Transporter Lock - A Star Trek podcast

Despite ranking this episode as her least favorite of the season, Sabriel draws some neat comparisons between species 10-C and the saurials of the Forgotten Realms, while also approving of queers men…

Dr. Steven Weyhrich joins us to review Picard‘s return, in which we learn more about Picard’s childhood, setting the course for the rest of the season. Will the final frontier be… time? The Borg? Q? …

To boldly make connections where no one has connected before! Discovery may be departing the Milky Way, but this episode is about relations: Kelpian to Vulcan, captain to president, scientist to scie…

Book and Burnham finally realize what Ken and Bri have known since our first episode: mutual understanding is where the real fun’s at! We start to like Ruon Tarka a bit more, and we love seeing Nhan …

Discovery returns to the airwaves with its own casino episode! It’s not The Royale, and Vic Fontaine is nowhere to be seen, but we do get clever teamwork between Michael and Book, indecipherable bant…

First Officer Tiffany Bridge joins the show to review Prodigy episodes 6–10! We admire Dal’s growth, empathize with Gwyn’s individuation, ponder what would happen if the Borg assimilated Murf, analyz…

We know the measure of a man; this week Ken and Bri learn the measure of a Zora. Was Stamets the right person to lead this charge against artificial intelligence? And is there anything Kovich can’t d…

An insecure artificial intelligence and a crew that doesn’t know how to use space probes or transporters are the source of this episode’s fatalities. But Ken and Bri are excited to see Zora join the …

Hey, you know what’s a great idea? Performing a destructive scientific experiment right next to the spore drive during an evacuation! Bri and Ken find much of the tension in Ruon Tarka’s visit to Di…

What do Tilly, Wil Wheaton, Ken, and Bri all have in common? We have parents who put us on paths we didn’t want to be on. We commiserate over being seen, and we value seeing Book and Culber demonstra…

The season’s third episode gets three subplots, and Bri and Ken are here to review them all! We’re disappointed with the illogic of a rogue Qowat Milat, though we’re always up for a good sword fight.…

Despite the generic episode title, “Anomaly” nonetheless does a fantastic job of interweaving intense action with character moments, including metaphors for transitioning and the normalization of dis…

“Kobayashi Maru” is an explosive start to Discovery‘s fourth season, raising questions for which Bri and Ken have no answers but plenty of theories. Will the Federation, still recovering from the Bur…

Lt. (j.g.) Kraft joins Sabriel and Ken to review the first five episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy‘s debut season. The animated show is meant to be a family-friendly entry point, and it’s the only show t…

Chief Archivist Amanda returns to Transporter Lock and brings with her Ensign Modeler Andrew to review the final two episodes of Lower Decks’ second season. Predicted romances didn’t materialize, and…

Ken and Bri are joined by Chief Scientist Velda to review three more episodes of the second season of Lower Decks: “The Spy Humongous”; “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”; and “I, Excretus”. We also chat…

Ken and Sabriel review three episodes of Lower Decks: “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”; “Mugato, Gumato”; and “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”, before getting excited for Star Trek Day’s Prodigy, Picard, …

Robb Pearlman is an author and editor of dozens of books on pop-culture phenomena, ranging from Bob Ross to Alien to Rick and Morty. His latest book, Star Trek: Starfleet Is…, depicts the many qualit…

Lower Decks is back for season 2! Ken and Bri catch up on Star Trek news of the last four months before diving into the return of the USS Cerritos and its many inside jokes, from Ransom going all Gar…