Untitled Star Trek Project
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA random Star Trek commentary podcast. With Joe and Nathan.
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Mugato, Gumato
December 30, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutes - 41 MBStar 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 with...
Star Trek: Generations
December 23, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 129 MBStar 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 MBStar 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 MBStar 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.
Second Skin
December 02, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 3, Episode 5. First broadcast on Saturday 24 December 1994. Stardate 46519.1: Surgically altered to appear Romulan, Marina Sirtis wakes up on board the Romulan Warbird Khazara looking as fabulous as she has ever looked and starts threatening an increasingly cowed Carolyn Seymour. The result — one hell of an enjoyable episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Eighteen months later: Surgically altered to appear Cardassian, Nana Visitor wakes up o...
The Siege of AR-558
November 25, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 16 November 1998. This week, it’s time to ruin everyone’s fun, as Nathan declares that a Deep Space Nine fan favourite is an artistic failure, and compares it unfavourably to Take Me Out to the Holosuite. Is he crazy, or is it the whole damn system that’s crazy?
The Examples
October 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBStar Trek: Discovery, Series 4, Episode 5. First broadcast on Thursday 16 December 2021. This week on Star Trek: Discovery: Paul collaborates with the most obnoxious scientist in the Federation, Hugh is counselled by the the most brutal psychologist in Starfleet, and Michael receives emotional support from the most unlikely source on the ship. And a man who committed a terrible crime in his youth is given the chance to somehow, in some small way, make amends.
Darmok
October 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 2. First broadcast on Monday 30 September 1991. They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, “He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.” Now this is what Star Trek is about — kind, competent people solving a space problem, while learning about the importance of storytelling, connection and understanding. Magnificent.
A Night in Sickbay
October 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBStar Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 5. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 October 2002. Our mission this week — to boldly rehabilitate an unjustly maligned episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. After more than a season of being aggrieved and obnoxious, Jonathan Archer is suddenly confronted by the need to apologise to people, sometimes with his shirt off. Meanwhile, Porthos is a very good boy, even when he’s just a fluffy puppet.
Endgame
October 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 7, Episodes 25–26. First broadcast on Wednesday 23 May 2001. A difference of opinion on Untitled Star Trek Project this week: Joe is cross and disappointed that things ended this way, and Nathan is enjoying the satisfaction that only low expectations can provide. Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Voyager enjoy a long-delayed reunion (in latex), re-examine a costly command decision, and experience an upsetting new heterosexual romance. And then, finally, af...
Vaulting Ambition
September 23, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBStar Trek: Discovery, Series 1, Episode 12. First broadcast on Sunday 21 January 2018. This week, the crew of Discovery find themselves trapped in the Mirror Universe with nothing much to do except to incrementally advance their individual plot threads. Paul chats to himself and his dead partner, Saru tries to persuade Voq’s girlfriend to help him through an identity crisis, Michael partakes of an extremely upsetting hors d’œuvre, and Lord Ealing goes off somewhere in search of a ...
Image in the Sand / Shadows and Symbols
September 16, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 114 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episodes 1–2. First broadcast on Wednesday 30 September 1998 and Wednesday 7 October 1998. It’s an epic start to Deep Space Nine’s final season. Miles, Julian and Quark join Worf on a mission to honour Jadzia by blowing up a cartoon shipyard. Ben and Jake meet a (completly adorable) new Dax, drag Brock Peters through the desert for some reason, and then dig up a box. And Kira sits in a tiny spaceship waiting steadfastly for something to come a...
State of Flux
September 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 1, Episode 11. First broadcast on Monday 10 April 1995. A barely secret conspirator has been selling Federation technology to the Kazon Nistrim in a weird alternative timeline where there are more than seven people on board the ship, where Chakotay has agency and interesting things to do, and where we really feel like we’re stranded tens of thousands of light years from home. Plus, Seska is here!
Amok Time
September 02, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBStar Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 1. First broadcast on Friday 15 September 1967. What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way. In this Classic Episode of Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan find themselves unexpectedly involved in a fight to the death — for the love of a beautiful woman!
The Nagus
August 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 11. First broadcast on Sunday 21 March 1993. Deep Space Nine finds itself unexpectedly in sitcom territory this week, as the Nagus (Wallace Shawn) arrives on the station with a complicated scheme to expose the incompetence of his Large Adult Son Krax (a young Eric Trump in his first television role). Meanwhile, Commander Sisko discovers something delightful and heartwarming about his small teenage son Jake, who unwittingly teaches him ...
