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That Star Trek Podcast

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Affectionate Trek arguments with canon memory.

The gist

That Star Trek Podcast follows Trek episode by episode, with recent discussions centered on Starfleet Academy. Scott, Neek, Rick, John, and guests mix scene-level reactions, canon callbacks, character debate, and loose-panel comedy.

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About That Star Trek Podcast

That Star Trek Podcast is a talky, spoiler-forward Trek review show with the feel of a familiar fan table after the credits roll. Recent episodes are deep in Starfleet Academy, tracking each installment through character logic, franchise history, and the panel’s running bits. Scott often steers the conversation, with Neek also stepping in as guest host. Rick, John, Chris, Megan, and other voices bring different tolerances for sentiment, Klingon material, canon precision, and comic chaos. The show is casual, but it is not casual about Trek. A small reference to Voyager can open into a careful argument about the Doctor’s memory, guilt, ethics, and what later writers choose to acknowledge. That matters here. The panel notices when continuity is selective, when a character’s stress explains bad behavior, and when Starfleet’s ideals need to be tested against the story on screen. It can be sharp. It can be silly. It can spend real time on whether a Federation gesture toward Klingons is patronizing, honorable, too tidy, or emotionally right. The Starfleet Academy conversations also return to cadet rivalry, prank wars, academy leadership, romantic awkwardness, family pressure, and the uneasy work of teaching future officers. Bonus material widens the frame into beta canon, including Star Trek games, novels, and comics. The pacing is conversational rather than polished flat. Jokes interrupt analysis, analysis interrupts jokes, and the panel often sounds happiest when everyone is pushing the same scene from different angles. That gives the show its appeal: it treats Trek as lore, story, ethics exercise, and shared hangout all at once. Listeners should expect spoilers and maybe some bad words. They should also expect a group that genuinely wants Trek to mean something.

Made for: For Star Trek fans who watch episodes promptly and want a spoiler-filled panel conversation afterward. It especially suits listeners who enjoy canon callbacks, character debate, and irreverent group banter.

What sets it apart: The show pairs loose Infinite Potato Alliance chemistry with unusually specific Trek memory. It is as likely to challenge a Voyager reference as it is to spin a Starfleet Academy scene into a joke, a theory, or an ethics argument.

In their own words

We give you a detailed analysis of all the new Star Trek content coming on the small screen and the big screen including Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, and anything yet to come. thatstartrekpod.substack.com

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Close reading, continuity knowledge and a candid panel turn new Star Trek episodes into arguments about character, logic and inherited history.

That Star Trek Podcast turns individual Star Trek releases into lively roundtable criticism. Scott and the recurring panel move from immediate reactions to questions of character motivation, plot logic and visual design, allowing disagreement to sharpen the discussion.

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Why you'd press play

Canon gets cross-examined by a lively panel, and you get the jokes between objections.

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  • a panel that remembers Voyager continuity well enough to challenge a new episode's choices
  • character debates where you can sympathize with both cadets before choosing your side
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Starfleet Academy episode reviewsVoyager continuity referencesKlingon culture and Federation idealscadet rivalries and prank warscharacter motivation debatesbeta canon games, novels, and comicsStarfleet ethics and leadershippanel banter and running jokes

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Star Trek Prodigy--2x19&20

    ·1h 42m
  2. 2

    Starfleet Academy 1x08: The Life of the Stars

    ·1h 45m
  3. 3

    Starfleet Academy 1x07: Ko'Zeine

    ·1h 15m
  4. 4

    BONUS: Beta Canon (From Magic City Con 2025)

