Transporter Lock - A Star Trek podcast

Star Trek: Prodigy returns, with all twenty episodes of the second season released simultaneously on Netflix! First Officer Tiffany Bridge joins the crew of Transporter Lock as we begin our reviews. …

Discovery engages in some tactical espionage action in the season’s penultimate episode before finally taking a graceful bow in Life, Itself, culminating with the Progenitors’ technology, a space wed…

Are you ready to L’ak and Moll?! Our Breen and human couriers take center stage in what Ken and Bri deem the best and worst episodes of Star Trek: Discovery‘s final season. The ship’s visit to the Th…

Sabriel & Ken are joined by returning guest Commodore Mark Thompson for this mid-season review of Discovery. Is it too soon to dip back to the Mirror Universe well? Have we learned too much about the…

In a saga that spans the eras, Discovery continues its quest for the Progenitor technology, seeking clues from a centuries-old Trill and fighting a time bug in the past and future. Ken gets gleefully…

After a two-year hiatus, Star Trek: Discovery is back on the air for its fifth and final season. We say goodbye to some familiar faces (again) and some returning crew (again) while managing to introd…

Bri and Ken finish the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks with its final four episodes: “A Few Badgeys More”, “Caves”, “The Inner Fight”, and “Old Friends, New Planets”. Plenty of loose ends are…

Tendi and T’Lyn take turns in the spotlight in the Lower Decks episodes “Something Borrowed, Something Green”, “Empathological Fallacies”, and “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place”, with the last featuring t…

“Twovix”, “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”, and “In the Cradle of Vexilon” are Lower Decks‘ excellent parodies and homages to everything from Pokémon to Voyager, while Very Short Treks‘ “Skin a Cat”…

Strange New Worlds‘ second season concludes with familiar faces of friends and foes! Also familiar are plenty of tropes, from A Quiet Place to Alien 3. Ken and Bri clash over the the introduction of …

Strange New Worlds continues to demonstrate its range with the darkest and lightest episodes of the season. First, Ken and Sabriel review “Under the Cloak of War”, which deals with PTSD, murder, and …

“Lost in Translation” sees the return of Hemmer and the first prime-universe appearance of James T. Kirk, each of which give Ken and Bri the opportunity to reflect on how we process love and loss.

Ken and Bri review two Strange New Worlds episodes. Ken felt “Among the Lotus Eaters”, based was this season’s weakest episode to date, but even he was surprised to hear Bri call it one of the worst…

Captain Sabriel Mastin rejoins the crew to review the latest two episodes of Strange New Worlds. “Ad Astra per Aspera”, an episode that’s been hinted at since the Short Trek “Q&A”, is hailed by some …

David Volante of Volante Design joins Ken to review the second season debut of Strange New Worlds. We have a new chief engineer in Carol Kane, a new trauma for Dr. M’Benga to process, new emotions fo…

Sabriel and Ken bid farewell to The Next Generation cast in a thrilling climax that weaves action, suspense, and humor — even as it undoes some of the hard decisions from previous seasons. Still, we’…

In the lead-up to the series finale, two important characters rejoin the cast, including a surprise that left Ken both screaming and crying. (Look, it’s an emotional time, okay) We talk about who we …

Commodore Dana Ross joins Chief Engineer Ken Gagne to review two episodes of Picard, including what Ken considers the best season’s weakest episode. Many characters from The Next Generation and Voyag…

The TNG crew responds to a seemingly hopeless fate, followed by the utterly unexpected return of a familiar character. One captain gets an angry moment that was denied to Sisko, while another captain…

The momentum keeps going in the final season of Picard with two shocking revelations: one that had Ken literally screaming, the other we were both blasé about. Are TNG‘s characters staying in charact…