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In this episode of the podcast, we celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by starting to answer some Star Trek franchise related questions. Based on Star Trek 50th Anniversary Year Challenge Simon wrote a Blog post about it back in 2016:
https://theengagepodcast.blogspot.com/2016/09/simon-star-trek-50th-anniversary-year.html
In this episode of the podcast, we celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary by doing an episode commentary for Simon's favourite Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Doomsday Machine” in its remastered format.
As the title suggests we’ll be once again taking a deep dive into the depths of Reddit. Looking in particular at the interesting (and sometimes strange) discussions found within the Star Trek subreddit pages, giving our thoughts and feelings on particular conversations we think are interesting!
In this episode we retrospectively look backwards at Star Trek: Strange New World's third season, giving our opinions on what we think they got right and what they got wrong.
As the title suggests in this episode we attempt to answer the age old question what do Starfleet Admirals actually do?
In our final episode of the year as usual we pick our favourite podcast moments to share with you! Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all our listeners!
As the titles suggests, in this episode we’ll be discussing the positive elements that modern Star Trek under Alex Kurtzman has brought to the franchise in recent years!
In this year's Absent Friends we shine a spotlight on the amazing achievments of Jeri Taylor (Producer), Roberto Orci (Producer), Gary Graham (Actor) and Layla Sarakalo (Background Actress). With focus placed on people related to Star Trek Voyager which had it's 30th anniversary this year.
In the first part of two, we discuss our favourite Star Trek facts trivia. First up is Simon talking us through twenty-five of this favourite Star Trek facts (kindly assisted by Jamie). Who's stretching the rules… as always!
As the title suggests, in this quickfire episode we’ll be talking about (and theorising) how people take time off in the future.
In this week’s episode we conclude looking at the history behind one of the most famous spy planes in existence the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. A supersonic plane with a complicated history which broke many height and speed records.
Following on from Jamie’s 2019 original Life is Strange game General Interest podcast. We follow it up by talking about the third game Life Is Strange: True Colours, and their latest game entitled Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. Warning episode contains spoilers and Platypus facts!
Inspired by the famous (and long running) BBC radio show Desert Island Discs. We put a Star Trek spin on the format by asking a guest to choose eight episodes, a book, and a luxury to take with them as they’re marooned on a mythical desert planet.
In the second part of our DS9 Season 3 Review we look at “Heart of Stone” all the way up to “The Adversary”. Please note that we had some sound technical difficulties whilst recording (both parts).
In the first part of our DS9 Season 3 Review we look at “The Search, Part I” all the way up to “Life Support”. Please note that we had some sound technical difficulties whilst recording (both parts).
In this episode we are joined by a couple of U.S.S. Mercia crewmembers to retrospectively look back at Star Trek: Prodigy’s second season, giving our opinions on what we think they got right and what they got wrong. It's also our first episode recorded through Microsoft Teams.
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After many years I've (Simon) decided to revive our snog, marry and avoid episodes. But me being me I want our new version to be all about starships, so welcome to this addition of Captain Commission Destroy
As the title suggests, in this episode we’ll be talking about whether the Star Trek franchise has suffered from having shorter episode length and season length compared to the past.
In our latest episode we do another Starship profile, this time focusing on DS9's U.S.S. Defiant.
As the title suggests, in this episode we’ll be discussing whether we think that physical media still has a place in the modern world. Where everything you could possibly want at a touch of a button… but is everything as it's cracked up to be?