    ·1h 26m
  5. 5

    Starfleet Academy 1x06: Come, Let's Away

    ·1h 31m
  6. 6

    Starfleet Academy 1x05: Series Acclimation Mil

    ·1h 24m
  7. 7

    Starfleet Academy 1x04: Vox in Excelso

    ·1h 4m
  8. 8

    Starfleet Academy 1x03: Vitus Reflux

    ·1h 27m
  9. 9

    Starfleet Academy 1x01 & 02

    ·1h 56m
  10. 10

    The Royale Fundraising Special

    ·58m
  11. 11

    Star Trek: Khan--1x04--Magical Thinking

    ·44m
  12. 12

    Star Trek: Khan--1x02 Scheherazade & 1x03 Do Your Worst

    ·1h 14m
  13. 13

    Star Trek: Khan--1x01--Paradise

    ·1h 3m
  14. 14

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x10--New Life and New Civilizations

    ·1h 24m
  15. 15

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x09--Terrarium

    ·57m
  16. 16

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x08--Four and a Half Vulcans

    ·2h 1m
  17. 17

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x07 "What Is Starfleet?"

    ·1h 8m
  18. 18

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail

    ·1h 40m
  19. 19

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x05--Through the Lens of Time

    ·1h 19m
  20. 20

    Star Trek: Strange NEW Worlds 3x04--A Space Adventure Hour

    ·1h 16m
  21. 21

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x03--Shuttle to Kenfori

    ·1h 14m
  22. 22

    Strange New Worlds 3x1&2

    ·1h 23m
  23. 23

    Trailer Talk and Favorite Trek Species

    ·1h 38m
  24. 24

    Not Our Favorite Episodes

    ·48m
  25. 25

    Star Trek: Section 31

    ·1h 12m
  26. 26

    Review of Roddenberry Archive's "Unification"

    ·1h 21m
  27. 27

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x10: The New Next Generation

    ·1h 33m
  28. 28

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x09

    ·1h 29m
  29. 29

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x08: Upper Decks

    ·34m
  30. 30

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x07: Fully Dilated

    ·52m
  31. 31

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x06: Of Gods and Angles

    ·1h 1m
  32. 32

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x05: Starbase 80?!

    ·43m
  33. 33

    That Star Trek Podcast Goes To School

    ·1h 24m
  34. 34

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x04: A Farewell to Farms

    ·1h 3m
  35. 35

    Lower Decks 5x03: The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel

    ·1h 1m
  36. 36

    Star Trek Lower Decks: 5x01&02

    ·1h 19m
  37. 37

    Starfleet Academy 1x09 & 10: Double Finale Party

    ·2h 6m
  38. 38

    Star Trek Prodigy--2x17&18

    ·43m
  39. 39

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x15-16: Ascension

    ·1h 13m
  40. 40

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x13-14: A Tribble Called Quest -and- Cracked Mirror

    ·1h 11m
  41. 41

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x11-12: Last Flight of the Protostar

    ·51m
  42. 42

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x09-10: The Devourer of All Things

