The Cerritos deviate to the infamous Starbase 80 to fix their navigational system or spend the next 700 years on impulse getting home. Captain Freeman is troubled knowing that her alternate dimension doppelganger was reassigned to their Starbase 80 as punishment for some failure of leadership. It inspires her to make sure this trip goes well. Unfortunately, the crew, including Boimler, gets infected by a mysterious disease. Mariner believes it was caused by "the curse of Starbase 80."

In "A Farewell to Farms," Mariner and Boimler travel to the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, where they look up Ma'ah, a once-honored Klingon warrior now living a mundane life on his family's farm. They attempt to help him reclaim his lost rank and the command of a Klingon Battlecruiser despite the opposition of the Oversight Committee. The B-plot takes place on the Cerritos. Captain Freeman and her crew try to handle a touchy diplomatic crisis involving Dr. Migleemo and two visiting Klowahkan...

Mariner, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Rutherford embark on a mission to capture a nanite cluster menacing the Cosmic Duchess, a massive cruise starship. Unexpectedly, Jennifer joins them, seemingly unaware that she and Mariner broke up some time ago. At the same time, Boimler joins Ransom and Billups on an undercover assignment to retrieve an Admiral who has gone AWOL. The mission is impaired by Boimler's fear that Ransom will put him in dangerous situations.

Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off Season Five with a double-header. In "Dos Cerritos," a spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to come face-to-face with their faces when Mariner, Boimler, and Rutherford enter an alternate universe where they encounter their doppelgangers. In "Shades of Green," Tendi races to end a conflict with blue-skinned Orions while Boimler and Mariner help a planet of capitalists to convert into a post-scarcity society.

In the final episode of this retrospective on Star Trek: Discovery, we look at the series' fifth season. Dr. Kovich assigns Captain Burnham and the crew a top-secret Red Directive mission. He wants them to investigate an ancient Romulan science vessel. It soon turns into a race across the galaxy against two couriers known as Moll and L'ak. They stole a Romulan puzzle box containing a journal linked to 24th-century scientists searching for Progenitor technology, which was used to seed life...

In Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery, the crew faces a powerful cosmic threat causing catastrophic destruction across the galaxy known as the Dark Matter Anomaly or the DMA. This phenomenon destroys Kwejian, Book's home planet, taking his family, culture, and hope from him. Captain Burnham, now five months into her leadership role, must lead her crew on a mission to investigate the Anomaly while managing the political and diplomatic fallout from the events of the Burn.

In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael and the crew of the USS Discovery travel 930 years into the future, and the 3188 they encounter is not what they expected. The Federation is in a much-weakened state. A catastrophic event known as "The Burn" has eliminated nearly all of the dilithium supply. The loss of the critical resource for faster-than-light travel has crippled interstellar travel and plunged the galaxy into chaos. Saru and Michael must lead the crew on a mission to reconnect...

Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery had the crew facing a mysterious and dangerous new threat tied to a series of puzzling signals scattered across the galaxy. Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise temporarily takes command of the Discovery after a distress call and leads the investigation into these "red bursts." Also during this season, Saru and the Kelpien species go through a life-changing transformation, we're introduced to a younger Spock, a return to Talos IV, and presented by a...

Today, we kick off a five-episode series for our podcast. We're going to look back at Star Trek: Discovery. The show was the prompt for all of the Star Trek franchise’s current generation of success. We’ll examine the structure and components of Star Trek: Discovery season by season. Each week, we’ll thoroughly analyze the show’s achievements, challenges, and controversies. This week we tackle Season One. Enjoy.

It's a special treat to release this Prodigy Season Two finale episode on September 8, 2024, the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek. Star Trek: Prodigy is the most authentic sequel to the spirit of the Original Series. It embodies the themes of adventure, hope, and discovery, and We hope you enjoy our analysis of "Ouroboros." The episode includes some Star Trek news, including Paramount's Star Trek Day activities. Enjoy!

"Brink" and "Touch of Grey" tie up several things nicely while including some strong character development with an exciting adventure, especially for the Protostar crew. In "Brink," war looms between the Federation and Solum. Gwyn leads the cadets on an undercover mission to gather intelligence and rescue Ilthuran. In "Touch of Grey," Janeway devises a plan to liberate her crew from Asencia's prison, where they're trapped with an angry Loom.

