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Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWelcome to Starfleet Academy, Bitch!Welcome to Starfleet Academy, students, we hope you survive the experience!It’s the grimdark future of the 32nd century and a bunch of weird, traumatised kids are stuck together having to learn and grow into Starfleet officers! Will the main character be too annoying a main character? How many The O.C. references will Charlie make? How much will Miles lust after an espresso machine? And how delightful are those teachers?Kids These Days brings Holly Hunter and her wayward ward into the orbit of Starfleet Academy, along with Paul Giamatti who Paul Giamattis th...
2026-02-161h 34
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStarfleet Academy Prelude: So Much Child DeathDo you hear the siren song of synergy?That means we’ve got a brand new Star Trek show on the horizon and Miles and Charlie want in. With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the horizon, our brave lads are going to squeeze back into their school uniforms and try to remember how school works as they approach three episodes of Star Trek which deal with students at SFA. In ‘The First Duty,’ Wesley ‘THE BOY’ Crusher gets in with a guy who looks nothing like Tom Paris and is really too invested in being with the cool kids...
2026-02-021h 30
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual Trek Rewind: Mirror Universe EpisodesDue to various medical emergencies, our Starfleet Academy episodes are going to have to wait a little while. Instead, here's an old favourite episode: "They Exploded Odo!"We experience the original Mirror Universe episode and try to understand a system of government entirely based around betrayal (that isn't the Romulans'), also a fantastic episode of DS9 with some shock as there's a pretty brutal explosion of one cast member!13:58 TOS: Mirror, Mirror33:15 DS9: Crossover01:02:02 DISCO: Despite YourselfCasual Trek is by Charlie...
2026-01-191h 25
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual Trek Rewind: Gamer Picard (Remastered)Casual Trek's still in recovery mode from life and the festive period and we've wanted to fix the "Gamers" episode which was cursed with bad attempts to compress the file.Now, you can listen to the splendour of gaming in Star Trek!In Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Game", everyone gets addicted to Candy Crush except for Wesley Crusher, the big nerd!Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's incredible "Move Along Home" puts the cast in a board game escape room.Star Trek: Lower Decks' "Least Dangerous Game" shows where TTRPGs...
2026-01-051h 24
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastBy Grabthar’s Hammer, What a PodcastCharlie and Miles have ‘gifted’ each other episodes of Star Trek to talk about, both good and bad. The problem with being casual about Star Trek is you just don’t know all of what’s out there. That’s what the Casual Trek mission is for, after all. This year the gang are doing something different, talking about a film that’s adjacent to Star Trek, and even some Trek actors say is the best Star Trek movie: Galaxy Quest. They’ve even got guest stars Reanna Reid-Lobatto and Sean Corse from off of the Famicom Dojo joining th...
2025-12-221h 47
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWe Saved This Vessel Once & Section 31 Pitch SessionWelcome to an emergency bonus episode! Miles is off, but the fortnightly schedule continues. Charlie’s played a solo roleplaying game based on Star Trek. No, not the official one, but “We Saved This Vessel Once”. 01:16 - Solo Actual Play07:38 - Section 31 Pitch SessionPedant’s Corner and Pluggable: Reanna Reid-Lobatto’s got a GoFundMe (not a Just Giving like I said in the episode… although I don’t remember if that’s a thing or not). If you can, please help the Reid-Lobattos deal with the expense...
2025-12-0855 min
The Fortunate FISHES PodcastTwo Marathons a Day Across the Sahara Desert | Charlie Engle - Part 1Charlie Engel ran 4,300 miles across the Sahara Desert in 140-degree heat, sinking sand, and sandstorms—two marathons per day for 111 days. But the running wasn't the hard part. The hard part was unlearning everything he thought resilience meant.Most entrepreneurs think resilience comes from pushing harder. Charlie discovered it comes from detachment from outcomes while maintaining relentless forward motion.The Day-By-Day Framework:→ Week one almost killed the expedition—support vehicles quit, team ran out of water twice, producers threatened to pull the plug→ Day eight shift: stopped focusing on 4,300 miles ahead, focused only on...
2025-12-0252 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastFlesh KatamariWe’re still concerned with the Delta Quadrant as this episode of Casual Trek covers episodes from Modern Trek’s animated series concerning the Voyager, the Delta Quadrant and all those assorted antics. First up is the Prodigy Season One mid-season two-parter ‘A Moral Star’ where Dal and the Protostar gang plan to actually do a Starfleet with a little bit of heist antics as they try to break out the prisoners of their old home and then in Lower Decks’ ‘Twovix’ as Boimler grapples with the possibility of promotion, the crew of the Cerritos discover that when there’s an outbreak of...
