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Untitled Star Trek Project

102 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

A random Star Trek commentary podcast. With Joe and Nathan.

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Skin of Evil

March 22, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 1, Episode 23. First broadcast on Monday, 25 April 1988. This week, we watch an dreadful hour of Star Trek — cheap, mawkish and absolutely absurd — but we end up enjoying ourselves enormously. Have we found a fatal flaw at the entire heart of the Untitled Star Trek Project?

Obsession

March 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 13. First broadcast on Friday, 15 December 1967. A few tense moments this week, as a fragrant dikironium vampire kills a bunch of redshirts before threatening some characters with names and ultimately the Enterprise itself. But the real suspense comes from an entirely different direction: Will this episode teeter over the edge of camp into baffling semicompetence? Will Kirk’s obsession turn him from a jovial and beloved authority f...

Tacking into the Wind

March 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 2. First broadcast on Wednesday, 12 May 1999. It’s four weeks until the Deep Space Nine finale, and so it’s time for a momentous and operatic episode, an episode full of subtext and thoughtful performances, and an episode that deals a killing blow to two crumbling empires and changes the status quo forever. In short: an episode that exemplifies everything that makes us love Deep Space Nine.

The Trouble with Edward

March 01, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutes - 30.8 MB

Star Trek: Short Treks, Series 2, Episode 2. First broadcast on Thursday, 10 October 2019. Captain Lynne Lucero (Rosa Salazar) can’t wait to take command of the USS Cabot as it heads off to the Klingon border to save some settlers from a planetary famine. But that’s before she meets walking HR disaster Edward Larkin (H. Jon Benjamin) and his viviparous and prolific sidekick (Tribleustes ventricosus). Hijinks, as usual, ensue.

All In

February 16, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 4, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday, 10 February 2022. This week, but in the thirty-second century, two people face each other across a poker table. The man’s unbearable loss has made him resolute, and the woman remains resolute despite the loss she is about to suffer. And somewhere far away, in a distant, isolated, unreasonable space at the very edge of the Galaxy, Something — implacable? incomprehensible? — is waiting to judge what they do next...

A Matter of Time

February 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 9. First broadcast on Monday, 18 November 1991. The absence of Robin Williams and the presence of Rick Berman are both keenly felt this week, as a normal day at the office for the Enterprise-D becomes merely a mildly diverting day at the office. The cause: an elegantly named time-travelling confidence trickster, who nicks a bunch of stuff so he can put it on eBay and pretends that everything here is much more thrilling than it actu...

The Muse

February 02, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 4, Episode 21. First broadcast on Monday, 29 April 1996. This week, we discover to our surprise that there’s a lot to enjoy in a flawed and ultimately unsuccessful episode episode of Deep Space Nine — two wonderful guest actresses, some (largely) cringe-free sexiness, and a mature and gentle romance. Meanwhile, some TV writers imagine a just reward for their life of constant backbreaking labour.

Faces

January 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 1, Episode 14. First broadcast on Monday, 8 May 1995. As a result of a horrific medical experiment, this week’s episode of Untitled Star Trek Project finds itself split into two irreconcilable parts — one convinced that this Voyager episode is extremely dull, and the other one certain that there’s nothing very interesting going on here. Apart from that, there’s a bit of a scary moment at one point, and Roxann gets to do some acting, which is nice.

Treachery, Faith and the Great River

January 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 6. First broadcast on Wednesday, 4 November 1998. It’s all about faith this week on Deep Space Nine — Weyoun’s faith in Odo and the Founders, Nog’s faith that the genre rules of the comedy B-plot will lead inevitably to a happy ending, and the writers’ faith that wonderful, charming actors like Aron and René can make it all land from underneath a kilogram of latex.

Reunion

January 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 7. First broadcast on Monday, 5 November 1990. After just over a season of reliable and competent, this week, Star Trek: The Next Generation goes for dramatic and surprising — with amazing results: a memorable epsiode full of good performances and the sort of direction that lets those performances shine. One of the best.

