Julian Brown of Strange New Pod joins John, Jesse, and Cam to look back at season 3 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds! Send your voice hail to OPN Email your call to openpike@gmail.com Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

It’s a Halloween variety show, Open Pike style! 🎃 First, the crew beams down to discuss Star Trek: The Original Series classic “Catspaw”—a spooky, campy delight filled with cobwebs, castles, and that darn cat. Not to mention one of the best puns in Star Trek history! Then, Strange New Worlds writers Alan B. McElroy (“Terrarium”) and Kathryn Lyn (“What is Starfleet”) return for a Horror Trope Roundtable! We each share our favorite: Zombies, Horror Icons, Survivors, Endings, and Unsung Gems. Pl...

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers join the OPN crew to look back at season 3. We discuss strikes, Gorn, Comics, and ....Who? Send your voice hail to OPN Email your call to openpike@gmail.com Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

NYCC brought us new Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy teasers! Enjoy our nuanced and thoughtful discussion... Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

Writer Onitra Johnson beams aboard for our final writer's deep dive of season 3! We discuss both her horror-centric episodes, "Shuttle to Kenfori" and "Through the Lens of Time" We discuss favorite zombie movies, the benefits of D&D, writing for new characters, and hitting that perfect about face! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike...

The Open Pike Night crew welcomes Cillian O’Sullivan, the Irish scene stealer behind Dr. Roger Korby in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Pour yourself a headless Guinness and join us as we talk plomeek soup, canine counterparts, and eyebrow games with Spock. We also dive into fantasy Harry Potter casting, channeling Korby’s dark side, and—yes—Cillian treats us to a little strip right here on the pod. 🖖 Don’t miss this one—subscribe now and beam over to openpike.com Send your voice hail to OPN ...

Once again we come to an end, or is it a new beginning? Or is it…a shoehorn? Enjoy our lovely conversation and a fantastic Quiz! As always, our callers make us great, their minds to our minds Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3E10, “New Life and New Civilizations.” We close out the season with the episode’s writers, Dana Horgan and Davy Perez, for a lively debrief full of cosmic curiosities and behind-the-scenes mischief. Inside this episode: 🗺️ Davy’s love of ley lines⏱️🩺 Our favorite time-traveling Doctors🌌 How planets get their names🏠 Very specific house-hunting habits🔗 Unexpected NCIS crossovers🎭 Why Dana blames the puppetsGuests: Dana Horgan • Davy Perez Episode: Star ...

Writers Dana Horgan and Kathryn Lyn beam into Strange New Words to break down Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3E4, “A Space Adventure Hour.” This belated chat was worth the wait—as chaotically joyous as a holodeck episode! We swap stories about the show’s “sorcerer” set dressers, lose it laughing over Una’s choking gag, and dig into how the episode plays with pulp tropes while tidying up a bit of canon along the way. Plus: writing comedy that still feels like Trek, character secrets hiding in ...

Get ready to make friends and eat bugs, because the ORTEGAS EPISODE IS FINALLY HERE!!! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

MORTEGAS!! Melissa Navia joins the Open Pike Night crew once again to discuss the long-awaited Ortegas episode. Find out how gross the guts were, what it was like acting against a puppet, and how truly windy the AR wall can be! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Op...

Writer Alan B. McElroy joins us to peer through the glass of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' “Terrarium.” It's the "Mortegas" episode we've been waiting for and we let Alan know it gave us all the feels! We discuss a number of inspirations and references, discuss Erica's chess strategy, and the culinary horror giant bugs. Plus: the joy of writing fan-fiction that just happens to be Trek canon! A lively, craft-forward conversation packed with laughs, lore, and practical insights for anyone who ...

John, Cam, and Jesse tackle what it means to be human, to be podcasters, to be half-human/half-podcasters and just how much less sleep we need all the sudden! Our fantastic callers lend their voices once again to discuss the latest Vulcan hi jinx on Star Trek Strange New Worlds! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Foll...

Attune your pointed ears for insight and laughs from Henry Alonso Myers and Dana Horgan as they discuss the logistics of writing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' green-blooded romp, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans” We discuss the different types of Vulcans, how good Pelia is, the merits of walking into walls, secret character nick-names, and what goes on at 1am. It’s a behind-the-scenes deep dive full of craft, chaos, and Trek love—ideal for fans of Strange New Worlds who want the story behind the eye...

We turn the microphone inward this week and take a close look at what Star Trek Strange New Worlds really means to the hosts of Open Pike Night… Meteorologist Katie Nickolaou joins us on stage to unpack and dissect the shortest episode of Season 3! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow...

Director Sharon Lewis joins us on the debut of Prime Direction to break down her work on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 7 — “What is Starfleet.” We talk about growing up with Star Trek, flying drones across the Enterprise, and even making M’Benga angry. Sharon shares how she brought a documentary style to Strange New Worlds, and how it shaped the acting, camera work, music, and editing of this one-of-a-kind episode. It’s a behind-the-scenes conversation packed with insight, l...

We welcome writer Alan B. McElroy as he unpacks Strange New Worlds’ heartfelt episode, “What is Starfleet.” We dive into his lifelong love of Star Trek, beginning with backing away from“The Doomsday Machine” to responding to William Shatner. Alan also lets us in on the challenges (and fun) of building Trek in a documentary format—plus, where to find cameras aboard the Enterprise. Along the way: Jesse’s heart gets broken, John reveals his Michael Myers connection, and Cameron can’t stop puttin...

Giant space leviathan? Check! TOS Crew formation? Check!! Morality tale from Star Trek? CHECK!!! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube

Writers David Reed and Bill Wolkoff beam aboard to break down Strange New Worlds’ thrill ride, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.” We dig into Carol Kane’s wonderfully quirky process, bemoan the missing item from Pelia’s room, and unpack the twist that turned the episode from good to unforgettable. Along the way we all want a ride on Scotty’s handlebars, uncover the challenges of building a story that balances comedy and stakes, and—naturally—explore the surprisingly tricky task of picking the per...

Are we all listening to this alone? or are we all connected in the same multidimensional fanbase? Cam, Jesse, and John try to connect across time and discuss this Lovecraftian horror from Star Trek Strange New Worlds! Send your voice hail to OPN Sign up for the OPN Newsletter Visit our website OpenPike.com Please Check out our Merch Support us on Patreon Follow @openpike on Twitter Follow @openpike.bsky.social on Blue Sky Follow OpenPike on Instagram Follow Openpike on Youtube