Episode 131: Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Post-Mort

Star Trek: Discovery recently ended its first season. And it's the best first season of any Trek series since the original one. Why? We're gonna tell you in this week's episode of TR3.

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Helping us recap the season is Matt Fowler, our pal, TV critic, and self-professed obsessor of redundant Klingon genitals. From all the new characters to Trek’s stab at modern Peak TV storytelling, from the high-tech changes to the sometimes low-tech bashing into established canon, we deep-dive on Disco’s freshman year.

The three of us also open up the reader mailbag and eulogize a very special (and maybe large) Red Shirt. Though we’re not sure how this particular victim could actually wear a shirt…

So grab a bowl of Lorca's fortune cookies and listen now to Transporter Room 3!

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Episode 130: Discovery Star Mary Chieffo (L’Rell!) Beams In

What a night for Star Trek fans! First you got the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Discovery. Then you got Transporter Room 3’s review of it. And now we have a very special bonus episode featuring none other than Mary Chieffo herself -- a.k.a., L’Rell!

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Chieffo is so much fun to talk to not just because she’s a great personality, but also because she clearly loves Star Trek. The actress has already become a presence on the convention circuit, and she’s also done some deep homework about the franchise and Klingon history in particular. (She namedrops Grilka during our chat, for Kahless’ sake!)

We talk the finale, L’Rell’s future, and much more, and then of course Scott and Phil also have a Red Shirt of the week to discuss (really, our second of the week), because it’s tradition. And you know how Klingons feel about tradition!

So beam over to your Sarcophagus ship, get ready to season some Georgiou, and listen to TR3 now!

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Episode 129: Star Trek: Discovery’s S1 Finale Ends on a Very Cool ‘Holy S#!t’ Note

So, that happened!

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A lot of things went down in Star Trek Discovery's first season finale -- from Tilly getting high to Pike's Enterprise showing up (!) -- and we have lots of questions. And we’ve got a full breakdown of what worked, and what didn't, about "Will You Take My Hand?"

From a visit to the Klingon homeworld where a surprising amount of Orions hang out to the end of the war to the goodbye (?) of a couple of major characters, we cover it all.

Plus, we also touch on the awesomeness that was the recent SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch. And, of course, we have yet another dead Red Shirt. With green skin!

So fire up your alien fondue pot full of narcotic volcanic ash and listen now to TR3!

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Episode 128: Discovery Pulls a ‘Genesis Device Begins,’ Plus More Character Twists!

The Klingon war is back on in the newest episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “The War Without, The War Within,” and we have lots of opinions about it.

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It’s the second-to-last episode of the season, and there is much to discuss. Like, what’s up with Stamets’ version of the Genesis Device? And why are we talking about pulling a Danny Ocean on the Klingon homeworld if we don’t see it yet? Tyler and Burnham, together again… but not? And why the frick isn’t Saru in the captain’s chair?

As we try to answer those questions and more, we also have more reader mail to share and a few thousand Red Shirts to lay to rest. So charge up your EM darts and listen now to the newest episode of TR3!

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