Star Trek Universe

Star Trek Universe

Dave discusses the latest Star Trek series and news with lifelong friend Matt and introduces longtime friend Effie to classic series for the first time!

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November 12, 2025 84 mins
On this episode of Star Trek Universe, Effie and I learn that sometimes it’s best to let Sargons be bygones - especially when you meet douche bags with big ball energy who like to call ya “son”! Hide your Muldaurs and hide your Spocks, maman! They're snatchin' everybody out here!

As we continue our rewatch/first-watch of The Original Series, we find ourselves face-to-face with LIGHTS IN BALLS... or rather, the now-non-corporeal enti...
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On this episode of Star Trek Universe, Effie and Dave learn what a sensual thing an apology can be – and that if you drink too much ya might turn green, maman! Or your drink might, anyway. As we continue our rewatch/first-watch of The Original Series, we find ourselves face-to-face with the Kelvans, desperate to make it back home to their Andromeda galaxy -- but becoming human comes with weaknesses, maman! We're talking Star Trek 2...
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On this episode of Star Trek Universe, Effie and Dave beam down to Sigma Iotia II — the planet that found a book about Chicago mobsters and decided to run with it! From fedoras to tommy guns, the Iotians built an entire society modeled after 1920s gangland culture, maman. Now the warring “bosses” want the Federation to supply them with heaters for their escalating turf war. It’s one of the funniest and most iconic episodes of The O...
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We’re talking Starfleet Academy casting (Tilly's back, sorta) and premiere news, Strange New Worlds season 4’s “go for broke” energy, and the Star Trek: United series that might still be. Interesting news bits abound in the world of Trek, maman!

Starfleet Academy

  • Tilly is Reportedly Only in One Episode!
  • Details on Caleb Mir and S.A.M.
  • How They Changed the S.A.M. Character for Kerrice Brooks
  • Alex Kurtzman Praises Cast
  • New Trailer for ...
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On this episode of Star Trek Universe, Effie and I find ourselves dark place drained of energy, maman – I’m not talking about seasonal depression – We’re spending some time inside of a giant amoeba as we review Star Trek 2x19, "The Immunity Syndrome"!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x19 - "The Immunity Syndrome"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek...
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October 9, 2025 67 mins
It takes a bloodthirsty captain to kill a bloodthirsty cloud, maman! We're talking all about Jim Kirk's obsession with a vampire cloud creature who killed half his crew 11 years ago! More Moby Dick, maman! Another cloud creature! Another vampire, too. This one is a triple-threat retread, maman!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x18 - "Obsession"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young ...
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Effie and Dave fight to be vended as thralls while wearing tin foil bikinis and getting eye-effed by Galt! Lord have mercy upon us, maman! It'll be no time before we're served the old Jim Kirk peck-n-punch! Or worse, his cock-n-sock!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x17 - "The Gamesters of Triskelion"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in producti...
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Kirk brings the crew to a spot he visited before, but he expected paradise -- not a private little war! This is an uneven-but-fun episode to talk about, maman! We got G̶u̶m̶a̶t̶o̶, er, Mugato bites, a witch with a small, deadly box, wigs, Lisa Frank stickers on foreheads and a Vietnam redux, maman! It's a wild one!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x16 - "A Private Little War"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Sta...
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It's our 300th episode, maman! We're getting into all sorts of news!

Strange New Worlds
  • Goldsman and Myers' Thoughts on Rewriting History in "Terrarium"

  • Taking From "The Inner Light" for the finale was Intentional

  • Batel's Loss Will Impact Pike Forever

  • Pike Can't Escape His Fate

  • Batel's Eyes Were Not a Reference to Gary Mitchell

  • They are Done with the Gorn and the Vezda

  • They Thought ...
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They finally told an original story, maman -- or they started to before they were "inspired" by an episode of The Next Generation and did that instead. Alright, fine. It was the only part that actually worked.

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x10 - "New Life and New Civilizations" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journey discussing Star T...
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Divert power to cliché, snarky one-liners, maman! Even in the face of death, and with no one listening, it's time to get in an old yuk-yuk! But ain't nobody laughing at the end, maman. It goes from tragic story to a tragic couple of missteps in franchise continuity! What are they doing, maman? 

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x09 - "Terrarium" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Uni...
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Yes, we watched it, maman. We saw "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans." Our tears are bitter, maman. Our souls are thin as to be wisped away by a wayward zephyr. We weep for our bodies are malnourished; our spirits are distressed. It is a dark age, maman. We require a bonfire of the inanities.

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek U...
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Beto’s been filming on the Enterprise for weeks, maman - and the fruit of his labor is “What is Starfleet?” There were other things to talk about, maman. Starfleet probably didn't declassify that ish, maman. We’re talking about Strange New Worlds 3x07 - “What is Starfleet?” as well as a little bit of news about who Paramount has put in charge of programming at Paramount +!

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07 - "What...
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Pelia talking about her age is getting stale while Kirk becomes the Sehlat who ate its tail. Gather your telephones, maman! It's time for a chat!

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x06 - "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journey discussing Star Trek as they have since the late 1980s.

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There’s a murderer on board, So Spock might pull the chord! You’ll hear Sarek say “My Wife! Attend!” while a Tellarite meets his end! A killer runs amok while Spock’s parents finger fuuh, oh -- uh, how about... D.C. Fontana brings more world-building to this intergalactic fable as we’re settling in for a Journey to Babel! It got dicey there for a minute, maman!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x15 - "Journey to Babel"

Hosts:
David C. Rober...
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Mike Sussman and Bakula have a pitch for a President Archer series! Simon Pegg says the new head of Paramount is a huge Star Trek fan! Plus we review Strange New Worlds 3x05, "Through the Lens of Time" and love it! So many fan theories this episode, maman! It's jam-packed!

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x05 - "Through the Lens of Time" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe c...
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Things are bleak, maman. The snake has eaten it's tail so hard it's currently licking it's chin. They have ten episodes, and they've now used one to denigrate The Original Series and re-use every tired holodeck story from the 90s series all in one. We were not amused, maman. But Paul killed it with his duel performance. Hats off on that one, maman.

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour" 

Hosts...
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To get Captain Batel out of her bed, Pike and M'Benga must fight the undead! It's a rough time for the crew! Zombies, revenge plots, Erica gets in trouble with Number One who has a number two on her head, mind melds or somethin... it's wild, maman.

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x03 - "Shuttle to Kenfori" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoin...
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SDCC 2025 has hit, and it has brough some trailers and teasers, maman! We got thoughts! Here's what we're talking about:

Khan
  • ‘Star Trek: Khan’ Audio Series To Feature George Takei As Sulu And Tim Russ As Tuvok
  • Khan Trailer: https://youtu.be/D71evfU4E1M
Strange New Worlds
  • Showrunners Have A Name For Follow-Up Star Trek Series Set On Kirk’s Enterprise
  • Showrunners Begging Fans to Write in to Paramount to Make Star Trek: Year O...
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As we bypass strange new worlds for familiar old ground, the Star Trek universe continues to get smaller, maman. What used to feel like endless possibility now feels like a ho-hum countdown to the next bit of heavy-handed fan service. But whatever, maman. It wasn't as bad as Section 31. Not by a stretch.

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02 - "Wedding Bell Blues" 

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episo...
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