Vulcan Hello (An aftershow for new Star Trek)

Scott McNulty and Jason Snell discuss brand-new live action Star Trek as episodes are released. We’ve covered “Discovery” and “Picard” and are currently covering “Strange New Worlds.”

Episodes

99: "What Is Starfleet?" (SNW S3E7)

August 22, 2025 • 27 mins

“Strange New Worlds” gets the documentary treatment this week, as the Enterprise is confronted with some difficult choices that call into question some of Starfleet’s most deeply held beliiefs. The documentary has a real character arc, going from deep skepticism to a final understanding in just 40 minutes. Unfortunately, that’s not how documentaries work!

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98: "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" (SNW S3E6)

August 14, 2025 • 37 mins

Captain Kirk takes control of the USS… Farragut! While he’s facing his first crucial command decisions in an emergency situation with the help of a few familiar faces, Pike and company are repelling a monstrous boarding party. (The monsters are, in hindsight, exactly who you should have expected.)

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97: "Through the Lens of Time" (SNW S3E5)

August 7, 2025 • 43 mins

Not all red shirts wear red! (But some do!) This episode has a lot of death, an alien mystery, some questionable archaeology, a reversal of cause and effect, and multi-dimensional layering. In other words: It’s Star Trek! Also, Jason passes on a wild theory about Batel’s new Gorn-chimera lifestyle.

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96: "A Space Adventure Hour" (SNW S3E4)

August 1, 2025 • 36 mins

This week’s “Strange New Worlds” is an homage to 1960s Star Trek, 1970s murder mysteries, and all murderous holodeck stories throughout Trek history. Also, Paul Wesley gets to do his best Shatner. It’s called acting!

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95: "Shuttle to Kenfori" (SNW S3E3)

July 25, 2025 • 43 mins

This week we’re balancing Moss Zombies with Gorn Consumption as Pike and M’Benga take a “Shuttle to Kenfori!” It’s a character episode with some zombies in the background, and also one particularly grumpy Klingon. Jason looks up the Klingon word for “redshirts.” Also: Paramount finally gets bought, and there are new pictures from “Starfleet Academy!”

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94: "Wedding Bell Blues" (SNW S3E2)

July 21, 2025 • 43 mins

A nigh-omnipotent wedding planner threatens the Enterprise crew with a good time! We’re here to talk about the second new “Strange New Worlds” episode of the premiere week, in which Spock and his romantic rival must unite to find a way to bring back reality, or become dogs trying.

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93: "Hegemony, Part 2" (SNW S3E1)

July 17, 2025 • 35 mins

And now, the conclusion! “Strange New Worlds” returns with the resolution of the season 2-ending storyline involving the Gorn, including Chris Pike’s very bad day. We dive into the action after a discussion of the precarious position Paramount and Star Trek are in right now.

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92: "Section 31" and ranking Trek movies

January 25, 2025 • 70 mins

Scott and Jason review the Paramount+ original movie “Star Trek: Section 31” and then, just for fun, rank all the Star Trek movies from worst to best!

Scott McNulty and Jason Snell.

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91: "Life, Itself" (Discovery S5E10)

May 30, 2024 • 59 mins

This is it! We’re reviewing a new “Star Trek: Discovery” episode for the last time. From binary stars to binary black holes, we’ve been here through it all. This time we’re doing our usual nonsense, expressing feelings first, then discussing the specially shot series-end segment, then backing into the main core of the episode. Mind-bending corridors! Lengthy bridge discussions! Fancy dress wedding! Book’s new living room! We cover ...

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90: "Lagrange Point" (Discovery S5E9)

May 23, 2024 • 32 mins

The season-long plot nears its conclusion—but this is “Discovery,” so there’s still time for a heart-to-heart while wearing Breen helmets. Jason and Scott have an oil bath to get to, but before they do, they break down the penultimate episode! Saru’s back! Vulcan flower holders! And the most dramatic scene of a man sitting in a chair that we’ve seen in years.

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89: "Labyrinth" (Discovery S5E8)

May 16, 2024 • 35 mins

Into the space library we go! Burnham faces a mental labyrinth while on the outside, the Breen are busy doing Breen stuff—being annoying, mostly. We discuss Moll’s commitment to her husband, delight in library wardrobes, and more—but only after Jason makes strange, brief digression to discuss “Magnum, p.i.” and how it’s not connected to “Star Trek.” Except where it is.