No Win Scenario

January 05, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB

Star Trek: Picard, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday, 9 March 2023. This week, an episode of Star Trek: Picard makes a compelling case for the existence of 21st century Trek, as familiar and well-loved characters find themselves in a show with dramatic lighting, beautiful special effects and witty and clever dialogue. But even more than that, they learn that no matter how bleak or unwinnable a situation, as long as you and your crew remain steadfast in your dedicati...

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

December 08, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 129 MB

Star Trek Movie #4. Release date: 1986 This week, Star Trek makes a triumphant return to form, as we are joined by Tom Salinsky to watch the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, in which the crew of the Enterprise meet their match, as they confront the most terrifying alien species of all time — Americans from the 1980s. Here’s a link to Tom Salinsky’s Trekaday blog, which is currently heading towards the end of Star Trek: Enterprise. You can also pre-order his upcoming book ...

Whom Gods Destroy

December 01, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 14. First broadcast on Friday, 3 January 1969. A Very Important episode of Star Trek: The Original Series this week, in which we tackle the Serious Issue of Mental Illness, a Terrifying Social Problem which causes ordinary people to conceive an Unquenchable Desire to Take over the Entire Galaxy and to Use Capital Letters Unnecessarily. Fortunately, it can be cured by a Simple Intravenous Injection, which seems to have started worki...

Threshold

November 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday, 29 January 1996. – Guess who I get to meet today. The Creator of Fair Haven, Captain Proton himself: Lieutenant Tom Paris! – No way! That’s awesome! Is he still a salamander? – No, that’s not… It was a celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate, and he’s fine now. He was the first human to break the transwarp barrier, and today, he’s on the Cerritos! Boimler and Mariner, We’ll Always Have Tom Paris Wh...

Crisis Point

November 10, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MB

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 1, Episode 9. First broadcast on Thursday, 1 October 2020. This week, Joe and Nathan work on their most pressing psychological problems by smashing the ship’s counsellor’s favourite bonsai, storming off to the holodeck, making fun of the Star Trek movie series, and playing the most violent (and possibly racist) video game in the history of the franchise. Everything turns out for the best, though, because good friends forgive, and they’ll always have ...

Muse

November 03, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 22. First broadcast on Wednesday, 26 April 2000. These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them. And as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth, where peace reigns and hatred has no home. Enjoyable. And unexpectedly beautiful at times. Much like Star Trek, really.

Kir’Shara

October 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 4, Episode 9. First broadcast on Friday, 3 December 2004. A new experience for Joe and Nathan this week, as they enjoy an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and without irony or reservations. The Vulcans have been behaving oddly for three and a half years, for some reason, but this week, they decide to be normal again, for a dumb reason. But in spite of all that, there’s a lot of fun to be had here.

Resolutions

October 20, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 25. First broadcast on Monday, 13 May 1996. Nathan, Joe, Kathryn and the Medium Robert are all enjoying themselves this week in a genuinely entertaining Star Trek romance spoiled only by the untimely and unwelcome intrusion of Star Trek: Voyager itself at the very end of the episode. Hey ho.

The Galileo Seven

October 06, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 1, Episode 16. First broadcast on Thursday, 5 January 1967. When a metal box containing seven strange creatures lands outside his village, gentle giant Oleg (Buck Maffei) leaves a pregnant wife and an ailing mother in his humble yurt and trudges off to present the creatures with his people’s traditional gift of welcome — a set of giant novelty spears. This simple act of hospitality is met with violence, and soon matters escalate despite Oleg’...

Equinox / Equinox, Part II

September 29, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 117 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 5, Episode 26 / Series 6, Episode 1. First broadcast on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. Moral dilemmas abound in this week’s season finale of Star Trek: Voyager. Is it permissible to kill a bunch of people if you miss your bus home? Is it permissible to shoot Slimer from Ghostbusters in the face if he’s intent on drinking all of your precious bodily fluids? Is it permissible to torture Rick Worthy if you’re having a really bad day? And it is obligatory to endow...

