Trekabout: A Star Trek Podcast

We say farewell to Star Trek: Voyager’s third season, as Star Trek: Voyager says farewell to itself, in “Worst Case Scenario”, and says hello to the Borg, in “Scorpion”. Also! Is Richard too easy on Voyager? iTunes Google Play RSS

Happy holidays, everyone! As a special year-end treat, we’re releasing December’s patrons-only episode to you all. We answer a bunch of questions sent in by listeners in this one, ranging from Star Trek to politics to the chances of either one of us ever having kids. Plus! See what you’re missing by not being a ...

In “Distant Origin”, Star Trek: Voyager reveals a shocking secret about Earth. In “Displaced”, shocking events happen to the crew. iTunes Google Play RSS

Kes experiences her life backwards, in “Before and After”, and the Doctor attempts to live a life, in “Real Life”. Also! Richard doesn’t know if we are currently podcasting the third or fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager. iTunes Google Play RSS

Tuvok and Neelix get trapped in a small room and must face their demons together, in “Rise”. Harry Kim gets trapped on a planet and must face some demons, in “Favorite Son”. Plus! Richard really thought that Jeri Taylor left after the third season. iTunes Google Play RSS

Star Trek: Voyager pays off the end of “Blood Fever” by showing us a colony of former Borg in “Unity”. Then, in “Darkling”, the show pays nothing off by giving us a terrible riff on Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. iTunes Google Play RSS

Captain Janeway dies in “Coda”… or does she? Ensign Vorik resolves his pon farr with a hologram in “Blood Fever”… or does he? Star Trek: Voyager is a good TV show… or is it? iTunes Google Play RSS

We return to Star Trek: Voyager with a pair of pretty good episodes! “Fair Trade” brings us a panicked Neelix who makes some questionable decisions. “Alter Ego” brings us a panicked Harry Kim who makes some questionable decisions. Happy to have you back, guys! iTunes Google Play RSS

In the “midseason finale” of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go”, the USS Discovery makes a breakthrough in the Klingon-Federation war, just as Burnham and Tyler have a breakthrough in their personal lives. Also! What’s our plan for Star Trek: Discovery going forward? iTunes Google Play RSS

After a couple good episodes, Star Trek: Discovery sadly backslides with “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”. The show remembers that it has a metaplot to deal with, so we get yet another grab-bag serialization episode that feels scattershot and broad. Plus! What’s up with the stardates? iTunes Google Play RSS

Have you ever felt like you were repeating the same day over and over? “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” has got you there, as Harcourt Fenton Mudd returns with an elaborate plan to steal the USS Discovery and sell it to the Klingons. iTunes Google Play RSS

After last week, we weren’t expecting much from Star Trek: Discovery, so of course this week the show gives us “Lethe”, an amazing episode that gives us much-needed character development for both Captain Lorca and Michael Burnham. Plus! Where do we get a DISCO t-shirt? iTunes Google Play RSS

In “Choose Your Pain”, Star Trek: Discovery loses us a little bit, just as the USS Discovery loses Ensign Tardigrade. iTunes Google Play RSS

We learn more about the spore drive, get Star Trek: Discovery’s riff on “The Devil in The Dark”, and find out what happened to Captain Georgiou. Plus! Ensign Tardigrade is the best. iTunes Google Play RSS

In “Context Is for Kings”, we meet the USS Discovery, Captain Lorca, Lt. Stamets, and, best of all, Cadet Sylvia Tilly. Nothing else matters. Cadet Sylvia Tilly needs to be retconned into all previous Trek series. Oh yeah, and some other stuff happened about a new way to fly on fungus spores. Wait. What, Star ...

Well, it’s finally here: the premiere episodes of the first new Star Trek series since 2001, Star Trek: Discovery. “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars” are less a pilot for a new series and more a prologue, as it sets up the events of the series but doesn’t directly deal with our setting ...

Q returns in “The Q and the Grey” and that’s all we have to say about that. Then in “Macrocosm”, Janeway returns to Voyager and finds the ship deserted. iTunes Google Play RSS

We wrap up the adventures of Voyager’s crew in the strange alien land of Los Angeles, 1996 in “Future’s End, Part II”, and it’s only kind of successful at paying off the first installment. Then, Jennifer Lien gets a chance to shine in “Warlord”. iTunes Google Play RSS

Star Trek: Voyager continues its upswing this week by giving us a Janeway episode, “Sacred Ground”, in which she is challenged to put aside her devotion to the scientific method. Then, in “Future’s End”, the show does something so batshit that you just have to admire it. iTunes Google Play RSS

Hey, remember the Ferengi that got stranded in the Delta Quadrant way back in “The Price”? Well, “False Profits” brings them back. Then, B’Elanna is given memories of a horrible event, in “Remember”. iTunes Google Play RSS