Treks and the City
From the duo who didn't mean to make you mad but somehow did, GUY ON THE INTERNET, it's Treks and the City, this time covering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, three weeks on, one week off, at a time! For full episodes, visit the Treks and the City Patreon, here: https://www.patreon.com/treksandthecity
Episodes
July 10, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss how to sync audio, which one of them is which, benign pranks, the ugly resonances between this week's Treks episode and the current reality we're all living in, Joe Biden dealing with the Ferengi, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode eleven, "Homefront." Together, they talk over the missed opportunity of an all-info episode to celebrate reaching episode ...
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July 3, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss what's going on, when to call the wambulance, which Comic Con's the current hot Comic Con, the proper pronunciation of "Ba'tleth," how to live in a storage unit, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode ten, "Our Man Bashir," which neither of them particularly loved. Together, they discuss the risks of doing a James Bond homage on a TV budget, the sexism of...
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June 19, 2025 • 9 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss how well life's going now that Alice has figured out her audio setup, what God's really up to, invoking the right to not hear about Malcolm and the Middle, free-styling dentists, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode nine, "The Sword of Kahless." Together, they go deep on Klingon stabbing culture, objects causing space madness, doing Indiana Jones on a TV...
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June 12, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler get into Alice's days in New York, Garret revoking Alice's backstage pass privileges due to his sleep deprivation, the deep ties shared by members of Gen X, the hell of buying vintage, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode eight, "Little Green Men" AND Futurama season three, episode nineteen, "Roswell That Ends Well," because Skyler thought covering both, given ...
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June 5, 2025 • 10 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler are joined once again by the great Ben Rodgers (Star Trek: Lower Decks, the Actionboyz podcast) to discuss what everyone can hear, just how big a car Ben drives, giving up on English, the joys of recognizing that somebody looks like somebody else regardless of whether or not the resemblance may be rude to share with them, which member of Boygenius Skyler saw perform recently, what Boygenius is, and much,...
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May 22, 2025 • 10 mins
This week, Alice, Skyler, and Vero(!!!!) discuss the medical origins of Biscuit, Alice's cat's crying, where Vero's been, why Skyler's so nervous, the rote tasks of Alice's newest streaming game, the joys of parallel Stardew Valley play, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode six, "Rejoined." Topics include vomit (be warned, if you are vomit-phobic, for the ~thirteen minute zone), how Vero'...
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May 15, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler (perfectly, recognizably) sing in the style of Blink 182 before discussing the joy of reaching for things that are high up, whether Being John Malkovich or The Lord of the Rings is the more famous "low ceilings" movie, Skyler's passion for plastic surgery, how wild it is that The Swan never got even more public scrutiny, realistic mantras, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season...
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May 8, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss Skyler living in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," looking up the story's famous first line which, luckily, can be found online thanks to the University of Pennsylvania, Alice's upcoming protest plans, the great vibes that prestige TV's creating right now, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they get into DS9 season four, episode four, "Hippocratic Oath," which... neither of them really liked. To...
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April 24, 2025 • 87 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler are detouring from DS9 with a BLOCKBUSTER of an episode, free for all to enjoy. That's right, they're taking a trip to the Barlcay Center—the REGINALD Barclay Center, The Next Generation's punching-bag engineer character, and they're joined once again by the great Danny Solomon to do so. Together, they discuss the TNG crew's weird disdain for a guy who's just trying to fit in, O'Brien coming from a long ...
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April 17, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler shout out their first "Fashion Intruder"-level Patreon subscriber WITH reverb before diving into Redditors' posting histories, not cutting something in post, getting hair done, interesting hair developments across the DS9 cast this season thus far, the size of red, molecule-wise, what the hell's going on with Skyler's apartment hunt since last week (which was recorded only moments before this week's epis...