The Price

September 22, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 63 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 3, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday, 13 November 1989. Comfort food this week, as Star Trek: The Next Generation tries and fails to create a romantic comedy about an exciting new space wormhole. Deanna learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of enjoying herself, some Ferengi learn an urgent lesson about paying attention to their GPS, and the rest of us learn a timely lesson about straight, white American men in the late 1980s. We still...

Rocks and Shoals

September 15, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 2. First broadcast on Monday, 6 October 1997. Star Trek goes outside this week, for a top-tier episode in which Sisko and Kira are both confronted by radical integrity and self-sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition. Solid and memorable.

If Memory Serves

September 08, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

Star Trek: Discovery, Series 2, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday, 7 March 2019. The second season of Star Trek: Discovery comes to a climax as Spock commemorates Star Trek’s first pilot by taking Michael to Talos IV so that they can both stand around a bunch of singing flowers, weepily recounting their formative childhood traumas. Meanwhile, Paul and Hugh are not the first people to experience difficulties maintaining a romantic relationship after one partner has died. Anywa...

Assignment: Earth

September 01, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 26. First broadcast on Friday, 29 March 1968. It’s the pilot of a thrilling new spy-fi series, in which Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), his plucky secretary Miss Lincoln (Teri Garr), and his cat Isis (herself) hang out in the twentieth century’s most stylish decade, drinking cocktails after lunch and occasionally foiling America’s military–industrial complex. Is it time for us to end our trek through the stars so that we can complete ...

Collective

August 25, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 6, Episode 16. First broadcast on Wednesday, 16 February 2000. This week a mediocre script fails to be enhanced in any way by mediocre direction and some mediocre performances. But there’s an upside: a Voyager episode with real consequences that will open up unimaginable new vistas of storytelling and character development. Or not, probably.

Remember Me

August 18, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 5. First broadcast on Monday, 22 October 1990. In this week’s episode of Likeable and Competent People Solving Space Problems, Beverly finds herself in a shrinking universe from which her loved ones are disappearing one by one, while Nathan and Joe (who inhabit a very similar universe) find a version of Star Trek capable of inspiring a lifelong obsession and, ultimately, an untitled podcast project.

Proving Ground

August 11, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 3, Episode 13. First broadcast on Wednesday, 21 January 2004. This week, we learn a valuable lesson about Johnny Foreigner: he’s just not to be trusted. (God knows how we’re going to get a Federation together.) Still, we manage to enjoy ourselves for a bit.

The Host

July 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 23. First broadcast on Monday, 13 May 1991. Star Trek: The Next Generation makes another ill-judged attempt at romance this week, as Beverly Crusher has an eventful two-week relationship with an alien ambassador, Commander Riker, and an attractive young woman, who are all somehow the same person. It all goes as well as you would expect in a series where every episode returns reliably to the status quo before the credits roll. (War...

Bem

July 21, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 45.4 MB

Star Trek: The Animated Series, Series 2, Episode 2. First broadcast on Saturday, 14 September 1974. It’s a low-effort week here at Untitled Star Trek Project, as we pour dozens of crisp American dollars into animating a hilarious encounter between Kirk, Spock, some lizard men in nappies, and an alien who can detach his bits at will, and then spend some time wondering why on earth we bothered.

The Changing Face of Evil

July 14, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 20. First broadcast on Wednesday, 28 April 1999. After the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, Ben Sisko (Alan Dale), fearing for the safety of his new wife Kasidy (Lisa Armytage), gets all of her upcoming missions cancelled, with predictable results. Elsewhere on the station, Ezri (Annie Jones) and Worf (Guy Pearce) bicker about her budding relationship to Julian (Peter O’Brien). On Bajor, Kai Winn (Vivean Gray) and her new ...

