Anika and Liz attend a four-day Klingon bachelor party — where the feats of strength include somehow NOT developing a time machine to go back to 1997 and fight the entire DS9 writers room for… Read More »217. Dad Harder (DS9 6.07)
Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time — hairstyles in Star Trek. We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into… Read More »202. Hair Trek (part 1)
Liz takes a deep dive into Usenet archives and tells Anika about fandom’s earliest discussions of Star Trek: Deep Space 9! (Please note, we are still having audio problems — despite literally nothing changing in… Read More »198. Plus A Change
We’re back for 2024! With some genuinely awful sound quality because Liz is so out of practice that she forgot to move her microphone from its place on top of the printer to … you… Read More »161. Holding Hands at the Malt Shop
Anika and Liz don their blue shirts and do a deep dive into depictions of depression in Star Trek. (Please note this includes discussions of suicide and self-harm.) Specific episodes we talk about include:
Anika and Liz are letting their hair down and … giving themselves to the Pah Wraiths? This seems like a bad idea… Remembering Louise Fletcher All Star Treks should end before they have a mediocre… Read More »122. Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep (Kai Winn deep dive, part 3)
Winn’s back! And she’s … First Minister? Anika and Liz put on their robes, dig up an ancient Bajoran city and discuss… Winn wants power, but she’s not good at using it Why is Shakaar… Read More »121. Utilising Girl Power (Kai Winn deep dive, part 2)
Put on your best Opera House hat and join Anika and Liz as we dive into the first of a three-episode deep dive into Kai Winn Adami. This week, we’re looking at her rise to… Read More »120. Live, Pagh, Love (Kai Winn deep dive, part 1)
Anika and Liz sit down to discuss DS9’s “Past Tense”. It’s one of those episodes where we go, “This is really good!” and then talk about its problems for an hour. Everyone knows “Past Tense”… Read More »83. Saved by the Tech Millionaire (DS9 3.11 and 3.12)
We follow up our mothers-in-Trek episode by looking at … dads! And, guys, there are so many terrible fathers in Star Trek. So. Many. Bonus points to the Hansens, where BOTH parents are terriblel Digressions:… Read More »77. Why Are Space Dads