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!

Episodes

June 13, 2025 34 mins
In an unsurprising move, Paramount Plus has decided to end Star Trek: Strange New Worlds with a six-episode fifth season!  We talk about our feelings regarding this announcement and speculate on how the impending Paramount merger and their new CEO will effect the state of Star Trek. 

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 h...
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On this episode of Star Trek Universe, we’re discussing that Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer, maman... plus talking about the posters they've recently released, season 3 episode titles, a Starfleet Academy update and some very interesting statements from Tawny Newsome about her (hopefully) upcoming Trek series!

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journe...
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Get ready for gladiators and glad penis, maman! As McCoy and Spock fight for their lives in an arena,  Kirk claps cheeks and pleases his weenah!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x12 - "I, Mudd"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in production order. Guiding her on this journey: Dave, a stalwart fan of almost four decades who rewatches along with h...
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Dave and Matt are back in the saddle, maman! We got thoughts on the "Strange New Worlds" season 3 trailer, "Starfleet Academy" News and more franchise rumblings!

STRANGE NEW WORLDS
  • ‘Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in June
  • Season 3 Trailer | https://youtu.be/PjAWSIJCcmY
  • Season Three Synopsis
  • Season 4 Filming is Halfway Done
STARFLEET ACADEMY
  • Season 1 Wrapped
  • Robert Picardo discusses The Doctor’...
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We have Federation officials and klingons who like to quibble, but they ain’t no trouble like the trouble with tribbles, maman! We’re heading to Deep Space Station K7 to have a drink with Cyrano Jones and review the hallowed, well-loved classic, Star Trek 2x13, “The Trouble With Tribbles”! They're born pregnant, maman!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x13 - "The Trouble With Tribbles"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episo...
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January 26, 2025 53 mins
Georgiou is back, but the film’s getting flack, maman! Is it as bad as you’ve heard, or is the hate undeserved? We’ll be bringing you our spoiler-free thoughts, followed by our spoiler-filled thoughts on "Star Trek: Section 31"!

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 late1980s.

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January 7, 2025 25 mins
Gather, ye subjects and pledge purpose to his royal Mudd the first! The non-human Norman done hijacked the Enterprise, maman! He took us to a world of safety, technology beyond imagination and of course endless unaging android ass! Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad, and this episode of Star Trek Universe is a review of Star Trek 2x12, “I, Mudd”, maman!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x12 - "I, Mudd"

Hosts:
David C. Robers...
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Saying goodbye to Lower Decks sucks, maman. Hopefully we'll get more from these characters somewhere in the future. Time for our final review of Lower Decks, maman. They set so much up...

Episodes Reviewed:
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09 - "Fissure Quest"
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x10 - "The New Next Generation" (Series Finale)


Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

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Catching up on two more episode of Lower Decks, maman. We got a purple Data head and tales of the upper decks, maman. Lurks and clicking jerks. Something's happening, maman.

Episodes Reviewed:
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x07 - "Fully Dilated"
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x08- "Upper Decks"


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 si...
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It's a double review this round, maman! We're catching up on the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks! We're taking a trip to Starbase 80 and retreading over some already-too-well-tread ground involving feuding peoples and young lovers. It's a real mixed bag, maman!


Episodes Reviewed:
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x05 - "Starbase 80?!"
Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x06 - "Of Gods and Angles"


Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

Note: This episo...
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November 23, 2024 29 mins
"765874 - Unification" isn't just the return of William Shatner as James Kirk, it's also the return of Robin Curtis as Saavik and Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell. But what does it all mean, maman?

We're talking about all of the OTOY/Roddenberry Archive shorts up to the latest, Unification, as well as the extended media that inspired the content from the shorts such as William Shatner's "Return" novels, the Marvel Star Trek: Early Voy...
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November 11, 2024 34 mins
Break out the Bengay, slip on your nicest track suit, and ready your angry ageism e-mails for next week’s feedback, maman! The nights are warm and the days are young, but the same can’t be said for the brave crew of the Enterprise who are about to stop going boldly and start going oldly! Them worry lines, maman...

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x11 - "The Deadly Years"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

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We're talking Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x04 - "A Farewell to Farms", maman! Time for some Ma'ah and Migleemo maman! Klingons and Klowahkans!

AND MORE. SPACIAL. RIFTS.


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 late1980s.

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November 4, 2024 37 mins
Show off those guns, bare that midriff and break out your most hipsterish beard wax to give that goatee the shine it deserves, maman. We’re taking a look at the iconic, oft-imitated, perpetually satired but universally beloved parallel universe paragon, “Mirror, Mirror”! It's a wild ride on the agonizer, maman! 

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x10 - "Mirror, Mirror"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Un...
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We're talking Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x03 - "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel", maman! Mariner and Jennifer finally get closure! Boimler is thrown into danger for being wiry! Tendi is excited to be back to scanning! Apocalypse later (because the future)! It's honestly not a ton to talk about, maman, but there are more space fissures!

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Matthew Carroll

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October 25, 2024 44 mins
It's a fresh beginning for the end of a beloved series, maman! A cosmic fissure leaves the crew of the Cerritos in a position of crappy self-reflection as they're forced to face the paths they could have taken in 5x01, "Dos Cerritos" -- Then, in 5x02, "Shades of Green", our crew is still reeling from what they know of their counterparts while Tendi reels from the consequences of making the blue orions canon! It's a fine how-do-ya-d...
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September 18, 2024 49 mins
An apple a day keeps the serpent at bay, maman! Kirk continues his mission to kill gods and disrupt paradise while we continue our watch/rewatch of classic Star Trek! Stop picking at my Vaal wire, maman. It's not another piercing!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x09 - "The Apple"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in production order. Guiding her...
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September 11, 2024 33 mins
We’re going where NOMAD’S gone before, maman! Cause we're gonna rub nubs with Nomad, a carbon unit-nullifying nuts-and-bolts type. Be careful, maman -- the utopia-seeking, string riding robots might erase your memory for the length of an episode. And then you'll have to listen all over again!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x08 - "The Changeling"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

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September 4, 2024 33 mins
We’re tradin’ in our chevy for a Redjac-ac-ac-ac-ac! You outta know by now, maman…It's time to savor a scintillating slice of who-dunnit cheesecake. Take your sedatives, and find a hand to hold as we work to uncover the Wolf in the Fold...

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x07 - "Wolf in the Fold"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in production or...
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On this episode of Star Trek Universe, we engage with a HORN OF BUTCHERY, maman -- a regular CORNUCOPIA of CARNAGE… OTHERWISE known as THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE! Come lay with me until I go to sleep, maman. They say there's no devil, but there is! Right out of hell, maman, I saw it!

Episode Reviewed:
Star Trek 2x06 - "The Doomsday Machine"

Hosts:
David C. Roberson
Effie Ophelders

Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie'...
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