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Subscribe on YouTube @DiscussingTrek. This will be the last Discussing Trek podcast to hit the podcast feed for a while. I'm pressing pause on the podcast — not canceling it — to throw everything at the YouTube channel's watch-hour push by February 1st. The stream and podcast prep are a second full-time job sitting on top of the thing that actually needs the hours, so something had to give. I'd rather pause it properly than let it turn into something I'm phoning in. Patrons: billing is paused too. The page stays up, nothing gets deleted, nobody gets charged while nothing's being delivered. When the show comes back, you'll get a post — no re-signup needed. When the channel hits monetization, the live and podcast stream will come back as a monthly event until the weekly livestreams start back in March with Starfleet Academy. Thank you for listening, along with your kindness and patience. LL&P.

Season 4 ends with a time-bending Uhura two-hander: a white hole, a future where Kirk commands the Enterprise, a dead Scotty who isn't, and a cosmic birth no one saw coming. We break down the full episode — the swap, the Midwives, the space baby — then deliver our verdict: did the finale save Season 4?

The Enterprise goes full fairy tale! Join me LIVE as we break down Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 9 — "Once La'an a Time." La'an as a spoiled princess. A REAL fantasy planet. A dragon for the Enterprise to fight. And it's all a sequel to Season 1's "The Elysian Kingdom" — with Onitra Johnson back and Christina Chong finally getting the episode she says she always wanted. Was the fairy tale worth the wait? Did the dragon deliver? And what does this mean for La'an going into the season finale? Bring your hot takes.

The Discussing Trek crews veers off the beaten path to discuss the highly popular HBO Series Lanterns. Larry hosts the episode, as he schools Clarence on all things Lanterns. Join in as we discuss a show that everyone should be watching.

Join us for a chat about the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Orders of Magnitude" — the highest IMDb-rated episode of the season at 8.4.A Starfleet admiral ordered the murder of 5,000 people. Kirk may have committed mutiny stopping him. Was Reeger right? Was Kirk justified? Clarence and Larry (Trek Historian) break it all down — plus the Andorian B-plot, the cordrazine callback, and where Season 4 stands.

Join us for a chat about the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 'Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass'. Where a temporal anomaly traps the crew inside a soap-opera reality while Pike confronts a life he lost.

Join us for a chat about the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 'Off-Hour'. Where the Enterprise falls into a slipstream that pushes them to a catastrophic warp threshold.

A transporter malfunction turns most of the crew into puppets while Spock fights to reclaim the ship.

Join of as we discuss the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, A Case of Chiaroscuro -- a case of mistaken identity pins Una as a virtuous kingpin against a Klingon occupation, and challenges her core understanding of what it means to be an effective leader.

In the latest episode of Strange New Worlds, titled "Human Best Friend", Shore leave on a pleasure planet turns dangerous when the crew's promised escape stops behaving like fun. Join us as we unpack the episode and more.

Spock, La'An and Kirk board a lost Federation ship, where an old mystery becomes a survival crisis.

Pike leads the crew into a stellar storm, which sends the Enterprise back 65 million years — to the time of dinosaurs. The crew must find their way home before their actions affect the past and change the distant future.

Star Trek fandom can sometimes be a very divisive place. If you've been on the internet for any amount of time, then you certainly know what I’m talking about. But if we really step back and think about it, is the recent rift in Trek fandom so unique? I’m willing to bet history will tell us otherwise.

The internet is furious about Starfleet Academy Season One, calling it the downfall of Trek, but did the haters miss the fundamental message? This deep-dive breakdown argues that the young-adult drama is far more than just "messy" and "dramatic"—it's a smart exploration of what it means to rebuild Starfleet in the fragmented, post-Burn Federation-era. The show brilliantly mirrors the cadets' journey of self-definition with the Federation's struggle to determine "What are you now?". We break down how the trauma loop involving Caleb Mir, Chancellor Nahla Ake, and Nus Braka is the true emotional core, and how the cadets ultimately choose Starfleet ideals—empathy, sacrifice, and truth—by forming a powerful "chosen family".

When an old enemy resurfaces as an existential threat to the Federation, Nahla must outwit a vengeful foe with a personal vendetta against her – as the cadets and instructors undertake a dangerous, seemingly impossible, mission to save everyone and everything they hold dear.