Best Errant Space Podcasts (2024)

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Errant Space Podcast 109: the secret sounds of ponds 34:14

2h ago34:14

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This month we’re heading outdoors to explore the secret sounds of ponds with David Rothenberg. This was a fun adventure! I packed up a battery powered synth (softpop) and amp, and my binaural mic and hiked out to Hidden Lake in Putnam County, NY with David who brought a hydrophone and some speakers along with his … Continue reading Errant Space Pod…

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VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (s5e22) 1:06:16

4h ago1:06:16

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MY FAIR SEVEN. The Doctor sticks his photons into Seven of Nine's interest in procuring a man to "date," and little does he know that his programming has made him vulnerable to the feminine wiles of Seven of Nine, who is completely clueless about how humans date. Kristen returns to discuss the "Seven is horny" episode which features a complimentary…

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TOS: "Metamorphosis" (s2e9) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com 1:29:53

2d ago1:29:53

1:29:53

A LOVE STORY? When Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Commissioner Nancy Hedford discover Zefram Cochrane is both still alive and under the influence of an electrical cloud that has fallen in love with him, it's just the setup for perhaps the deepest exploration of love in Star Trek history. Joining Bryan to discuss this BIG SWING from 1967 is Laurie Ulster f…

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TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before" (s1e6) with Ryan T. Riddle & Mark Farinas from Ship Full of Jerks Podcast 1:18:04

13d ago1:18:04

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OFF THE SCALE! The Enterprise is thrown to the edge of the universe in one of the biggest swings Star Trek has ever taken. Joining Bryan to discuss this important early episode of TNG where Captain Picard talks to his dead mother and when Wesley Crusher meets the Traveler, are Mark Farinas & Ryan T. Riddle from the Ship Full of Jerks Podcast. They'…

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LD: "Much Ado About Boimler" & "Veritas" (s1e7-8) with Cassie Soliday (The Ink & Paint Folk Podcast) & Matt (Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) 1:36:15

16d ago1:36:15

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BOIM US UP! This month's animated spotlight looks at the highs and lows of being a lower decker as well as the highs and lows of Star Trek stories told via animation. Joining Bryan to discuss are two animation veterans: Cassie has written for multiple animated series and hosts a podcast that spotlights women & nonbinary talent in animation called T…

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TOS: "By Any Other Name" (s2e21) with Matt from Star Trek: Prodigy 1:20:38

18d ago1:20:38

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SCOTTY GETS DRUNK with a Kelvan and Star Trek fans are given a scene to enjoy forever. Does the rest of the episode rise to the occasion or is there a "just play the hits" quality to it? It's Trek Marry Kill's 79th episode, and so it seemed only fitting to do an episode of TOS. The Enterprise is once again taken over by superior beings and once aga…

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Errant Space Podcast 108: The November Report 52:48

28d ago52:48

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This month’s podcast features three performances from a November 2023 tour with Duo Denum (Al Margolis and Tom Law). The first is a solo performance in a church in Columbus, Ohio. It dissolves into drone. The second is a duo performance with Tom Law (viol da gamba and laptop) recorded in Philadelphia. The final piece … Continue reading Errant Space…

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SNW: "Among the Lotus Eaters" (s2e4) with Michael Baumann of Wheelysports and FanGraphs 1:13:26

24d ago1:13:26

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ANSON MOUNT'S RETURN from paternity leave thrusts Captain Pike into an adventure where he loses his memory and becomes... the darkness that's been inside him all along? And it's because an asteroid crashed on a planet thousands of years ago? Huh? This week, Bryan is joined by Michael Baumann of the cycling blog Wheelysports and the baseball blog Fa…

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TNG: "Genesis" (s7e19) with actor-director Heidi Cox ("Stalking LeVar," "Chasing Fletcher Allen") 56:59

1M ago56:59

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GATES MCFADDEN DIRECTS one of the biggest swings in the history of the Star Trek franchise: the crew de-evolves! How did the Dancing Doctor's perspective improve the episode and is her directorial debut a classic? Joining Bryan this week is actor-writer-producer-director Heidi Cox, creator of the web series "Stalking LeVar" and co-founder of Dweeb …

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TNG: "Masks" (s7e17) with Thomas Tulak, Director of Who Dunt Dunt Dunnit?: The Movie 1:14:24

