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Out of Contreks

A podcast where two guys who have seen part of Star Trek try to watch all of Star Trek, in no particular order. Publishes every other Sunday.

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Ep. 194: "United" (ENT S4E13)

Shran continues to rock. Ryan and Brady spend a lot of time justifiably discussing Andorian antennae (just look at the episode image), compliment this Enterprise episode's commitment to finding a (sort of) non-violent solution, and wonder if the writers ever did quite enough to distinguish the Andorians from the Klingons.

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Ep. 193: "The Reckoning" (DS9 S6E21)

This episode of Deep Space 9 feels very biblical, so it's apropos that Ryan and Brady spend a large portion of it talking about Adventures in Odyssey. We also discuss the reasons people have faith and the recent schism in the Catholic Church, and there's a little bit of Star Trek talk smuggled in there too.

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Ep. 192: "Cease Fire" (ENT S2E15)

Not gonna lie to you: I don't really remember what we talked about in this episode. If I recall correctly, we talked about Andorian antennae, the lady Andorian freedom fighter, and how boring the Vulcans are on Enterprise. I'm sure it's still a good time, though!

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Ep. 191: "Good Shepherd" (VOY S6E20)

After spending a while at the beginning of the episode talking about upcoming Star Trek video games, Ryan and Brady dive into this very impressive episode of Voyager, which is about what to do if you have bad co-workers... but in space! In so doing, we talk about our own experiences managing employees, the best kind of Star Trek metaphors, and Ryan reveals one time when an irrational fear of his…

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Ep. 190: "The Council" (ENT S3E22)

Ryan and Brady had some fun with this Enterprise episode! Could it be that the show gets better in the second half? Is this really Stargate or Babylon 5-coded, as Ryan seems to think? How about that CGI? We talk about all that and more!

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Ep. 189: "Dream Catcher" (PRO S1E4) with That's Not How Science Works

Ryan and Brady link up for our annual episode with Caitlin and Nicole of That's Not How Science Works. In this episode, we discuss the saga of Prodigy's availability on streaming networks and whether smells can get through space helmets. We also play a fun quiz at the beginning themed around the recently-ended best alien race poll with The World Cup of Star Trek. Can you beat Brady or our guests?

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Ep. 188: "Rosetta" (DIS S4E11)

Probably not a good indication of Ryan and Brady's current feelings about Discovery that this recording is under 40 minutes and we spend the first several minutes of it discussing the old Rosetta Stone language learning software. Apologies for this episode coming out late; Ryan is moving and kind of lost track of things. The EV suits in this show look pretty cool, right? I used one as the episode…

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Ep. 187: "Warlord" (VOY S3E10)

Voyager never did a Mirror Universe episode, but Warlord feels a lot like one. Ryan and Brady talk about a pretty fun episode that both allows Jennifer Lien a rare opportunity to show her stuff and contains a strange sexual undercurrent that feels straight out of Deep Space 9.

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Ep. 186: "Thirty Days" (VOY S5E9)

Ryan and Brady discuss the best Tom Paris episode, the one where maybe... Tom is right???? In our continuing discussion from the last episode, join us as we discuss good in media res openings, cool sci-fi concepts, and our recurring belief that Janeway is Star Trek at its most Clintonite.

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Ep. 185: "Two of One" (PIC S2E6)

Ryan and Brady try to avoid talking about a very unpleasant episode of Picard by talking about anything else, including a lengthy digression into the current politics of a couple different Trek actors and William Shatner's Super Bowl commercial. We also talk about Allison Pill's bum rap in Hollywood... really, anything to avoid talking about what Ryan refers to as possibly the worst in media res…

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