Kev and Rob agree the "log cabin timeline" is a nicer place to live than the rest of the Strange New Worlds season three finale, "New Life and New Civilizations" (SNW). On the bright side, perhaps it will be the last time that "pure evil" is used as a plot device for awhile. We can only hope. Taking this last opportunity, they revisit other examples of evil in its purest form: "Skin of Evil" (TNG) and "The Most Toys" (TNG).
SNW 3×10 New Life and New Civilizations
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
TNG 5×25 The Inner Light
TNG 1×23 Skin of Evil
Denise Crosby waves goodbye in “Symbiosis”
TNG 3×15 Yesterday’s Enterprise
TOS 1×04 The Enemy Within
TNG 3×22 The Most Toys
Rob and Kev argue over who will cook the worm they found in a hole on the other side of a wormhole, then huddle by the light of a camp stove to discuss "Terrarium" (SNW). While they await their rescue-slash-murder, they compare notes on other instances of crashed enemies finding common ground in "Darmok" (TNG) and "Dawn" (ENT).
SNW 3×09 Terrarium
TOS 2×06 The Doomsday Machine
Christopher Pike: Tragic near-fate
Hostile Environments
TNG 5×02 Darmok
Casual duty attire: Captain’s variant
Casual duty attire: Wraparound tunic
ENT 2×13 Dawn
Rob and Kevin play cartoon versions of Vulcan versions of themselves with the help of their exes in "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" (SNW). They then revisit past episodes where post-relationship relationships figured prominently in the stories of Starfleet officers, including "Haven" (TNG) and "Rejoined" (DS9).
SNW 3×08 Four-and-a-Half Vulcans
SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?
SNW 3×05 The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail
Exes
The Wonderful Masculinity of Commander Riker (Rowan J Coleman)
TNG 1×11 Haven
TNG 1×01/02 Encounter at Farpoint
TOS 2×05 Amok Time
DS9 4×05 Rejoined
DS9 6×26 Tears of the Prophets
Kevin and Rob dodge oddly insistent questions about what it's like to kill a person in order to discuss the relative merits of "What is Starfleet?" (SNW). Inspired by this episode's "space dragon", they revisit a couple of other giant space creatures of episodes past, in "Datalore" and "Silicon Avatar" (TNG), and "Tin Man" (TNG).
SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?
Giant space creatures
TNG 1×01/02 Encounter at Farpoint
TNG 1×13 Datalore
TNG 5×04 Silicon Avatar
TNG 3×20 Tin Man
Ron Jones’ score for Datalore on Apple Music
TOS 2×19 The Immunity Syndrome
TOS 2×18 Obsession
Rob and Kev record their entire conversation about "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" (SNW) over copper wires with pink telephone receivers. They then visit two previous uses of "ancient" technology in Trek adventures, "Spectre of the Gun" (TOS) and "Vis à Vis" (VOY).
SNW 3×06 The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail
TOS 2×18 Obsession (the tragedy where Kirk, as a Lieutenant, blamed himself for the deaths of half the Farragut crew)
“Risk is our business” (and an extended cut!)
SNW 2×06 Lost in Translation (clip of Kirk/Spock/Uhura first drink)
Using Ancient Technology
TOS 3×06 Spectre of the Gun
VOY 4×20 Vis à Vis
VOY 2×15 Threshold
VOY 6×05 Alice
Kev and Rob are possessed by two entirely different manifestations of pure evil and have a knock-down, drag-out fistfight in sickbay over the slightly confusing but gratifyingly adventurous events of "Through the Lens of Time" (SNW). Having regained their senses, they investigate other instances of body possession in "Return to Tomorrow" (TOS), "Power Play" (TNG), and "Tears of the Prophets" (DS9).
SNW 3×05 Through the Lens of Time
SNW 3×06 Those Old Scientists
Roger Korby
TOS 1×09 What Are Little Girls Made Of?
SNW 3×01 Hegemony, Part II
Body possession
TOS 2×20 Return to Tomorrow
TOS 1×24 Space Seed
Diana Muldaur (as Ann Mulhall)
TOS 3×07 Is There in Truth No Beauty?
TNG 3×26 The Best of Both Worlds
TNG 5×15 Power Play
DS9 6×26 Tears of the Prophets
TOS 1×19 Arena
Rob and Kev sneak onto a Holodeck that shouldn't be invented for eighty years or so to question characters playing parodies of past podcast hosts you might recognize. Also they talk about "A Space Adventure Hour" (SNW). Inspired by its surprise appearance in this era, they return to holodeck episodes past for a second time, reflecting on "The Big Goodbye" (TNG), "Hollow Pursuits" (TNG), "Fair Haven" (VOY) and "Spirit Folk" (VOY).
