfleet's combat style fare?
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August 27, 2025 • 80 mins
To make episode 50 of Gimme That Star Trek special by crossing over with oHOTmu or NOT with not less than 6 guests - the entire Hot Squad, Isabel, Shotgun, Josée, Nathalie, Elyse and Amelie! - ranking Captains Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer on their datability. Which are Hot, which are Not? Only they have the power and lack of skin in the game to make that determination!
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August 27, 2025 • 70 mins
In the late 80s and 1990s, a new era dawned for television science-fiction, in no small part thanks to Star Trek: The Next Generation's success. Siskoid and Gene Hendricks sit down to discuss six very different SF series of that era, looking at how they were influenced by TNG and in turn may have influenced what came after.
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August 27, 2025 • 92 mins
Secular humanism, scientific curiosity, the Prime Directive, and IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - this is the philosophy of Star Trek that became so important to what many Trekkies became as people. Among them, Fire & Water's Siskoid and Pulp2Pixels' Dr. G Man of Nerdology. Let's listen in...
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August 27, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome to the newest addition to the Fire and Water Podcast Network, and just in time for Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Week, too! Join Siskoid and his guests once a month for Star Trek discussion in the mold of Ryan Daly's Give Me Those Star Wars. We start with the beginning, Trek's original pilot "The Cage", and wonder what would have happened if it had gone straight to series. Where woul...
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August 27, 2025 • 34 mins
Out of nowhere they both came - FINALLY a Star Trek: Discovery trailer, and beating it by a day, Seth MacFarlane's The Orville's - so Siskoid and guest David Ace Gutiérrez got together in an impromptu recording session to discuss both. Engage!
Helpful - the trailers on YouTube:
Star Trek: Discovery
The Orville
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