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The SNP crew welcomes our friend and special guest, Jessie Gender, back to the show to talk about her upcoming film project, IDENTITEAZE! Jessie also sticks around to give Emcee, Erik, Hawk, and Julian a hand reviewing this week's unforgettable episode of Star Trek Picard, "Imposters."

What are the repercussions of Titan returning to Federation space? What happens when a ghost from Jean-Luc's time aboard the Enterprise-D returns in a Starfleet uniform? What do Jack's visions mean? Can Raffi and...

For better or for worse, the Strange New Pod crew takes a look back at Star Trek Picard season two. What were their favorite moments? Least favorite moments? Hopes for season three? Julian and the crew go through it all.

Matthew Kaplowitz from Trek Untold guests to deep dive this one!

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Four contestants (Sophia, John, Jared, and Hawk) from across the Picard Week collective take on the ultimate trivia challenge. Who knows the most about the man, the myth, the legend Jean-Luc Picard? Watch along as they battle it out for Picard Nerd supremacy to bring glory to themselves and their houses!

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Jean-Luc Picard is known for his diplomatic methods of solving problems and was confronted with numerous ethical conflicts when he sat in the Captain's chair. Each dilemma presented branching paths of outcomes for the people affected by this.

Join Matthew from Trek Untold Ashlyn & Rhianna from The Duras Sisters, Hawk from Strange New Pod, and Dave from Treksperts Quiz as they explore some tough ethical decisions Picard made through his Starfleet career and whether or not they were the best choi...

Heather and David are joined by The Duras Sisters, Rhianna and Ashlyn, to discuss Picard and his working relationship with the strong women that surround him. We will talk about Troi, Crusher, Seven, and Raffi and how Picard has helped support and appreciate their strengths.

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Join the SNP crew as they try to pitch the much-rumored TNG Kelvinverse film in three acts. Rhianna Herd from The Duras Sisters Podcast joins the team for this one.

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It's the final episode of SNP's best of Ferengi series! Returning to help Hawk and Julian is collective member, Jessko, who's armed to the lobes with ALL the DS9 knowledge.

"The Nagus," "The House of Quark," and "Bar Association" are just a few of the episodes the crew deep dives on their hunt for profit.

The mailbag, Strange New Loop, and much more are on episode 121 of Strange New Pod.

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On SNP's first episode of 2023, it's back to the final frontier with the team's wants and don't wants from Strange New Worlds season two. And beaming in to help Girafe, Hawk, and Julian are the fine folks from Open Pike Night, John, Cam, and Jesse!

All this and much more on episode 117 of Strange New Pod!

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It's Strange New Pod's final episode of 2022, and the show goes out with a bang with Star Trek Prodigy's season one finale, "Supernova, Part 2."

The crew welcomes very special guests, Prodigy creators and showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman, to give their insight into the finale as well as season one as a whole...and maybe one or two morsels about season two!

Then, it's onto the crew's review and breakdown of "Supernova, Part 2." When the Protostar crew realizes the ship must be destroyed to sav...

Ten weeks have warped by as quickly as Q snaps a finger, and the SNP team has their review and breakdown of the Lower Decks season three finale, "The Stars at Night." Trek Untold's Matthew Kaplowitz lends his voice as the show's special guest for this week's finale review!

What happens when Carol challenges Admiral Buenamigo's Texas class to a second contact race with the fate of the Cali class at stake? What does Boimler do to deeply offend Shaxs? Mariner is having a BLAST, so why is her spide...

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of arguably the best of the Star Trek films, The Wrath of Khan. To celebrate, Fathom Events had a weekend of screenings celebrating Khan's milestone.

Join Ashlyn Gelman (The Duras Sisters Podcast), Matt Reppert, Girafe, and Julian as they give their thoughts on the Wrath of Khan at 40, their experience seeing it in theaters for the first time, and much more on this bonus edition of Strange New Pod.

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This week the SNP crew review Lower Decks' sixth episode of season three, "Hear All, Trust Nothing." The Cerritos crew unexpectedly spends a day on Deep Space Nine!

We also welcome Lt. Shaxs himself onto the pod! Fred Tatasciore joins SNP to talk about his role on Lower Decks and his amazing voice-over career.

Plus, the Strange New Loop and so much more on episode 102 of Strange New Pod!

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Star Trek Lower Decks is finally back, and the SNP crew is joined by the Borg Queen of Puns herself, Brittany Tomes, who makes her puntastic return to help break the third season premiere down.

How long did it take for Mariner to go rogue? How bad does Captain Freeman's trial look? And why are our lower deckers heading to the site of first contact? Brittany and the rest of the team take a deep dive into the short but sweet season premiere, "Grounded."