1M ago1:14:24

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MASAKA IS SLEEPY! Writer-Director-Actor Thomas Tulak joins Bryan to discuss one of the most extreme examples of writing, directing, and acting in all of Star Trek history. Is Brent Spiner up to the task of playing multiple characters from an entire civilization? Is Patrick Stewart sleepwalking through his performance or does he manage to act just e…

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TOS: "The Savage Curtain" (s3e22) with Andrew Bloom (The Spool, Slashfilm, Consequence) 1:12:55

1M ago1:12:55

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PARTY OF LINCOLN! We continue to look at Star Trek's BIG SWINGS with the episode where literally Abraham Lincoln beams aboard the Enterprise. It's a classic Star Trek story that includes wacky 1960s predictions about the future, alien gods pitting our crew against the forces of evil itself for their own amusement, and some really unsubtle Kirk-Spoc…

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LD: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" & "Terminal Provocations" (s1e5-6) with Katie Hampton from Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast 1:12:55

2M ago1:12:55

1:12:55

COOL OR FOOL? In the this month's animated spotlight, Bryan and Katie Hampton from the Napping Through Happy Hour podcast take a look at two Lower Decks episodes that firmly push the freshman series in its own direction. In the first, Mariner suspects that Boimler's long distance girlfriend is a parasite. In the second, Tim Robinson screams his way…

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VOY: "Course: Oblivion" (s5e18) with Joshua Pruett (The Last Comics on Earth series, Doctor Who, Phineas and Ferb) 1:13:56

2M ago1:13:56

1:13:56

CAMP OR CLASSIC? The Emmy-winning and New York Times-bestselling writer Joshua Pruett returns to walk Bryan through the high camp of one of Star Trek: Voyager's most tragic episodes in which the crew discovers that they are merely mimic goo that's now disintegrating because of an enhanced warp drive. Did Bryan Fuller and Nick Sagan have higher aims…

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Errant Space Podcast 107 with Brian Dewan 40:33

2M ago40:33

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This month, Brian Dewan is back!! And he brought his fancy beard along with the Swarmatron and Cartridge Organ. It was a lot of fun playing together again, the results often sound quite alien, and at times are reminiscent of early electronic music. Its strange and delightful! Never miss a podcast, SUBSCRIBE! with Apple Podcasts, Google … Continue r…

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SNW: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (s2e3) 1:06:10

2M ago1:06:10

1:06:10

LOKI MEETS TWILIGHT? Bryan and Kristen kick off a new theme series: BIG SWINGS. And, folks, Star Trek is committed to the big swing. This time out sees La'an teaming up with an alternate reality Captain Kirk to travel back in time to 21st century Earth for reasons. Does the episode reveal something new about La'an? Does it give us a new side of Kir…

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ENT: "Shuttlepod One" (s1e16) with Kayla Iacovino & Brian Drew from TrekMovie.com's Shuttle Pod 50:38

2M ago50:38

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SOME MALE BONDING is all the crew behind Star Trek: Enterprise needed to get excited again about their show late in the first season. This bottle episode that was largely a two-hander wound up bonding actors Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating IRL. Does this one evoke the adventure and progressivism that are the hallmarks of Trek, or does it tend t…

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VOY: "Resolutions" (s2e25) 1:14:20

2M ago1:14:20

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WHY WON'T THEY? A mysterious disease forces Janeway and Chakotay to live on an alien planet for the rest of their lives, but will the tension force them to move beyond colleagues? Wait a minute. What tension? Is there actually something here, or is it merely the inertia of a man and a woman of similar ages being stranded together in a confined spac…

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LD: "Temporal Edict" & "Moist Vessel" (s1e3-4) with Katie Hampton from Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast 1:29:23

3M ago1:29:23

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IT'S BUFFER TIME! Bryan and returning guest co-host Katie Hampton from Geekscape's Napping Through Happy Hour podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/napping-through-happy-hour/id1628046345) judge two more episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks and, folks, you're not going to believe this, but they didn't agree on a grade for either of them! We'…

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DS9: "Armageddon Game" (s2e13) with Clint Worthington from The Spool 1:12:20

3M ago1:12:20

1:12:20

JUST BROING OUT. A key episode in the development of Chief O'Brien and Dr. Bashir's friendship sees them trapped on an alien world trying to survive until Commander Sisko can rescue them. Joining Bryan to discuss this pivotal story is Clint Worthington, Editor-in-Chief of The Spool (https://thespool.net), a pop culture website focused on Film & TV.…