    ·45m
  43. 43

    SDCC Star Trek Announcements

    ·1h 2m
  44. 44

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x07 and 2x08

    ·45m
  45. 45

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x06: Imposter Syndrome

    ·33m
  46. 46

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x05: Observer's Paradox

    ·25m
  47. 47

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x04: Temporal Mechanics 101

    ·1h
  48. 48

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x03: Who Saves The Saviors

    ·51m
  49. 49

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x01 & 02: Into The Breach

    ·1h 30m
  50. 50

    Subspace Rhapsody Picture Show

    ·41m
  51. 51

    Discovery 5x10: Life, Itself

    ·1h 32m
  52. 52

    Star Trek Discovery 5x09: LaGrange Point

    ·2h 4m
  53. 53

    Star Trek Discovery 5x08: Labyrinths

    ·1h 24m
  54. 54

    Star Trek Discovery 5x07: Erigah

    ·1h 7m
  55. 55

    Star Trek Discovery 5x06: Whistlespeak

    ·1h 6m
  56. 56

    Star Trek Discovery 5x05: Mirrors

    ·1h 40m
  57. 57

    Star Trek Discovery 5x04: Face the Strange

    ·1h 39m
  58. 58

    Star Trek Discovery 5x01 and 02

    ·1h 38m
  59. 59

    Matteson vs Matteson: A Trek Trivia Smackdown

    ·1h 10m
  60. 60

    Changing Attitudes Toward Star Trek Pt 2

    ·1h 35m
  61. 61

    Changing Attitudes Toward Star Trek Pt 1

    ·1h 36m
  62. 62

    Technobabble Dribble Drabble

    ·1h 42m
  63. 63

    Holiday Catch-Up

    ·1h 40m
  64. 64

    The Prime Direction Replay: David C. Roberson

    ·1h 44m
  65. 65

    The Prime Direction Replay: Scott Matteson

    ·1h 26m
  66. 66

    The Orville 1x03: About A Girl

    ·57m
  67. 67

    Lower Decks 4x10: Old Friends, New Planets

    ·1h 17m
  68. 68

    Lower Decks 4x09: The Inner Fight

    ·1h 13m
  69. 69

    Lower Decks 4x08: Caves

    ·1h 8m
  70. 70

    Prime Direction Replay: Troy Wood

    ·41m
  71. 71

    Lower Decks 4x07: A Few Badgeys More

    ·1h 16m
  72. 72

    Lower Decks 4x05 and 4x06

    ·1h 41m
  73. 73

    Lower Decks 4x04: Something Green

    ·1h 14m
  74. 74

    Lower Decks 4x03: In the Cradle of Vexilon

    ·56m
  75. 75

    Star Trek-Lower Decks S04-E1&2

    ·1h 24m
  76. 76

    Prime Direction 001: Rick Tetrault

    ·1h 14m
  77. 77

    Strange New Worlds Season Two Overview

    ·1h 9m
  78. 78

    Strange New Worlds 2x10: Hegemony

    ·1h 24m
  79. 79

    Strange New Worlds 2x09: Subspace Rhapsody

    ·1h 29m
  80. 80

    Strange New Worlds 2x08: Under the Cloak of War

    ·1h 14m
  81. 81

    Strange New Worlds 2x07: Those Old Scientists

    ·1h 4m
  82. 82

    Strange New Worlds 2x06: Lost In Translation

    ·1h 9m
  83. 83

    Strange New Worlds 2x05: Charades

    ·1h 25m
  84. 84

    Strange New Worlds 2x04: Among the Lotus Eaters

    ·1h 35m
  85. 85

    Strange New World 2x03: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    ·55m
  86. 86

    Strange New Worlds 2x02: Ad Astra Per Aspera

    ·1h 8m
  87. 87

    Strange New Worlds 2x01: The Broken Circle

    ·1h 21m
  88. 88

    Strange New Worlds Season 2 Preview Special

    ·59m
  89. 89

    Strange New Worlds Trailer and Section 31

    ·36m
  90. 90

    Star Trek Picard 3x10: The Last Generation

    ·1h 52m
  91. 91

    Star Trek Picard 3x09: Vox

    ·1h 29m
  92. 92

    Star Trek Picard 3x08: Surrender

    ·1h 46m
  93. 93

    Star Trek Picard 3x07: Dominion

    ·1h 56m
  94. 94

    Star Trek Picard 3x06: The Bounty

    ·2h 7m
  95. 95

    #StarTrekLegacy

    ·39m
  96. 96

    Star Trek Picard 3x05: Imposters

    ·1h 33m
  97. 97

    Star Trek Picard 3x04: No Win Scenario

    ·1h 45m
  98. 98

    Picard 3x03: Seventeen Seconds

    ·1h 33m
  99. 99

    Star Trek Picard 3x02: Disengage

    ·1h 40m
  100. 100

    Star Trek Discovery 5x03: Jinaall

    Guest hosts review and discuss the third episode of Star Trek Discovery Season 5, 'Jinaal', and react to the announcement of Lower Decks' final season.

