Newbie Star Trek

The Icarus Factor! Riker meets up with his estranged father and Wesley arranges a bar mitzvah for Worf! This one resonated a lot with Ricardo because he's also a father and this was a very father-son-driven narrative, but what will his final verdict be?!    Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek    Ask us a question at contact@newbiestartrek.com and we may answer it on the podcast!    Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang  "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang    Catch our other projects (Fugitive Frames Film Podcast, Fugitive Games YouTube channel, etc.) at www.fugitiveframes.com! 

Time Squared! Another crazy time-travel romp, but this time for only six hours from the future! Will Picard be able to figure out his future self before the Enterprise explodes? Will Riker ever be able to make a decent omelet? And what fantastical alternate realities has Ricardo cooked up this time? Tune in to find out!    Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Ask us a question at contact@newbiestartrek.com and we may answer it on the podcast!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Royale! It's like a Holodeck episode without the Holodeck, complete with bad writing and cheesy characters! How will Riker and gang get out of this one while Picard and company twiddle their thumbs?!    Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Ask us a question at contact@newbiestartrek.com and we may answer it on the podcast!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Contagion! No, it's not another viral outbreak episode (thank goodness)! But it definitely does feel a lot like retreaded ground...TNG already recycling ideas?! How crazy!    Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Ask us a question at contact@newbiestartrek.com and we may answer it on the podcast!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Dauphin! Hey, how did a season 1 episode get in here! Get outta here, ya terribly-written knucklehead!   Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Ask us a question at contact@newbiestartrek.com and we may answer it on the podcast!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Measure of a Man! One of the most beloved and celebrated episodes of Star Trek of all time! But what new additions does the Blu-ray exclusive Extended Edition provide? It'll taken an Extended discussion to find out!   Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

A Matter Of Honor! A fortuitous officer exchange program leads to Riker serving on a Klingon ship and us learning more about Klingons! What sort of stupid shenanigans do these guys get up to? And why this other guy looks suspiciously exactly like that other Benzite from that other episode?! All this and more, in this week's episode!   Get an extra three free months of ExpressVPN when you sign up for 12 months through our affiliate link (a total of 49% in savings!): www.expressvpn.com/newbiestartrek   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Unnatural Selection! A series of scientific medical blunders leads Pulaski to be quarantined with Data while her methods put her at odds with Picard. What happens when TNG starts writing good character narratives?! Listen and find out!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Schizoid Man! What happens when a brilliant but chauvinist scientist transfers his mind into Data? Creepy comedy!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Loud As A Whisper! Once again, Deanna Troi gets hit on, this time by a super cocky, deaf diplomat and his chorus of psychic translators. How will this affair end?!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Outrageous Okona! A Han Solo rip-off visits the Enterprise while Data tries to learn comedy from a terrible comedian. Surely these are two tastes that will taste great together!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Elementary, Dear Data! Hey, a Holodeck episode that seems...good?! Let's dive into this tale of stanning for Sherlock Holmes and see where we get when Data finally meets his match!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Where Silence Has Lease! What a weird title! And what a weird overreaction by Picard! What an episode, Ricardo!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Child! The crew gets shaken up by some pretty big personnel changes, Wesley is thinking of quitting, and Whoopi Goldberg decides to join the show! Oh, and also Deanna Troi is, uh, "forcibly impreganted," to avoid some triggering words. I guess there's also a crazy mega-virus that could kill everyone on the ship, but ah, whatever, hey look, it's Ten Forward!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Season 2 Sneak Peek! No discussion this episode (sorry!), but we wanted to take the time to highlight our amazing new theme song and our new "what happened during this airdate?" song that our really awesome friend Nathan Tang made for us! These songs are usually kinda cut off when we mix the episode, so we thought this would be a good way to show them off in their entirety. Enjoy!   Intro theme song: Earl Grey (Hot!) by Nathan Tang "What happened during this airdate?" song: Around the Sun by Nathan Tang   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Season 1! How does Ricardo, Dan, and Marvin feel about what is arguably the worst season of TNG? Let's find out!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Neutral Zone! This was...supposed to be a season finale? Uh, okay! Well, at least Romulans showed up, and it seemed like Ricardo enjoyed the fish-out-of-water humans! Let's take a closer listen, shall we?   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Conspiracy! Boy...that escalated quickly! And then de-escalated just as fast!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

We'll Always Have Paris! An old flame from Picard's past that looks like a fusion of Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver, a jealous Beverly Crusher, a scientist that almost destroys the entire space-time continuum, and multiple copies of people through time, all centered around dystopian future Paris, France! What a wacky *time*! Oh-ho-ho! *snickers in French*   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Skin of Evil! So yeah! We know what's happening this episode. But Ricardo didn't! So how does he take it when his favorite character is unceremoniously killed?!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Symbiosis! Boy, that Prime Directive sure is starting to wear thin, eh? Let's see how Ricardo and the gang ramble through the moral quandaries of an ill-defined set of rules!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

The Arsenal of Freedom! The gang gets split up into three groups! Riker, Yar, and Data are lost in Syndrome's jungle of killer robots, Picard and Beverly Crusher are trapped in a hole, and Geordi has to lead the Enterprise in starship combat with a greenhorn crew while trying to fend of an annoying guy trying to undermine his authority! Who will survive?!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Heart of Glory! Klingons! Honor! Screaming at the sky! Surprisingly good lore and character development! What more could you ask for from a Star Trek episode?   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Coming of Age! Starfleet Academy puts Wesley through some psychologically questionable tests while a questionable admiral and his toadie puts Picard and the crew through some questionable investigations. A very questionable episode all around!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Home Soil! The one where we learn that, yes, we are all a bunch of ugly giant bags of mostly water.   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

When the Bough Breaks! Once again, a bunch of friggin' boomers won't listen to reason, and this time they've decided to steal a bunch of white kids. How will fellow boomer Picard, millennial Riker, and zoomer Wesley handle such a hostage crisis?!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Too Short a Season! What happens when you smash together horrible make-up Benjamin Button, Michael Bay's The Rock, a $10,000 wheelchair, and the Russian boxing coach from Rocky IV and set it all in space? An episode of Star Trek, apparently!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

11001001! Yup, that's the title! The title may be hard to remember, but the episode itself is definitely memorable, with the introduction of Minuet and weird BRRRR aliens! How does Ricardo handle it all?!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Angel One! Another classic sexy-time episode, where classic Riker has classic sexy-time with a classic woman while classic Wesley gets everyone sick with classic coronavirus. Wait, what?   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com

Datalore! Classic evil twin shenanigans, and the only episode Ricardo had (accidentally) previously watched! Is it as good as he remembers it?!   Catch our other projects! Fugitive Frames Film Podcast: www.fugitiveframes.com Fugitive Games (YouTube channel): www.fugitive.games A Knight's Tour (feature film): www.aknightstourmovie.com