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X-Treks

67 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -

Hosts Stella Cheeks and Erin Cline introduce each other to their favorite fandoms one episode at a time!

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Episodes

Enemies Working Together

December 16, 2023 01:21 - 1 hour - 70 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where sworn enemies swap support to secure safety... and it's hottttt?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Day of The Dove" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episodes "Tunguska" and "Termina."  Join Stella and Erin as we discuss sweaty makeup, slick plot threads, and just how much Scottie ffffuuuuuuuuucks!   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen eac...

Memory Loss

December 01, 2023 23:08 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters go all "Huh? Whuh?! WHAT DID I DO?!?!" For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Wolf In The Fold" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "John Doe."  Join Stella and Erin as we discuss strip club etiquette, good bad makeup, and argue over what makes you a ghost vs. an alien!   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite...

Mind Control

November 10, 2023 22:50 - 1 hour - 95.1 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode people's minds.. get like... controlled? (You can tell it's been awhile.)   For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Dagger of The Mind" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Pusher."  Join Stella and Erin for the longest X-Treks episode yet! We are compelled by external forces to discuss sneaky fake baby-women and respecting the courage to take a good kicking while also driving up the search analytics for the term "Jason Al...

X-Treks Xtra: Thirty Years of The X-Files with Dr. Bethan Jones

August 18, 2023 14:07 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MB

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programing with a super fun and informative interview with academic and X-Files super fan Dr. Bethan Jones! Dr. Jones came on the show to discuss her new book The Truth is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files and if there are two things Erin & Stella love it's geeking out about their favotire fandoms and reading academic texts outside of grad school!    Pre-Order the book here (or whereever books are sold): https://www.tuckerdspress.com/prod...

Destructive Powers

June 30, 2023 23:05 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where abnormal abilities obliterate unprepared entites?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Alternative Factor" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Syzygy."  Join Stella and Erin as we discuss weird beards, buisness savvy astrologers, and a summary that we almost never got out of!  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favori...

Horrible Exes!

June 17, 2023 01:33 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where past paramores perpetrate perils? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "What Little Girls Are Made Of" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "The Rain King."  Join Stella and Erin and BABY GENE as we discuss suspicious rock shapes, suspicious hail shapes, and all the relationships these characters escape.    --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never s...

Treat Yourself 2: Treat Harder

May 12, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have ANOTHER episode that you love but just doesn't fit the VERY loose thematic format of your podcast? TREAT YOURSELF! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Squire of Gothos" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Je Souhaite."  Join Stella and Erin for some wish fullfillment, tangent entanglement, and tactical slapping. Our treat! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have ...

Gamerz Only

April 28, 2023 22:28 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode that oNlY tRuE gAmErZ wOuLd UnDeRsTaNd?! No?! N00b.  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "First Person Shooter."  Join Stella and Erin for some MMMOOORRRTTAAAALLLLL COMMBBAAAAATTT! Sometimes, it just doesn't have to be that deep. (↓→+punch = KissPunch Special Move)  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a dec...

The Vietnam War

April 14, 2023 21:51 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode that attempts to deal with the subject of The Vietnam War? NO?! Well THESE shows do! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "A Private Little War" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Sleeper."  Join Stella and Erin (and Stella and Erin) as we discuss these episodes. There will be no alliteration jokes on this one. We're back! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but...

Children Are Evil!

December 19, 2022 21:54 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where killer kids cause casualties?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "And The Children Shall Lead" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "The Calusari."  No need to run and catch that train, Stella and Erin are here to plant the flag into this preteen patricide pandemonium podcast!   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite ...

Main Character Illness

December 04, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where a major character contracts a cruddy critical condition? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enemy Within" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Plus One."  Join Stella and Erin as we discuss unearned romances, unearned cures, big game beheadings, and better character arcs.   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV...

Rapid Aging

October 29, 2022 19:56 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where.. huh? What? YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP I'M VERY OLD NOW! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Deadly Years" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Dod Kalm."  Join Stella and Erin as we travel down this mortal coil at lightspeed with two tales of pickled protagonists with elderly ennui.   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's ...

Dopplegangers

October 15, 2022 00:56 - 1 hour - 87.2 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where a dastardly doubles deal out disaster and death?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enemy Within" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Plus One."  Join Stella and Erin (and Stella and Erin) as we discuss space dogs,  thrown dookie, cold men, and hangmen.   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking ...

