You’re telling me there’s a TRAIN and we have to do some sort of criminal TASK? Unbelievable, these western tropes are filling up the abyss of space like overflowing sasparilla! Is Firefly SHINY or is it HEINIE? Join the GRAND JURY: www.patreon.com/shadeaux

Once upon a time in the West of Space, there was a man. The deadliest crackshot this side of the Mesa Verde. Rooting. Tooting. Roping. Milking. Bricklaying. All of that cowboy shit. He was a legend. A legend of hard leather and gunslinger glory. Unfortunately, this podcast has nothing to do with that wandering stranger. Please enjoy our critical analysis and unbiased palaver about everyone’s favorite sci-fi/western casserole: Firefly. Is it SHINY or is it HEINIE? Join the GRAND JURY: www.patreon.com/shadeaux

LIMITED SERIES - Don’t Panic VOYAGER is still coming! At last, the content faucet begins to turn and these are the first drippings. For FIREFLY we realized that the main topic we would constantly be circling was the age-old ‘can you separate the Art from the Artist’ debate. Here we try to tackle that topic first - and while SHOCKINGLY we don’t resolve that debate for all time -- this does give at least a solid summary of how we’ll attempt to approach the rest of this brief. Join the GRAND JURY: www.patreon.com/shadeaux

70,000 light years and what felt like 70,000 episodes later, we arrive at the (sort of) end of our journey through STAR TREK: VOYAGER! Is season 7 the send-off this ship and crew truly deserved, or did behind-the-scenes apathy make it a dumping ground for unused scripts? It’s a musical and dramatic extravaganza of interplanetary litigation, but only the Patreon Grand Jury gets to decide: Is the FINAL SEASON of Voyager GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?

It’s Janeway vs. Oldway vs. Borg Queen vs. Time Itself in a quadrangle showdown that will bring the entire series to a thrilling and puzzlingly abrupt conclusion! Can Janeway finally give her crew the happy homecoming of their dreams? Will audiences get the BioWare-style epilogues they deserve? Is “Endgame, Part II” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux shadeauxpublicradio.com

It’s the beginning of the end, and it begins… at the end! Voyager’s not-too-distant future reveals a destination that is less happy than Admiral Janeway is willing to accept. Can she convince Captain Janeway to smash up the timeline (again)? Will audiences believe that Harry actually made Captain? Is “Endgame, Part I” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE?

Janeway and the Doctor are kidnapped by some aliens, and only the Doctor can endanger the entire ship and crew to save her from a situation she was perfectly capable of handling on her own! Can the Doctor rescue her before she rescues herself? Will anyone explain why the Doctor doesn’t get thirty days in the Tom Paris brig suite for doing a full-on treason? Is “Renaissance Man” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

A once-hated, now-beloved friend is leaving the ship for good, and there’s only one way to properly send him off: with the final DRUNKASODE of The People Vs. Star Trek Voyager! Can Neelix find a true family among the remnants of his people? Is whiskey and pickle juice actually delicious, or do we just hate ourselves? Is “Homestead” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? www.shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

Seven and Chakotay are stranded on a planet of primitive beauty and light danger in what sounds like a recipe for some really good, smutty romance but somehow isn’t! Can the genetically indigenous civilization be saved from an onslaught on capitalism? Will Janeway ever again pretend that she cares about the Prime Directive after this? Is “Natural Law” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

Humanity tries doing something nice for once and of course it ends up causing a genocide! At least this one was an accident! Can Voyager clean up Earth’s mess in time to rescue their hostage crew members? Will Smarm Johnson’s heroic death prove to be the emotional climax of season 7? Is “Friendship One” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? www.shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

With Earth now close enough to receive FaceTime calls and email attachments, the Doctor cashes in on Voyager’s celebrity status to launch his long-postponed literary career! Will his revolutionary work about holo-bigotry wreck the reps of the Delta Quadrant darlings? Will artistic truth lose out to hurt feelings? Is “Author, Author” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the space-time continuum, it’s Q2! The exciting sequel to Q (“sequel,” like in a biological sense)! Can Mama Janeway teach Qboy how to act right before the Q authorities blast him out of the galactic narrative? Can Q2’s reality-warping powers make Icheb likable? Is “Q2” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux www.shadeauxpublicradio.com

Seven’s new obsession with the holo-romance genre is all good fun until it has her missing work shifts and giving serious thought to smooching Chakotay. Can she get her fantasy-reality balance adjusted in time to rescue the ship from a subspace firing range? Is veggie prep the sexiest of the pseudo-erotic culinary skills? Is “Human Error” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux shadeauxpublicradio.com

***SPECIAL LIVE EPISODE ALERT*** It’s DRAGONCON 2023 and love is in the booze-tinged air of Hilton Galleria ballrooms 1-2! Can the PvSTV team find justice for the best and worst romantic couplings across all seven seasons of Voyager? Will the raucous live crowd shatter the show’s already-fragile veneer of professionalism? Is the concept of romantic love in Star Trek: Voyager GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux shadeauxpublicradio.com

This city is paved with dirty secrets, and regret is the only street sweeper that can work on Thursdays. Can Amal Kotay wave a fiery stick at the thick web of lies and free his crew? Is Amal Kotay Amal Kotay? Is Amal Kotay? Is “Workforce, Part II” AMAL KOTAY… or is it AMAL KOTAY? shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

Up every morning just to keep their job, the Voyager crew has to find their way through the hustle and bob… of an alien planet where mind control is used to supplement the labor force! Will Janeway find love on the factory floor? Has Paris found his true calling as a smarmy bar back? Is “Workforce, Part 1” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? shadeauxpublicradio.com patreon.com/shadeaux

Voyager plunges headlong into an inescapable pocket of space where violence is the only currency and the only rule is to survive! Shockingly, Janeway isn’t super into it. Can Voyager escape with its conscience intact? Will they get their stuff back? Is this the happiest that Chakotay has been in a while? Is “The Void” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux

Voyager runs into a group of multi-generational religious refugees from the Alpha Quadrant and learns that B’Elanna’s baby might just be the Klingon messiah. It’s a weird Tuesday, even by Voyager standards. Are Tom and B’Elanna up to the job of raising Bat’Leth Jesus? Is a religious lie ok if it’s a beneficial religious lie? Is “Prophecy” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? Patreon.com/shadeaux

A chance encounter with a prison ship puts Voyager smack in the middle of a heated debate about state punishment and the death penalty. Will the Prime Directive win out over Janeway’s (historically dubious) respect for life? Will Seven learn a valuable lesson from this? Is “Repentance” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux

B’Elanna finds herself in a family way! While everyone else is thrilled to welcome the ship’s newest bundle of rage, Torres thinks now is a good time to make the kinds of tweaks that aren’t street legal in Federation space. Can she edit away years of family trauma? Does Tom get a say? Can we all at least admit that B’Elanna’s dad is trash? Is “Lineage” GOOD… or is it GARBAGE? patreon.com/shadeaux