SNW 3×04 A Space Adventure Hour
Star Trek: The Last Voyage (Saturday Night Live parody)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Farrakhan (In Living Color parody)
DS9 4×10 Our Man Bashir
More Holodeck episodes
PRO 1×13 All The World’s A Stage
TNG 1×12 The Big Goodbye
TNG 1×01/02 Encounter at Farpoint
TNG 3×21 Hollow Pursuits
VOY 6×11 Fair Haven & 6×17 Spirit Folk
Kev and Rob creep through a suspiciously silent science lab to discuss "Shuttle to Kenfori" (SNW), and agree that it wasn't the scariest episode of Star Trek ever. After all, there was "Conspiracy" (TNG) and "Empok Nor" (DS9). To shake off the scares, they take a few minutes to discuss Jim Henson's Creature Shop coming to a starship bridge near you.
SNW 3×03 Shuttle to Kenfori
TNG 1×25 Conspiracy
TNG 1×19 Coming of Age
Subspace Radio #14: Evil Admirals
DS9 5×24 Empok Nor
VOY 1×14 Faces
SNW 1×09 All Those Who Wander
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 SDCC Surprise
SNW 2×09 Subspace Rhapsody
Rob and Kev are back to visit Strange New Worlds, some of which look suspiciously like episodes of a TV show from the 60s. After sharing highlights from "Hegemony, Part II" and "Wedding Bell Blues", they pull up a stool and talk about their favourite bartenders … one of whom you probably can't guess!
TNG 4×01 The Best of Both Worlds, Part II
TOS 1×09 What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Bartenders
DS9 4×01-02 The Way of the Warrior
TNG 3×15 Yesterday’s Enterprise
The bartender from Deep Space Station K-7
TOS 2×13 The Trouble with Tribbles
Kev and Rob beat around the bush a bit before discussing some of the brights spots in "Star Trek: Section 31", which was otherwise a not very good Star Trek movie. They take the opportunity to discuss moles – what does or does not quality as a mole – and revisit some Deep Space Nine highlights including the abduction and replacement of Julian Bashir, "Homefront" (DS9) and "Paradise Lost" (DS9), and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (DS9).
DIS 3×09 Terra Firma, Part 1
DIS 3×10 Terra Firma, Part 2
TNG 3×15 Yesterday’s Enterprise
DIS 1×02 Battle at the Binary Stars
TNG 6×11 Chain of Command, Part II
TNG 1×21 The Arsenal of Freedom
TOS 1×28 The City on the Edge of Forever
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
DS9 5×10 Rapture
DS9 5×11 The Darkness and the Light
DS9 5×12 The Begotten
DS9 5×13 For the Uniform
DS9 5×14 In Purgatory’s Shadow
DS9 4×11 Homefront / DS9 4×12 Paradise Lost
DS9 7×16 Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
DS9 6×19 In the Pale Moonlight
Rob and Kev surf the waves of the multiverse, dodging Klingon death barges in "The New Next Generation". They then look to the past for other examples of unreasonable Klingon ships, and find the overlooked classic, "A Matter of Honor" (TNG).
LD 5×10 The New Next Generation
ST 1×02 Calypso
Unreasonable Klingon Ships
ENT 2×19 Judgment / ENT 2×25 Bounty / ENT 2×26 The Expanse
TNG 2×08 A Matter of Honor
Kev and Rob leap from universe to universe in search of wacky versions of people from history to crew their swanky starship in "Fissure Quest". They then revisit two characters brought into the spotlight for arguably their strongest outings in this episode. For Harry Kim they discuss "Non Sequitur" (VOY) and "Nightingale" (VOY). For T'Pol they discuss "Stigma" (ENT) and "Home" (ENT).
LD 5×09 Fissure Quest
DS9 3×25 Facets
LD 3×08 Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus
Harry Kim
VOY 5×06 Timeless
Subspace Radio #51 Staships bumping into planets
VOY 2×05 Non Sequitur
VOY 3×03 The Chute
VOY 7×08 Nightingale
T’Pol
ENT 1×17 Fusion, ENT 2×14 Stigma
ENT 4×03 Home
TNG 4×02 Family
ENT 4×07 The Forge
ENT 3×08 Twilight
Rob and Kev step out of the limelight to make way for some junior podcasters to talk about them behind their backs as they discuss "Upper Decks". They then revisit two other episodes where previously-unseen groups of crew members are the stars of the show, "Learning Curve" (VOY) and "Lower Decks" (TNG).
LD 5×08 Upper Decks
TNG 7×15 Lower Decks
SNW 2×09 Subspace Rhapsody
TNG 1×24 We’ll Always Have Paris
VOY 6×20 Good Shepherd
Subspace Radio #42 Lessons in leadership
VOY 1×16 Learning Curve
TNG 5×08 Lower Decks
Subspace Radio #12: Not actually dead
TNG 5×19 The First Duty
Kev and Rob don their fake antennae and pose as local yokels as they spend twelve months trapped on a primitive planet watching "Fully Dilated". They then explore other times our Starfleet crews have hidden in plain sight, disguised as members of an alien world, including "The Enterprise Incident" (TOS), "In the Flesh" (VOY), "First Contact" (TNG) and "Face of the Enemy" (TNG).
