Let's Talk About Treks: A Star Trek Podcast

We’re late. We’re super late. Some technical difficulties delayed the production of this episode, so although this one’s coming out a week late, we’re already on the ball with new material to follow sooner than the last … if that makes sense. This week Jack n’ Earl are on about some of the nuances of Star Trek Discovery, Season Two, Episode Two: New Eden — but beware — this episode also spoils much of season three. Finish season three, then come back n’ see us: we don’t want to ruin it for you. We’d really appreciate it if you could reach out and tell us what you think of the show: what you like, what you like less, and what can make it better: You can find us on Twitter as @TrekTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com, or leave us a voice message or a text at (202) 804-6312  Enjoy the show!

[PS309 / PIC309] It is with great trepidation and substantial agony that jaQ` & Earl present to you, with a bittersweet tone, our review of the penultimate episode of the television series Star Trek: Picard. What we’ve left behind is every reference to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and find ourselves once again wih the Star Trek: The Next Generation treading the trodden ground of the Borg. Also, there’s carpet, finally. Listen in and discover the secrets we’ve made up, and the back door pilots we’ve found hidden in this phenomenal episode. If you’d like to berate us, you can send an email to email@letstalkabouttreks.com If you’d like to viscerally curse at us, you can leave a voicemail at +1 202 569 TREK (8735) … and lastly, to gaslight us, try suggesting that Starfleet isn’t real and tag us on Twitter as @TrekStalkers Thanks for listening, thanks for joining in our polls, and thanks for keepin’ it Starfleet! 🖖🏾🖖🏼

[PS308 / PIC308] With two more episodes to go before the end of Star Trek: Picard, jaQ & Earl are here to give you their all … just like Vadic: some gave some, she gave all. Join us through our most recent bout with #Surrender and check out the polls, the wild speculation, mad conjecture and ridiculous perspective. As always thanks for listening; we’ll see you next week!

[PS305] Who doesn’t love Star Trek: Picard season three??? It’s wonderous, it’s full of heart, action, has a great plot, and jaQ’ and Earl can barely stop raving about the amazing work Terry Matalas has done. We did cut this down from its original four hours to bring you the sweetest two hours of the LTAT juice, and hope it brings some joy to your commute! Although we’ve asked before, if you could give us a rating or review, that would be awesome. You can also find us on Twitter as @TrekStalkers, you can drop us a line at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or you can leave us a voice message at (202) 569 – TREK, and it’ll likely be featured during the show. Many thanks to all who voted in our polls on Twitter; it really enhances the show for us!

[PS304] “No Win Scenario” was thoroughly enjoyed by jaQ’ & Earl and we hope you were enthralled by it also. Delve into the changeling adventure aboard the USS Titan and journey with LTAT’s “The Boys” in their intensive examination of what seems to be just about every moment of this episode. Believe me; we go deep for this one. Let us know what you think of the show; what you like, what you don’t like, what can make it better: You can find us on Twitter as @TrekTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or send us a text or a voice message at +1 (202) 569 – TREK

[PS303 / PIC303] Dude, what? jaQ and Earl are shocked by the return of The Federation’s goopiest enemy, and enthralled by the Beverly/Jean-Luc scenes and rolling in the aisles over the Raffi/Worf scenes. Strangely, we stay largely on topic this episode — it’s so packed that we had very little room to wiggle and stay under two hours this episode. You wouldn’t believe what’s on the cutting room floor. We’ve brought you the best pieces of our conversation covering Star Trek: Picard season three episode three, which gives us a fond glimpse at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Let us know what you think of the show; what you like, what you don’t like, what can make it better. You can find us on Twitter as @TrekStalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com, or leave us a voice message or a text at (202) 569-TREK

[PIC301] It’s HERE!!! We can’t be more excited about this new season of Star Trek: The Previous Generation. We pore through a lot of this episode, and we reintroduce a bit of audience interaction a la our Star Trek: Strange New Worlds style of poddingcast. You’ll find our polls on Twitter, retweeted by @TreksTalkers, originally posted by our producer, @AstralArgonaut. We hope you enjoy this episode; we’ve got our own easter eggs now and we hope it’s increased the quality and fun of the show! By the way, the guy in the end credits is lying: our phone number is +1 202 569 TREK (8735), and we hope you’ll use it to drop us a text or a voicemail about this episode. Additionally, you can tweet us at, as mentioned above @TrekStalkers, or email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com

[DSC313] Part One of Two jaQ’ and Earl are finally rounding out this home stretch of Star Trek: Discovery season three. There’s much talk of holos, praise for the cgi team, a brief discussion involving Doug Jones singing about a circumcision, we take a little jaunt through the turbo/tardiscape, delve into an examination of what “quarantine” means — and really actually a whole lot more. We have so much content for this episode in fact, that we’ve split our review of this episode into two LTAT episodes. Please enjoy this one and then continue right to the next for the remainder of our coverage of “That Hope is You, Part 2”. As always, please let us know what you think of the show: tell us what you like — what you don’t like, and importantly, what can make it better! You can find us on twitter as @TreksTalkers, you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or you can leaver a text or a voicemail at 202-569-TREK

