Episode 151: The Klingons Return to Disco, and Mary Chieffo Returns to TR3!

This week’s Discovery is basically Game of Thrones, Klingon Style… and we like it! But not as much as we like having L’Rell herself, Mary Chieffo, beam in to discuss the episode with us! Spoilers follow...

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A Klingon holding up a severed baby’s head is not a thing we’d ever thought would happen on Star Trek, and yet... here we are.

Discovery’s latest episode, “Point of Light,” is like one of Stefon’s night clubs -- it has EVERYTHING: Holograms, Klingon-vaporizing drones, sword fights and an off-screen decapitated (fake) baby. But is it any good? Listen to find out.

And then we talk to the great Mary Chieffo about everything that happened in the episode, plus what’s in store this season for the new Klingon Chancellor.

And it wouldn’t be TR3 without a Red Shirt to eulogize, and he hails from this week’s Disco. So tell your imaginary dead friend/alien entity to pipe down and listen to episode 151 right now!

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Episode 132: Klingon Kraziness

For over 50 years, they’ve been Star Trek’s biggest bads -- and thanks to Star Trek Discovery, the Klingons are back in a big way.

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This week we have a very special interview with the once and future Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, Gowron himself -- Robert O’Reilly!

But that’s not all… More threatening than ever before (and harder to understand, thanks to the new Disco makeup design), the number one cause of death for guys named David Marcus have decades of storylines and this week we’re looking back at some of our favorites. From Worf to Voq, we’re doing a bumpy-headed deep dive.

We also have our first reader mail tweet and a few (explosive) Klingon Red Shirts. So grab a bottle of your finest blood wine, serve up some fresh gagh, and listen now to TR3!

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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 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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Episode 122: The Captain Lorca Theory That Will Blow Your Mind

And that’s a wrap on the first half of Star Trek: Discovery Season 1! This week’s episode, "Into the Forest I Go," marked the conclusion of “Chapter One” of the first year, and it was a doozy. From Klingon battles to 133 spore-jumps to Captain Lorca pulling some very Captain Lorca moves, the episode was jam-packed!

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We delve into Burnham’s mission to the Klingon Ship of the Dead, the state of the Stamets after all those jumps -- Gary Mitchell eyes much? -- plus what the creepy deal is with L’Rell and Tyler. But best of all, we’ve got a Lorca theory that will… blow… your… mind… Unless you’ve already heard it on some message board somewhere!



Plus, of course, it’s time for some more reader mail and a most unfortunate group of bumpy-headed Red Shirts. So put on your pattern simulators (make sure the light is glowing!), get into your best “ready to beam” crouch position, and listen to the latest episode of TR3!

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