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April 10, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss being boring, Alice's parents enjoying Canadian sushi, Zac Efron's Comtek etiquette, Skyler's slow-going moving process, and more. Behind the paywall, they pick up where they left off last week and discuss the actual meat of the two-part DS9 season four premiere, "The Way of the Warrior," again with Alice's Resident Alien co-star, the great Sara Tomko. Together, they all go deep on just what it i...
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April 3, 2025 • 10 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler are joined by the great Sara Tomko, Alice's dear friend and Resident Alien co-star. Together, they... don't really get into the (pretty great) DS9 season four premiere, "The Way of the Warrior," because, much like the premiere... this one's a two-parter. Before the paywall, they talk the color of creeps' money, sound effects websites, marketing ideas for La Croix, Alice's crow trap, and much, much more. ...
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March 20, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss Victorian breathing, the work of Jane Austen, whether or not "WAP" will be a future generation's Pride and Prejudice, the brainrot of novels, and more. Behind the paywall, they go long on the DS9 season three finale, episode 26, "The Adversary," which includes a bunch of homages to The Thing, a bunch of homages to The Blue Man Group, and at least one changeling absolutely going off. Other topics ...
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March 13, 2025 • 10 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler are joined by the great Danny Solomon and Natalie Anis, Alice's dear friends and a couple very much in love. Together, they all discuss who's actually into Star Trek, where Alice and Skyler usually find their guests, missing Alice's proposal, having a big wedding, Twin Peaks, and much, much more. Behind the paywall, they dive into DS9 S3E25, "Facets," a Dax-centric episode that Alice, in particular, foun...
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March 6, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler discuss "shoe blindness," a real condition, the difficulties of describing audio out loud, a great Pro Tools Substack that Skyler can't remember the name of, Infinity Nikki, where Veronica is, and so. much. more. Behind the paywall, they dive into DS9's S3E24, "Shakaar," which heavily features darts, explanations of the general concept of "the zone," Kai Winn trying and failing to pull some Bajoran rebel...
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February 20, 2025 • 9 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler are joined once again by the great Paul F. Tompkins to talk about the sheer volume of backdrops available in Zoom now, Dr. Who-vertigo, JOANN's, the clock Treks and the City is now relying heavily on to provide order, who knows the lyrics to "More Than a Woman" best, and more. Behind the paywall, they dive into DS9 S3E23, "Family Business," a Ferengi-forward episode that is frequently gross. It does have...
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February 13, 2025 • 11 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler debut the NEW episode format, so don't be alarmed over things sounding a bit different. Teasers will now be a bit shorter, they'll be a bit more cold-open-y, they'll be... Really good. You'll see. Together, they talk about Garrett's trip to Canada, bindles, and what they're reading. Behind the paywall, they talk audio-book narrators, getting the Pulitzer house in order, rich guy stuff, and get into the D...
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February 6, 2025 • 22 mins
This week, Alice, Vero, and Skyler talk about Alice's nine-year-sobriety anniversary, how long this week has been and which sauce it is, the latest from Steven Soderbergh, how everyone's taking the current awful news, spoilers for twenty+ year-old movie The Others, microphone choices, and, frankly? Other things. Behind the paywall, they go deep on the excellent DS9 episode "The Die is Cast," the genuinely fantastic ending to the ge...
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January 23, 2025 • 32 mins
This week, Alice, Vero, and Skyler talk the LA wildfires, rolling into the UK entertainment industry like it's Deadwood, the loss of David Lynch, Garrett's fatherly love for the cats growing day by day, swapping smoking for the joys of interval training, and much, much more! Listen to the whole thing on Patreon!! And please, if you're able, donate to the LA Fire Department's Wildfire Emergency Fund, The California Community Foundat...
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January 16, 2025 • 25 mins
This week, Alice and Skyler dive deep into the kinds of jobs that are all about slapping a deck together, when in the recording timeline they last discussed Luigi Mangione, the sheer volume of preamble they can squeeze into a single teaser, just how much so this teaser sets you up for some Treks discussion, and more. Behind the paywall, they discuss this so-so Mirror Universe episode, what's going on with the halfhearted streaming ...
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