Patrons Sara and Russell join Sarah, Allie, and Becca for a fun game of TrekWord! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Discord Starfleet Officer maker by @marci_bloch Music from #Uppbeat (free for...

When Kirk and an old lover get Freaky Friday body swapped, the crew must uncover the truth. Why can't women be starship captains? Why haven't you joined our team or donated to support suicide prevention yet? Join our hike team or Donate at: humanisttrek.com/hike Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up...

In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, KSM find themselves on a planet whose people have time warped into the past to escape their planet's sun going nova. Is Kirk a witch? Will Spock finally put McCoy in his place? What happens if these people f**k up the space time continuum? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show...

When the Enterprise drops by Planet "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln", good and evil are put into a poorly executed experiment. Did Duane the Rock Monster learn anything today? Why is President Lincoln army crawling in his nice suit? Were Lincoln's own words used in this episode? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show...

James Kirk, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk walk into a bar. Speaking of, this episode of Star Trek: The Original Series sets the bar pretty high. This week, Kirk and the gang stumble into a scathing indictment on the class inequality in American and around the world. Is capitalism killing us? Are the people who are most subjugated essentially forced to become criminal to survive? Again... why haven't we eaten the rich yet? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this...

When the Enterprise tracks down a rogue band of Space Hippies, Star Trek gets baked out of its mind and takes a big swing at the counterculture movements of the 1960's. Why haven't we eaten the rich yet? Is the grass greener on the other religion? Do you reach, man? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up...

When the Enterprise finds an old recluse man with a daughter-ish/lover-ish android Real Doll, Sarah and Allie almost quit the podcast. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Discord Starfleet Officer...

When Shari Lewis puts down her puppets, the Enterprise bumps into a corporeal life form who just want to be where the people are so much that they're killing everyone in their path to find some bodies. Did they kill the Zetarians or are they just off terrorizing more people? Did Scotty's new love just get dropped off at the library never to be seen again? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   ...

When the Enterprise stumbles upon a planet whose inhabitants are long gone but who also left their Brinks Home Security System armed, crew members start dropping left and right, victims of a randy murderous mystery woman. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek ...

When Star Trek takes a swing at the "overpopulation problem", Kirk is kidnapped and used to introduce a deadly STD into the population. The writers even kicked both sterilization and prophylactics past the 1960's censor goalpost. Is Earth spiraling toward overpopulation? Are we prepared to make difficult decisions for the survival of our species?   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit...

When Star Trek stops hiding the humanism behind the sci-fi filter, American™ racism and hatred is put on blast. They didn't even bother hiding the mirror on this one. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads ...

When Star Trek revisits the Plane'arium storyline, the proverbial inmates have taken over the asylum led by a shapeshifting madman. Once again questions of rehabilitation, medication, and individual rights and liberty come to the fore. What effect does this new medication have on the inmate? Do inmates have the right of refusal of "care" in Star Trek? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit...

When Star Trek trades in Cowboy Diplomacy for Marriage Diplomacy, Sarah and Allie find themselves in a very discomforting place. Why is the Federation forcing this woman to go through with the diplomatic marriage she doesn't want? Why are the Klingons even in this episode? What even are those stones in that necklace, anyway? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit...

When Kirk and the Gang find the missing scientists dead, they also discover some cousins of the bootyheads from the pilot. With a sun going nova imminent, can good ol' human emotion save a planet full of mute aliens that we only ever see one of? Did they even try saving any of the other aliens on the other planets in this system? Why don't people just ask for help? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social...

Just how far would humans go to ensure our survival as a species? What would we kill to save ourselves, and where's that line? Why aren't we willing to try new things? What's Sarah's "clicker story"? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon ...

Star Trek often asks the question, "What would a civilization based on 'XYZ' look like?" This week it's the ancient Greeks and KSM find themselves in the position of defending against another powerful alien species drunk on their own power. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up...

When Star Trek runs out of story ideas, it's time to revisit that old idea of Logic v. Emotion and how Kirk uses the best of both to be an effective leader. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Discord ...

McCoy catches a terminal case of xenopolychlamydia, the crew stumbles upon a Truman Show asteroid ship, and Allie's back on the dating apps. Could Allie find love at first sight like McCoy? Will she avoid the dick pics and the xenopolychlamydia? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up...

Snoop Claus visits the studio for the weediest Christmas ever!  Thanks to everybody who sent us gifts, you're the real MVP's. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Discord Starfleet Officer maker by...

When a hate vampire sets the Federations and Klingons against each other, can Uhura's sweet sweet singing bring them all together? Can we identify the hate vampires active in our own lives today before it's too late? They are EVERYWHERE! Do we even have the power to stop them?   Guest: X. Ho Yen - https://xhoyenauthor.com/ Author of Minimum Safe Distance and Custodians of the Future   Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag...

When Sarah and Allie are depressed and not excited about decorating for Christmas, the Ghost of Christmas Past yoinks them back to the past - 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona, to be exact. Will this stupid episode of Star Trek reignite their Christmas spirit? Not likely. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up...

When Dr. Pulaski returns, 1960's beauty standards come under fire. Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky Starfleet Officer maker by @marci_bloch

When a bunch of Children of the Corn on a scientific outpost cause their parents to Jim Jones themselves, they call to the guardians of the watchtowers of the East and release "he who walks behind the rows" back into the galaxy.   Star Trek continues to be relevant as ever as we question whether innocent followers who don't know any better are just as liable as the evil people pulling the strings? People who aren't taught critical thinking and scientific skepticism are very susceptible...

When Kirk suffers from amnesia, will the big Manhattan musical go on? How many awful "native American" tropes can one 1960's TV series cram into one episode? Is the transporter a killing machine? Find out this week on Humanist Trek! Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media!   Find all of Dr. Noor's socials, watch presentations, and more at BioTrekkie.com   Visit our website at humanisttrek.com ...