Trek In Time
Join Sean and Matt as they rewatch all of Star Trek in order and in historical context. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Matt and Sean talk about one of the best Star Trek episodes in years in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 6, "Off-Hour." A disaster hits the Enterprise in real time, and every crew member fights to save the ship. After a season of gimmick episodes, this one leaves them with a hard question. If the show can do this, why doesn't it do it every week?
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Three of the first five episodes this season are gimmick episodes, and Matt has had enough. Matt and Sean talk about the puppet hour, and what a 10 episode season can afford, in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 5, "Level Five Transporter Accident." The puppets are beautifully built and the jokes land, but the dream reveal arrives in the final two minutes with no setup. So is this a charming lark? Or is it 45 of the season's 450 minu...
Matt and Sean talk about how Strange New Worlds keeps borrowing other genres in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 4, "A Case of Chiaroscuro." A musical, a horror hour, and now film noir shot in black and white. Matt calls it Andor filtered through Doctor Who, and he means that as a compliment and a complaint at once. Sean argues the story earns the style, from Una's con at the end to La'an's quiet unraveling in sickbay. Pike also cli...
Matt and Sean ask whether Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 3, "Human Best Friend" works better as a live-action Lower Decks episode. The shore leave setup gives Strange New Worlds room for drunk-planet chaos, La’an taking over a gang, Spock mind-melding with a plant, and Scotty and Ortegas turning into a buddy comedy. But with only 10 episodes in the season, they also question whether this much goofiness helps or hurts the lar...
Matt and Sean talk about the best horror Star Trek has ever filmed, in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 2, "The Griffin Incident." A derelict Federation ship, a baby crying down a dark hallway, and a crew that stops trusting its own eyes. Matt reaches for Solaris and The Thing, Sean reaches for Event Horizon, and they agree the landing sticks. Also in the mailbag: the Voth, dinosaurs, and one very wrong answer involving Peter Griffi...
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Matt and Sean talk about a fun dinosaur romp that collapses by the halfway point in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 1, "Valles Marineris." The T. Rex encounter works, Pelia's Doctor Who joke works, and then the plot logic falls apart. Nobody on the best crew in Starfleet asks the obvious question about the mysterious fifth planet. So does the season four premiere earn its time travel setup? Or does it hand wave away the only choice...
One five-minute scene made Matt sit up: a man flatly refuses to accept he carries a deadly disease, and it feels ripped from 2026. Matt and Sean talk about the accidental anti-vax parable buried in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 20, "The Way to Eden." Space hippies hijack the Enterprise chasing paradise, and one man's denial of the science reads very differently today. So is this clunker secretly ahead of its time? Or does the Day...
Matt and Sean talk about the rare late-season bright spot in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 21, "The Cloud Minders." After weeks of episodes that dragged, this one finally feels like real Trek again. They pick apart why it works, where it still limps, and what a bigger budget might have done for the back half of a struggling season 3. This episode first aired on February 28, 1969.
Chapters:
- 00:00: Intro
- 03:46: Mailbag
- 05:53: Today...
Matt and Sean talk about the possession horror hiding inside Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 18, "The Lights of Zetar." An alien energy takes over Lieutenant Mira Romaine, and the creepy voice, the floating body, and the "you can't have her back, she's ours" menace feel pulled straight from a 1960s Hammer horror film. So is this secretly one of Star Trek's scariest hours? Or does the show waste a great idea by burying the reveal fo...
Matt and Sean talk about what killed Star Trek in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 16, “The Mark of Gideon.”
Chapters:
- 00:00: Intro
- 01:55: Feedback
- 03:44: Episode Description
- 05:40: This Time In History
- 12:44: Today’s Episode Discussion
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Matt and Sean talk about the release of all stakes in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 14, “Whom Gods Destroy.”
Sean’s comic collection goes on sale July 3rd. Details here: https://www.whatnot.com/s/VMjS3uri
Chapters:
- 0:00: Intro
- 3:26: Today's episode
- 5:12: This time in history
- 7:51: Episode discussion
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Matt and Sean talk about the never-ending battle for good storytelling in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 15, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.”
Sean’s comic collection goes on sale July 3rd. Details here: https://www.whatnot.com/s/VMjS3uri
Chapters:
- 00:00: Intro
- 00:53: Listener Feedback
- 03:16: This Time in History
- 09:58: Today’s Conversation
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKR17zTEUik
Matt and Sean talk about more pulp, but not as well aged, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 17, “That Which Survives.”
Chapters:
- 00:00: Time Code and Chapters
- 03:13: Today’s Episode
- 03:38: This time in History
- 08:53: Today’s Discusion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBtTZKZ0LA
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Matt and Sean talk about why straightforward, pulpy scifi is often the best, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 11, “Wink of an Eye.”
Chapters:
- 0:00: Intro
- 01:55: Viewer feedback
- 11:16: Today's episode
- 11:30: This time in history
- 17:42: Episode discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0qkT_2otuc
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Matt and Sean talk about one of the most historic episodes of Trek (for multiple reasons), Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 10, “Plato’s Stepchildren.”
Chapters:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:47 - Viewer Feedback
- 07:22 - Today’s Episode
- 08:01 - This Time in History
- 19:44 - Episode Discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iqLsXJYWY
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Matt and Sean talk about a simple yet timely message, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 7, “Day of the Dove.”
Chapters
- 00:00: Intro
- 02:34: Viewer feedback
- 04:48: Today's episode
- 05:16: This time in history
- 09:56: Episode discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqn3T99GLvk
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Matt and Sean talk about Oracles, Asteroids and Marriage, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 8, “For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky”
- (00:00) - - Intro
- (02:16) - - Viewer Feedback
- (04:28) - - Today's Episode
- (05:13) - - This Time in History
- (15:47) - - Episode Discussion
YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime
https://youtu.be/JgJ9kUYSTrk
Matt and Sean talk about rips in space, space madness, and Tholians, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 9, “The Tholian Web.”
- (00:00) - - Intro
- (01:23) - - Viewer feedback
- (04:53) - - Today's episode
- (06:00) - - This time in history
- (10:14) - - Episode discussion
YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime
Audio version of the podcast: https://www.trekintime...
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Matt and Sean talk about feeling the vibes and torturous experiments, in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 12, “The Empath.”
- (00:00) - - Intro
- (01:12) - - Viewer feedback
- (05:18) - - Today's episode
- (06:00) - - This time in history
- (08:40) - - Episode discussion
YouTube version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/trekintime
Audio version of the podcast: https://www.trekintime.show
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