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It's part two of our courtroom drama series, as the crew welcomes Josh Gilliand and Nari Ely from The Legal Geeks to the show, bringing their expertise to this week's deep dive into both Number One and Captain Freeman's upcoming trials.

What will the outcomes be when both Una and Carol have their day in court? How hard can Starfleet go if they are found guilty? And what weight do their assumed charges hold? Josh and Nari answer all these questions and more in incredible detail.

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Join Girafe, Julian, and special guest David Majors from the Promenade Merchants Podcast for this very special edition of Strange New Pod celebrating the life and accomplishments of Nichelle Nichols.

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54:02 - Adrienne From Where's Beverly? Read by Girafe

56:40 - Cara from The ...

We're back after a week off with all the news from Star Trek's big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022! Our friend Myrriah Gossett from Star Trek Discovery Pod joins Girafe, Hawk, and Julian to break it all down.

Will Jean-Luc and the cast of TNG visit the Enterprise one more time in Picard's final season? Is there beef between Jean-Luc and Beverly? When Lower Decks returns in four weeks, how will Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi clear Captain Freeman's name? Who will we see when th...

Join Julian, Karyn, and Matt for episode one of our three-part Orville review series!

This bonus podcast covers The Orville New Horizons episodes "Electric Sheep," "Shadow Realms," Mortality Paradox," and "Gently Falling Rain."

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For the first time in 29 weeks, Strange New Pod doesn't have a new episode of Star Trek to review. Not to worry, though, as Strange New Worlds gave us plenty to deep dive and dissect.

This week, it's the pod of old as the crew deep dive all the similarities and differences between the Strange New Worlds finale "A Quality of Mercy" and the classic TOS season one episode "Balance of Terror."

The podcast also had the honor and privilege of sitting down with the Romulan Commander himself, Matthew ...

After an amazing freshman season, Strange New Worlds' first run has come to an end with an explosive finale! Join the SNP crew along with one-half of the Duras Sisters, Rhianna Herd, as they deep dive and review "A Quality of Mercy."

What happens when Captain Pike is visited by the ghost of Balance of Terror’s future? How does Captain Kirk factor into the future events Pike inadvertently sets into motion? Can he make a case for peace with the Romulans? And what about that bombshell cliffhanger ...

On this special edition of Strange New Pod, the crew welcomes Strange New Worlds Costume Designer Bernadette Croft to the show! Plus, Erik, Erin, Girafe, Hawk, and Julian review the fantastical 8th episode of the series, 'The Elysian Kingdom."

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2:05-30:07: Bernadette Croft Interview - Bernadette shares what it was like attending her first convention at Missions Chicago, her inspiration for the fantasy costumes of "The Elysian Kingdom," and much more. Don't worry, we talk about the r...

Strange New Worlds' first season hits its midway point with the show's most lighthearted and hilarious episode yet in "Spock Amok." With Girafe on an away mission over to Star Trek Discovery Pod, the SNP team welcome Julian's wife Karyn back to the show to help them break it all down.

What happens when Spock and T’Pring swap bodies after a soul-sharing ritual goes wrong? Are Number and La’an able to complete the entire Enterprise Bingo list? Should Chapel and Ortegas be giving relationship advi...

Strange New Pod celebrates its two-year anniversary with a review of what is possibly Strange New Worlds' best episode to date, "Memento Mori." SNP also welcomes back a friend of the show and Geeks with Kids contributor Michael Schaus to help break down the episode.

Opening up new hunting grounds, the Enterprise is decimated after a surprise Gorn attack, surviving the initial first few attacks thanks to La’an’s previous experience with the vicious hunter race. How was the Enterprise and her cre...

They say good things come in threes, but Strange New Worlds' third episode of its freshman season, "Ghosts of Illyria," seems to be the most polarizing episode among the SNP crew so far. Joining the team this week to help them break this one down: Matthew Kaplowitz from Trek Untold.
LIGHT! We need more light!! Ghosts of Illyria is an awesome Una-centered episode that pays homage to classic TOS episodes "Naked Time" and "The Naked Now," as well as a couple of classic horror episodes. How does Num...

It's the moment we've been waiting for as a podcast for almost two years; Strange New Worlds is finally here, and the team is here to review and break it all down with a very special guest, Jessie Gender!

What is so urgent that Robert April has to order Captain Pike out of his self-imposed exile? Why is Spock naked? How does Pike’s knowledge of his future affect his captaincy early on? And can the crew not only rescue Number One but prevent a planet from making the same mistakes as Earth? Erik,...