Dave and Matt are back in the saddle with thoughts on the "Strange New Worlds" season 3 trailer, "Starfleet Academy" News and more franchise rumblings! STRANGE NEW WORLDS ‘Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in June Season 3 Trailer | https://youtu.be/PjAWSIJCcmY Season Three Synopsis Season 4 Filming is Halfway Done S…

We have Federation officials and klingons who like to quibble, but they ain’t no trouble like the trouble with tribbles, maman! We’re heading to Deep Space Station K7 to have a drink with Cyrano Jones and review the hallowed, well-loved classic, Star Trek 2x13, “The Trouble With Tribbles”! They're born pregnant, maman! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2…

Georgiou is back, but the film’s getting flack! Is it as bad as you’ve heard, or is the hate undeserved? We’ll be bringing you our spoiler-free thoughts, followed by our spoiler-filled thoughts on "Star Trek: Section 31"! Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journey disc…

Gather, ye subjects and pledge purpose to his royal Mudd the first! The non-human Norman done hijacked the Enterprise, maman! He took us to a world of safety, technology beyond imagination and of course endless unaging android ass! Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad, and this episode of Star Trek Universe is a review of Star Trek 2x…

Saying goodbye to Lower Decks sucks, maman. Hopefully we'll get more from these characters somewhere in the future. Time for our final review of Lower Decks, maman. They set so much up... Episodes Reviewed: Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09 - "Fissure Quest" Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x10 - "The New Next Generation" (Series Finale) Hosts: David C. Roberson …

Catching up on two more episode of Lower Decks, maman. We got a purple Data head and tales of the upper decks, maman. Lurks and clicking jerks. Something's happening, maman. Episodes Reviewed: Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x07 - "Fully Dilated" Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x08- "Upper Decks" Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Note: This episode of Star …

It's a double review this round, maman! We're catching up on the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks! We're taking a trip to Starbase 80 and retreading over some already-too-well-tread ground involving feuding peoples and young lovers. It's a real mixed bag, maman! Episodes Reviewed: Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x05 - "Starbase 80?!" Star Trek: Lower…

"765874 - Unification" isn't just the return of William Shatner as James Kirk, it's also the return of Robin Curtis as Saavik and Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell. But what does it all mean, maman? We're talking about all of the OTOY/Roddenberry Archive shorts up to the latest, Unification, as well as the extended media that inspired the content from…

Break out the Bengay, slip on your nicest track suit, and ready your angry ageism e-mails for next week’s feedback, maman! The nights are warm and the days are young, but the same can’t be said for the brave crew of the Enterprise who are about to stop going boldly and start going oldly! Them worry lines, maman... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x11 -…

We're talking Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x04 - "A Farewell to Farms", maman! Time for some Ma'ah and Migleemo maman! Klingons and Klowahkans! AND MORE. SPACIAL. RIFTS. Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journey discussing Star Trek as they have since the late1980s. Join U…

Show off those guns, bare that midriff and break out your most hipsterish beard wax to give that goatee the shine it deserves, maman. We’re taking a look at the iconic, oft-imitated, perpetually satired but universally beloved parallel universe paragon, “Mirror, Mirror”! It's a wild ride on the agonizer, maman! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x10 - "M…

We're talking Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x03 - "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel", maman! Mariner and Jennifer finally get closure! Boimler is thrown into danger for being wiry! Tendi is excited to be back to scanning! Apocalypse later (because the future)! It's honestly not a ton to talk about, maman, but there are more space fissures! Hosts: David C. Ro…

It's a fresh beginning for the end of a beloved series, maman! A cosmic fissure leaves the crew of the Cerritos in a position of crappy self-reflection as they're forced to face the paths they could have taken in 5x01, "Dos Cerritos" -- Then, in 5x02, "Shades of Green", our crew is still reeling from what they know of their counterparts while Tendi…

An apple a day keeps the serpent at bay, maman! Kirk continues his mission to kill gods and disrupt paradise while we continue our watch/rewatch of classic Star Trek! Stop picking at my Vaal wire, maman. It's not another piercing! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x09 - "The Apple" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Note: This episode of Star Trek…

We’re going where NOMAD’S gone before, maman! Cause we're gonna rub nubs with Nomad, a carbon unit-nullifying nuts-and-bolts type. Be careful, maman -- the utopia-seeking, string riding robots might erase your memory for the length of an episode. And then you'll have to listen all over again! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x08 - "The Changeling" Host…

We’re tradin’ in our chevy for a Redjac-ac-ac-ac-ac! You outta know by now, maman…It's time to savor a scintillating slice of who-dunnit cheesecake. Take your sedatives, and find a hand to hold as we work to uncover the Wolf in the Fold... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x07 - "Wolf in the Fold" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Note: This epis…

On this episode of Star Trek Universe, we engage with a HORN OF BUTCHERY, maman -- a regular CORNUCOPIA of CARNAGE… OTHERWISE known as THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE! Come lay with me until I go to sleep, maman. They say there's no devil, but there is! Right out of hell, maman, I saw it! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x06 - "The Doomsday Machine" Hosts: David …