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Errant Space Podcast 106: Bows and Bends 44:04

3M ago44:04

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This month’s podcast features three live recordings from 2023, all of which include either bowed, or circuit bent instruments. It begins with a performance with conceptual cellist Irman (who also contributes some keyboard) which was recorded at Telephone in Pittsburgh, PA. Then, there’s a recording from drone day 2023 featuring Tamalyn Miller on ho…

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TNG: "The Enemy" (s3e7) with Katie Hampton from Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast 1:25:45

3M ago1:25:45

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GEORDI'S BIG EPISODE finds him trapped on a weird planet with a Romulan centurion. We get to see LeVar Burton channel his natural charisma and show different sides of our favorite chief engineer, but it's nearly overshadowed by one of the most compelling ethical and moral dilemmas ever featured on The Next Generation when Worf has the chance to sav…

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TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (s3e15) 1:25:53

3M ago1:25:53

1:25:53

MOST FAMOUS EPISODE? Last week was the 55th anniversary of perhaps the most famous episode of Star Trek, which is really saying something. It's a middle of season three episode wherein the Enterprise takes on two passengers -- one half black on the left side of their face and half white on the white; the other half white on the left and half black …

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DS9: "Duet" (s1e19) with Andrew Bloom (Slashfilm, Consequence, The Spool) 1:01:30

3M ago1:01:30

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KIRA'S SOLEMN VOW leads to a shocking truth: vengeance is not moral. In the course of investigating a single Cardassian she comes to the realization that collective punishment of all Cardassians isn't justice, even if this particular Cardassian wants to face judgment for his people's crimes. It's one of the most intense episodes of Star Trek ever m…

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DS9: "The Alternate" (s2e12) 55:29

4M ago55:29

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ODO'S PANIC ATTACKS lead to some scary times aboard Deep Space Nine thanks to some volcanic gas from a planet in the Gamma Quadrant and the arrival of Odo's old captor/trainer/parent figure, Dr. Mora (James Sloyan). It's an episode that was intended to be about alternate personalities, but it winds up being something else entirely. Kristen test run…

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LD: "Second Contact" & "Envoys" (s1e1-2) with Katie Hampton from Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast 1:46:30

4M ago1:46:30

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! We kick off 2024 with our animated spotlight on the beloved Star Trek: Lower Decks and we do it by bringing in one of the biggest fans of the show: Katie Hampton, a comedy writer and performer in LA who co-hosts the Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast (social: @ElSassyPants or @ElSassyPantz on TIkTok). She was also a guest on our Sta…

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TNG: "Second Chances" (s6e24) with Kat Spada from Feminist Frequency Radio 1:10:19

4M ago1:10:19

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A TRANSPORTER MIRACLE created two Rikers eight years ago setting up a situation where Counselor Troi would be confronted with the man she fell in love with who was still madly in love with her and Commander Riker looking a different part of himself right in the eyes. It's all in service of getting some Important Scientific Data from a planet and th…

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Errant Space Podcast 105 with Art Labriola (Pedal Steel) 41:55

4M ago41:55

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This month’s podcast sees the return of Art Labriola! Art’s last appearance, podcast #27, featured Art playing his modular synthesizers. This time Art plays pedal steel guitar – processed by his modular synths! It was great to reconnect and play with Art again, I look forward to hearing where he goes with his hybrid pedal … Continue reading Errant …

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TOS: "The Enemy Within" (s1e5) 50:10

4M ago50:10

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KIRK'S TOXIC MASCULINITY is unleashed after a transporter accident involving mystery ore from a freezing planet splits him into his Negative Side and Positive Side. This mascara'd drunk sexually assaults Yeoman Rand. Meanwhile, the Positive Side winds up being the passive side and his inaction and softness begins to offend Mr. Spock! It's an episod…

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VOY: "Deadlock" (s2e21) with Marina Kravchuk from Daily Star Trek News 1:34:14

4M ago1:34:14

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TWO MANY JANEWAYS? That's the conundrum at the heart of season two standout "Deadlock," and joining Bryan this week is Captain Janeway superfan Marina Kravchuk from Daily Star Trek News to talk all about. There's a lot of technobabble that only makes sense because of the years of world building going on since the TNG days, but there's also a lot of…

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LD: "Twovix" (s4e1) with FanSince09 37:56