2025-11-241h 06
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStar Trek Khan: Lost... In SpaceIt’s time for a podcast about a podcast!Yes, we’re talking about Star Trek: Khan, the official Star Trek podcast.What happened between Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Dr Rosalind Lear wants to know and brings some familiar faces to Ceti Alpha V to dig up some old recordings. Does she want to humanise this space tyrant or exonerate Kirk for his actions?Flashbacks, being stranded in a hostile wilderness, Naveen Andrews… Is this Lost? Kind of. At least, it’s enough for Charlie and Miles to talk...
2025-11-1056 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStar Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assmilation Squared - The TARDIS Enters DataWelcome to spooky season and we're horrifying Miles specifically with a crossover between Star Trek and his favourite fandom! Can you hear the finger of a monkey's paw curling?Assimilation Squared has been a threat on this show for a while, but why is that? Listen on and we'll explain the story and the many questionable art choices.04:09 - What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: 10:32 - Preamble and talking about licensed comics31:09 - What is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 actually about?Talking points inc...
2025-10-131h 15
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastInsert 2025 Reference HereInsert all your tired 2025 jokes here because after the last nine months, we’re pretty much out as this episode, we go All-Voyager, All the Time with a slate of episodes concerning ‘The Year of Hell,’ one of Voyager’s more infamous wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey moments. In ‘Before and After,’ we see the writers try and tease out what never comes to pass as a time-displaced Kes discovers something horrifying, Harry Kim married her two-year old daughter! Then we go into two-part territory as we enter ‘The Year of Hell’ and a lot of bad things happen to Voyager while Kurtwood Smith m...
2025-09-291h 38
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHolodickeryPut on your best private detective hat and prepare to get into character as we talk step into the Holodeck and prepare ourselves for inevitable disappointment. In ‘The Practical Joker,’ the Enterprise computer gets wacky while Bones, Sulu and Uhura fail to enjoy a primitive Holodeck. In ‘My Way,’ Odo uses AI to make girls like him and we get a lot of song and dance numbers (and the best IDW comics pitch) as we meet Vic Fontaine while in Strange New Worlds’ Space Adventure Hour, La’an gets to beta-test the Holodeck and nearly kills everyone on the Enterprise d...
2025-09-151h 33
Nfluence Church PodcastsThe Martyr's Crown | Pastor Lucas MilesFeaturing: Pastor Lucas Miles Pastor Lucas Miles delivered a powerful and moving message titled "The Martyr’s Crown," reflecting on the life, faith, and recent martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. The service was a time of both mourning and hope, as we remembered Charlie’s commitment to Christ and the impact his life continues to have around the world. This episode is a call to action: to reconcile broken relationships, share the gospel with urgency, and stand firm in faith no matter the cost.Key Takeaways:Even in times of loss and confusion, God’s Spirit...
2025-09-1450 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastNeelix's Kitchen NightmaresWelcome to Neelix’s Kitchen Nightmares you doughnuts!I’m Gordon Ramsey and we’ve got three meals for you to shove in your face from three questionable kitchens.Neelix’s kitchen’s covered in fluff and filth and seems to have been made in a large office meeting room. Will his food help Seven of Nine in “The Raven” or will it bring back dire flashbacks? I think we all know how it’s going to go.Next up is the unnamed chef of the Enterprise who actually has a full kitchen. Hoshi Sato comes...
2025-09-011h 54
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHere Today, Gorn TomorrowOkay, lets you and him fight! In shameless pursuit of ‘brand synergy,’ this episode of Casual Trek celebrates the return of Strange New Worlds to our streaming services by doing an episode about those lizardy bastards Kirk fought once at those rocks from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the Gorn! In ‘Arena,’ Kirk fights a string vest wearing space lizard while Spock watches and provides inane commentary (hey Spock-o, that’s OUR job) and then in the Strange New Worlds Season 2 finale and Season 3 opener ‘Hegemony Parts 1 and 2’ Pike spends more time hiding and less time building rudimentary cannons, Spock a...
