Out of Contreks

Ryan gets to nerd out about James Bond as he and Brady talk about this very fun holodeck episode of DS9. Also discussed: Star Trek Timelines, turtleneck fashion, and Star Trek's take on nature vs. nurture as it relates to pattern buffer mishaps.

Production note: This is, hopefully, the last episode where Ryan has bad audio, as we hopefully will have resolved our mic issues by this time. Also, we are actually not doing Cease Fire next episode, due to a scheduling issue. We are actually doing Final Mission (TNG S4E9), and our Big Money Movie Ideas crossover will be coming in a few months.

Sorry for our late episode posting this week, gang! That was on Ryan for forgetting to post it during a very busy crowdfunding campaign at his work. Anyway, on this episode we talk about starting to understand why people weren't super into TOS Season 3, as we dive into an episode premise that has an interesting premise but a not nearly as interesting execution.

Out of the Paramount+ mines, Ryan and Brady tackle a wide-ranging episode that includes talk of the Decipher Star Trek CCG, what fake name you would scramble for in a pinch, how this episode reads like a critique of revisionist plantation tourism, and much more! It's one of our favorites as of late.

How many times have we talked about an episode from the Paramount+ era of Star Trek in which Ryan says "This is one of my least favorite moments in nuTrek?" Is it just bad luck, or are there just too many of those moments? Anyway, Ryan and Brady talk about the episode of Picard where Seven and Raffi have a really long fight in a parking lot. 

Look, we promise, there's no more new Star Trek on the schedule for a while after this. We're trying, people! We've got some primo DS9s coming up, some original series... it's gonna be great.

Ryan and Brady take a detour into the recent Star Trek Day announcements before going long on the third season of Strange New Worlds, a very pleasant show that is also maybe out of ideas? Join us as we talk about what a difference a good cast makes, prequels that could be spiritual but end up being literal, and baseball metaphors.

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?

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.

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.

 

Interested in purchasing Into the Unknown? You can check it out here!

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.

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?