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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #162: Tom Baker MBE with Oliver McNeil 1:07:09

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who PodcastEpisode 162: Tom Baker MBE with Oliver McNeil In early November 2025, the veteran character actor, arguably most famous Time Lord of the all, Tom Baker was formally honoured by the Crown with an MBE for Services to Television. With a small number of friends and colleagues in attendance... One of whom was photographer O…

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217. Dad Harder (DS9 6.07) 1:03:03

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Anika and Liz attend a four-day Klingon bachelor party -- where the feats of strength include somehow NOT developing a time machine to go back to 1997 and fight the entire DS9 writers room for Jadzia's honour. Yes, our wedding series has brought us to Star Trek: Deep Space 9's "You Are Cordially Invited", and we have ... questions. Concerns. Loud p…

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216. Live Data Reaction (TNG 4.11) 1:13:51

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Come on a journey with us. A story of true love, as we watch Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Data's Day", one of the great romances of all time. We speak, of course, of the relationship between Admiral Mendak and Subcommander Selok. Also Miles and Keiko get married. This is the third episode in our wedding series, and the first marriage between t…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #161: Planet of Evil Review 1:27:41

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who PodcastEpisode 161: Planet of Evil Review Resuming our reviewing and revelling through time & space now, to tie in with the release of Season 13 of classic Doctor Who on Blu Ray: stopping off on the Planet Of Evil itself... The second story of this fan favourite run starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen gets quite a set of …

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215. Stephen Miller's Betazoid Eugenics Program (TNG 1.10) 1:05:37

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We continue our wedding series with Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Haven" -- in which Deanna Troi's arranged marriage is interrupted by the arrival of an AIDS allegory. It's … rough. It's rough. Note: Liz says two completely inaccurate things with absolute confidence: first she claims that Wyatt is the only guest star with a costume change (fals…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #160: Saving Face 1:09:06

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who PodcastEpisode 160: Saving Face At the annual Edinburgh TV Festival for 2025 the BBC has had its usual formidable presence. Multiple executives talking telly! Given Doctor Who's very public problems in recent months, it's hardly surprising the topic came up several times. Key people involved in the future of the property as a…

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214. Spacebook Relationship Status (TOS 2.01) 53:25

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It's wedding season! Anika and Liz are looking at some of Star Trek's key wedding episodes, beginning with the one that launched season 2 of The Original Series and rewrote a lot of people's brain chemistry: "Amok Time". And in typical "Antimatter Pod does it Antimatter Pod's way" fashion, we're gonna talk about ... how great it is for the Spock/Ch…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #159: FAQ with Antony Wainer 1:40:01

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 159: FAQ with Antony Wainer There can’t be many Doctor Who fans who’ve not found themselves on the other end of a grilling by friends, family, co-workers or other fans concerning their precise history with the series! And it’s so often the same batch of questions and queries fired our way in short order… They’…

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213. Twentieth Century Thinking (SNW 3.10) 1:03:52

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Noted Doctor Who podcasters Anika and Liz settle in to watch a very bad Steven Moffat pastiche. Yes, it's time for the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and spoilers, turning into a statue might be preferable to this. It turns out Marie's whole arc has been about becoming tradwife statuary The weird Christian subtext of the season i…

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212. Gamer Gorn Girlfriend (SNW 3.09) 1:03:07

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Anika and Liz get sucked into a wormhole and trapped on a moon orbiting a gas giant, which is actually pretty standard when you're adults with jobs trying to organise a board game night. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 3, episode 9, "Terrarium", an episode which comes so close to being good before it snatches defeat from the …

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #158: The Great Deflector 1:14:30

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 158: The Great Deflector Doctor Who: the world’s longest running, best loved Science Fiction and fantasy TV series – is on “Pause”. Following a disastrous relaunch co-production between BBC Studios, Bad Wolf Studios and Disney+ a little more than 18 months ago… What’s gone wrong? Why? Who’s to blame? That’s al…

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211. Ghostwritten by J. K. Rowling (SNW 3.08) 1:11:13

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With heavy hearts, Anika and Liz discuss "Four and a Half Vulcans", the worst episode of Star Trek's streaming era, and possibly one of the top five worst episodes of Star Trek ever. So that's fun. Liz keeps returning to the question, "Is this worse than 'Code of Honor'?" "I understand that this is meant to be funny." Genetics and hair don't work l…

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210. Selling Starfleet (SNW 3.07) 49:09

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It's documentary time! Anika and Liz look straight into the camera and share their feelings about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "What Is Starfleet?", including... We have complicated feelings about this episode! It interrogates the documentary as a form of propaganda, but also interrogates the Federation in bad faith? SNW is not equipped to deal w…

