This week Mike and Yvette welcome Sara and Emilie to discuss the pilot episode of Strange New Worlds. We've all waited a long time for this and are so excited to talk about it. As Captain Pike is on leave, contemplating his future, Spock gets engaged, and Una leads a first contact mission that goes awry. Admiral Robert April sends Pike and crew out to find her and salvage the mission. While there, Pike discovers something about himself while learning more about some of the new members of his...

This week on Discovering Trek, Mike B., Mike T., Jamie, and Tamia, discuss the episode "Monsters." Take a walk inside the walls of Picard's psyche as we begin to find answers to the childhood trauma that's been a theme from this season. We find out more about Maurice and Yvette Picard than we ever have and see what's happening with our assimilated Dr. Jurati. Plus, Rios looks to be losing the battle of love over Teresa. What did we think of the episode, and will our predictions ever pan...

To begin Discovering Trek: Strange New Worlds, we dive into the press junket for the show that we've been waiting for since at least 2019, if not 1964. In this mini-episode, you'll hear from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, and Anson Mount! What do the actors behind the scenes have to say about this show and their roles? What are their feelings about having a show created because of their prior roles? Listen and find out on this episode of...

This week on Discovering Trek, Mike B., Mike T., Jamie, and Fran, discuss the episode "Two of One." The Borg Queen's interest in Jurati makes itself manifest in a big way, while the rest of the crew are trying to do all they can to make sure Renee Picard makes her mission. Soong, Q, and security almost stop them until Agnes makes her on stage debut. That doesn't stop Soong from his ultimate goal, though he may have foiled the wrong Picard. What did we think of the episode, or for that...

This week on Discovering Trek, Mike B., Mike T., Jamie, and Subrina, discuss the episode "Fly Me To The Moon." Picard finds out the objective of the Watcher and how they can work toward a common goal. Q takes an interest in Dr. Adam Soong, and Jurati takes an interest in the Borg Queen. Meanwhile, Seven and Raffi are able to rescue Rios, once again reuniting the crew. Oh yeah, there's a new Renee Picard in town, too. What did we think of the episode? Do we like the direction this season is...

We always have a lot of fun on Discovering Trek, but sometimes an episode requires some serious talk regarding its messages. This week Mike B., Mike T., Jamie, and Fran, discuss the episode "Watcher" and its impact on us. Raffi and Seven try to find a way to rescue Rios from the position he's gotten himself into, while Jurati needs to make a deal with the Borg Queen to assist. Picard works to track down the Watcher in Los Angeles and ends up meeting a young old friend who's at a crossroads. ...

This week, Mike B. and Jamie are joined by Kasey Shafsky to discuss "Assimilation," the third offering from Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. Rios, Raffi, and Seven, must explore Los Angeles 2024 to try to find the "Watcher," while Picard and Jurati stay on La Sirena to see what they can find out from the Borg Queen. Agnes learns a lot from a partial assimilation, and Rios ends up in a medical clinic after taking a rough fall from beam in. How did we feel about this episode? Is Rios discovered...

On this very special bonus episode, Emilie and Mike are joined by the legendary actor that plays Kathryn Janeway, Kate Mulgrew! We are honored to have the privilege to speak with her about her career and current role on Star Trek: Prodigy. Kate and Emilie have a true conversation with each other about life and growing up and college choices. It’s a wonderful conversation you won’t want to miss.

This week, Mike B., Subrina, Mike T., and Jamie discuss "Penance," the second offering from Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. Q is back and has thrown Picard's crew into a dystopian society. Picard is a warlord General, Seven is the President of the Confederation and Elnor is no longer welcome on a xenophobic Earth. The crew finds that they need to go back in time to set things straight, and to do so, need to enlist the help of the Borg Queen. How did we feel about this episode? How is the...

This week, Mike B., Tamia, Mike T., and Jamie discuss the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 2, "The Star Gazer". A Starfleet vessel is set to auto destruct before we get to look in on our crew from last season over the previous 48 hours. Picard, Raffi, and Rios are all back in Starfleet, and Elnor is at the Academy. Seven is captaining the La Sirena working for the Fenris Rangers again, and Jurati and Soji are entertaining a group of Deltans. A situation in space brings most of...

Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard is just around the corner, so hosts Mike B, Jamie, Mike T, Tamia, and Subrina, break down the trailer for season 2. What in the trailer offers a glimpse of what's in store for us in this season? We'll closely examine that and throw out our wishes and theories as to what we may be dealing with this season! Join us for this breakdown and get to know our motley crew of characters here on Discovering Trek: Picard!

On this final episode of the first half of Season 1, Mike and Emilie are joined by Abby Sommer to discuss "A Moral Star, Part 2." The crew will attempt to get the U.S.S. Protostar back from The Diviner while also trying to release all the Unwanted from Tars Lamora. This will mean redemption for some of our characters and a new unseen one for all of them. We'll discuss that and talk in depth about what we think the second half of the season will bring us, on this episode of Discovering Trek:...

