Trek By The Numbers

Get a sick pull off your vape for this one, dads. We're diving into SPACE LAW for our next arc and boy oh boy is it a good one with "Devil's Due." Bob makes a case for the Devil and Josh points out t…

The stirring conclusion of the Prime Directive arc! We dig into this real sleeper hit of a DS9 episode. The compassion, thoughtfulness, optimism are all here. And there's some decent action and some …

We continue our exploration of the Prime Directive, but take a little detour to Little Italy on Qo'noS along the way. And we take a peak at some Voyager actors' Twitter feeds. Good stuff abound. Anyw…

This week we continue our exploration of the Prime Directive by visiting a time and place without a Prime Directive. How noodly is your Phlox? Hey, remember how good Data's Day was? Well has the team…

Hey you. Yes, you! YOU are the reason we do this show, and we are grateful for you. A teensy little favor, though. Share us with your friends? Tweet about/at us? Post on Facebook? Thanks! Anyway, we'…

WELCOME to our first arc: 5 Crucial Prime Directive episodes, starting with TOS "Patterns of Force" aka "Wow, the aliens are just Nazis, huh?" or "Why does Kirk keep saying 'Natzi?" The Prime Directi…

Is this secretly a Crusher episode? How much summer sausage can you replicate? What about manflesh? Data's Day is a great episode of Trek, which is a kind respite for Bob & Josh. So good that we ende…

McCoy yearns for a simpler time when white people could live in houses built and maintained by slaves, then bemoans "females." The crew tells a computer how it should fight for its freedom. But hey, …

What's in Johnny Frakes' snackle box? This episode of ENT really is an exemplar of a filler episode but at least we jazz it up with some "Panama" references for 45 minutes. We also enter into some hi…

Pop open a can of Diet Trek with us, and cozy on up to the TV to watch some NCIS. This is the episode where we finally lose that lucrative NERF money. What's there to talk about when the episode says…

Joey is back on the show, even if he is a mile away. It's so nice to come back to Trek. No space horse controversy, no Roland Emmerich; just some good ol'... physical comedy? Also, Bob opens the Seve…

Bob & Josh take their first trip to the holodeck for some much needed R&R, but like any holodeck episode, things don't go quite right. This is the second time we recorded this episode after some, ah,…

Paging Dr. Freud..! Data meets his mommy and things immediately get psychosexual, but then it veers away from that cliff. Also, Data throws his mother off a cliff. Oh, another cliff thing: wouldn't i…

Hey, let's just call a spade a spade: The Omega Glory gets so much wrong in such a shocking variety of ways that it's hard to summarize here. Gene Roddenberry had a vision, and unfortunately at one p…

Hi all, No episode this week because we are shifting to a Monday release schedule. See you on Monday for a TOS "classic" episode: The Omega Glory.  

How high can your Gowron go? It's nice to have one episode where Keiko & Miles are a happy couple. Are you ready to go deep into Klingon property rights law? Also, who would run the best home owners'…

Just crank that agonizer booth up to 11. How can so much be happening at such a break-neck (sorry, Culber) speed and yet be so boring? Why is our bright future so miserable, even in the minutiae? But…

Get ready to hear us say "mucilaginous compounds" a bunch. What are Tom Paris' politics? Where did Neelix get his look? Why does big juice work on viruses? Find out this and more on this week's episo…

Stave off that familial (if not existential) dread with a special early episode of TBTN! For the holiday season, we decided to share our 12 most dear Trek moments. Not "best," mind you. We also share…

Welcome to Trek By The Numbers. Come for the Trek, stay for the existential dread and bad impressions. In this episode, the boys try to talk about anything other than the episode they watched. It's v…