Spock's flag is at full-mast, and the only cure is some good old fashioned killin', maman! It ain't logical, but his log said kill. That was real dumb, maman. Real dumb. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x05 - "Amok Time" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in…

Maybe it's like self check-out, maman. If we're the ones promoting and begging for what we want, they can spend less on marketing. But I'm so tired of begging, maman. We have a whole laundry list of Trek stuff we want, maman. It's a big list. But let's talk about what they're giving us instead, as revealed at SDCC: Lower Decks Season 5 Teaser Trail…

Maman, you were right. The time is passed. There is no room for gods, maman. Forgive me, maman. Take me... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x04 - "Who Mourns for Adonais?" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Note: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in production order. Guiding her on this journey: D…

Here it is, maman. Don't let the beginning fool ya. We loved us some Prodigy season 2. There were some bumps, but this is some of the best Trek of the last seven years! If you haven't seen it, don't be spoiled! If you have, we get into it, maman! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Note: This episo…

Dr. McCoy slaps Catwoman, and as a result, only he is allowed to touch her kitty, maman! Somebody mixed Klingons with my Capellans, and now there's civil unrest, babies in caves, and guys who took arrows to the knee! But at least we're keeping things light with funny hats, maman. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x03 - "Friday's Child" Hosts: David C. R…

We're gonna have a single review for all of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, maman. It's not ideal, but Netflix fingered our fünf on this release, maman. Look for it in a couple of weeks or four. In the meantime, watch the ever-loving dook out of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2! Make sure they know we want more! Hosts: David C. Roberson Join Us: Site: http…

We're catching up on news -- castings, character announcements, sad cancellations, wonderful renewals, and a silly conspiracy that could be cool if they did it right! It's a whole lotta episode, maman! Put the wash cloth in the water basin, maman. Squeeze a bit out, then rub it on my face. I got such a fever, maman... On this episode: Paramount Chi…

Aww, maman! Some hot stuff heatin' up in Zefram Cochrane's innards as Kirk and his companions find out he been lettin' his companion all up in them guts! Energy clouds are revolting, maman. Until they take over Elinor Donahue... cause miss Ellie Walker is the finest lady druggist we ever did have in these parts, ain't that right, Barn? I mean maman…

Black castles, black cats and the blackest of intentions, maman! At least we think. Not really sure what these bad guys wanted in the first place, but Sylvia grew to want a lil sumfin sumfin, maman. Just a bit o' Kirkin' off if you catch my drift... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 2x01 - "Catspaw" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Note: This epi…

Watch your back, maman! Literally! We’re beaming down to the Deneva colony which has been overrun by ketchup-covered pancake parasites from another galaxy! Also, giant future wrenches and screaming sister-in-laws! It's wild, maman! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x30 - "Operation -- Annihilate!" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site: …

Black alert, maman! Discovery discovers no more. Time to wrap it all up, maman. What's the deal with the Progenitor's tech? Who is Kovich really? How can it sync up with Craft crap? There's a lot to settle, maman. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x10- "Life, Itself" Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Join Us: Site: http://startrekucast…

It's time for another episode of Mighty Morphin' Jello Rangers, maman. Everybody wants to be the Green Ranger, too. Just like the '90s. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x09 - "Lagrange Point" Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Join Us: Site: http://startrekucast.com Apple: http://bit.ly/StuCast Spotify: http://bit.ly/StarTrekUCast Spre…

A sprawling library maze and a guide who looks like Book. Not a terrible test, maman. But they need to call an electrician, cause the lights keep going out. Can't read in the dark, maman. Maybe we wouldn't have to if we just knew ourselves. But some don't like therapy, maman... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x08 - "Labyrinths Hosts: David …

This one's a pretty good one, maman. Not much to dook on here! Maybe the best episode of the season so far! Not lookin' good for L'ak, maman. Good bluffs, good politics, scary war loomin'... Whisper sweet assurances into my ear, Michael. I'm scared. Wait, did Reno know Pelia? Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x07 - "Erigah" Hosts: David C. Ro…

On some planets they whistlespeak, maman. Then they got mortar and pestles and stop grinding avocado long enough to do the sound cure, but whistlespeakin and sound curin don't matter, maman. Not sure what does. But they sure do got a lotta water for drought folk, maman. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x06 - "Whistlespeak" Hosts: David C. Ro…

The Mirrorverse Enterprise is hidin' in some kinda extradimensional something, maman. We're looking with glassy eyes at Spock's console and gettin' closer to Book again. Also we know Moll and L'ak's deal now. So they ain't so bad, maman. We can forgive 'em by the end, probably. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x05 - "Mirrors" Hosts: David C.…

Jump through the time hole, but beware policemen and mechanical rice pickers, maman! McCoy's gone mad, but Kirk is madly in love with Edith Keeler -- too bad she has to die to save the future, maman. It's a real sad situation. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x29 - "The City on the Edge of Forever" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site…