    ·1h 21m
  101. 101

    Starfleet Academy 1x09 & 10: Double Finale Party

    Mar 17, 2026·2h 6m
  102. 102

    Starfleet Academy 1x08: The Life of the Stars

    ["That Star Trek Podcast reviews Starfleet Academy 1x08, \"The Life of the Stars,\" with Scott, Rick, Nick, and John Irons naming the writers and director.", "Scott calls the episode \"sad,\" \"introspective,\" and \"deep,\" while Rick says a partial rewatch changed his mind and left him \"still processing.\"", "Nick describes the episode as \"a beautiful work of art,\" but the panel quickly zeroes in on Tilly's dismissal of Jaden's opera, Tarima's post-Miyazaki distance, and the odd choice to send Jaden away for a cold.", "The discussion expands into Our Town and Voyager, where the group argues over whether the Doctor's grief and prior growth are being handled with enough care."]

    Mar 2, 2026·1h 45m·5 clips
  103. 103

    Starfleet Academy 1x07: Ko'Zeine

    That Star Trek Podcast reviews Starfleet Academy 1x07, “Ko'Zeine,” in which spring break sends the cadets toward All Worlds Day, Darm’s arranged wedding, and Genesis’s pre-command-track crisis.

    Feb 23, 2026·1h 15m·5 clips
  104. 104

    BONUS: Beta Canon (From Magic City Con 2025)

    A live panel at Magic City Con 2025 where hosts Sean and Scott discuss Star Trek beta canon media like video games, novels, and comics.

    Feb 17, 2026·1h 26m
  105. 105

    Starfleet Academy 1x06: Come, Let's Away

    A podcast panel reviews and discusses Starfleet Academy episode 1x06 with a special guest from Trek Exploration.

    Feb 17, 2026·1h 31m
  106. 106

    Starfleet Academy 1x05: Series Acclimation Mil

    Hosts Scott, Rick, and John discuss Starfleet Academy 1x05, focusing on series acclimation and character development.

    Feb 9, 2026·1h 24m
  107. 107

    Starfleet Academy 1x04: Vox in Excelso

    Hidden gem

    ["That Star Trek Podcast's Starfleet Academy 1x04, Vox in excelsio, centers on Klingon refugees, debate class, and Jaden's family rupture over warrior tradition.", "Scott Madison hosts with Neek Yeager and Rick, and Rick's extreme praise collides with Neek's dislike of Klingon-heavy stories.", "The panel spends most of its time on Jaden's triad-house background, the revelation that his parents were on a refugee ship, and the class debate that turns into a personal argument with Caleb.", "The ending discussion focuses on the staged Klingon battle, Obel Wachok's response, and the panel's split read on whether Darum is coaching Jaden or crossing a line."]

    Feb 2, 2026·1h 4m·5 clips
  108. 108

    Starfleet Academy 1x03: Vitus Reflux

    Hidden gem

    That Star Trek Podcast reviews Starfleet Academy 1x03, 'Vitus Reflux,' written by Alex Taub and Kylie Rossiter and directed by Doug Baraniakoski, with the panel centered on a prank war between Starfleet Academy and the War College.

    Jan 26, 2026·1h 27m·5 clips
  109. 109

    Starfleet Academy 1x01 & 02

    That Star Trek Podcast reviews "Kids These Days" and the rest of the Starfleet Academy premiere with Scott, Neek Yeager, and Rick treating it as a fresh Trek launch.

    Jan 19, 2026·1h 56m·5 clips
  110. 110

    The Royale Fundraising Special

    Dec 9, 2025·58m
  111. 111

    Star Trek: Khan--1x04--Magical Thinking

    Oct 11, 2025·44m
  112. 112

    Star Trek: Khan--1x02 Scheherazade & 1x03 Do Your Worst

    Oct 4, 2025·1h 14m
  113. 113

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x10--New Life and New Civilizations

    Sep 20, 2025·1h 24m
  114. 114

    Star Trek: Khan--1x01--Paradise

    Sep 20, 2025·1h 3m
  115. 115

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x09--Terrarium

    Sep 8, 2025·57m
  116. 116

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x08--Four and a Half Vulcans

    Sep 2, 2025·2h 1m
  117. 117

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x07 "What Is Starfleet?"