Before and After
August 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 21. First broadcast on Wednesday 9 April 1997. This week, Joe and Nathan find themselves travelling backwards in time to 1997, when they first watched and enjoyed the Star Trek: Voyager episode Before and After, only to find themselves infected with a deadly [tech], which will be going to have activated some time later (or earlier) when they undergo [tech] therapy in the Doctor’s new [tech] treatment [tech]. Meanwhile, Harry has apparently mar...
Cupid’s Errant Arrow
August 12, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 35.4 MBStar Trek: Lower Decks, Series 1, Episode 5. First broadcast on Thursday 3 September 2020. It’s another episode of Lower Decks, and amidst all the quick-fire jokes and impressive visuals, we learn Another Valuable Lesson: sure we love treaties, Tellarites, timelines and the exciting new T88 model tricorder, but what we’re really here for is hang time with people we love and the sheer joyous ridiculousness of it all. Live long and prosper, friends!
The Serene Squall
August 05, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 16 June 2022. This week on Strange New Worlds our ongoing mission continues — what if Star Trek but relaxed and visually spectacular? In the meantime, Chris teaches some pirates a thing or two about cooking, Christine teaches Spock a thing or two about relationships, and Jesse James Keitel teaches the whole cast a thing or two about being chill, sexy and fabulously evil.
The Wounded
July 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 4, Episode 12. First broadcast on Monday 28 January 1991. Our Irish lad to the war has gone On the deck of the Phoenix you’ll find him. He’s got a song that goes on and on And a sad backstory behind him. Marc Alaimo’s here in a silly hat He’s missed some bits while sha-a-ving. And Captain Maxwell has shown us that He’s a dick and he isn’t worth saving.
Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang
July 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 15. First broadcast on Wednesday 24 February 1999. When the Lounge is taken over by violent mobsters, Vic Fontaine (James Darren) has no choice but to call in his fictional friends from the twenty-fourth century to help him out. A stylish and entertaining heist ensues, the good guys win, and we’re reminded (again) about how much we love these people.
Stigma
July 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBStar Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 14. First broadcast on Wednesday 5 February 2003. In this Very Special Episode, we learn a Valuable Lesson about discrimination and bigotry without a single mention of the minority group being discriminated against. In the meantime — by the most amazing coincidence — Trip has an awkward moment when confronted by some nice people who don’t share his sexual ethic. It’s all a bit of a slog, to be honest.
…But to Connect
July 01, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBStar Trek: Discovery, Series 4, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 30 December 2021. The crew of Discovery and the peoples of the galaxy are both facing the same dilemma this week: the cautious path of wariness or the risky path of connection with a faceless threat? But it’s Star Trek, and so love and bravery prevail. Meanwhile, Book leaves Michael to look after the cat, and Saru bashfully offers a succulent to the President of Ni’Var.
Counterpoint
June 24, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 5, Episode 10. First broadcast on Wednesday 16 December 1998. This week: a clever script, a complete absence of banter, a frog alien that scores zero on the B’omar Scale, astonishingly good incidental music by Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and two outstanding performances from Mark Harelik and Kate Mulgrew — all working together perfectly to create one of Voyager’s Best Episodes Ever. Enjoy. (You will.)
Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places
June 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 14 October 1996. This week, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Quark wants Grilka, Dax wants Worf, Nerys wants Miles, Worf wants Grilka, Miles wants Nerys, Worf wants Dax, Odo wants Nerys (probably), and Julian wants not to know any details about any of this. Meanwhile, Joe wants more of this sort of thing, while Nathan just wants some special effects and reflective surfaces, but will settle for a turbolift tha...
The Changeling
June 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBStar Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 3. First broadcast on Friday 29 September 1967. When the Enterprise takes on board an inexplicably touchy and unreasonable box of flashing lights dangling from a fishing line, hilarity ensues. Also, racism.
Dramatis Personae
June 03, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 1, Episode 18. First broadcast on Sunday 30 May 1993. You know how it is: it’s your first spinoff — a cast of delightfully high-concept characters set against a colourful backdrop, with story possibilities around every corner. But then you find yourself limping towards the end of your first season. You’ve done the plague one, the weird alien fugitive one, the buddy comedy one with the CGI shaving cream, and the terrible boardgame one that everyon...
Strange New Worlds
May 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Series 1, Episode 1. First broadcast on Thursday 5 May 2022. Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It’s five-year mission: To explore Strange New Worlds. To remind us of our love the Original Series. To have a fun adventure every week. To look like nothing else on television. To boldly attempt — for a world exhausted by impending catastrophes — to be the most authentic expression of Star Trek since the 1960s. ...
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
May 20, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBStar Trek: Discovery, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Sunday 29 October 2017. meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer Lieutenant Ash Tyler. After a catastrophic explosion destroys the ship, Harry Mudd sneaks on board Discovery, kills the captain, and searches for a way to sell the spore drive to the Klingons; meanwhile, Michael tries to work through her feelings for the tall and handsome new security officer Lieu...
