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The Star Trek podcast where we talk fashion, feminism, subtext and subspace.
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Discovery enters the Galactic Barrier, and while real world physicists weep, Anika and Liz turn down the saturation and discuss:
- Just when we thought Disco had mastered pacing...
- The Tarka problem endures
- Saru! T'Rina! Their love!
- "Insecurity is universal." Discovery is a deeply insecure show.
- Is MURF Species 10-C?!
- Translation, alteration and unconscious bias
- Liz's next door neighbour does a bit of yard work, which is great…
- We have started shipping Vance/Rillak, which means we are also VERY concerned that Rillak's gonna go get herself blown up or something
And more!
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
If an episode is titled Rubicon, you can bet some sort of ... line is going to be crossed. Anika and Liz discuss:
- We have some prurient speculations about Saru's … experience; also, we ship Saru/T'Rina A LOT but please never make us look at his hands again
- Nahn is back! Is this … emotional continuity? Gosh!
- Book and Michael are sort of spinning their wheels, narratively and emotionally
- Ruon Tarka is the Elon Musk of the 32nd century, and we do NOT mean that as a compliment! But it's okay, we took a break from fixing Good Sam to offer notes
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Discovery is back, baby! With hijinks! Maybe even SHENANIGANS! Anika and Liz beam down to the Karma Barge to discuss...
- An update on our giveaway
- Captain Picard Week is coming…
- Wanna make a place seem dodgy in 2022? Fill it with a crowd of people!
- We are on the record as loving terrible dads in fiction, but we also love good dads! And also … dadmirals!
- We know you know this, but it bears repeating: Sonequa Martin Green is very, very good at the whole acting business!
- A bridge crew subplot that … hangs together and doesn't feel jammed in? In OUR Discovery?
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Prodigy comes in for an almost flawless mid-season finale! Anika and Liz take a good, long look at Zero, and the discuss:
- The sheer joy of watching a carefully planned story, competently told
- If Lower Decks and Picard are sequels to TNG, and Prodigy is a sequel to Voyager, will the Section 31 series be a sequel to DS9? (Liz has suggestions and they involve casting Alexander Siddig…)
- We talk a lot about how the Diviner is a child slaver, but he also has the regular kind of slaves AND THAT'S NOT BETTER!
- How the Diviner is like one particular Australian scam artist…
- We have some qualms about the Diviner's fate
- Protecting Rok-Tahk is SO important
- The Shipping News (Liz has a lot of Janeway/Chakotay feels)
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
It is the PENULTIMATE episode of Prodigy for now, and we LOVED it! Anika and Liz plan a reverse heist and discuss:
- Drednok: the Swiss army knife of henchmen (henchdroids)
- We love our fictional children
- We also love terrible dads in fiction and we don't apologise
- (HOWEVER, Anika has been accused of being a Gul Dukat apologist, and she wants us to know SHE WOULD NEVER)
- Maybe the Diviner has really good reasons for hating the Federation, but the CHILD SLAVERY makes it a bit difficult to sympathise…
- New uniforms means we have OPINIONS!
- Does Anika have to explain how animation works?
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
It's our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE! Can you believe it? We are so happy to be here, and grateful to our listeners for coming with us on this journey of digressions, ritual mourning for exploded admirals, Star Wars feelings and alleged misandry.
ALSO we have some Star Trek to discuss! And ... quite a lot of Star Trek coming in the next six months, prayer circle for ... us.
- Prodigy! Time travel! Technobabble! Space program history! TRAUMATISING CHILDREN!
- In an unexpected twist, we LOVED Jankom this week
- (We also loved everyone else, but that is only to be expected.)
- Anika imprinted on Aliens at a disturbingly young age
- It's interesting that the usual suspects aren't calling Rok-Tahk a Mary Sue…
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
We are brushing up on our Rules of Aquisition and speedreading General Order One ... it's time for Prodigy!
- Did we NEED to bring the Ferengi into the 21st century?
- Seriously, lots of things about Nandi left a bad taste in our mouths
- "The prime directive quandary was the most interesting part of the episode" -- words which we have NEVER said before now!
- Can Murf consent to being a transporter experiment subject?
- Nandi has pierced ears and this worries us a LOT
- Pay animation writers fairly, dammit!
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Anika and Liz are AWAKE and SOBER and delighted to talk about a new episode of Star Trek: Prodigy!
- OUR CHILDREN ARE BACK
- We are still talking about the unconscious racism in people's attitudes to Dal (and Michael, and Raffi, and Becket…)
- Understanding versus interpretation
- Gwyn finding her identity
- Things are getting a bit timey wimey up in here
- There probably isn't a secret plot to keep DS9 out of current continuity…
- Archive audio, sound quality and FEELS
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
It's New Year's Eve. Liz has the fan running and is two drinks in. Anika has just woken up. What a perfect set-up to talk about "...But To Connect"!
- We speculate wildly about filming multi-storeyed crowd scenes in covid
- Should, uhhh, Book have been allowed at this meeting?
- Earth is a bit genocide-happy and it's worrying
- Never trust anyone whose solution to their problems is moving to another universe!
- Some digressions: Gundam Wing, Fringe, Loki
- Also Liz reads poetry (badly)
- Artificial intelligence in our homes: Google, Alexa, Siri, Zora…
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Anika and Liz take time out from seasonal festivities to catch up and talk about Discovery 4.06, "Stormy Weather". And along the way, we discuss…
- This episode was great, yet it's not our favourite … and that is very much an us problem not a Discovery problem
- Must a Star Trek podcast be full of meaningful insights? Is it not enough that we have some Voyager comparisons and a whole digression about the psychological benefits of procedurals?
- Gray is Kes (this does not mean that Adira is Neelix)
- A little bit of a rant about fandom's take on found family
- Depictions of anger in Star Trek (and the world)
- A digression about season 4 of Enterprise
- The Bridge Crew Problem (™) (in which we have something nice to say about Nilsson!)