Mary Wiseman

STDP 074 – Coming Home (S4E13)

Ruthie & Brian discuss the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery S4E13, titled Coming Home. The DMA approaches Earth and Ni’Var. Discovery makes a final attempt to stop it. It was written by showrunner Michelle Paradise and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. We both liked this finale. It was probably our second favorite of the four season finales of Discovery, behind Season 2.

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STDP 074 - Coming Home (S4E13)
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STDP 065 – All Is Possible (S4E4)

Ruthie & Brian talk through Star Trek: Discovery S4E4, titled All Is Possible. Tilly and Adira take some cadets out on a mission that goes bad; Burnham and Saru get involved in Ni’Var/Federation negotiations, and Culber helps Book deal with his trauma.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 065 - All Is Possible (S4E4)
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STDP 064 – Choose to Live (S4E3)

Ruthie & Brian talk through Star Trek: Discovery S4E3, titled Choose to Live. We take a bit of a break from the anomaly story to go after a rogue Qowat Milat who has killed a Starfleet officer. It’s up to Burnham, Burnham’s mom, and Tilly to bring her in.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 064 - Choose to Live (S4E3)
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STDP 063 – Anomaly (S4E2)

Ruthie & Brian talk through Star Trek: Discovery S4E2, titled Anomaly. The crew of Discovery try to figure out this anomaly (a.k.a. space tornado) that could strike anywhere! Book tries to deal with his grief.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 063 - Anomaly (S4E2)
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STDP 062 – Kobayashi Maru (S4E1)

Discovery is back! Ruthie’s back! Ruthie and Brian are here to talk through the season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, S4E1 titled Kobayashi Maru. They both liked this one a lot! It’s a very good start for this season.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 062 - Kobayashi Maru (S4E1)
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STDP 061 – Patreon Call-in 2/6/2021 – Discovery Season 3

Ruthie & Brian talk through S3E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled There Is A Tide… Osyraa arrives at Federation Headquarters and has a surprising deal to offer Vance: Peace. Burnham and Tilly work separately to take back Discovery.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 061 - Patreon Call-in 2/6/2021 – Discovery Season 3
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STDP 060 – That Hope Is You, Part 2 (S3E13)

Ruthie & Brian talk through S3E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled There Is A Tide… Osyraa arrives at Federation Headquarters and has a surprising deal to offer Vance: Peace. Burnham and Tilly work separately to take back Discovery.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 060 - That Hope Is You, Part 2 (S3E13)
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STDP 059 – There Is A Tide… (S3E12)

Ruthie & Brian talk through S3E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled There Is A Tide… Osyraa arrives at Federation Headquarters and has a surprising deal to offer Vance: Peace. Burnham and Tilly work separately to take back Discovery.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 059 - There Is A Tide... (S3E12)
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STDP 058 – Su’Kal (S3E11)

Ruthie & Brian talk through S3E11 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Su’Kal. Discovery finds the source of The Burn, and Osyraa finds them.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 058 - Su'Kal (S3E11)
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STDP 057 – Terra Firma, Part 2 (S3E10)

Ruthie and Brian talk through S3E10 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Terra Firma, Part 2. Georgiou is back in the Mirror Universe but determined to rule things differently than before, trying to get Mirror Burnham back in the fold, saving herself in the process.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 057 - Terra Firma, Part 2 (S3E10)
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STDP 056 – Terra Firma, Part 1 (S3E9)

Ruthie and Brian talk through S3E9 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Terra Firma, Part 1. Georgiou’s condition worsens and the Discovery computer sends them to a distant planet for a remote chance for a cure. What happens there may surprise you.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 056 - Terra Firma, Part 1 (S3E9)
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STDP 055 – The Sanctuary (S3E8)

Ruthie and Brian talk through S3E8 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled The Sanctuary. The USS Discovery arrives at Kwejian, Booker’s home planet, where they are threatened by Osyraa and the Emerald Chain.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 055 - The Sanctuary (S3E8)
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STDP 054 – Unification III (S3E7)

Ruthie and Brian talk through S3E7 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Unification III. The USS Discovery arrives on Vulcan, but it’s now called Ni’Var, and the Vulcans share the planet with Romulans, who have unified just as Spock had wished for centuries ago. They hold data for The Burn, but getting it from them turns into a process that may begin to tear them apart.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 054 - Unification III (S3E7)
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STDP 053 – Scavengers (S3E6)

Ruthie and Brian talk through S3E6 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Scavengers. Burnham and Georgiou go on an unsanctioned mission to rescue Book and get a Black Box. Burnham and Saru deal with the reprecussions of that decision. We talk A LOT about that.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 053 - Scavengers (S3E6)
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STDP 052 – Die Trying (S3E5)