[DSC312] We cover some of the episode, and discuss many unrelated things. This episode was recorded while we were in quarantine, and you may be able to tell how stir crazy jaQ’ has become. We wonder about the no-helmet baddie, pontificate on Zora, and certainly couldn’t let that bit about the replicators slip by quietly. There’s far too much casual profanity for us to bleep out this time. You have been warned. Let us know what you think of the show; tell us what you like — what you don’t like, and importantly, what can make it better! You can find us on twitter as @TreksTalkers and you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com and you can even leave a voice message or a text at (202) 569 – TREK

[DSC311] How does warp drive actually work? How do naming conventions work across the face of The Federation? Why all the cat voice work? Why is Risa covered in post-it residue? Join jaQ’ and Earl for their coverage of Star Trek: Discovery season one, episode 11, Su’Kal. We’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on all this and more, and you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com, tweet us as @TrekStalkers, or send us a text or a voicemail at (202) 569 – TREK. No dolphins were physically harmed during this episode; just their feelings. Enjoy the show!

[DSC310] This episode jaQ’ and Earl journey into the mirror with Star Trek: Discovery season three episode ten, Terra Firma, Part Two. We run through some thoughts about Trelane, the artistry of the tardislift shafts, anthropomorphize wormholes, examine the Terran condition, ponder what happened to Prime Lorca, delve into the fate of the Consititution class starship Defiant, lament the nepotistic security measures aboard Starfleet vessels, flow through jaQ’s Star Trek: Enterprise, and say goodbye to Phillipa with some clever haikus. There might also be a mention of Sybok. :: crowdgasp.wav :: This is somewhere around the time we think we started to get our stride together, and we strangely talk mostly about this episode!! This might be our first time asking, but please let us know what you think of the show: tell us what you like — what you don’t like, and importantly, what can make it better! You can find us on twitter as @TreksTalkers you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com and you can leave us a voice message at (202) 569 – TREK

[DSC309] This week LTAT goes back in time to early 2021, when a younger, more innocent and even more unpolished pair of podcasters called jaQ` Darino & Earl Grey, recorded their review of Star Trek Discovery, season three, episode nine, Terra Firma, Part One. We delve into alternate history and parallel worlds, stumble through the Georgiou/Burnham bookend hikes, gloss over a tripping Worf and find their way to some works of art by Star Trek fans and Star Trek legends. Here are a couple of things to which we promise we’d link you during this episode: George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s — and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. The graphic novel “They Called Us Enemy” is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. Get it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/NEW-They-Called-Enemy-Takei-George/dp/B0B6RQVG4C?ref_=ast_sto_dp DeviantArt user Karracaz has a plethora of photo manipulations and pure art, but we like this one of Sarek especially: https://www.deviantart.com/karracaz/art/Armed-and-Dangerous-200909754 Also, Karracaz’ gallery is pretty great; we recommend checking it out: https://www.deviantart.com/karracaz/gallery Let us know what you think of the show; what you like, what you don’t like, what can make it better: You can find us on Twitter as @TrekTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or send us a text or a voice message at +1 (202) 569 – TREK

**Warning** If you listen with children present, please start this podcast about eight minutes in. It gets wild right up front. We apologize; listen with caution. [DSC308] This episode finds jaQ and Earl in the 31st or 32nd Century; they’re N’iVar sure which. It’s an older recording, presented for your listening pleasure during this gap week of new episodes of Star Trek, and we’re still heavily carrying the theme of recording from the crashed saucer section of the Enterprise-D. You’ll hear references thereto throughout. Also referenced, which we haven’t touched on in a while, is the Disco Bingo game we began building right from the start of the podcast! You can pick the game back up here, and during the upcoming no-new-Trek-this-week weeks, we’ll continue building your cards and the game. Not sure if we’ve asked before, but if you’ve got a moment, consider taking a moment to give us a rating on the platform where you’re listening, or if you’ve got a bit more time, drop us a line! You can find us on Twitter as @TreksTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or send us a text or voice message at +1 (202) 569 – Trek.

