There Are Four Mics: A Star Trek Podcast

There Are Four Mics: A Star Trek Podcast

There Are Four Mics is a weekly podcast dedicated to group discussion of Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Currently working our way through Enterprise. Released every Wednesday.

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August 15, 2018 41 mins

The crew of the Enterprise gets really clever this episode, nearly pulling off a ruse that might have saved them a lot of time and effort had they succeeded. Unfortunately, its the Expanse, and this is Enterprise, so of course something had to go amiss.

Episode Title: Strategem
Written By: Michael Sussman and Terry Matalas
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The Expanse. Mysterious. Lonely. Cold. Hostile.

An isolated corner of the galaxy with nary a friendly face for light ye-- Wait.

Is that Shran?

Episode Title: Proving Ground
Written By: Chris Black
Directed By: David Livingston
Notable Guest Stars: Jeffrey Combs (Shran), Molly Brink (Lieutenant Talas), Randy Oglesby (Degra),...

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The Enterprise is taken over by a group of Triannon religious zealots seeking to use Starfleet's advance weapons to destroy the heretic forces on their homeworld. Things go exactly as planned.

No they don't.

Episode Title: Chosen Realm
Written By: Manny Coto
Directed By: Roxann Dawson
Notable Guest Stars:  Read more

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The Temporal Cold War story line isn't quite dead yet! Daniels pops back into Archer's life just long enough to send our Captain and back to 2004 era Detroit to stop some kind of Xindi plot. 

Episode Title: Carpenter Street
Written By: Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Directed By: Michael Vejar
Notable Guest Stars: Leland Orse...

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Similitude should be one of those episodes that comes to mind whenever you think of Enterprise. If there were a reward for most "Star Trek-esque" episode, this would be in the running.

Episode Title: Similitude
Written By: Manny Coto 
Directed By: LeVar Burton
Notable Guest Stars: Maximillian Orion Kesmodel (Sim age 4), Adam Ta...

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Our first cowboy episode! We both went into this episode expecting the worst, but ended up pleasantly surprised! 


Episode Title: Star Trek Enterprise 03x09 - North Star
Written By: David A. Goodman
Directed By: David Straiton
Notable Guest Stars: Emily Bergl (Bethany), Glen Morshower (Macready), James Parks (Deputy Bennings)
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Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett awakens to find himself in the body of the former captain of the starship Enterprise, Jonathan Archer. Due to crippling amnesia, he is unaware that a decade has passed since the Captain's mission to prevent the destruction of Earth has failed. With the help of Archer's companion T'Pol and his former cr...

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Following a lead given to them by Hoshi's captor from a previous episode, the Enterprise arrives at a kemocite processing facility supporting the construction of the Xindi weapon. Archer goes in all rough and tumble but accidentally makes a friend instead.


Star Trek: Enterprise 03x07 - The Shipment
Written By: Chris Black, Brent...

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Beauty and the Beast, but with Hoshi and no dancing furniture.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3x06 - Exile
Written By: Phyllis Strong
Directed By: Roxann Dawson
Guest Stars: Maury Sterling

There Are Four Mics is a weekly Star Trek podcast discussing the Star Trek episodes and movies in stardate order. Join Chris Keeley, Jason Allen, Joe Heis...

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Responding to an automated distress call, the Enterprise finds the Seleya, a Vulcan ship that entered the Expanse nine months previously, derelict in an asteroid field rich in Trellium-D. Rescue efforts go sideways, as the Vulcan crew is exhibiting classic signs of Zombie-ism.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3x05 - Impulse
Directed by David...

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Chasing another lead in their pursuit of the Xindi, the Enterprise crew takes on a passenger attempting to escape slavery. Turns out this Rajiin character isn't as innocent as she appears, as she begins gathering data on Archer and the rest of the crew using her super powers.

Star Trek: Enterprise 3x04 - Rajiin
Directed by Michael ...

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Archer, Hoshi, Trip, and T'Pol contend with a contagion that mutates any it infects into a member of an extinct sentient species. T'Pol is left to fend off her newly modified and aggressive crew mates. Take TNG's Genesis and Voyager's Threshold, add two unhappy podcasters, and you'll get this episode.

Star Trek: Enterprise 03x0...

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Disabled by a series of anomalies, the Enterprise is boarded by pirates that manage to abscond with most of their anti-matter. In pursuit of the pirates, the crew discover an enormous and mysterious sphere. Archer quickly takes things too far with their lone ca...

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Six weeks into the Expanse and the Enterprise has little to show for it. Fortunately, a tip from a freighter captain points Archer and Co. to the possible whereabouts of a Xindi miner. 

Cold Open

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Season two has come and gone! We're just flying through the Star Trek franchise like it's nothin. 

Today we award our Star Trek Trivia Trophy, battle each other over best "Star Trek-ish" episode of Enterprise so far, and get a little salty with each other over a TV show. 

Our audio is a little off during this recording, than...

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Things get serious real quick, as Earth has been attacked by a mysterious species hailing from the equally mysterious region of space, the Delphic Expanse. Few options left to them Earth sends their flagship, Enterprise, to mee...

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The Empire never forgets.

A Tellarite bounty hunter kidnaps Archer to collect the price on his head for escaping Rura Penthe, meanwhile, T'Pol makes everyone very uncomfortable aboard the Enterprise.

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Cold Open

Archer and Trip’s exploration of an uninhabited p...

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First Flight

After receiving news of the death of one of his former colleagues and rivals in the NX test program, Archer relates a story to T'Pol about a group of ragtag flyboys hoping to break the Warp 2 barrier. 

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x24 - First Flight
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Enterprise takes another risk by introducing a second species ahead of known canon. Thing is, this episode was just so fun that any minor conflicts with the Borg introduction in The Next Generation are totally overshadowed.

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x23 - Regeneration
Directed by David Livingston
Written by Michael Sussman, Ph...

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The Enterprise crew comes into contact with the Vissians, a race with three genders. One of these genders, dubbed Cogenitors, lead a life unbefitting a sentient being by most human standards, so of course Trip is gonna get mixed up in there. 

Star Trek: Enterprise 02x22 - Cogenitor
Directed by Levar Burton 
Written by Rick Berma...

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