Ruthie is back, as she and Brian talk through S3E5 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Die Trying. Sorry for the lateness of this episode but it’s a good one!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 052 - Die Trying (S3E5)
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STDP 051 – Forget Me Not (S3E4)

Ruthie couldn’t join us again this week, so Brian and guest host LT from The Walking Dead Talk Through talk through S3E4 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled Forget Me Not. We enjoyed this expositional Trill episode combined with an old-fashioned dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner. All in all, this was a very enjoyable episode.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 051 - Forget Me Not (S3E4)
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STDP 050 – People of Earth (S3E3)

Ruthie couldn’t join us this week, so Brian had guests LT from The Walking Dead Talk Through and long-time listener James the Augmented Sailor join him to talk through S3E3 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled People of Earth. We enjoyed this expositional episode, but not as much as the first two. Earth has gone through a lot of changes since 2258, but it’s strangely more like modern-day Earth than the one we see in the 23rd Century.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 050 - People of Earth (S3E3)
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STDP 049 – Far From Home (S3E2)

Brian, and Ruthie talk through Star Trek: Discovery S3E2, titled Far From Home. The USS Discovery has arrived in the 32nd Century, and not everything has gone well. They land on a very inhospitable world, nowhere near where they planned, and don’t know when they are. This episode was another good one.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 049 - Far From Home (S3E2)
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STDP 040 – Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (S2E14, 2 of 3)

It’s episode 40 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, and Ruthie and Brian continue their analysis and discuss your feedback for Star Trek: Discovery – S2E14, which is titled Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2; this time, focussing on No’s and Hold Your Horses. This episode was written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. Like last week, this episode is a shining example of an episode being greater than the sum of its parts, but we isolate the parts that aren’t as good or at least make us question.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 040 - Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (S2E14, 2 of 3)
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STDP 038 – Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1 (S2E13)

It’s episode 38 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, and Ruthie and Brian analyze and discuss your feedback for Star Trek: Discovery – S2E13, which is titled Such Sweet Sorrow. This episode was written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and it is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. We finally get to see the bridge of the Enterprise, as an armada of Section 31 ships, close in, and Burnham and a skeleton crew prepare to send Discovery into the future. We both loved this episode, even with its flaws. It’s a shining example of an episode being greater than the sum of its parts.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 038 - Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1 (S2E13)
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STDP 031 – The Sound of Thunder (S2E6)

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 2, Episode 6: The Sound of Thunder For episode 31 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I discuss Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, The Sound of Thunder. It was written by co-producers…

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 031 - The Sound of Thunder (S2E6)
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STDP 030 – Saints of Imperfection (S2E5)

For episode 30 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie is back, as we discuss Star Trek: Discovery – S2E5, which is titled, Saints of Imperfection. This episode is written by Kirsten Beyer, and directed by David Barrett. This episode continues the search for Spock (no pun intended), but comes up with a dead end, as Georgiou and Section 31 appear. Stamets and Burnham enter the network to rescue Tilly but end up finding another long lost character, too. By the way, we LOVED it!!!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 030 - Saints of Imperfection (S2E5)
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STDP 029 – An Obol for Charon (S2E4)

For episode 29 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie is out sick, but we have special guest co-host Wes Huntington of the Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast to co-host in her place, as we discuss Star Trek: Discovery – S2E4, which is titled, An Obol for Charon. The episode’s teleplay is by Adam McElroy and Andrew Colville. The episode’s story is by Jordon Nardino & Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts. It is directed by Lee Rose. The search for Spock (no pun intended) hits a snag, as the Discovery encounters a big entity in space, the size of a small moon. The entity seems to bring on vaharai, the final cycle of life for Saru’s species, or so we think. Meanwhile, Tilly, Stamets and Reno work in Engineering, as May has retaliates.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 029 - An Obol for Charon (S2E4)
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STDP 026 – Brother (S2E1)

We love Captain Pike! For episode 26 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I discuss the Season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery – S2E1, which is titled, Brother. It was written by Ted Sullivan & Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts (the latter two were the showrunners at the time this was filmed), and it was directed by the current showrunner and co-creator, Alex Kurtzman. We both loved this supersized movie-like premiere! If you haven’t given Discovery a try, this epic episode is one you can jump right in!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 026 - Brother (S2E1)
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STDP 021 – Short Treks Episode 1 – Runaway

We’re finally back! Ruthie and I are back with The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, with the first of four mini-episodes, covering the Short Treks. We recorded the first three all on the same night, and we’ll be releasing them over the holidays. For this one, episode 21, we discuss the first Short Trek, with a focus on Ensign Sylvia Tilly, titled Runaway. Ruthie loved it, whereas I liked it but found a couple things to take issue with, one thing in particular.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 021 - Short Treks Episode 1 - Runaway
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STDP 020 – Season 2 and Picard Show News Roundtable