5M ago37:56

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BLEEP GOT FREAKY aboard the USS Voyager, but BLEEP gets even freakier aboard the USS Cerritos after it's assigned to tow the famous ship to its final home as a museum piece. In this special bonus episode, Twitter/X's FanSince09 returns to discuss how Lower Decks deals with Star Trek's version of the trolley problem. He also uses this opportunity to…

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VOY: "Tuvix" (s2e24) with FanSince09 57:53

5M ago57:53

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DEEP LORE TREKKIES aren't the only ones who know about the episode where Captain Janeway straight up murdered a dude. Indeed, the one where a transporter accident merges Tuvok and Neelix has been the subject of philosophical and legal papers and years of social media debate -- but has it all added up to this one being worthy of the Star Trek canon?…

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TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" & "The Lorelei Signal" (s1e3-4) 1:00:48

5M ago1:00:48

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UHURA TAKES COMMAND and the Enterprise becomes trapped in a sentient cloud (again, and not for the last time) -- it's another exciting month of animated Star Trek! Bryan and Kristen examine two more from Star Trek: The Animated Series, one that features floating teeth and another that has the men aboard ship so horny that they could die. Does this …

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VOY: "Death Wish" (s2e18) with Kat Spada (Feminist Frequency Radio) & Ethan Harper (Remember the Memories Podcast) 1:30:45

5M ago1:30:45

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KILL ALL MEN? That's the tantalizing hook for the latest episode in our Trials of Season Two theme month and guest co-hosts Kat Spada of Feminist Frequency Radio and artist Ethan Harper can't help but think what might've been. Instead, we get an episode about a member of the Q Continuum who wants to die. The only thing stopping him is another membe…

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Errant Space Podcast 104: with Jesse Beaman 44:53

5M ago44:53

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This month’s podcast features composer/keyboardist Jesse Beaman from Austin, Texas. Jesse was out on tour in the area, and had a free day to come by the studio to record. What you’ll hear here is the first time we ever played together, I find the results quite beautiful and minimal. If you enjoyed this podcast, … Continue reading Errant Space Podca…

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ENT: "Judgment" (s2e19) 1:01:29

5M ago1:01:29

1:01:29

TRIAL BY RETCON. Ohhhh, sorry Captain Kirk. Turns out it's fairly common for the captain of (the) Enterprise to stand trial on the Klingon home world. Jonathan Archer did it 80 years before you were even born! Our Trials of Season Two theme month continues with this rehash of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country with some DS9 "Tribunal" thrown in…

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DS9: "Tribunal" (s2e25) 55:43

5M ago55:43

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O'BRIEN MUST SUFFER is a Deep Space Nine tradition, and one of the first episodes that really tortured our favorite Chief of Operations involved the bloody Cardies and their bloodless fascist court system. We continue our Trials of Season Two theme month that sees O'Brien arrested for terrorism and Odo dispatched to serve as his co-counsel. Meanwhi…

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SNW: "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (s2e2) 1:03:09

5M ago1:03:09

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NUMBER ONE'S TRIAL kicks off our first theme month: The Trials of Season Two. In order to exonerate his embattled first officer, Captain Pike takes a personal day to travel across the galaxy to get a ringer/the best civil rights attorney in the galaxy. She's portrayed by Yatide Badaki in one of the best Star Trek guest appearances of all-time. Is h…

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TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star" & "Yesteryear" (s1e1-2) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com 1:34:06

6M ago1:34:06

1:34:06

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the debut of The Animated Series more or less coincides with Trek Marry Kill's 1ST ANNIVERSARY, and so to celebrate both, Bryan has decided to remove this podcast's original sin of holding the animated shows off to the side by fully embracing them with the first of what will be monthly special episodes dedicated to animated …

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TOS: "Catspaw" (s2e7) 1:02:00

6M ago1:02:00

1:02:00

A HAUNTED HOUSE traps Kirk, Spock, and McCoy who are teased, tortured, and brainwashed by a pair of bickering aliens from another galaxy -- one of which transforms from a simple black house cat to a forced perspective oversized black house cat meant to suggest a panther! That's not the goofiest thing that happens in this episode and there's a lot m…

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Errant Space Podcast 103: The Dweller In Darkness 41:19

6M ago41:19

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This month’s podcast is a haunting soundscape suitable for your halloweening needs. It features some old Casios (MT-68, SK-1, CZ-101) along with some more modern synthesizers (Strega, Soft Pop, Cloudbusting) and guitar. Beware! Its scary stuff*, be sure to have some extra pants nearby… *mildly scary. If you enjoyed this podcast, please SUPPORT Erra…