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209. The Shape of Star Trek (SNW 3.06) 58:09

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Anika and Liz battle an ancient and unbeatable enemy: grimdark anti-morality in Star Trek. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail", an episode with all the ingredients of Star Trek except its soul... This feels like a backdoor pilot for a series which has been around for nearly 60 years Why are we spending so m…

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208. There's Always A Bigger Fish (SNW 3.05) 50:04

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Anika and Liz beam down to a nice planet where nothing bad happens and everyone leaves with the same amount of eyeballs they started with. WAIT, NO, we're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Through the Lens of Time"... This once again felt like several unrelated episodes smushed together Like season 5 of Discovery, this video game is on eas…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #157: The State of 2025 with Ken Deep 2:03:12

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 157: The State of 2025 with Ken Deep For Doctor Who Podcast Day 2025 To mark the 20th birthday of Doctor Who podcasting itself, one of the voices of that historic show, Podshock joins regular host Dan Hadley for this long form conversation. Exploring where the Doctor Who series and it's fandom find themselves,…

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207. Jaunt and/or Romp (SNW 3.04) 54:21

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Anika and Liz are here, and we hunger for braincells! Unfortunately, before we can celebrate our favourite episode of the season so far, we have to talk about the Spock/La'an of it all... When Anika said she shipped Spock/La'an, she didn't mean in canon! "I want to slut shame Spock, and not in an ironic way." At this point it's gonna look pretty ba…

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206. Her Body, Pike's Choice (SNW 3.03) 48:03

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Anika and Liz go on a nice road trip to pick some flowers, and nothing bad happens to anyone. Okay, fine, we are discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 3, "Shuttle to Kenfori", including... First of all, WHAT IS HAPPENING ON REBECCA ROMIJN'S HEAD Season 3 has a recurring motif where a woman states explicitly what she wants, and …

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205. The Girlfriend Edit (SNW 3.02) 42:50

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Anika and Liz put on their cutest wedding outfits and settle in to discuss episode 2 of Strange New Worlds' third season: "Wedding Bell Blues". Liz is gonna try not to talk about Pike. Anika is going to do her best not to implode. It's fun! This episode was engineered in a lab to target Anika personally Is this a mean-spirited commentary on shipper…

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204. Berman Era Level Misogyny (SNW 3.01) 54:23

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back, baby! Anika and Liz fight off some Gorn and settle in to discuss the premiere! (We did not realise, when we recorded, that "Hegemony" part 2 would be dropping along with "Wedding Bell Blues", so we're only discussing that first episode now.) This is certainly an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Chri…

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203. Hair Trek (part 2) 57:35

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Anika and Liz let their hair down, and as it tumbles over their shoulders in perfect beach waves identical to the hair of every other woman on television in the 2020s, they return to their discussion of hair and hair styling in Star Trek... Liz has a theory about why Janeway's early hair was … like that. And we're sorry, but it does involve Margare…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #156: The Time Meddler Review 1:52:50

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 156: The Time Meddler Review Resuming our randomised, rambunctious revelling’s in Doctor Who adventures from across the decades on Type 40! Our regular panels primed, prepped and positively raring to go, for better or worse… The second season of the classic era closed out with The Time Meddler by Dennis Spoone…

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202. Hair Trek (part 1) 45:32

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Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time -- hairstyles in Star Trek. We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into a two-parter, which is PEAK Antimatter Pod, but in this first half, we discuss... Janice Rand, Marie Antoinette and Sabrina Carpenter Pavel Chekov, The Monkees and appeal…

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201. Very Sixth Season TNG (Derogatory) (TNG 6.22) 52:41

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Anika and Liz put on their least comfortable lounging clothes and settle in to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 22, "Suspicions". Why is Beverly Crusher hosting an astrophysics conference? And other questions that will forever go unanswered However, this episode, which makes no sense in the context of TNG, makes a LOT of se…

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200. Performative Femininity 1:07:47

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It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends! To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek. Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism. How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Tre…

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199. Arm Day (Star Trek: Of Gods And Men) 1:00:57

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Anika and Liz don their sparkliest shirts and biggest earrings, and sit down to watch Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, a fan film starring Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck, Walter Koenig and more. You can watch it here, or -- in a much smaller window -- watch an unauthorised HD remaster. We're in our Alan Ruck era, but we were not prepared for the unbelievab…

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198. Plus A Change 1:01:47

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Liz takes a deep dive into Usenet archives and tells Anika about fandom's earliest discussions of Star Trek: Deep Space 9! (Please note, we are still having audio problems -- despite literally nothing changing in our set ups, Liz's feed is echoing on Anika's channel. This means Anika had to be muted for a lot of the time. At this point we may have …

