Star Trek Resignation
Resign yourself to Trek. Resistance is futile.
Everybody's got an opinion, sure, but who has the "correct" one? We do. It's us. Three friends: one a recent Trek completist, a guy who did a DS9 podcast, and a guy who could care less about Star Trek. The only Star Trek podcast in existence. Can you even? Trust us, we're right. Every time. You disagree? Wait that can't be true...
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Can't Picardly Wait: The Impossible Boxes We Put Ourselves In (Picard S1E06)
Does Star Trek: Picard put itself in an impossible situation? How much of past Trek is necessary just to know what's going on, and does the show provide any of what older fans want from their Star Tr…
Can't Picardly Wait: Brutally Stardust City Dragging Each Other (Picard S1E05)
This episode caused a lot of commotion. Is this the 7 of 9 show or Picard? Who is Icheb and does it matter to anyone who wasn't a fan of Voyager? Is the opening a bad thing to watch with your mom?…
Can't Picardly Wait: Speaking with Absolute Candor (Picard S1E04)
Picard needs to make amends with some battle nuns and a boy he left behind. We don't hold anything back in our feelings about the show.
Can't Picardly Wait: Every Borg Beginning Comes from Some Other Borg Beginning's End (Picard S1E03)
I, Borg? This whole podcast is Borg!
Sean doesn't really know anything about the Borg, so this episode was a little... confusing for him.
Wade is in the goldilocks zone of liking this episode.
Gl…
Can't Picardly Wait: Maps and Legends and Being Bad at Fandom (Picard S1E02)
Breaking down the episode or having a breakdown? Wade doesn't want to get caught up in being a fan, yet gets mad at minutiae. Sean doesn't know to get mad at anything. So he doesn't. Glen is reall…
Can't Picardly Wait: How to Have the Right Opinions on the Picard Premiere
In this confusing IP obsessed media landscape - where it's hard to get definitive answers regarding the peculiarities of art - Wade Bowen, Sean Perrotta, Glen Hall, and Benny Scheckner give you the c…
Echoing in the Void: Companion Epilogues pt 3
May it be that Disco Home Season 2 is finally over?
Lane and Courtney are nervous. Will Discovery stay in the future?
Let’s talk about the romance. This show’s characters can’t even talk between th…
Filling the Void: Companion Epilogues pt 2
With Discovery fading into the past, and flying into the future, we ask important questions such as: What kind of drug is each Star Trek series, and what was it like to binge all of Season 2 of Star …
Staring into the Void: Companion Epilogues pt 1
Wade sat down with two companions, Kristin from Toronto and Arthur (also known as BuckyWTGoodHair on twitter) to get their opinions now that we've been a week without Star Trek Discovery. What did w…
Some Sweeter Sorrow (Discovery S2E14)
We got emotional watching this episode. And not all of it was anger! We talk a bit about things we like, so be cool everybody. But then… we talk about some of the things we weren’t as keen on. Gre…
Such Bitter Sorrow (Discovery S2E13)
The end game approaches! In the meantime not much happens, but actually more happens than you could arguably fit into an hour, or fifty seven minutes. We kvetch because we care!
Sean Perrotta is bac…
Full House of Shadows (Discovery S2E12)
Time crystals, y'all. Time Crystals. Lots happened in this episode, or did it? Where did the time go? Pike visits a Klingon to get a rock, Michael gets shot at, and Stamets and Culber get talked t…
Tease - Hugh's Disco Recap
Wade sat down with regular Kicker of Elves Hugh Crawford to try and explain Season Two of Star Trek Discovery to someone who hasn't watched it.
More available at https://www.patreon.com/kickersofelve…
Perpetual Insanity (Discovery S2E11)
How’d he get in that chair?
Good emotional work. Yet…
We yell a lot.
Spock has read Infinite Jest at least 3 times.
Rad Angel (Discovery S2E10)
The identity of the red angel is revealed! And then some. What is the best way to catch a time traveler who might have pertinant information at its disposal?
Sean is back. Where was he last week and …
Project Dad is Us (Discovery S2E09)
The streak of episodes we like continues. A background character gets some background for once and hey they pull off things in this episode of Star Trek: Discovery that S1 did not manage quite so we…
If I Recall Correctly (Discovery S2E08)
Pike's imaginary girlfriend shows up and a deep, dark, unforgivable and totally life altering secret shame that Michael Burnham has been hiding for years, comes to light. [Totally not a rote typical …
Light and Shadows is Fine (Discovery S2E07)
We finally have Spock, and it is … fine. Time rifts are fine. We're... pretty good?
For all the leadup to this episode it didn’t instill any wild emotions that we'll need to use our logic to suppr…
A Sound of Thunder and Criticism (Discovery S2E06)
Saru goes home and isn't putting up with any bs. But we are.
Benny Scheckner (instagram.com/chickenbonesontheground) joins Wade, Glen Hall and Sean Perrotta to say nice things about Star Trek Disc…
Apologies for the Imperfection (Discovery S2E05)
A rescue is launched into the mycelial network and more than just Tilly gets pulled out.
This week we're joined by another friend of the podcast, Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, "Kristin from Toronto" herse…