Alliances

July 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Monday, 22 January 1996. When a Voyager crewmember is killed in a Kazon attack, and his colleagues are forced to sit through the most butt-clenchingly clichéd eulogy in television history, a few of them declare that it’s time to forge an alliance with the Kazon, which seems unwise. What seems even more unwise is Janeway’s decision to ignore everything that history has taught us about white people, as she forges an allian...

Genesis

June 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episode 19. First broadcast on Monday, 21 March 1994. Well, everyone hates Genesis obviously, but why? It’s silly, of course, it doesn’t attempt to get the science right, and everyone recovers beautifully during the last ad break. But that’s just Star Trek, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

Preludes

June 23, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MB

Star Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 16. First broadcast on Thursday, 1 December 2022. In the Neutral Zone, the USS Protostar faces off against the USS Dauntless, unable to leave and unable to contact them to explain their friendly intentions. And so they stop for a moment and tell each other sad, funny and beautiful stories from their pasts. Meanwhile, on the Dauntless, we hear a different story, a story of war and revenge, and a plot whose aim is the destruction of the Federati...

Unexpected

June 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 1, Episode 5. First broadcast on Wednesday, 17 October 2001. This week, Enterprise Chief Engineer Charles Tucker III is pregnant, and Nathan and Joe expect to be embarrassed and offended by the result. Instead, they are delighted to find themselves merely bored. (In fact, Nathan thinks the first half of the episode is rather sweet and charming, but he’s an incurable romantic where lizard people are concerned.)

Farewell

June 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

Star Trek: Picard, Series 2, Episode 10. First broadcast on Thursday, 5 May 2022. In one episode’s time, Star Trek: Picard will become, for the first time, a television event, but for now, we’ve got some plot to wrap up, some sad farewells to make and a new relationship to start. And a point, however muted, about living an extraordinary life.

In Purgatory’s Shadow / By Inferno’s Light

June 02, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episodes 14–15. First broadcast on Monday, 10 February 1997 and Monday, 17 February 1997. It’s a soap-opera extravaganza on Deep Space Nine this week, as Garak reconciles with his long-lost father, Dukat abandons his long-lost daughter, and Julian discovers a scheming lookalike that he never knew he had. Meanwhile, there is a shift in the balance of power in the Quadrant, as the show rewrites its own premise in the way that we have come to adm...

The Masterpiece Society

May 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 13. First broadcast on Monday, 10 February 1992. This week, the Enterprise crew worry unnecessarily about upending the lives of people living under a weird-ass conservative regime, only to find that those people are desperate to get out and there is no good reason at all to prevent them. Also, Deanna has sex, with unfortunate results.

Wolf in the Fold

May 19, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Friday, 22 December 1967. When simple, mild-mannered lackwit Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) stabs three women to death in the space of a couple of hours, the crew of the Enterprise become suspicious enough to start an investigation, which mostly consists of getting Majel Barrett to read them a bunch of Wikipedia articles. But just as we’re all about to nod off, someone claims responsibility for the murders —...

Scorpion / Scorpion, Part II

May 12, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 111 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 26 / Series 4, Episode 1. First broadcast on Wednesday, 21 May 1997 and Wednesday, 3 September 1997. As Voyager approaches the end of its third year, it’s time for its very own version of The Best of Both Worlds. And here it is, complete with a massive encounter with the Borg, clouds of débris, a terrifying new enemy, dissension among the commanding officers, and the unveiling of an entirely new kind of human—Borg hybrid. But because it’s Voya...

Progress

May 05, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 15. First broadcast on Sunday, 9 May 1993. This week, Kira moves a few steps forward on her long and problematic journey from terrorist to bureaucrat as she struggles with a decision to evict Brian Keith from a hastily re-dressed Standard Cave Set 1. In the meantime, Jake and Nog do some adorable capitalism, foreshadowing just how much we’re going to grow to love them by the end of the show.

