Exploring the SS Bonaventure. We investigate this animated starship that features design elements that are a precursor to the famous Constitution class, its time period, and build a 3D model in this special video episode.

It's the Halloween season in the Trek.fm wood-paneled den and that means just one thing: Monster Cereals!

Gene Roddenberry's Klingon Memo. Larry Nemecek joins us to discuss the influences of The Animated Series on Star Trek: Discovery and how The Motion Picture wasn't the first time the subject of redesigning the Klingons was broached.

Spock is dying and the only know cure is now in the hands of the Oreeons... Orions? Either way it's bad news!

The Jihad. We join Kirk and Spock in an alien version of the Impossible Mission Force as they search for the soul of an ancient messiah figure on a planet that is constantly changing.

San Diego Comic-Con Trek Podcasting Panel. News, analysis, interviews: It's all in the mix as Larry Nemecek joins nationally known podcasters from Southern California to talk about Star Trek podcasting.

The Eye of the Beholder review and watch-along. While investigating the disappearance of the USS Ariel crew, Kirk and company uncover a world where everything is perfect—a little too perfect. In this episode of Saturday Morning Trek, hosts Aaron Harvey and Joe Slepski take you on a side journey through the works of the episode’s writer, David P. Harmon, to find out where Happy Days originated, the influence of the Magnificent Seven on Star Trek, and, of course, we answer the pressing...

More Tribbles, More Troubles Rewatch-along.   It's summer here in the Trek.fm wood paneled den. We've pulled out the lawn darts, the Slip'n'slide and made a pitcher of cherry Kool-Aid. We're ready for reruns!  Bruce Gibson, from Literary Treks, joins Aaron Harvey for a rewatch of "More Tribbles, More Troubles." Cyrano Jones returns, Koloth faces Kirk in battle—despite Jadzia’s claims otherwise—and we see the beginning and end of a new Klingon weapon. And of course there are Tribbles....

Yesteryear watch-along. We all wish we could go back in time and help out our younger self—give advice, maybe tell our parents to be a bit more understanding. The more ambitious among us might pretend to be our own distant cousin, save our own life, and teach past us the Vulcan nerve pinch. That’s exactly what Spock does in the famous Star Trek: The Animated Series episode “Yesteryear.” In this episode of Saturday Morning Trek, hosts Aaron Harvey and Joe Slepski engage in the show’s very...

The Slaver Weapon.   Aaron Harvey and returning guest co-host Joe Slepski review the only original series episode, live action or animated, not to feature Captain Kirk, "The Slaver Weapon". Written by sci-fi literary master Larry Niven this animated story combines his ‘Known Space’ universe with the Star Trek universe, well kind of. Some of the probing questions Aaron and Joe ask are: Is Starfleet stealing stasis boxes from the planet Kzin? Is Uhura really remorseless killer? And were...

Aaron & Joe have saved the jewel in the crown of the Star Wars Holiday special for our 100th episode..the animated short "The Faithful Wookie"! Learn about the animation company, Nelvana, find out what children's TV show the voice of Boba Fett was on and Aaron and Joe may have stumbled onto a theory that could change the way everyone at Force fm sees Star Wars. So buckle in, it's going to be a crazy Y-Wing ride! Chapters Intro  (00:01:16)   Synopsis (00:06:46)   Air date,...

Spock, Sub-Mariner Aaron & Adam and special guest Joe Slepski host of the "Joe on Joe, a G.I. Joe Podcast" grab a bowl of Boo-Berry cereal and review "The Ambergris Element". What happens when Kirk and Spock are made into waterbreathers by an undersea race, and the venom of a deadly sea snake is the only antidote to return them to their normal selves? Underwater adventure of course! We talk about the newest shuttle to grace the overfilled shuttle bay, the Aquashuttle and it's companion...

Aaron & Adam continue their interview with Bob Kline, Filmation designer and layout artist.  Bob answers these baffling questions: Why was everything pink? What does the Starfleet uniform have to do with having a second turbolift on the bridge and can the Aqua Shuttle really go to warp? We also break the time barrier and zoom through the 80s and 90s to talk about  He-Man, Animaniacs, Gargoyles and more!   It's another jam packed episode so grab some Quisp, your Mego Trek toys and...

Aaron & Adam interview a very special guest in the Trek.fm wood paneled den, Bob Kline!    That name might not be as well known to you as Dorothy Fontana, Lou Scheimer or Walter Koenig but Bob was an integral part of making the world of the animated series. He was responsible for creating over 85% of all the ships, creatures, aliens and environment for the show.  And he didn't stop at TSA, if you've ever watched Thundar the Barbarian, He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, G.I. Joe, Muppet...