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VOY: "Drone" (s5e2) with Shereese & Andrea from The TNG Podcast 2:00:00

6M ago2:00:00

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OUR FIFTIETH EPISODE! This week, Bryan is joined by Shereese & Andrea from The TNG Podcast to discuss an important episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Seven of Nine becomes a mentor or a big sister to a baby Borg drone created by a transporter accident that mixed her Borg nanoprobes with The Doctor's 29th century mobile emitter. The trio has a lot of fu…

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DS9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" (s7e4) with Michael Baumann of FanGraphs 1:13:30

6M ago1:13:30

1:13:30

HEY BATTER BATTER! Star Trek finally gives in to Michael Piller's love of baseball with The Baseball Episode of Deep Space Nine where Captain Sisko gets the crew together to play against some competitive Vulcans. It's the 25th anniversary of what's probably an oddity for most fans. Think of it like the musical episode of its day... Joining Bryan to…

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DS9: "The Siege" (s2e3) 1:17:00

6M ago1:17:00

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DYING IS EASY. But wrapping up Star Trek's first-ever three-parter isn't. In the exciting conclusion of Deep Space Nine's Circle trilogy, veteran writer Michael Piller deploys every trick in the book to bring this story to an exciting conclusion. Does it hit every mark or will Bryan and Kristen be left wanting even 30 years after it first aired? Th…

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DS9: "The Circle" (s2e2) 1:02:11

7M ago1:02:11

1:02:11

BAJOR IS OVER. At least, that's what Quark wants us to believe after a wave of Bajoran nationalism threatens the lives of every of non-Bajoran on the station. This week, Bryan and Kristen take a look at part two of Star Trek's first ever three-parter which sees the introduction of the 90s version of Hot Priest, Vedek Bereil, Major Kira's soon-to-be…

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Errant Space Podcast 102 with Fronds & Fringe 43:43

7M ago43:43

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This month’s podcast features Fronds & Fringe, a duo of sound makers from Philadelphia, PA. Rebecca and Irman came to my studio the day after playing a show in town to record this podcast. I really enjoyed our collaboration, its rare for me to do a studio podcast with more than one musician. There was … Continue reading Errant Space Podcast 102 wit…

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DS9: "The Homecoming" (s2e1) 1:02:45

7M ago1:02:45

1:02:45

IT'S THE NINETIES. The Star Trek franchise has never been more popular and striking while the iron's hot is the Deep Space Nine writing staff determined to chart their own course away from the Next Gen juggernaut. But is this show's specificity and sometimes uncomfortable parallels with modern history a bridge too far for the audience of the time? …

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TOS: "Spock's Brain" (s3e1) 1:01:20

7M ago1:01:20

1:01:20

BRAIN AND BRAIN! For a very long time, the third season premiere of The Original Series was considered one of the dumbest episodes of TELEVISION to have ever aired. Part of the reason Bryan wanted to do a Star Trek podcast was to see if time + examining episodes from a somewhat different perspective -- like the series of questions we ask about ever…

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TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris" (s1e24) 54:45

8M ago54:45

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PLAY IT AGAIN? Captain Picard comes to the rescue of a woman he ghosted! Will it be awkward? Chill? A chance to do it all over again? Bryan and Kristen relive some of the worst that eighties TV had to offer as Patrick Stewart and Michelle Phillips act out trite melodrama in a story that deals with some cultural detritus that has been (seemingly) le…

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TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" (s3e2) with Mark & Ryan from Ship Full of Jerks podcast 1:15:00

8M ago1:15:00

1:15:00

POOR ROMULAN COMMANDER. She thinks she's got a chance with Mr. Spock, but his loyalty is to the Federation and Captain Kirk. This week, Bryan is joined by Mark & Ryan from the Ship Full of Jerks podcast to judge what many consider to be the best episode of The Original Series' third season. Mark & Ryan delve into the slashfic aspect of Kirk & Spock…

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TOS: "Bread and Circuses" (s2e25) 1:02:00

8M ago1:02:00

1:02:00

KIRK, SPOCK & McCOY just play their behavioral hits in a classic episode of The Original Series that includes everything great and everything 1960s about the show. This being the 55th anniversary year of the episode, it's worth wondering how much of it holds up and how much of it is of its time. Will Bryan and Kristen delight in the character-speci…

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