Traveling Circus

October 01, 2022 00:15 - 1 hour - 91 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where a roaving group of performers are privy to peril?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Way To Eden" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Humbug."  Join Stella and Erin as we discuss herberts, hoaxes, music and (fiji) mermaids! We reach, you gaffs.  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify t...

Vampires!

September 16, 2022 18:38 - 1 hour - 93 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where nefarious nosferatu carniverate characters?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Man Trap" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "3."  Nailing the theme so far in season 3, join Stella and Erin for a feast of salt tablets and blood bread! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievo...

Robots!

September 04, 2022 14:29 - 1 hour - 81 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where asshole automatons attempt to overtake and overthrow?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "I, Mudd" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Rm9sbG93ZXJz."  We're back with two bangers! Join Stella and Erin as they evade drone and clones with Mulder and Bones. (Bobby was sick, he's better now) --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other'...

Season 2 Wrap-up!

July 29, 2022 23:30 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi mashup podcast have an episode where they wrap-up their second season? For Stella Cheeks it's this podcast, and for Erin Cline it's THIS PODCAST! Join us as we look back on questionable theme picks, everlasting friendships, and so very much screaming. Are you Duane Barry enough to wrap-up X-Treks season 2 with us? Sit down, have some green! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each othe...

Failed Spinoff

May 27, 2022 23:59 - 1 hour - 88.9 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where they try and force some characters and themes from another cancelled (or nonexistent) show on you?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Assignment: Earth" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Millennium."  It's the last regular episode of our second season! Join Stella and Erin as we discuss forced IP synergy, sexy cat ladies, how non-canon lore do be out there, and a real life baby! (Gene's spinoff podcast will ...

Horrible Bosses

May 14, 2022 00:43 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter antagonistic authority figures or corrupt slimy superiors? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Zero Sum."  Join Erin and Stella for an episode that has everything: BEES, Scotty in a tube of sparks, more BEES, Skinner in his undies, kids getting swarmed by BEES, floating super powerful planet devouring sex toys, Skinner in a tight ...

Invaders

April 29, 2022 23:30 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter (or ARE) strange creatures where they do not belong?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "By Any Other Name" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Firewalker".  Erin and Stella are back with dice that die and ancient spores shooting out of guys! Join us for two tales where the real invaders are humans and their feelings!  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been ...

Immortality

April 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter beings who live too long or seemingly forever (and are awful because of it)?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Requiem For Methuselah" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Nothing Lasts Forever".  **Exasperated scream warning for ~1:04:17** Join Stella and Erin as they grow ever more grateful they don't live forever or have to deal with anyone that does! FORGET.     --- About the p...

Unidentified Aliens

April 01, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter a mysterious being from another planet? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Metamorphosis" (and MANY others) and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Little Green Men" (and not as many but still like SEVERAL others).   Join Stella and Erin as they encounter a formless fraternizing cloud and an interstellar dj who wants to abduct you and make you listen to their mix tape!    --- About the...

Accidental Kink

March 18, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters stumble into a situation and find that they are really into it. Like, REALLY into it?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Elaan of Troyius" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Never Again".   Join Stella and Erin as they discuss entitled brats and psychotic tats with two episodes where characters think "Oops, I liked that!"  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends...

Mysterious Disappearance

March 04, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where people seem to vanish with next to know trace? How do you know? Maybe they just never noticed?! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Immunity Syndrome" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Soft Light".   The Crew is exhausted and so is Tony Shalhoub, but @ErngenC and @Stella_Cheeks are just the stimulant we all need to deep dive into a duo of dark matter debacles.  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Ste...

Undercover

February 18, 2022 15:43 - 1 hour - 79 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters disguise their true identities or even their ears to take down the enemy? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Arcadia".  Espionage! Join @Stella_Cheeks and @ErngenC as they sneak around with pointy eared honeypots, colonizer trash monsters, and also a tulpa! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for ove...

F*ck It's Cold!

February 04, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where it's just.... really fucking cold? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Ice". Yeah! Nailing this theme!   Join Stella and Erin as they watch both the Federation and The Feds battle inner turmoil and frostbite alike. Remember, if you're cold so is your baby snake in a latex suit. Bring them inside.   --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks...