Assimilation
May 13, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBStar Trek: Picard, Series 2, Episode 3. First broadcast on Thursday 17 March 2022. This week, Joe and Nathan are on the edge of our seats, wondering what insignificant event will tip the twenty-first century over the edge — turning it from a punishing ordeal into a shrieking hellscape of fascism and climatic disaster. Fortunately we’re able to distract ourselves from all this with a really enjoyable episode of Star Trek: Picard.
The Time Trap
May 06, 2022 00:00 - 46 minutes - 48.8 MBStar Trek: The Animated Series, Series 1, Episode 12. First broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1973. Exhausted from last week’s astonishingly brilliant performance, this week Bill Shatner is literally phoning it in — so bored with Star Trek that he can’t even be bothered to say all five digits of this week’s stardate. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is trapped in a thing, unable to escape until they do another thing. Or something. Whatever.
The Doomsday Machine
April 29, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBStar Trek: The Original Series, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Friday 20 October 1967. A nameless and unknowable monster which has destroyed whole star systems and wiped out an entire Starfleet crew is now heading towards the most populated part of the galaxy. The only things standing in its way: a dramatic soundtrack, a memorable guest actor, an incredibly confident production, and William Alan Shatner. It doesn’t stand a chance.
Power Play
April 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 5, Episode 15. First broadcast on Monday 24 February 1992. This week, on Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan sit down to watch a sentimental sci-fi favourite from their youth, only to discover that it’s really just a police procedural where some of the regular cast get to do funny voices. Still, they get to see Marina menacing people with a gun, so there’s that, I guess.
Sub Rosa
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episode 14. First broadcast on Monday 31 January 1994. This week, Star Trek takes its first ill-judged stab at the Gothic romance genre. Will Beverly fall for her dead grandmother’s lover (sorry), a rangily unattractive anaphasic ghost who encourages her to give up her job and to stand by helplessly while he attacks her friends? Or will she learn a valuable lesson about not dating sociopathic men? (Temporarily and no respectively, it turns...
Blaze of Glory
April 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 5, Episode 23. First broadcast on Monday 12 May 1997. Previously, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tired of being a supporting character in a thankless role, Michael Eddington leaves DS9 to star heroically in a TV show which we never see and which exists entirely in his own imagination. After most of the cast and crew are killed by Cardassians — which can happen — and he himself is imprisoned for treason, he is recruited by Sisko for one final miss...
Time Amok
April 01, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 43.1 MBStar Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 8. First broadcast on Saturday 22 January 2022. It’s a heartwarming rite of passage for our youngest Star Trek crew — their very first encounter with a baffling new kind of temporal anomaly. And it’s not just any temporal anomaly: it’s a metaphor for the difficulties they have co-operating as a crew and an opportunity to overcome those difficulties. Plus, it gives Rok-Tahk the chance to be sweet, vulnerable, clever and magnificent in turn. And...
The Killing Game / The Killing Game, Part II
March 25, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 4, Episodes 18–19. First broadcast on Wednesday 4 March 1998. It’s business as usual on Star Trek this week, as the crew of Voyager find themselves in an episode of Secret Army which has been cast, written and directed by latex-headed aliens in Nazi uniforms. Will Voyager’s extensive back catalogue of holodeck programs persuade the Hirogen that there’s more to life than festooning your bulkheads with human skulls? Or will the Captain be forced (reluctant...
Spectre of the Gun
March 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBStar Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 6. First broadcast on Friday 25 October 1968. The crew of the Enterprise find themselves in a weird and beautifully directed simulacrum of Tombstone, Arizona with a couple of hours to kill before their certain death at the hands of Wyatt Earp’s gang of off-puttingly ugly cowboys. Meanwhile, we all learn a valuable lesson about why Star Trek is superior to real TV westerns. A classic.
The Raven
March 11, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 4, Episode 6. First broadcast on Wednesday 8 October 1997. In this week’s meeting of the Jeri Ryan Appreciation Society, we watch the most aggressively average Star Trek episode the Randomiser can find, only to discover that there’s still a lot of fun to be had — hilariously sluggish action scenes, a shockingly low-effort Intransigent Alien Race, and some wonderfully subtle and nuanced performances from Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ and Jeri Ryan.
All Good Things…
March 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 7, Episodes 25–26. First broadcast on Monday 23 May 1994. After seven years of thorny space problems and some of the most ingenious space solutions in Starfleet history, what do we have left to learn? Something about tachyon scans and anti-time, inevitably, but also something about the enduring power of love and friendship. Let’s see what’s in here.