Krenim chronophage, maman. Time bug. Time for a romp through a clip show, maman. Face our past, ourselves, and the strange. Poignant doo-doo, maman. This was a good one. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x04 - "Face The Strange" Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Join Us: Site: http://startrekucast.com Apple: http://bit.ly/StuCast Spoti…

Thrills with Trills while unraveling a mystery, maman! This was certainly a thing a we watched and recorded a review about. Make no mistake. A show was on and we talked about it. As you might have guessed, it was a Star Trek episode. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x03 - "Jinaal" Hosts: David C. Roberson Matthew Carroll Join Us: Site: http:…

We're picking up a decades-old mystery, maman! It's the 32nd century and it's finally time to find out what this Progenitor mess is all about! It's a Red Directive and some ancients sowed the seeds that the crew of the Discovery has to harvest! Episodes Reviewed: Star Trek: Discovery 5x01 - "Red Directive" Star Trek: Discovery 5x02 - "Under The Twi…

We watch corporealized non-corporeal beings smile condescendingly at two galactic powers slap fighting in the playground, maman. It's a sight to behold -- Plus, we meet the Klingons for the very first time! Strap in and go with us on this Errand of Mercy... Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x28 - "Errand of Mercy" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelder…

It's time to hunt a Horta, maman! We're going deep on a molten heap as we review the classic Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark"! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x27 - "The Devil in the Dark" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site: http://startrekucast.com Apple: http://bit.ly/StuCast Spotify: http://bit.ly/StarTrekUCast Spreaker…

Some alien flowers blow their loads into our faces and it makes us feel real nice, maman. This thiccy makin' us climb trees, maman. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x26 - "This Side of Paradise" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site: http://startrekucast.com Apple: http://bit.ly/StuCast Spotify: http://bit.ly/StarTrekUCast Spreaker: ht…

Effie and Dave stumble upon a derelict sleeper ship from 1996. Waiting within: the last dictator of the Eugenics Wars–a super human known as Khan. He's got a magnetism, maman. Almost electric. He's a magnetic man, maman. He got magic hands. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x25 - "Space Seed" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site: http:…

We’re talking about the Star Trek Discovery Season 5 trailer, maman. Also there are some updates for Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Section 31 and Legacy plus a whole lot more... Saying Goodbye to Gary Graham and Kenneth Mitchell Discovery Season 5 Trailer | https://youtu.be/6Fi7ZePgh8k Sonequa Martin-Green Teases “Big Thing” And Familiar Faces C…

Put the wooden spoon back across the pot, maman. That soup don't taste like nothing but armageddon... and a little like baby food. The butternut squash, maman, the butternut squash. We gonna have orange dooks tonight. Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x24 - "A Taste of Armageddon" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders Join Us: Site: http://startrekuc…

Peace and tranquility, maman. Are you of the body? Well, we are, maman! Effie and Dave are in search of the Archons and then a bunch of weird stuff happens that only barely gets a plot nod as we review Star Trek 1x23, "The Return of the Archons"! Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x23 - "The Return of the Archons" Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders…

We're hurled deep into the past, maman -- and find ourselves in 1969 being pursued by a fighter pilot named captain John Christopher of the United States Air Force! Naturally, we beam him aboard and tell him all about the future! Because that… can’t cause any problems. Why are you looking at me like that, maman? Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x22 - "…

A tear in the fabric of the universe brings with it an unhinged maybe time traveler who lives in constant battle with his antimatter counterpart, wildly changing facial hair, and a dangerous predilection for scaling mountains while having universe-ending seizures! Climb on into your bubble-top saucer, maman. We’re about to review Star Trek 1x21 - “…

A disappointing "Star Trek: Legacy" update, maman. But also, we have news of a Picard movie, a Kelvinverse prequel, and a proper Kelvinverse 4th (but FINAL!?) installment? Wild happenings, maman. But wait, also, "Prodigy" is doing well on Netflix! Like. Everywhere. And what hope doth we have of Dr. Phlox making an appearance on "Strange New Worlds"…

We're transported to a strange, alien world that in no way looks exactly like Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, California to slow motion wrestle an anthropomorphic Lizard at the behest of god-like angel beings who call themselves the Metrons while everyone else calls them Metrones. It's a battle to the finish, maman! Protect me from the Gorn, maman…

Effie and Dave are whisked away to a 19th century castle filled with artifacts from time long passed, maman. There they meet its exuberant proprietor: a harpsichord playing madman, General Trelane (retired) – otherwise known as The Squire of Gothos. Planets be following us, maman. Help. Where Dave found Effie's you-know-what (NSFW) Episode Reviewed…

Before Christmas Matt and Dave caught up on a whole bunch of Star Trek news, maman! Everything got crazy after that. So here's what we talked about: DISCOVERY Michelle Paradise and Sonequa Martin-Green Talk Up “Fun” Season 5 And “Satisfying” Series Conclusion New Discovery Clip:https://youtu.be/1ftr6hINIUk Season 5 To Debut In April STRANGE NEW WOR…