Newbie Star Trek

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

April 29, 2025 106 mins

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...

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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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Rightful Heir! Worf starts to have a crisis of faith about his religion that he's never really cared about before. What are the odds that he'll find the Klingon Jesus, like, right away? This one lead to a bunch of deep dives into religious talk and whatnot, which is par for an episode where Worf meets Klingon Jesus.

 

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April 1, 2025 76 mins

Safe House! During the dark period after TNG ended but before the X-Men movies, Patrick Stewart was adrift doing random middling projects. One of these was Safe House. Marvin remembered this movie being a lot funnier than it actually was. But hey, at least we got to see Sir Pat Stew's dong. 

 

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If Wishes Were Horses! What if Rumplestiltskin came to life? What if an old-timey yet still from the future baseball player came to life? What if sexy Jadzia Dax came to life? What if a big space butthole came to life? What if the TNG episode Where No One Has Gone Before came to life but without that pervy Traveler? Well, if these were your wishes, they are horses now. 

 

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Suspicions! For some reason, Beverly puts together a small conference about starship shield engineering? Uh, and then the experiment goes awry and gets someone killed? And then the original inventor of the new shield dies? Man, what a mess, surely she won't do anything that'll make her look crazier and get her in more trouble.

 

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Progress! Kira needs to get an old man to leave his farm so they can frack their moon! Also, Nog and Jake turn trade up a proverbial paperclip into a proverbial house! Is this Progress?!

 

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Frame of Mind! How many times has Riker been kidnapped during an undercover mission and made to feel crazy this series? It's been twice, but that's still a lot. Damn, Riker, back at it again.

 

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The Storyteller! Miles O'Brien is co-opted into a very specific Bajoran local ceremony where he has to fight the smoke monster from Lost! Jake and Nog become friends with a teenage Bajoran girl who has to figure out diplomatic relations for her little Bajoran village! Captain Gym Kata of the USS Kumite has to fight off a bunch of cultists on a dangerous alien planet, but he's able to fight them off through the use of a pommel horse...

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February 18, 2025 97 mins

The Chase! Ever wonder why all the aliens in Star Trek are just humans with stuff on their face? Well, so did the TNG writers, and here's their answer! Will it lead to a profound ending where we all learn to come together and be friends? No. Will we unintentionally avoid all references to Red Letter Media jokes about the kurlan naiskos? Surprisingly, yes!

 

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Battle Lines! Full disclosure: Ricardo was quite sick during this recording, so he's even loopier than usual. But hey, we got Mike from Breaking Bad, we got fight scenes, we got nanomachines, we got the Bajoran Pope, what could go wrong?!

 

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February 4, 2025 88 mins

Vortex! We survived the vortex of the California fires to present you the Vortex of DS9! Y'know, the one where Odo gets knocked out by rocks. Also, I guess he gets more info about his loser family or relatives or whatever. Will we finally find out where Odo comes from in this episode? The answer, of course, is no, but hey, at least we had fun along the way. Right? Right?!

 

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January 14, 2025 96 mins

Lessons! Picard finally allows himself to have an interoffice romance, just like the rest of his crew. But he's being REALLY stuck up about it. I dunno, I guess it's fair he doesn't want to put his new squeeze in danger as a captain, but who should he ask for advice? Riker? Deanna? Beverly? The guy with the hairy arms playing his flute for him? Tune in to find out!

 

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December 31, 2024 101 mins

TNG Season 1 Tier List! Dan and Marvin try something a little different... It's been a hot minute since any of us have revisited TNG season 1, a season considered so bad by most Trek fans that they often recommend that new viewers should skip the entire season. Does that opinion hold any water? Let's rank the episodes and find out! 

 

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December 24, 2024 99 mins

Christmas AMA 2024! Our AMA tradition for the holidays continues, but this time we field questions from our Discord channel! Hooray!

 

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Starship Mine! It's basically Picard's Die Hard/Under Siege. But why is it called "Starship Mine"? Seriously, does anyone know why? Leave us a comment if you do!

 

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December 10, 2024 95 mins

The Nagus! What originally was a really boring episode about business expansion was transformed into a madcap adaptation of The Godfather, and boy it works! Also, Ricardo begins his campaign for the American presidency in the 2028 election. We're not joking.  

 

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Move Along Home! Chula! Shap! Move Along Home! Allamaraine! ... I'm so sorry. 

 

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Birthright, Part II! So Michael Piller watched Malcolm X and thought "hey, let's do that with Worf." Uh, that probably wasn't the best idea. But at least we got some funny moments out of it?

 

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