[PRO120] jaQ` and Earl drop their walk through of the season finale of the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy! We pace our way through the episode, falling on discussions about augments, the true destiny of Solumn, and a healthy dose of hope for the future! Join us as we bid a fond farewell to the first season of Star Trek in two decades to have a normal number of episodes! We take a jaunt through Treknology and Treknologic, running a golden thread through Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and even a healthy dosage of Star Trek: Enterprise! (With us, Star Trek: The Next Generation is always a given, ’cause we were both #1701DKids!) This may in fact be something we’ve said before, but we would benefit greatly from a review or rating from wherever you’re listening now, and you can interact with us on Twitter as @TrekStalkers, send us an email at email@letstalkaboutreks.com or you can send us your NSFW pictures via text to (202) 569-TREK

[PRO119] jaQ’ and Earl are back in the Prodigy era, and have just come upon the Supernova rounding out the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy. This episode walks us through more concerns about Starfleet command coding, the horrorshow Star Trek has presented us in time for Christmas 2022, and Prodigy’s place in the timeline of Star Trek History. Once or twice we may have said: let us know what you think of the show! You can tweet us as @TrekStalkers you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com you can leave a voice message or a text at +1 (202) 569 – TREK or you can shout down a wormhole; whichever method works best for you; we don’t judge!

[DSC307] Earl is still conducting his away mission, so we’ve gone back to the trunkful of past reviews we have yet to release, and take it back to Star Trek: Discovery season three episode seven, the famed “Unification Three“. We’ll be back next week with Star Trek: Prodigy‘s Supernova! Let us know what you think of the show; what you like, what you don’t like, what can make it better. You can find us on Twitter as @TrekStalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com, or leave us a voice message or a text at (202) 569-TREK

[PRO118] Earl’s off visiting a Federation scientist relative in the Neutral Zone, but don’t tell anyone and blow his cover. Izaak, BFF of the Pod, who also produces Unplaaanned Trek, joins jaQ’ Darino this episode to cover the Mindwalk that is Star Trek: Prodigy, season one, episode 18! There are a few off-course slipstreams in this episode, including some detours through Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, and importantly we finally get up the gumption to ask Worf, “Hey is that three phasers in your pocket, or …” Join us for some fun and very un-T’Pring hijinks for this special episode of the podcast. Earl will be back with us next week, but we hope you’ll accept and enjoy our friend “Ned Ula” in his second appearance on LTAT! Once or twice we may have said: let us know what you think of the show! You can tweet us as @TrekStalkers you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com you can leave a voice message or a text at +1 (202) 569 – TREK or you can shout down a wormhole; whichever method works best for you; we don’t judge!

[PRO117] jaQ’ and Earl surprise themselves with so very much to say about Star Trek: Prodigy episode seventeen, Ghost in the Machine. There has always been a lot of fun nuance with this show, and j&E are here to find as much of it as they hope you’ll have time for. Within two infinities wrapped on Zero, jaQ` and Earl revisit the UFP founders, marvel at the singing Murf, recall ancient Hologram Games from Earth, chase down the pokeymens of the 25th century, and layer the dreams of a gas over the words of AI poets. We get into the many Noums theory and try to figure out the holodeck safeties and eventually get to the Orion splashdown, with first a suggestion, then an announcement. We continue to work hard to bring you our unique and loving take on Star Trek and we hope that it brings you some joy. If you’ve got a moment, consider taking a moment to give us a rating where you’re listening, or if you’ve got a bit more time, drop us a line! You can find us on Twitter as @TreksTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or send us a text or voice message at +1 (202) 569 – Trek. Enjoy the show!

[PRO116] jaQ’ and Earl have theories flowing right out of the consoles this episode. There’s so much story and so many stories packed into Star Trek: Prodigy season one, episode sixteen, Preludes that they can hardly figure out where to include everything. Preludes seems to provide two questions for every question answered. We’ve also included one Chopin prelude (in numbered order) to accompany us beneath each of the protostories, and felt the need to recall RedCaio’s perfect Prodigy piano piece as well as a snippet of a night at the disco, and even a little flourish from Paramount Proper. Our alternate titles for this episode were:“Solumnite Solumn Knights”“The Story of 0”“Formibidible”“The Definer”“Newnok”“Suggestering” and lastly,“A Suspiciously Small Ship” Let us know what you think of the show; what you like, what you don’t like, what can make it better: You can find us on Twitter as @TrekTalkers, email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com or send us a text or a voice message at +1 (202) 569 – TREK

[PRO115] jaQ’ and Earl have been watching and gleaning, and invite you to listen in on our musings about what exactly is going on with Star Trek Prodigy as we walk through season one, episode fifteen, Masquerade. The intensity has deepened and the twists are coming with just about every episode. We’re not flummoxed, and we have something to tell you about Chakotay. Well actually what we believe about Dal, in relation to Chakotay, so to speak. In this episode, we feature part of the incredible piano rendition of the Star Trek: Prodigy theme by RedCaio, whom you can find on both Patreon and YouTube doing piano covers of all kinds. We also introduce our new spot for the podcast Weird Darkness, which features Darren Marlar and a mixed bag of engaging stories. If you listen to our show, it would be super mega awesome if you’d leave us a review on the platform where you join us weekly: tell us what you like — what you don’t like, and importantly, what can make it better! You can find us on twitter as @TreksTalkers you can email us at email@letstalkabouttreks.com and you can leave us a voice message or a text at (202) 569 – TREK