Discovering Trek: The Star Trek Universe Companion

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Assimilation Mar 22, 2022

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This week, Mike B. and Jamie are joined by Kasey Shafsky to discuss "Assimilation," the third offering from Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard.

Rios, Raffi, and Seven, must explore Los Angeles 2024 to try to find the "Watcher," while Picard and Jurati stay on La Sirena to see what they can find out from the Borg Queen. Agnes learns a lot from a partial assimilation, and Rios ends up in a medical clinic after taking a rough fall from beam in.

How did we feel about this episode? Is Rios discovered to be somewhere he shouldn't be? Listen and find out on Discovering Trek: Picard!

A Conversation with Kate Mulgrew Mar 17, 2022

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On this very special bonus episode, Emilie and Mike are joined by the legendary actor that plays Kathryn Janeway, Kate Mulgrew!

We are honored to have the privilege to speak with her about her career and current role on Star Trek: Prodigy. Kate and Emilie have a true conversation with each other about life and growing up and college choices.

It's a wonderful conversation you won't want to miss.

Penance Mar 15, 2022

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This week, Mike B., Subrina, Mike T., and Jamie discuss "Penance," the second offering from Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard.

Q is back and has thrown Picard's crew into a dystopian society. Picard is a warlord General, Seven is the President of the Confederation and Elnor is no longer welcome on a xenophobic Earth. The crew finds that they need to go back in time to set things straight, and to do so, need to enlist the help of the Borg Queen.

How did we feel about this episode? How is the crew going to react to working with the Borg Queen and how will they get back in time? Listen and find out on Discovering Trek: Picard!

The Star Gazer Mar 08, 2022

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This week, Mike B., Tamia, Mike T., and Jamie discuss the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, Season 2, "The Star Gazer".

A Starfleet vessel is set to auto destruct before we get to look in on our crew from last season over the previous 48 hours. Picard, Raffi, and Rios are all back in Starfleet, and Elnor is at the Academy. Seven is captaining the La Sirena working for the Fenris Rangers again, and Jurati and Soji are entertaining a group of Deltans.

A situation in space brings most of them back together again, only to face the Borg Queen prior to destroying them.

Picard wakes up to find things changed and has a visit from his old friend, Q!

How did we feel about this episode? What about some of the easter eggs and return of legacy characters? Listen and find out on Discovering Trek: Picard!

Picard Season 2 Trailer & Theories Mar 02, 2022

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Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard is just around the corner, so hosts Mike B, Jamie, Mike T, Tamia, and Subrina, break down the trailer for season 2. What in the trailer offers a glimpse of what's in store for us in this season? We'll closely examine that and throw out our wishes and theories as to what we may be dealing with this season!

Join us for this breakdown and get to know our motley crew of characters here on Discovering Trek: Picard!

A Moral Star, Part 2 Feb 09, 2022

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On this final episode of the first half of Season 1, Mike and Emilie are joined by Abby Sommer to discuss "A Moral Star, Part 2."

The crew will attempt to get the U.S.S. Protostar back from The Diviner while also trying to release all the Unwanted from Tars Lamora. This will mean redemption for some of our characters and a new unseen one for all of them.

We'll discuss that and talk in depth about what we think the second half of the season will bring us, on this episode of Discovering Trek: Prodigy!

A Moral Star, Part 1 Jan 31, 2022

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This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by Meg MacConnell to discuss the penultimate episode of the first half of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, "A Moral Star, Part 1." The crew of the Protostar are forced to return to Tars Lamora for the greater good.

Having learned how to work together as a crew, Dal and company prepare a rescue mission of the "Unwanted" on Tars Lamora. The Diviner, as expected, goes back on his word and demands not just the Protostar, but Gwyn as well. As he begins to leave, he destroys the power generator keeping gravity on Tars Lamora, but can't protowarp because the core has been taken.

How were the crew able to hide the protocore from The Diviner? Have they lost the Protostar for good? We discuss that on this episode of Discovering Trek: Prodigy!

Time Amok Jan 24, 2022

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This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by Jude and Brent Allen of the Murf's Turf Podcast to discuss "Time Amok." A tachyon storm threatens to destroy the U.S.S. Protostar and the crew needs to work together in a unique way to prevent it.

Each one of the crew is separated into different parts of time on board the Protostar, with their only way of working together being through Hologram Janeway. They each face circumstances they're unfamiliar with, while a new Drednok is being built in the vehicle replicator to take the ship back over.

How will they be able to prevent catastrophe? Will the crew learn from this experience going forward? And, will The Diviner once again gain control of the Protostar? We discuss that and more on this episode of Discovering Trek: Prodigy!

Shockwave, Part 1 Jan 20, 2022

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Discovering Trek listeners, are you as shocked as we are that this is the end of season one? More timey wimey activities with dire consequences are going on and what does this mean for the future of our crew, Starfleet and deep space exploration? What does that mean for season two? Does that mean that the shackles of the rhyming recap have been thrown to the wind? Oh gawd please let that be a yes!

In this episode, Co-hosts Sara and Kasey talk about all that plus what their thoughts are of the final episode of the first season of Enterprise and the season as a whole.

Sara and Kasey hope you'll join them for the last episode of season one of Discovering Trek: Enterprise. Come explore the First Frontier with us if we can get back in time! See what we did there? :)

First Con-Tact Jan 17, 2022

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This week, Mike and Emilie are joined by author Jake Black and his 3 kids, Jonas, Rachel, and Elisabeth, to discuss "First Con-Tact." Dal comes across a former mentor and has mixed feelings as the rest of the crew meet her.

As the crew of the U.S.S. Protostar continue to learn the many things that their ship can do, they receive a distress call from what turns out to be a female Ferengi Daimon, Nandi, who essentially raised Dal before he ended up on Tars Lamora. Through this chance meeting, the crew ends up making first contact with a new alien species, but because of Nandi's scheming, break the Prime Directive in the process.

Was Nandi a good example for Dal's formative years? What does this mean for how Dal will act in the future? We discuss that and more on this episode of Discovering Trek: Prodigy!