Anika and Liz don their sparkliest shirts and biggest earrings, and sit down to watch Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, a fan film starring Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck, Walter Koenig and more.

You can watch it here, or -- in a much smaller window -- watch an unauthorised HD remaster. 

• We're in our Alan Ruck era, but we were not prepared for the unbelievable hotness of Garrett Wang, or the SURPRISE LIBERTARIANISM.


• We take … issue. With the timeline-changing catalyst. 


• This comment from a Redditor who claims to have worked on the production sets it in context. 


• Of Gods and Men is in conversation with the other science fiction of its era (2006-2008) in an interesting way.


• Nichelle Nichols carried this movie, and it is tragic she never got a showcase like this in official Trek


• Alternate Universe Chekov is a LIBERTARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER with an unspeakable wig


• Alan Ruck and Chase Masterton have great chemistry


• The costumes are … hmm. Well.


• You should know that the entire time Anika is talking about Alien Nation, Liz was thinking of Coneheads