Star Trek Picard's Finale Recap is here!Picard is streaming free right now, catch up and binge our season ..read more

So much happens in Episode 8 of Picard that we can hardly summarize our podcast without spoilers, so ********************************************************************SPOILERS******Raffi puts on her detective hat and solves at least two, maybe three mysteries this episode, with the help of all five emergency Rios look alike holograms. Soji and Agnes have feelings. Seven and Elnor have ACTION SCENES. Becca and Ryan have lots of thoughts.  Content Warning: Suicide and Rape.  SuicidePreventionLifeline.org  * * * Subscribe to our Bonus Episodes Send Us Support   ..read more

(Content Warning: PTSD, addiction, incest, the Holocaust.) This week, Becca and Ryan take Soji's return as a jumping off point to discuss Fembots, the Pygmalion myth, and Pinocchio. Also (mild spoiler) Hugh is back! Plus, how is Raffi holding up? Join us for our analysis of The Impossible Box.  Episode Citations and Notes Visit our Pod Fan to buy us a coffee and hear our bonus episodes Join our Podcast Group ..read more

Hi Intertrekkies! Here's a rerun of our ode to the Borg Queen, dedicated to all you Picard-watchers out there. And don't worry, we'll have a totally fresh Q ep out to you soonsoon!      ---      Repulsive yet seductive, powerful and enigmatic, the Borg Queen is one of our favorite Star Trek villains. In preparation for Star Trek: Picard, Becca and Ryan kick off InterTREKtional Season Two with this deep look at the Borg's baddest bitch. The film Star Trek: First Contact, and Voyager episodes "Dark Frontier" (S5:E15/16) and "Unimatrix Zero" (S6:E26; S7:E:1) are disc ..read more

Uh-oh! You've just experienced a transporter accident, and now everyone around you looks the same but is acting very strange. Your midriff is exposed, and your coworkers are making aggressive sexual advances. Welcome to the (dun dun dunnn) Mirror Universe. Don't worry, Becca and Ryan are here to hold your hand, while we explore how queerness and kink are used as shorthand for EEEEVIL.   ******Mild Spoiler Alerts for: Star Trek Mirror Universe eps, The Suicide Squad, Stargate SG1, Rick and Morty (S5E5), and Netflix's Bonding.******     What We Watched More or less, all ..read more

Picard Episode 3 InterTREKtional coming right up ***SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS*** * * * * Picard enlists his frenemy Raffi, bad-boy Captain Rios, and our fav Dr. Anges Jurati to finally engage in his space adventure. Dr. F*ckboy seems to only exist in a state of sexy-danger-flirting, even with his sister...? Soji plays Tarot-Cataan with a Romulan-ex-Borg mythologist, as Chateau Picard gets a surprise visit. Join us as we discuss all this and more!   Visit our Pod Fan to buy us a coffee, and hear our bonus episode Episode Citations Join our Podcast Group ..read more

Y'all WE DID A LIVE SHOW!!! Behold Becca and Ryan discussing asylum seekers/refugees in the universes of Trek and "the real." Recorded live as part of the IDIC Podcast Festival hosted by Women at Warp this past July 17-18, 2021. Donate to Never Again Action.   Hit it.   P.S. seriously check out the other podcasts in this festival, they are LEGIT        What We Watched Sanctuary DS9 2x10    Short Treks S1: Brightest Star    Masterpiece Society TNG 5x13    Cogenitor ENT 2x22    Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night DS9 6 ..read more

ANNOUNCEMENT! We will be podcasting LIVE at the IDIC Podcast Festival hosted by Women at Warp on July 17th at 3:30pm PT // 6:30pm ET. You can watch us streaming on Women at Warp’s Facebook and YouTube pages (and we'll share the recording in our feed afterwards). We're back, with a baby this time! Congratulations and mazel tov to Ryan and her new baby ? Hence, we're doing a deep dive into Trek's portrayal of pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing, through the decades.  Episodes: DS9 "The Begotten" (S5E12), VOY "Lineage" (S7E12), TNG "The Child" (S2E1), TNG "Disaster" (S5E5) Hono ..read more

InterTREKtional Season 3: Picard! is here with your first dose of feminist analysis of Star Trek: Picard. Episode 1: Remembrance. *****SPOILERS ABOUND***** Data is pretty busy painting and teaching cryptic lessons about poker bluffing in Picard's dreams. While awake, Jean Luc takes his tea sans caffeine (but continues to indulge in the real stuff where wine is concerned), shares his home with kindly Romulan refugees, and tanks a cable news interview.  He meets a very special graduate student named Dahj and pledges his eternal assistance and protection to her for reasons we won't reveal in ..read more

**************SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS********************* Welcome to 3188! Discovery Season 3 is a wild ride and we are HERE. FOR. IT. This ...month? Becca and Ryan discuss the beautiful emotional journey of Michael Burnham, with stops along the way to talk Tilly, thirst for Book, send our love to the baby enbys, and salute Georgiou. There are spoilers in this! Oh, and P.S. get your vaccine as soon as you're eligible.      What we're into right now:   The Hold Up: friend-of-the-pod Molly Sanchez and co-host Sam DiSalvo revisit pop culture from our youth and ask the ..read more