The Elysian Kingdom

April 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday, 23 June 2022. A long time ago in a land far, far away, a beneficent king called Alex ruled over the kingdom of Trek, deciding which provinces would prosper and what each province would be known for. And so it came to pass that in the Province of Strange New Worlds, fun and entertainment would hold sway, and that from time to time even a heartwarming ending would be welcomed. And they all lived happily...

Justice

February 10, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday, 9 November 1987. Together at last for the first time, Joe and Nathan find themselves on Planet of the Horny but Unattractive White People, faced with a moral dilemmma that wouldn’t challenge a slow-witted five-year-old. Ah, we have fun, don’t we?

The Least Dangerous Game

January 30, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes - 43 MB

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 3, Episode 2. First broadcast on Thursday, 1 September 2022. A game of Bat’leths & BiHnuchs takes a surprising turn, as Mariner and Boimler make some very important decisions: Mariner is going to be less insubordinate, while Boimler is going to boldly take opportunities he has never taken before. But soon Mariner finds herself ignoring Ransom’s orders and plummeting from an orbital platform to save her crewmates, while Boimler plays some springball, ...

Darkling

January 20, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB

Star Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 18. First broadcast on Wednesday, 19 February 1997. Flushed with the success of its previous attempt at Gothic Horror, Star Trek gamely tackles the genre again, as the Doctor’s experiments with the parameters of his program inevitably lead to a high-concept holographic version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with all of the creepiness towards women that that implies. Aggressively mediocre.

Demons / Terra Prime

January 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MB

Star Trek: Enterprise, Series 4, Episodes 20–21. First broadcast on Friday, 6 May 2005 and Friday, 13 May 2005. Enterprise is reaching the end of the long road that brought them from there to here, and before we say a final goodbye, we’ve just got enough time to foil a charmless racist demagogue who wants to destroy our future — a future based on co-operation, openmindedness and mutual respect. It’s just like the present day, really, only the good guys win. Oh, and Trip gets to pu...

The Visitor

January 06, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 4, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday, 9 October 1995. It’s life, Jake. You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes. Star Trek takes a break from space nonsense to remind us what grief is like: lonely, lifelong and bleak. The price we pay for love.

Mugato, Gumato

December 30, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutes - 41 MB

Star Trek: Lower Decks, Series 2, Episode 4. First broadcast on Thursday, 2 September 2021. This week, Star Trek: Lower Decks does what it does best: plumbing the depths of the franchise’s weirdest moments to produce something fun, entertaining, and sympathetic to its ideals. Which is why we get to root for some underappreciated and frequently mispronounced alien monsters, and why those two beautiful nerdy men, Boimler and Rutherford, get to save the day not with violence, but wit...

Star Trek: Generations

December 23, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 129 MB

Star Trek Movie #7. Release date: 1994 Star Trek: Generations is a Christmas movie, but more than that, it’s the moment when Star Trek: The Next Generation makes its first tentative and ultimately unsuccessful step into the venerable movie franchise. Julian Bashir’s crazy uncle has a horrific plan to get to heaven by killing a bunch of people we don’t see and don’t care about, and can only be stopped by two middle-aged white guys clambering over some gantries or something. Oh, and...

Manhunt

December 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Series 2, Episode 19. First broadcast on Monday, 19 June 1989. Our writers are on strike this week, and so we’re just going to mark time until we reach the end of this blurb. When an uncomfortably horny Lwaxana Troi beams aboard the Enterprise, a series of events happen, culminating at last in the episode’s closing credits. Mick Fleetwood guest stars as a fish.

The Trouble with Tribbles

December 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

Star Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 15. First broadcast on Friday, 29 December 1967. In one of the best episodes in Star Trek history, our show learns very early on that it can shoot for ridiculous and hit funny and entertaining. What more can we say? It’s brilliant.