Newbie Star Trek
Ricardo and Sara have never watched Star Trek before! So Marvin and Dan are taking them on a journey to watch it all, one episode at a time! From unhinged unrelated tangents to deep philosophical discussions, you'll never know what the week's episode might draw out of us! We’re currently going through Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, alternating by air date! New episodes every Tuesday! Newbie Star Trek is part of Fugitive Frames.
Episodes
Cardassians! The most generic title of any Star Trek episode ever? Seriously, what would you guess that this episode would be about from a title like "Cardassians"? If you guessed a child custody battle between a Bajoran stepfather and a Cardassian politican over the politician's biological son combined with a romping adventure with Julian and Garak, then you're a filthy cheater who's already seen the episode before.
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Gambit, Part II! Now that the jig is up and the show finally admits that Picard is alive, let's get back down to business, which is watching space pirate carry out a Cannon movies-esque super weapon heist while the Enterprise kinda follows long and basketball player James Worthy towers over Worf. Yup. Back to basics.
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Invasive Procedures! Man, this guy really wants a worm in him. So much so that he's willing to steal another worm from another lady in order to get that worm in him. Man, what a dummy. I hope Sisko beats the crap out of him, or at least that Sisko beats the crap outta somebody. Come on!
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Gambit, Part I! Gene Roddenberry wouldn't allow space pirates in Star Trek, but now he's DEAD. It turns out, space pirate stories are a ton of fun and TNG probably should've done it a while ago. So Picard's murdered, Riker has to solve his mystery, he gets captured by Richard Lynch, and Data ends up acting captain, doing the Mr. Burns fingers. Oh and Picard un-dies. Also, Star Wars vibes again! Wow~!
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The Siege! Not Under Siege, but also kind of like Under Siege? Also kind of like Star Wars! Also, combat rations instead of French onion soup! Boy, there's a lot going on in this episode.
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Interface! On the one hand, we have the premise of Geordi being plugged into a new remotely-controlled holographic drone thing that's controlled through a neural interface straight out of Lawnmower Man. Neat. On the other hand, we have the premise of Geordi's mom going missing, leading to an exploration of Geordi's backstory with his family and him trying to reconnect with his mom. Also neat. Are these two great tastes that go grea...
The Circle! Will the Circle be unbroken? Well, if Minister Jaro and Vedek Winn get their way, they certainly will! This second-act episode sets up Kira's ejection from DS9, a Bajoran coup, and a potential showdown between the Cardassians' proxy Bajoran army and the Federation. Also, weird sexy dream between Kira and Vedek Bareil? What's goin' on here?!
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TNG Season 2 Tier List! Tier lists are fun! And TNG season 2 is potentially the most divisive season of Star Trek. From the highs of The Measure of a Man to the abysmal lows of Shades of Gray and everything in-between, join Dan and Marvin as they break down all the stuff they loved about this kooky season and even all the stuff they forgot about!
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Liaisons! What if Misery starred Patrick Stewart and was actually kinda lame? Well, that's this episode, I guess. Also, Deanna introduces an entire culture to diabetes, and Worf fights an alien for eleven hours. Typical Star Trek.
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The Homecoming! It turns out that the Bajorans also have their own "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Nice. Also, the hosts are starting to notice that Kira's kinda cute? Some of us already knew, I guess.
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Descent, Part II! Data's back! Lore's back! Hugh's back! Beverly's captain! Goalposts keep changing! Too many things are happening at once in one episode! Ah mah gah!
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Descent! It turns out Data gets really, really horned up when he kills dudes. Huh. Should we be worried about that? Everyone? Oh the Borg are back? Is that related? What's going on? What?
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In the Hands of the Prophets! After about half a season of ignoring the issue, we're finally getting to see the ramifications of Kai Opaka disappearing. But who would've thought that a religious political structure could lead to such strife?! And Vedek Winn. Yech. Also, the hosts talk about their favorite episodes and their favorite characters of the show so far!
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Timescape! Boy, the Enterprise sure goes through a lot of timey-wimey stuff, don't they? But what if it was also a time... mystery?! Yeah, that's right, we in there.
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CONTENT WARNING: There are detailed discussions of war crimes, including r*pe, forced labor, and g**ocide.
Duet! Well, we're finally here. DS9 finally dives into some of the heaviest subject matter of the series, specifically all those war crimes Cardassians committed during their occupation of Bajor. Many fans call this one of the best if not the best episode of the entire series, which is high praise given that we're still in s...
Dramatis Personae! Remember "Lonely Among Us" from TNG? Well, what if that happened to DS9, except it happened to all of the main cast except Odo? That's this episode. Yup.
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Second Chances! The episode that definitively proves that the transporter is just a cloning machine. Don't @ us about this, you can't change the facts with all your nerd science, there's literally two Rikers. Anyway, Deanna wants to bone the other Riker, and the other Riker is really made at the other Riker. Also Picard REALLY needs this database for some reason, surely it doesn't contain incriminating evidence.
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Ask a Trek Expert with Sandy Holland! Last April Fool's, we reviewed "Star Trek: The Next Generation - A XXX Parody" at the behest of fans, and it ended up being a surprisingly good watch! A little over a year later, the editor of that parody, Sandy Holland, reached out to us, and we couldn't pass up an interview with her! Spoilers: there's a lot of shop talk about the industry, XXX and otherwise, but you might be surprised by some...
The Forsaken! Who knew that the best part of this episode would be Lwaxana?! Well, I guess it's partially because Odo was with her the whole time, but she was also a genuinely good character this episode. Also, I guess there were some other prissy ambassadors that Julian had to babysit. And I guess some sort of... computer... baby? C'mon guys, what're we doing here
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Ask a Trek Expert with Brent Black! We're kicking off a new kind of podcast episode with Brent Black a.k.a. Brentalfloss! Not only does he answer some of our most burning questions about TOS, he's also composed "Khan!!! The Musical!" A Parody TREK-Tacular! Care to take a guess as to what it's about?!
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