After a five month hiatus, we finally bring you the long awaited roundtable episode, covering news about Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 and the Picard TV series! Joining Ruthie and I are Mark Steve from the Panels to Pixels podcast.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 020 - Season 2 and Picard Show News Roundtable
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STDP 019 – Season 1 Roundtable

After a hiatus, we finally bring you the long awaited Season 1 Roundtable episode for Star Trek: Discovery! Joining Ruthie and I are my former co-host from this show, Adam, whom you can still hear on The Nerfherder Council Podcast, and Steve of the Panels to Pixels Podcast. We learn about his… well… let’s say Steve REALLY loves Denise Crosby! 🙂

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 019 - Season 1 Roundtable
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STDP 018 – Will You Take My Hand? (S1E15)

There was a lot to say about the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, S1E15, titled Will You Take My Hand? We also got more feedback about S1E14 The War Without, The War Within. Ruthie & I analyze the episode, discuss your feedback,

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 018 - Will You Take My Hand? (S1E15)
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STDP 017 – The War Without, The War Within (S1E14)

There was a lot to say about S1E14 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled The War Without, The War Within, and we also got a lot more feedback about S1E13 What’s Past Is Prologue. So, sit back, put on your favorite set of headphones or take your favorite driv…

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 017 - The War Without, The War Within (S1E14)
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STDP 016 – What’s Past Is Prologue (S1E13)

A lot of BIG STUFF happened during S1E13 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled What’s Past Is Prologue, so if you haven’t watched the episode, Ruthie and I would suggest you stop reading this now and don’t listen to us until you do!!!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 016 - What’s Past Is Prologue (S1E13)
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STDP 015 – Vaulting Ambition (S1E12)

Ruthie and I discuss Star Trek: Discovery S1E12, titled Vaulting Ambition. Our heroes continue to try to make it back home from the dog eat dog Mirror Universe, but get deeper and deeper. We both LOVED Vaulting Ambition!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 015 - Vaulting Ambition (S1E12)
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STDP 014 – The Wolf Inside (S1E11)

Ruthie and I discuss Star Trek: Discovery S1E11, titled The Wolf Inside. Our heroes continue to try to make it back home from the dog eat dog Mirror Universe. We see new but familiar races, several alternate versions of people we know,

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 014 - The Wolf Inside (S1E11)
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STDP 013 – Despite Yourself (S1E10)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, new co-host Ruthie and I discuss the mid-season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, S1E10, titled Despite Yourself. In the long standing tradition, Discovery travels to the Mirror Universe. Go Captain Killy!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 013 - Despite Yourself (S1E10)
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STDP 012 – Season 1A Roundtable

Star Trek Discovery returns on January 7th, but we return a bit early for a roundtable discussion on the first nine episodes of Season 1. Joining Adam and Brian are Mark Des Cotes of Solo Talk Media and my former co-host of The Walking Dead Talk Through, Ruthie Rink. With that, we have an important announcement.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 012 - Season 1A Roundtable
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STDP 011 – Into the Forest I Go (S1E9)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss the mid-season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, S1E9, titled Into the Forest I Go. I thought this was the best episode to date. Adam wasn’t as impressed, but also enjoyed the episode.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 011 - Into the Forest I Go (S1E9)
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STDP 010 – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (S1E8)

Star Trek: Discovery – S1E8 – “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 8, titled “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”. Saru knows fear! This episode does a deeper (but in my opi

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 010 - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (S1E8)
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STDP 009 – Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (S1E7)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 7, titled “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”. This episode marks the return of Harry Mudd, and a return to a classic Trek trope, a time loop!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 009 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (S1E7)
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STDP 008 – Lethe (S1E6)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 6, titled Lethe. This episode was a bit of a departure from the long story arc we have seen so far from this series.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 008 - Lethe (S1E6)
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STDP 007 – Choose Your Pain (S1E5)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 5, titled “Choose Your Pain”. We see our characters deal with the pain they are causing the tardigrade, Lorca be taken and then tortured by the Klingons,

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 007 - Choose Your Pain (S1E5)
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STDP 006 – The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry (S1E4)

On this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Adam and I discuss Season 1 Episode 4, titled The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry. It was a long title, but a really good episode!

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 006 - The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry (S1E4)
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STDP 005 – Context is for Kings (S1E3)

In this episode of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, we analyze Season 1 Episode 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, titled “Context is for Kings”. We finally get to see the USS Discovery, and many of the main cast we hadn’t met yet, including the Captain.

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Star Trek Discovery Podcast, featuring Picard and Lower Decks
STDP 005 - Context is for Kings (S1E3)
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