I've Been Framed

January 21, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 76 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where someone get's a crime pinned on them that they didn't commit (even if it's only VERY briefly)? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Court Martial" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Fire". Revenge is in the air and jet fuel is in the paint as Stella and Erin figure out whodunnit and who didn't. That old friend? Your spicy ex? Just don't those trust computers or on which grave they had sex!  --- About the po...

Red Hot Pants!

January 07, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have... Ok, you know what? We don't have to do this for this one. Kirk wears tight red pants and Mulder wears a red speedo at some point in these episodes. That's it. That's the theme. Do you need more?! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Charlie X" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Duane Barry" and "Ascension" (the red speedo happens in Duane Barry but I GUESS we care about the story as well).      Join Stella and Erin as they ...

Family Drama

December 24, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters struggle with the immense weight of familial friction? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Journey To Babel" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Beyond The Sea".   Sad dads, mad lads, assassins and ghosts, egads! Join Erin and Stell as they untangle intergalactic espionage and ethereal investigations all sung to the tune of "Are You Proud of Me Now, Parents?" and just in time for the holiday weekend!...

Man Vs. Machine

December 10, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where humanity grapples with it's own technological creations and the concept of what it means to be human? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Kill Switch".   Join Stella and Erin as they discuss what it means to be "living", if machines created by humans could ever be "perfect", and which characters truly don't care and just want these metal menaces to DIE...

Animals

November 26, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where mankind struggles with it's relationship to other animals whether they be invisible, alien, or intangible? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Arena" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Fearful Symmetry".   Tigers, Elephants, and Gorn! Oh, gosh! Join Stella and Erin as they watch space sensualists and spooky smolderers fight for mankind's dominance on the food chain. (Spoilers, humans ain't shit!)    --- A...

Toxic Masculinity

November 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 79.2 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the men are just like... the worst? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Is The In Truth No Beauty?" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Mulder And Scully Meet The Weremonster." Join Stella and Erin as they UGH and BLEH at these bros and their confidence issues. Don't Starfleet and the FBI have health plans that pay for therapy? Because they should. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been ...

Body Swap

October 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters undergo a mental transference and trade physical forms with someone else? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Return To Tomorrow," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Dreamland 1 & 2." For real this time! On purpose! Join Stella and Erin as they discuss all the freaky Friday friction that ensues when our heroes have to barter for their bodies with self-important supreme beings and slimy government su...

Ret-Con-A-Rama!

October 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode that attempts to retroactively fix something within it's universe's continuity, or create an issue that needs to be fixed later?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Errand Of Mercy" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"... at least, until we change it later.   Join Stella and Erin as they discuss the first coming of the Klingons what happens when you mix hypno-therapy with Venus at it's...

Ghosts!

October 01, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where spectral entities or unseen forces haunt and taunt the main characters? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Tholian Web," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas." Join Stella and Erin for tales of innerspace specters, aspirational apparitions, and the contentious couples they come across! Also, who to look to for Christmas wrapping advice from and what goes good with scotch. ooOOoO...

Shapeshifter

September 17, 2021 10:30 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where villains use tricks of the eye or change their physical forms to fool the unsuspecting heroes? For Stella Cheeks, it's (kind of) the Star Trek TOS episode "Mudd's Women," and for Erin Cline, it's (maybe) the X-Files episodes "Terms Of Endearment." Ok look, no amount of alliteration will cover up the fact that the theme of this episode is looser than a settler on Ophiucus III, but you gotta give the demon his due! It's still a very fun sh...

Eugenics!

September 03, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where doctors or dictators dabble in DNA debauchery? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Space Seed," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Eve." It's season 2 of X-Treks, and it starts with two tales of ribosomal rumbles! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriously, they use...

Unofficial Channels

September 01, 2021 12:24 - 51 minutes - 49.7 MB

Please enjoy the first episode of our very real, totally not a joke, podcast - Unofficial Channels. As a result of X-Treks, Stella has a new tsunami level thirst for Mitch Pileggi. Unfortunately, he's not in every X-Files episode they watch, so consider Unofficial Channels a thirst triage! Normally, this is a Patreon exclusive podcast, but to celebrate X-Treks Season Two and announce our Patreon's restructuring (every patron gets everything for as little as a dollar!), we thought we'd shar...

X-Treks Season Two Trailer

August 22, 2021 05:00 - 3 minutes - 4.36 MB

Erin Cline & Stella Cheeks are back for X-Treks season two. The beliefs are bolder, the truth is seekier and the ships are PROUD and LOUD.  Buckle up and bring a friend. It's going to be a wild ride!  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriously, they used to live together), X-Treks was born! Each week the duo choose one episode from Star Tre...