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #154: Quizzed with Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller 1:01:05

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 154: Quizzed with Daisy Ashford and Sadie Miller At Whooverville 15 It’s that time again: a special episode of our Doctor Who Podcast. recorded completely LIVE on stage with special guests and an audience of companions, friends and fellow fans at the hugely popular Whooverville convention… You regular hosts Si…

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197. Gel Budget (TNG 3.15) 51:39

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Anika and Liz apply a normal amount of hair gel and step into a grim alternate universe to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Yesterday's Enterprise", including... Is this TNG's best episode? It could be! This story turns on Picard absolutely trusting the word of a Black woman Rachel Garrett was Liz's very first female starship captain The o…

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163. Stepford Beverly (Star Trek: Generations) 1:42:13

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Anika and Liz are joined by guest Jonathan to discuss a movie Jonathan calls "the greatest Star Trek movie ever made": Star Trek: Generations. Our feels run the spectrum: Jonathan loves it, Liz loves everything except the plot and script, and Anika is … not a fan. Everything that happens on the Enterprise B is the fault of Starfleet PR This is a mo…

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195. A Handbag Nuke (ST:S31) 1:26:04

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Anika and Liz are here to discuss the NEW and WIDELY REVILED streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31. And here's Antimatter Pod's hottest take yet: we ... liked it? Not because it's good! (It's not!) But ... well, have a listen while we discuss... We feel cheated that we didn't get series that Erika Lippoldt and Bo-yeon Kim wrote But is it Star Trek?…

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #153: Survivors 1:37:12

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 153: Survivors Type 40's long running Doctor Who commemorating another historic date and time in the history of the Whoniverse. On the 6th December 1989 the classic series was vanquished from the schedules of BBC1 after a 4 year battle against the odds... Survivors of that fateful period Simon and Dan get toge…

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194. Kolinahr Statement Necklace (ST:TMP) 1:30:41

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Anika and Liz don their gaudiest statement necklaces and medallions and get the band back together for an adventure in Millennial Greige, 46 years before TikTok invented that concept. Yes! It's time to discuss Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and yes, this episode is 90 minutes long, but please note that's still shorter than the movie itself. And we …

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast #152: Joy to the World Review Special 1:34:33

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Type 40 • A Doctor Who Podcast Episode 152: Joy to the World REVIEW Returning for 2025 and a BRAND-NEW SEASON of our long-running Doctor Who Podcast on the Fandom Podcast Network: it’s Type 40! With familiar voices and brand-new contributors alike. All gathering around the mic’s to cover the whole Whoniverse both on and off screen… Beginning with t…

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193. Nature's Unicorn (LD 5.10) 41:58

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Anika and Liz jump headfirst into the S-field to discuss the series finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "The New Next Generation", including... We love the coda so much that it makes us like the final season more This episode had the wrong type of ship nerdery for us The trouble with Tendi Rutherford has been even more underused than usual this seaso…

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192. Chekhov's T'Pol (LD 5.09) 47:04

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Anika and Liz are pretty sure our alternate universe selves are well-rested, organised and completely on top of their lives. But we are here to be tired, messy and talk about the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Fissure Quest"! While Anika was out touching grass, Liz was getting spoiled for every single surprise in this episode (and …

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191. The Coffee Machine Cleaning Cycle of the Federation (LD 5.07 and 5.08) 35:50

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Anika and Liz are briefly trapped on a world where months pass in the space of seconds, which gives us a lot of time to talk about how great Carol Freeman is. Yes, we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks' "Fully Dilated" and "Upper Decks". We liked one of these episodes! Mostly! "Fully Dilated" was a personal attack aimed at us Why is Tendi so o…

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190. Bluey for Trekkies (LD 5.06) 31:54

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Anika and Liz mediate a war between sentient shapes, and try not to ask awkward questions like, "Why do you even HAVE genders?" Okay, no, we're discussing Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 6, "Of Gods and Angles"! Another round of the "accept what makes you different" moral, which is not bad, but more suited to Bluey than an allegedly sophis…

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189. A Real Rick Berman Kind of Horror (LD 5.04 and 5.05) 44:24

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Anika and Liz visit the Klingon homeworld and Starbase 80, and Anika does not partake in blood wine or corn dogs because these episodes are not inclusive for vegetarians. Yes, we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes "A Farewell to Farms" and "Starbase 80?!", and we have a few things to say... "A Farewell to Farms" was fine Mary Chieffo …