    Aug 26, 2025·1h 8m
  118. 118

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail

    Aug 21, 2025·1h 40m
  119. 119

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds--3x05--Through the Lens of Time

    Aug 14, 2025·1h 19m
  120. 120

    Star Trek: Strange NEW Worlds 3x04--A Space Adventure Hour

    Aug 4, 2025·1h 16m
  121. 121

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x03--Shuttle to Kenfori

    Jul 29, 2025·1h 14m
  122. 122

    Strange New Worlds 3x1&2

    Jul 21, 2025·1h 23m
  123. 123

    Trailer Talk and Favorite Trek Species

    Apr 8, 2025·1h 38m
  124. 124

    Not Our Favorite Episodes

    Mar 13, 2025·48m
  125. 125

    Star Trek: Section 31

    Jan 27, 2025·1h 12m
  126. 126

    Review of Roddenberry Archive's "Unification"

    Hidden gem

    That Star Trek Podcast reviews Roddenberry Archive's dialogue-free "Unification," produced by Otoy and framed by the panel as a visual tribute rather than a conventional plot.

    Dec 31, 2024·1h 21m·5 clips
  127. 127

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x10: The New Next Generation

    Dec 25, 2024·1h 33m
  128. 128

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x09

    Dec 24, 2024·1h 29m
  129. 129

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x08: Upper Decks

    Dec 14, 2024·34m
  130. 130

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x07: Fully Dilated

    Dec 8, 2024·52m
  131. 131

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x06: Of Gods and Angles

    Dec 8, 2024·1h 1m
  132. 132

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x05: Starbase 80?!

    Dec 3, 2024·43m
  133. 133

    Star Trek Lower Decks 5x04: A Farewell to Farms

    Nov 23, 2024·1h 3m
  134. 134

    That Star Trek Podcast Goes To School

    Nov 23, 2024·1h 24m
  135. 135

    Lower Decks 5x03: The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel

    Nov 9, 2024·1h 1m
  136. 136

    Star Trek Lower Decks: 5x01&02

    Nov 2, 2024·1h 19m
  137. 137

    Star Trek Prodigy--2x19&20

    Sep 29, 2024·1h 42m
  138. 138

    Star Trek Prodigy--2x17&18

    Sep 29, 2024·43m
  139. 139

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x15-16: Ascension

    Sep 15, 2024·1h 13m
  140. 140

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x11-12: Last Flight of the Protostar

    Sep 1, 2024·51m
  141. 141

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x13-14: A Tribble Called Quest -and- Cracked Mirror

    Sep 1, 2024·1h 11m
  142. 142

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x09-10: The Devourer of All Things

    Aug 30, 2024·45m
  143. 143

    SDCC Star Trek Announcements

    Aug 11, 2024·1h 2m
  144. 144

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x07 and 2x08

    Aug 11, 2024·45m
  145. 145

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x06: Imposter Syndrome

    Aug 1, 2024·33m
  146. 146

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x05: Observer's Paradox

    Jul 22, 2024·25m
  147. 147

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x04: Temporal Mechanics 101

    A panel discussion reviewing and analyzing Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 Episode 4, Temporal Mechanics 101.

    Jul 21, 2024·1h
  148. 148

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x03: Who Saves The Saviors

    A podcast episode reviewing and analyzing Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 Episode 3, 'Who Saves the Saviors', with detailed discussion and speculation.

    Jul 20, 2024·51m
  149. 149

    Star Trek Prodigy 2x01 & 02: Into The Breach

    Sean Ray and panelists review the first two episodes of Star Trek Prodigy season 2, discussing the plot where Dal and his friends board Janeway's ship to investigate a wormhole.

    Jul 17, 2024·1h 30m
  150. 150

    Subspace Rhapsody Picture Show

    Jun 23, 2024·41m