This episode of “Saturday Morning Trek” is ostensibly a review of the recently released stand alone "Star Trek The Animated Series" blu-ray, but when friend of the network, Dayton Ward and host Aaron Harvey get talking it's a winding conversation through the history of TAS!   Join Aaron and Dayton as they look at the blu-ray's video & audio quality, bonus content, and packaging and take detours into the history of Filmation, older media TAS was once released on, their respective stories...

Former "To The Journey" co-host Tristan Ridell joins Aaron Harvey to compare and contrast Star Trek The Animated Series episode "The Time Trap" to Star Trek Voyager's "The Void". Both stories have their respective ships getting caught in a starless void with no seeming way out, but even the animated series wasn't the first the crew of the Enterprise faced a similar predicament nor was it for the Voyager crew. Join Aaron and Tristan as they talk comics, video games, TAS, Voyager and Lt....

Neil S. Bulk and Mike Matessino La-La Land Records have done what many thought was impossible, they have brought us the soundtrack to Star Trek The Animated series.  The music, created by jazz composer and conductor who worked with the likes of Billie Holiday, Barbara Streisand and Buddy Holly, can have an ear worm effect when watching consecutive episodes because only 30 minutes of music was created for 9 hours worth of episodes. But why was this a seemingly impossible task? All the...

"The Alternative Factor" was a badly paced, somewhat confusing episode about 2 men from alternate universes, one good, one insane, one from a positive matter universe, the other from an anti-matter universe. "The Counter-Clock Incident" was a better paced, but possibly more confusing, but defiantly more scientifically dubious animated series episode about another negative universe.  Can the crews of three different Trek.fm shows pull together and create an animated series sequel to the...

If you thought Deep Space Nine was the first time a Starfleet crew shrunk down to the size of action figures, think again!  Was the trope of thematic cure-all of the transporter a TNG invention? Not exactly! And if you thought Enterprise was the first time we saw colonist from the Terra project, we'd shout "Shale!"  Join Aaron Harvey and special returning co-host Darren Moser as they grab their xenylon based uniforms and review "The Terratin Incident" Written by the same writer as "Balance...

Mudd's Passion. Roger C. Carmel is back as Harry Mudd, this time swindling miners with a love potion. Yay?! Yeah, not so much. The Harry Mudd character had been pretty well mined, pun fully intended, and in the 21st century is somewhat problematic. So, what do we do when an episode may not be our favorite? Why, we dive deeper!  We look at an unused shuttle seen in the background of the shuttle bay, postulate on the connection between the Ursanoids and D.C. Fontana’s original concept for a...

Kerry O’Quinn Interview. To say that Kerry O’Quinn had an impact on sci-fi fans of the ‘70s and ’80s is like saying Gene Roddenberry may have had some influence on television. Starting in another genre—soap operas—Kerry and his partner built a publishing powerhouse and expanded to magazines like Cinematic, Future Life, Starlog, and Fangoria, which is still being published today. In this episode of Saturday Morning Trek, host Aaron Harvey is joined by O’Quinn to share how he was writing a...

Once Upon a Planet. The Enterprise crew revisits the fondly remembered "amusement park" planet, hoping for some rest and relaxation—which of course turns into kidnapping and the near destruction of the ship. Filmation has always had a bad reputation for sloppy animation and stilted storytelling. Unfortunately, we my have found one of the episodes where this is somewhat deserved. In this episode of Saturday Morning Trek, hosts Aaron Harvey and Adam Drosin talk the pros and cons of this...

Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 1. When you think of Star Trek comics of the 1970s, the Gold Key comics, the comics that promoted Star Trek: The Motion Picture on the side of McDonald's Happy Meals, or the weekly newspaper strips may come to mind. But if you're from the UK, adventures from the pages of TV 21 and Joe 90 probably trump them all. Six months before the original Star Trek TV series premiered in England, British readers were introduced to the characters through an original...

Conventions in the 1970s. Convention season is officially upon us. Among the gatherings that await fans are Comic-Con International in San Diego, Star Trek Las Vegas, the gaming convention Gen Con in Indianapolis, Atlanta's Dragon Con, New York Comic Con, Mission New York by ReedPOP and CBS … and the list goes on and on. Today, pop-culture conventions of all kinds are commonplace; but in the 1970s they were new and different. These conventions weren't sponsored by financial entertainment...