"Ascension" delivers a heart-pounding two-parter filled with a new set of challenges to the crews of Voyager and the Protostar. The lives of Chakotay, Janeway, and the cadets are endangered when a forgotten enemy suddenly resurfaces with a surprising new power-draining weapon. Will Gwyn and Dal's quest to close the time loop be achieved or will the Loom return to fix things their way?

In "A Tribble Called Quest," while harvesting bosonite on a barren world, the crew encounters aggressive, genetically modified tribbles—and the Klingon scientist who created them. In "Cracked Mirror," the Protostar's reunion with Voyager has unexpected side effects, bouncing the crew between alternate realities—including the mirror universe.

When the cadets find Chakotay, he is a bitter and resigned man. Marooned for ten years on the planet - Ysida. Since the death of his first officer – Adreek, Chakotay has spent much of that time alone. His only companion is the Protostar’s hologram, Janeway. But the arrival of Dal, Gwyn, Rok, Zero, Jankom, Murf, and Ma’jel changes everything. Through their inspirational modeling of hope, they can fix Chakotay. If not for their sake, for his.

Dal and the crew arrive at the designated coordinates but are puzzled by how they will detect the hidden planet. After Gwyn figures out the planet is out of phase like her, Rok figures out a way to reveal it. They land the Infinity on the planet and head toward an ancient temple-looking structure known as a ziggurat. Strangely, one of the interior doors looks like a giant 20th-century door to a vault one would find on Earth. A mysterious figure steps dramatically out of the mist and into the...

In "The Fast and the Curious," after using a Borg conduit to travel through time faster, Dal and his friends find themselves at the mercy of a demanding Kazon. Later on, the crew detours to a colony of non-corporeal entities that offer Zero an opportunity to obtain a physical body in "Is There In Beauty No Truth?"

In “Observer’s Paradox,” Dal and the others process a hard-learned lesson that leads to great collaboration while Janeway weighs a very hard decision that she feels will destroy her last chance of rescuing Chakotay. In “Imposter Syndrome,” the kids run around the ship before stealing the Infinity - AGAIN!

In "Who Saves the Saviors" and "Temporal Mechanic 101," Star Trek: Prodigy brings to a close the first chapter of this season's story. But even as it resolves some conflicts, it sets up new ones. Gwyndala fears being removed from reality. Chakotay is still missing. The Vau N'Akat are speeding up their plans to defend themselves against the threat they believe the Federation poses. Despite these challenges, Dal and the crew have received critical assistance from a mysterious entity. But who is...

The Season Two opener, "Into the Breach, Part I & 2," kicks off with the former crew of the Protostar - Dal, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, & Murf - all reacting differently to their new status as Starfleet interns. Gwyn is preparing for a more critical mission: convincing her people, the Vau N'Akat, to avoid a devastating civil war. All this happens while Admiral Janeway breaks in the new USS Voyager-A. But what exactly is she hiding in the mysterious Shuttle Bay 3?

Just a quick note to share with our listeners how Addell and I are looking to cover the Star Trek we're planning on receiving this summer. Specifically, we plan to cover Season Two of Netflix's Star Trek: Prodigy with a weekly episode schedule devoted to analyzing two Prodigy episodes per week. The first of these episodes will drop beginning next Monday, July 8, and continue over the next nine weeks.

Star Trek: Discovery comes to a close with "Life, Itself," the final episode of its final season. Captain Michael Burnham follows Moll into the structure they found at Lagrange Point between two black holes. What they encounter is unimaginable, and they discover new information about the device she seeks. However, it does help Michael to make the most important decision of her life: whether or not to accept control of the Progenitor technology.

In "Lagrange Point," Captain Burnham and the Discovery crew reach the hidden Progenitor Technology location just in time to watch Moll and the Dreadnaught snatch in their tracker beam. Burnham leads an away team to the Breen vessel to claim the structure for the Federation. Addell and Gary offer an analysis of the penultimate episode of the entire series.

This week, Addell and Gary tackle a double feature. They break down Episodes 7 and 8, "Erigah" and "Labyrinths." Together, these two episodes showcase Sonequa Martin-Green and add intriguing new wrinkles to the conflict at the center of this season. On another level, the thinking behind the scientists who hid the Progenitor Technology is becoming clearer with each test solved.

Michael and Tilly go in search of the fourth clue on a pre-warp planet that has one surviving settlement. They have to get into a huge tower built by the Denobulans to produce rain for under-developed planet. The civilization values connection, cooperation, and sacrifice for other. When Tilly finds out that by entering the tower she has sacrifced her life, its up to Michael to find a way to save her.