This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by Meg MacConnell to discuss the penultimate episode of the first half of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, "A Moral Star, Part 1." The crew of the Protostar are forced to return to Tars Lamora for the greater good. Having learned how to work together as a crew, Dal and company prepare a rescue mission of the "Unwanted" on Tars Lamora. The Diviner, as expected, goes back on his word and demands not just the Protostar, but Gwyn as well. As he begins to leave,...

  This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by Jude and Brent Allen of the Murf's Turf Podcast to discuss "Time Amok." A tachyon storm threatens to destroy the U.S.S. Protostar and the crew needs to work together in a unique way to prevent it. Each one of the crew is separated into different parts of time on board the Protostar, with their only way of working together being through Hologram Janeway. They each face circumstances they're unfamiliar with, while a new Drednok is being built in the...

Discovering Trek listeners, are you as shocked as we are that this is the end of season one? More timey wimey activities with dire consequences are going on and what does this mean for the future of our crew, Starfleet and deep space exploration? What does that mean for season two? Does that mean that the shackles of the rhyming recap have been thrown to the wind? Oh gawd please let that be a yes! In this episode, Co-hosts Sara and Kasey talk about all that plus what their thoughts are of...

This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by author Jake Black and his 3 kids, Jonas, Rachel, and Elisabeth, to discuss "First Con-Tact." Dal comes across a former mentor and has mixed feelings as the rest of the crew meet her. As the crew of the U.S.S. Protostar continue to learn the many things that their ship can do, they receive a distress call from what turns out to be a female Ferengi Daimon, Nandi, who essentially raised Dal before he ended up on Tars Lamora. Through this chance meeting,...

The Prodigy crew is back and so is Discovering Trek! Mike and Emilie are joined by Kellyn Goncalves, to discuss "Kobayashi." The Protostar emerges from its warp 4,000 light years from the Delta Quadrant and discovers some of what the holodeck can do. The majority of the crew wants to contact the Federation after finding out they've traveled faster than anyone thought possible. Dal isn't having it. In fact, after finding out about a training program on the newly discovered holodeck, he wants...

Burnham and Book work on rescuing a bunch of prisoners abandoned on a colony that is about to be destroyed by the DMA! Stamets struggles to work with a Federation super scientist who has an answer for everything and wants to create a mini DMA in the middle of Engineering! Plus Dr. Culber is reaching a breaking point and looks to Dr. Kovich for guidance. Sara, Dan, Bill and Kasey break down "The Examples" - the fifth episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 4!

Saru and Burnham are thrust into a political firestorm on Ni'Var when its President throws a curveball at President Rillak! After a discussion with Kovich about the reformed Starfleet Academy, Tilly continues to question her career path and takes command of an away mission full of cadets - what could go wrong? Sara, Dan, Bill and Kasey break down "All Is Possible" - the fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 4!

In a podcast exclusive, Mike and Emilie have the chance this week to have a conversation with Dan & Kevin Hageman, the creators of Star Trek: Prodigy! The conversation includes how they began their writing careers, what it takes to create an animated series from scratch and what it feels like to have their names mentioned alongside Gene Roddenberry. If you're loving Prodigy like we are, you won't want to miss this conversation!

It hasn't been all that long since the Burn, and well even when the Federation is handing out dilithium, odds are someone will show up and try to take it without asking. That happens this week, and someone pays for that...with their life! All kind of things are happening in this weeks episode "Choose To Live," from family reunions, to Romulan Warrior nuns (better known as the Qowat Milat), and even Burnham and Tilly discovering and saving a completely new alien race--in about seven minutes!

This week, Mike and Emilie are thrilled to have Nami Melumad, the composer of Star Trek: Prodigy, for a special bonus episode. During the conversation, we discuss her becoming the first female composer of a Star Trek series and what it means to have her name alongside legends like Goldsmith. We also chat about her being a Star Trek fan and why Prodigy has a special connection for her fandom. She tells us how she came to become a composer as well.

Book is in a bad place. Even Burnham can' reach him. But when he volunteers for a dangerous mission to collect data on the anomaly, the Captain questions whether he is ready for it. To assist with the mission, Stamets goes along - kind of. Also, Saru returns and offers words of wisdom to almost every member of the crew. Plus, Gray prepares to become incorporated into a synthetic body! Sara, Dan and Kasey break down "Anomaly" - the second episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 4!

For our final breakdown episode before the hiatus, Mike and Emilie are joined by Jenn Tifft from Trek Core, to discuss "Terror Firma." The crew faces their toughest challenge yet, find the U.S.S. Protostar and get off the planet before the planet strands them there. Is The Diviner going to take control of the Protostar? Will Gwyn join him and bring the crew back to Tars Lamora? Set a star and lock on with us as we discuss that and more on this episode of Discovering Trek: Prodigy.

Months after solving The Burn, Captain Burnham takes the Discovery, along with the new Federation President to assist a Space Station in need, while Book heads home to partake in a special ceremony with his family.  A new and devastating threat is discovered by the crew that not only jeopardizes them and the station, but causes the unthinkable to occur to Books home planet of Kwejian!! Sara, Dan and Kasey break down the amazing season 4 premier of Star Trek: Discovery!