LD 5×07 Fully Dilated
TNG 5×25 The Inner Light
TNG 5×26 Time’s Arrow
DS9 5×01 Apocalypse Rising
Subspace Radio #58: Into the belly of the beast (DIS 5×09 Lagrange Point)
DS9 2×19 Blood Oath
TOS 3×02 The Enterprise Incident
VOY 5×04 In the Flesh
TNG 4×15 First Contact
TNG 6×14 Face Of The Enemy
DS9 3×05 Second Skin
Rob and Kev dodge floating cubes, spheres, and squishy lightning bolts in "Of Gods and Angles", then reflect on other non-humanoid species in "The Savage Curtain" (TOS), "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", "Star Trek Generations", "Where Silence Has Lease" (TNG), and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".
LD 5×06 Of Gods and Angles
TOS 2×04 Who Mourns for Adonais?
Non-humanoid life
Subspace Radio #36: Understanding Non-humanoid Life
TOS 3×22 The Savage Curtain
TNG 2×02 Where Silence Has Lease
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
DS9 1×01/02 Emissary
DS9 5×12 The Begotten
DS9 5×22 Children of Time
Star Trek: Prodigy
Kev and Rob admire the graffiti and rusty TOS-era decor of Starbase 80 in "Starbase 80?!", then revisit two of their favorite space stations from the past, Deep Space Station K-7 (from "The Trouble With Tribbles" (TOS)) and Deep Space 9 (from … Deep Space Nine!).
LD 5×05 Starbase 80?!
Community 2×06 Epidemiology
TOS 2×13 The Trouble With Tribbles
DS9 5×06 Trials and Tribble-ations
TOS 1×14 Court Martial
The Roddenberry Archive: Deep Space Station K-7
Deep Space 9 (aka Terok Nor)
The Roddenberry Archive: Deep Space 9
The Roddenberry Archive: Deep Space Nine… The World According to Quark
DS9 4×01/02 The Way of the Warrior
Rob and Kev return to the land on Qo'noS in "A Farewell to Farms", then stay there by visiting some other prominent farming episodes, "This Side of Paradise" (TOS) and "Progress" (DS9).
LD 5×04 A Farewell to Farms
Farms
DS9 2×15 Paradise
ENT 1×01/02 Broken Bow
TOS 1×25 This Side of Paradise
Subspace Radio #61 Too-good-to-be-true planets
DS9 1×15 Progress
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Kev and Rob enjoy the cruise ship hijinks of "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel", then delve into other onscreen relationships that ended off screen: Scotty and Uhura (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier), Worf and Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Neelix and Kes (Star Trek: Voyager) and Chakotay and Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager). They also mark the passing of one of Star Trek's greatest writers, Jeri Taylor.
LD 5×03 The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel
Scotty / Uhura
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
TNG 6×04 Relics
Worf / Deanna
TNG 7×11 Parallels
TNG 7×25/26 All Good Things…
Neelix / Kes
VOY 3×13 Fair Trade
VOY 3×10 Warlord
VOY 4×02 The Gift
VOY 6×23 Fury
Chakotay / Seven of Nine
VOY 7×25/26 Endgame
TNG 4×21 The Drumhead
Rob and Kev review the first two episodes of Lower Decks Season 5, "Dos Cerritos" and "Shades of Green". They then revisit past Treks that saw our characters meeting themselves in various ways unrelated to the mirror universe. They discuss "The Enemy Within" (TOS), "Second Chances" (TNG), "Star Trek Nemesis" and "Defiant" (DS9).
LD 5×01 Dos Cerritos
LD 5×02 Shades of Green
TOS 1×04 The Enemy Within
TNG 6×24 Second Chances
DS9 3×09 Defiant
Kev and Rob farewell the newly-formed Prodigy crew in episodes 16-20 of season two, then take the opportunity to revisit past instances of children in Star Trek, both stories about children including "Miri" (TOS), "And the Children Shall Lead" (TOS), and "When the Bough Breaks" (TNG), as well as fully-formed characters who are kids including Wesley Crusher, Jake Sisko, Nog, Alexander Rozhenko, Molly O'Brien, Naomi Wildman and Icheb. Finally, they look ahead briefly to the upcoming Starfleet Academy series.
PRO 2×16 Acension, Part II
PRO 2×17 Brink
PRO 2×18 Touch of Grey
PRO 2×19 Ouroboros, Part I
PRO 2×20 Ouroboros, Part II
Stories about kids
TOS 1×11 Miri
TOS 3×05 And the Children Shall Lead
TNG 1×16 When the Bough Breaks
Kid characters
Naomi Wildman
VOY 5×05 Once Upon a Time
Star Trek Voyager: Every Time Seven Says "Naomi Wildman"
VOY 7×11 Shattered
DS9 6×24 Time’s Orphan