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188. The Humourless Feminist Killjoy Happy Hour (LD 5.03) 40:56

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Anika and Liz visit a fabulous resort, where we get to sit by the pool and relax while nothing bad happens and no one is weirdly stalked by their ex-girlfriend. We're discussing Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel", and spoilers, we aren't fans! The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel did not deserve this "My shoulders went up aroun…

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187. Free-Range Organic Facial Hair (LD 5.01 and 5.02) 51:35

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Anika and Liz meet their alternate timeline duplicates, who are exactly the same except Fake Anika is super right-wing and Fake Liz has a luscious beard. It's time! For the Star Trek: Lower Decks fifth season premiere! Liz: I don't ship Rutherford/Tendi/T'Lyn 61 seconds later… Liz: I ship Rutherford/Tendi/T'Lyn Remembering Jeri Taylor New York Comi…

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186. Cottagecore Retirement (Prodigy 2.19 and 2.20) 51:34

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Anika and Liz save the world, and then settle down for some light gardening in a giant midwest McMansion. Yes, the time has come to discuss the season (series?) finale of Star Trek: Prodigy, "Ouroboros" parts 1 and 2. Anika was really onto something when she said Rok-Tahk is the new Wesley What is a good age to start watching Star Trek with kids? "…

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185. How To Train Your Loom (Prodigy 2.17 and 2.18) 48:36

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Anika and Liz send a bunch of kids off on a black ops mission, which is a cool and normal thing to do and definitely something a healthy maternal role model would do. Oh yeah, we're discussing the Star Trek: Prodigy episodes "Brink" and "Touch of Gray", including... Kids are gonna learn about plausible deniability sooner or later It was always goin…

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184. Janeway/Chakotay Is The New Janeway/Chakotay (Prodigy 2.15 and 2.16) 49:35

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Anika and Liz are told to pack it all up and go home, Starfleet Command will be taking care of the podcasting from here on out. And we were absolutely going to obey, but fortunately some plot intervened. We're discussing Star Trek: Prodigy's "Ascension" part 1 and 2, including... Dal and Zero's arcs reach their respective climaxes The Voyager crew …

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183. Warlord Janeway (Prodigy 2.13 and 2.14) 52:02

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Anika and Liz stumble through a series of alternate universes, including the one where we like "A Tribble Called Quest" and the one where we're good at podcasting and don't go off on long tangents about shipping. (That's a lie. That universe doesn't exist.) Liz has a hot take: she does not like "A Tribble Called Quest" and thinks it has an accident…

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182. A Situationship (Prodigy 2.11 and 2.12) 52:44

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We promised we'd be normal about Hot Chakotay, but we lied An incomplete list of people with whom Anika compares Hot Chakotay: Wolverine Deanna Troi in "A Fistful of Datas" Russell Crowe Aragon Dal finally finds his mentor Chakotay: not a girl dad Ma'jel is too gay for this. She is here for the girls and the non-binary babes and wants no part of wh…

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181. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOMS!!!!!!!!! (Prodigy 2.09 and 2.10) 44:56

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Anika and Liz arrive at an ancient and timeless ziggurat, congratulate themselves on knowing how to spell "ziggurat", and settle down in a nice mid-century modern apartment to talk about episodes 9 and 10 of Star Trek: Prodigy's second season, "The Devourer Of All Things". Including... Wesley Crusher, Star Trek: Picard, "Assignment: Earth" and more…

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180. A Flower Crown Cult (Prodigy 2.08) 48:49

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Anika and Liz don their finest flower crowns and make an appearance at a feast. What's that? You want us to go for a nice run? No thank you, we will stay comfortably seated, talking about the Star Trek: Prodigy episode "Is There In Beauty No Truth"... Star Trek bringing the anti-running agenda for 2024 Maybe these non-corporeal adrenaline junkies s…

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Antimatter Pod Flashback - Past Tense 1:17:54

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According to DS9 episode "Past Tense", the Bell Riots took place from 1 to 3 September 2024. Fandom is marking the occasion with, um, homelessness cosplay; we decided to repost our discussion of that two-parter from 2021. Instead of dressing up as homeless people and doing riot LARP, this is a good time to support your local homelessness organisati…

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179. This Race Could Have Been An Email (Prodigy 2.06 and 2.07) 44:25

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Anika and Liz hit a speedbump with their recording schedule (stupid jobs) and then hit a speedbump with Prodigy in the form of ... two episodes that we did not entirely love? Is that even possible? We're here to talk about episodes 6 and 7 of Star Trek: Prodigy's second season: "Identity Crisis" and "The Fast and the Curious"... Both of these episo…