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88: "Erigah" (Discovery S5E7)

May 9, 2024 • 41 mins

Discovery rolls on toward its end, with an episode that should involve a lot of plot pivoting, but ends up being an old-fashioned talky diplomatic dilemma crossed with scientific puzzle solving. Also, so many Breen! And Rayner learns that when you’re in trouble, you have to take the walk of shame instead of beaming home.

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87: "Whistlespeak" (Discovery S5E6)

May 2, 2024 • 40 mins

What’s more Star Trek than violating the Prime Directive? This week’s “Discovery” episode feels familiar in a very good way. Jason defends Captain Burnham in imaginary Prime Directive court, but Judge Scott is not hearing it. Also, we spend a surprising amount of time wondering about how replicated food works. We blame Culber’s abuela.

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86: "Mirrors" (Discovery S5E5)

April 27, 2024 • 35 mins

At long last, this episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” answers the question fans have been asking about for decades: What’s under that Breen helmet? Wait, was that not your question? How about some backstory for this season’s antagonists? No? You wanted to know more juicy details about the Mirror Universe? Well, we don’t know what to tell you. Look in the mirror. We did.

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85: "Face the Strange" (Discovery S5E4)

April 18, 2024 • 42 mins

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time! We ping-pong through the personal history of the USS Discovery as Michael tries to teach herself how far she’s come, Rayner learns to let the Burn go and live a little, and Stamets gets to construct a box to crush a Time Bug. Also, a Short Trek is surprisingly relevant! We break it all down.

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84: "Jinaal" (Discovery S5E3)

April 11, 2024 • 47 mins

This week Burnham and Book take another hike to find a clue; Tilly explains to Rayner that he’s not on his old “Star Trek” show anymore; Saru tumbles into a Ni’Varian episode of “Veep”; and Gray and Adira go their separate ways, worlds apart. It’s all about connections, you see. And this episode connects Scott and Jason to each other, and both of them to you. See, we’re going with the Disco flow.

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83: "Red Directive" and "Under the Twin Moons" (Discovery S5E1-2)

April 4, 2024 • 72 mins

Live Star Trek is back in season! “Star Trek Discovery” has returned with a two-episode premiere, and we’re here to break it down. Once again, we profess our love for Jerks Who Are Right. We discover what form a Vulcan Proposal takes. Our new villains look like they’re space Bonnie and Clyde, but maybe they’re just misunderstood. And we enter Conspiracy Corner in order to ponder secret clues for what might be coming next—but not be...

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82: "Strange New Worlds" S2 wrap-up panel

September 1, 2023 • 119 mins

With season 2 of “Strange New Worlds” in the rear-view mirror, Jason recorded a season overview on the Mothership. But so many people watched and enjoyed the season that we have brought back the Vulcan Hello season wrap-up panel, too!

Moisés Chiullán with Cicero Holmes, David J. Loehr, Heather Berberet and Houman Sadri.

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81: "Hegemony" (SNW S2E10)

August 10, 2023 • 51 mins

We wrap up season two of “Strange New Worlds” with a discussion of canon breaking and why it’s okay, how we liked the season as a whole, and why the most Star Trek solution to a problem involving enemy alien monsters may be to try to understand them better. To be continued… eventually!

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80: "Subspace Rhapsody" (SNW S2E9)

August 7, 2023 • 46 mins

We’re so excited about this episode of “Strange New Worlds” that we’ve gotta sing! But we’re not going to dance very much. And Scott doesn’t sing. What we can do, though, is talk about Star Trek!

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Vulcan Hello (An aftershow for new Star Trek)

Episodes

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97: "Through the Lens of Time" (SNW S3E5)

96: "A Space Adventure Hour" (SNW S3E4)

95: "Shuttle to Kenfori" (SNW S3E3)

94: "Wedding Bell Blues" (SNW S3E2)

93: "Hegemony, Part 2" (SNW S3E1)

92: "Section 31" and ranking Trek movies

91: "Life, Itself" (Discovery S5E10)

90: "Lagrange Point" (Discovery S5E9)

89: "Labyrinth" (Discovery S5E8)

88: "Erigah" (Discovery S5E7)

87: "Whistlespeak" (Discovery S5E6)

86: "Mirrors" (Discovery S5E5)

85: "Face the Strange" (Discovery S5E4)

84: "Jinaal" (Discovery S5E3)

83: "Red Directive" and "Under the Twin Moons" (Discovery S5E1-2)

82: "Strange New Worlds" S2 wrap-up panel

81: "Hegemony" (SNW S2E10)

80: "Subspace Rhapsody" (SNW S2E9)

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