X-Treks X-Tra: X-Files Season One

August 13, 2021 23:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

What's it like to watch an entire season of a show in order after you've only ever seen 20 random episodes? Will it change your perspective of the show? Or is your gut instinct right? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Bobby gave Stella the green light to watch X-Files season one (mostly) and Stella finally learns that aliens are the least interesting thing about the X-Files and the real spooky is the friends we made along the way.  --- About the podcast: Erin Cl...

X-Treks X-Tra: Star Trek (2009)

July 16, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 64 MB

What's the worst version of your favorite tv show, and how can you convince your friend to hate it with you? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Stella watch the movie Star Trek (2009) and discuss how something as clever as an alternate Star Trek TOS universe could have gone so straight and so wrong! Join us as we go out of our Vulcan minds discussing the brief highs and deep lows of J.J. Abrams' thinly veiled Star Wars audition. Can't you tell we liked it?  --- Abo...

Season 1 Wrap-Up!

June 11, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

It's our season 1 retrospective episode!   Join Erin, Stella, and Bobby as we look back on our journey through season 1 of X-Treks in which two old friends share their favorite sci-fi shows with one another for the first time ever! We reminisce over all we've seen and learned while hinting towards the show's future. No episodes, ALL FEELINGS! --- About the podcast:   Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade, but have never seen each other's favorite TV sho...

The Favorite

May 28, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

What's your FAVORITE episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show (that your friend hasn't seen yet)?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "A Piece Of The Action," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Goldberg Variation."  Grab your heater and count yourself lucky with a surprise Chicago gangster showdown (that's never actually in Chicago) as Erin and Stella put these two great episodes in the bag to close out our first season of X-Treks!  --- About the podcast:...

Surprise Siblings

May 14, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 95 MB

Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where one of the main characters gets reunited with a long-lost or even a previously unknown sibling? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Operation -- Annihilate!" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Colony" and "Endgame"... at least for the first time it happens.   Brother!? (DUN DUNNN) Sister?! (BWOONNG) Join Stella and Erin as they watch our favs fend off flying neuro-squid vomit bags, acidic alien clone blood,...

Alternate Universe

April 30, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Does your favorite TV show have an episode that takes it's characters into a parallel dimension where everything you thought you knew has changed?  For Stella Cheeks, that's the Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Lost Art of The Forehead Sweat".  It's the granddaddy of all AU fics and the X-File to end all x-files! Spock's got a beard, Reggie makes it weird, and this as well rhymes in an... Alternate Universe!  --- About the podca...

It's Magic!

April 16, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

What episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show also brings in an element of the mystical, fantastical, or just blatantly theatrical art of magic to the forefront? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Catspaw," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "The Amazing Maleeni."  Can the X-Trekkies remain cool cats in the face of such spectacle, or will they lose their heads? You won't have to twist our arms to find out.  --- About the podcast:   Erin Cline and Stella C...

War Is Bad!

April 02, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MB

What episode of your favorite sci-fi TV show properly illustrates the horrors of humanoid military conflict? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "A Taste of Armageddon" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Kitten." Lopsided in title, yes, but not in social commentary! War, what IS it good for? Episodes for this podcast, apparently. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite...

Through The Looking Glass

March 19, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MB

Which episode from your favorite TV show gives a sense of altered reality and perspective? (Or just references Alice In Wonderland directly and also rules?)  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Shore Leave" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Monday."  It's two top-tier episodes from each show in a podcast, so nice you could relax and listen to it twice! (Or has it been three times, or thirty, OH LOOK I FOUND A GUN!) --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and St...

NASA Sh*t

March 05, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB

Space...the final frontier... it's out there. Which episode of your favorite show depicts the exploration and impact of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?  For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Changeling" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Space." (Just ... "Space"? Really? Nice work Carter.)  Join us as Stella and Erin face off against rogue probes and possessed astronauts. Will they land safely, or will these episodes wipe their memory banks...

Complete Mayhem!

February 19, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

What's the episode of your favorite show in which EVERYTHING goes completely batcrap crazy? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Naked Time" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Fight Club."  Swords, songs, sewers, and submissions! Grab an extra scoop of ice cream and watch out for broken glass as we give in to the total chaos of these episodes.  --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen ea...

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