Episode 159: Star Trek: Discovery’s My Four Moms

Michael and her mom are finally reunited and it feels so, um, sad?

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"Perpetual Infinity" is the latest Star Trek episode to tackle time travel, and it's full of scenes that tug on the heartstrings and make one scratch their heads. Also, Leland is still alive (our bad) and he's turning into a slow-mo fighting Skynet! We'll talk about what worked this week and what could have worked better.

Also, there's a tiny update on the Picard show and Alex Kurtzman reveals how CBS All Access plans to roll out their slate of upcoming Trek shows. And we've verified that this week's Red Shirt is definitely, definitely dead. (A dirty job but someone's gotta do it!)

So fire up your stolen time crystals, strap into your nanite-injecting dentist's chair and listen now to the new TR3!

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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 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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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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Episode 121: The Only Thing Saru Has to Fear Is Fear Itself

Star Trek: Discovery continues to prove that it has the best first season of Trek since The Original Series with its latest episode.

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This week, Saru goes fear-free for the first time ever -- on a planet full of very sentient and very blue lint -- and we get to spend more time with Admiral Cornwell and her Klingon captors in "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum."



In addition to talking about another good episode of DISCO, we have a great number of Red Shirts to eulogize -- thanks to Lorca's lazy tactical officer.

And we answer some of your reader mail and go on a fun/weird "Aliens" tangent (because duh). So hook yourself up the spore drive and listen to the latest episode of Transporter Room 3 now!

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Episode 120: Star Trek: Discovery Goes All Groundhog Day on Us

Harry Mudd pulls a "Cause and Effect" on the most recent episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” and Burnham learns about this thing you Earth humans call… love!

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We break down the pros and cons of the latest Disco episode -- and if anyone can explain to us why Stamets didn't just tell Lorca to NOT beam aboard that space whale, we'd appreciate it.



We also have some reader mail about your feelings about the new series, as well as a few new Red Shirts who aren't feeling anything anymore thanks to some of Discovery's Klingons.

So strap on your time crystals and listen now to the newest episode of TR3!

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