That Hope Is You, Part 2
February 25, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBStar Trek: Discovery, Series 3, Episode 13. First broadcast on Thursday 7 January 2021. Previously, on Star Trek: Discovery: it’s the distant future, the Federation is broken, and isolationism runs rampant. Then, of course, lots of things happen, we make new connections, and find a new purpose. And now, the very noisy conclusion. Explosions! Gunfights! Space battles! There’s plenty of action, but do we find ourselves missing the days when Star Trek was a lot of people talking urg...
In the Pale Moonlight
February 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 6, Episode 19. First broadcast on Wednesday 15 April 1998. This week, we discuss one of Star Trek’s most sacred texts — a forty-five minute Ben Sisko soliloquy, in which he saves the galaxy in a trolley problem of Garak’s devising, killing in the process a Romulan Senator, an obnoxious blue guy and at least one really hot Romulan bodyguard. Is this a great episode, a truly great episode, or something else altogether?
Nepenthe
February 11, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBStar Trek: Picard, Series 1, Episode 7. First broadcast on Thursday 5 March 2020. Picard and Soji arrive on the planet Nepenthe, where their confusion and self-doubt are assuaged by the planet’s atmophere, by the love of trustworthy old friends, and by some really good wood-fired pizza. Meanwhile, Agnes vomits two or three times, a beloved secondary character is horribly murdered, and a pretty young Romulan is trapped on a Borg cube with little hope of escape. On balance, we think...
Children of Mars
February 04, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 39.4 MBStar Trek: Short Treks, Series 2, Episode 6. First broadcast on Thursday 9 January 2020. An inexplicable terrorist attack on Mars claims tens of thousands of lives. But how to react to it? Do we succumb to panic and fear? Or do we forget our differences and re-commit to our shared values?
Cogenitor
January 28, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes - 60.5 MBStar Trek: Enterprise, Series 2, Episode 22. First broadcast on Wednesday 30 April 2003. The crew of Enterprise encounter the Vissians, a genial and technologically advanced species who enslave three percent of their population and force them to have sex with married couples who wish to conceive their horrible latex-faced children. Surprisingly, we’re generally fine with this. Apart from Trip, who is a good person.
Descent / Descent, Part II
January 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBStar Trek: The Next Generation, Series 6, Episode 26 / Series 7, Episode 1. First broadcast on Monday 21 June 1993 and Monday 20 September 1993. After their critically acclaimed attack on Earth on Stardate 44001.4, the Borg are back with a terrifying new plan — to pad out the the running time of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Series 6 finale and Series 7 opener. Meanwhile, Deanna is amused by Data’s porn consumption, Nathan is impressed by Beverly’s approach to command, and Jo...
Spock’s Brain
January 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBStar Trek: The Original Series, Series 3, Episode 1. First broadcast on Friday 20 September 1968. A young woman wearing fabulous boots materialises on the Enterprise, renders the crew unconscious, and then removes Spock’s brain. And soon we discover — to our horror — that everyone else involved in making this episode has had their brain removed as well.
Starstruck
January 07, 2022 00:00 - 45 minutes - 43.2 MBStar Trek: Prodigy, Series 1, Episode 3. First broadcast on Thursday 4 November 2021. Star Trek welcomes a whole new generation into its ranks, as Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Pog, Murf and their prisoner Gwyn become the new crew of the USS Protostar. Their first mission: to accidentally set course for a black hole, to learn to work together as a crew, and to come to appreciate the value of good advice. And, of course, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
The Swarm
December 31, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBStar Trek: Voyager, Series 3, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 25 September 1996. When the Doctor’s hard drive starts to fill up with opera, romantic relationships and all the complex glories of being human, he finds himself increasingly unable to fulfil his function as Voyager’s Chief Medical Officer — instead becoming a heartbreaking analogue of your dad suffering from dementia. Also, a bunch of space things happen that we couldn’t possibly care about.
I, Excretus
December 24, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 49.2 MBStar Trek: Lower Decks, Series 2, Episode 8. First broadcast on Thursday 30 September 2021. It’s Star Trek’s most terrifying crew evaluation since Coming of Age: the crew of the USS Cerritos confront a ridiculous alien from Star Trek: The Animated Series, the Terran Empire, medical ethics, an unconvincing Old West set on the Paramount lot, the plot of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the Borg, complex strings of water molecules which acquire carbon from the body and act on the bra...
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
December 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, Series 7, Episode 4. First broadcast on Wednesday 21 October 1998. When passive-aggressive Vulcan racist Captain Solok arrives on Deep Space Nine and challenges Sisko to some kind of sportsball game, a series of hilarious training montages ensues, followed by a Very Important Lesson about how utterly adorable Rom is. Bless.