Out of Contreks

Ep. 170: "Erigah" (DIS S5E7)

Ryan and Brady limp to the end of their mini-Discovery run with this Breen-centric episode. But did the showrunners miss an opportunity to reveal the look of the race for the first time? Why are the details of this episode so hard to remember?

Ep. 169: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" (VOY S6E4)

Ryan and Brady talk about the old reliable of Star Trek Voyager: A Doctor episode! A goofy outing for the Delta Quadrant crew becomes, if you think about it, a kind of touching meditation on who could survive their innermost thoughts being put on display for all to see.

Ep. 168: "Change of Heart" (DS9 S6E16) with Into the Unknown's Michael Gernes and Max Brooke

Max and Michael of the Star Trek miniatures game Into the Unknown join us again for another Deep Space 9 episode. Come for their sneak peek at the new Klingon expansion content coming for the game later this year, and stay for us talking about this episode's strikingly naturalistic writing and the brilliance of Michael Dorn and Terry Farrell.

 

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Ep. 167: "Whistlespeak" (DIS S5E6)

Note: We had to reschedule which episode we were doing this week because a power outage limited Ryan’s ability to edit the show.

This week on Out of Contreks, Ryan and Brady talk about yet another Season 5 discovery episode, this one with some interesting musings on organized religion. Join us as we apply our own experiences to this episode and talk about whatever is going on in the overarching season 5 fetch quest.

Ep. 166: "Point of Light" (DIS S2E3)

Ryan and Brady explore some Klingon stuff and some Spock stuff and try to remember what the hell was going on in Star Trek Discovery Season 2. Is this the most confusing Star Trek season to watch out of context... even if you've already seen the whole thing front to back?

Ep. 165: "Life Itself" (DIS S5E10)

Ryan and Brady talk about their first ever series finale to come up on their random number generator, and for once, their two-months-ahead-of-time schedule actually turns out to line up perfectly. Not for their discussion about the premiere date of Strange New Worlds Season 3, which was announced shortly after the episode was recorded, but for the premiere of James Gunn's new Superman movie, which opens this coming weekend and which catches some strays in this episode as Ryan and Brady talk about the unremarkability of commonly expressed artistic statements.

Ep. 164: "Riddles" (VOT S6E6) with That's Not How Science Works

Ryan and Brady reteam with Caitlin and Nicole of That's Not How Science Works to discuss this late season Voyager episode that seems to be the writing staff taking another bite of the Tuvix apple. Come for the discussion of Neelix and Tuvok as characters, stay for the weirdly long discussion of Tenet at the end of the show!

Ep. 163: "The Sanctuary" (DSC S3E8)

Ryan and Brady kick off an unexpected journey into many episodes of Discovery over the next few months with a look at the nu-Trek era's cool Andorian makeup, the limitations of "decompressed" prestige TV storytelling, and how to nail the tone of inserting an important social issue into your work.

Ep. 162: "Broken Bow, Parts 1 and 2" (ENT S1E1)

Ryan and Brady dig into the pilot of Enterprise, talking about what works, what doesn't, whether it's pronounced "bow" or "bough," and why Brady wasn't allowed to watch Enterprise when he was a kid (it was too horny!).

Ep. 161: "Extreme Risk" (VOY S3E5)

Ryan and Brady examine this mid-series Voyager outing and cast a wary eye on its rather simplistic portrayal of depression. We also discuss the origins of the Delta Flyer, a couple of entries in Ethan Phillips' non-Trek acting career, and once again ponder the dynamics of what is actually going on in a holodeck.