2025-08-181h 30
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThe Naked Time is Naked NowIt’s episode 69 and so our brave Casual Explorers are showing their emotional age by watching the infamous ‘everyone gets drunk, horny and crazy’ episodes of Star Trek, TOS’ The Naked Time where George Takei shows off his impressive sword and TNG’s less impressive ‘The Naked Now’ where Charlie asks the most important question ‘if Data has no emotions, why did his creator build him to be fully functional, sexually?’ and Miles asks the second most important question ‘Why have this as an second episode?’ Meanwhile, Guest-Star Cele from ‘Celeste is Best’ gets to talk about Lower Decks’ own ‘everyone goes drunk and...
2025-08-041h 53
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDeath Stranding: Somehow Both Deep and Very StupidStrap on those babies and keep clear of the wet ghosts, we’re finally talking about Death Stranding! Yes, Casual Trek Episode 69’s going to have to wait as the boys are very excited about the work of the game designer, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor, Hideo Kojima.Sit back and listen to the attempts to explain what Death Stranding is actually about, the ways Hideo Kojima’s works are somehow both deep and very stupid, in the best possible ways.00:01:17 What Non-Star Trek or Death Stranding Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: 28 Years Later & the six harbour...
2025-07-211h 26
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastJeff 2: Weyoun BoogalooGrab your phials of glowing green goo and prepare to ham it up as we talk once more about Jeffrey Combs, the Philip Madoc of Star Trek (that’s a Classic Doctor Who reference) and three episodes where his many characters make large roles. Unfortunately, Weyoun is only in a few scenes of Deep Space Nine’s ‘Ties of Blood and Water’ and both Miles and Charlie try really hard not to get personal as Kira has to look after a seriously ill surrogate family figure, fortunately Shran more than makes up for it in Enterprise’s ‘Cease-Fire’ as Archer is draf...
2025-07-071h 40
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastMustard HandsThe ‘mystical pregnancy’ trope is a bit of an overused one in genre fiction and Star Trek visits that well so many times we had options for which ones to highlight here.The episode you all knew was coming is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Child” where Troi gets pregnant with a cosmic entity. We also see puppies and the Enterprise dealing with a horrendous disease as a B plot.Star Trek: Voyager had so many episodes for this trope, but we picked “Elogium” where Kes’ body accidentally jum...
2025-06-231h 49
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThe Hero of the Bajoran ResistanceGrab your tastiest sandwich and try not to spoil Twin Peaks as we return to Deep Space 9 with an all-DS9 extravaganza. We’re talking about the opening three-parter of season two of Deep Space Nine which, unlike the Augment three-parter of Enterprise we covered (Episode Title- We Have Wrath of Khan at Home), we’re discussing and placing on the Big List as one single entry and not three seperate ones. Watch as in ‘The Homecoming,’ Kira goes off to rescue Bajor’s greatest resistance fighter and gets no end of grief for it, then we see that Odo has an act...
2025-06-091h 35
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastGodshookIt’s Bank Holiday Monday, so let’s take it easy and talk about some comics. After promising it early in the show’s history, Charlie’s finally read the first arc of IDW’s Star Trek comic by Lanzig & Kelly. Look, we’re Casual Trek, this is the level of service you get from us.The first arc, “Godshock” features that classic Star Trek concept: thumbing your teeth at god, only this time it’s a bad thing as someone’s killing gigantic cosmic entities! Who did this and how can it be st...
2025-05-261h 08
The Regenerative Journey with Charlie ArnottJade Miles | Exploring the Grounded Festival and Regenerative FarmingCharlie welcomes Jade Miles to discuss her involvement in the Grounded festival, a sister event to Groundswell, celebrating regenerative farming practices. Jade shares her highlights from the festival, including inspiring talks by Felice Jacker and the Rebanks, and her commitment to rejoining AFSA. The episode also delves into the importance of solidarity among farmers and the extensive planning behind the festival. Jade and Charlie appreciate the hosts, Pig Farm, and look forward to future events that bring the farming community together. Episode Links: Watch this Ep and others here - https://www.youtube.com/@CharlieArnottRegenJourney/videos Gr...
2025-05-1204 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSpock’s Pondering His OrbPull out your helmet with the torch on and your spelunking gear because we’re talking about Caves! Miles and Charlie go potholing for Star Trek episodes featuring caves and find a Horta in TOS’ ‘Devil in the Dark’, bid farewell to a member of the TNG cast in ‘Final Mission’ and do you remember when everyone got trapped in a turbo lift in Lower Decks’ ‘Caves?’ Always use the buddy system! Follow safety regulations! EPISODE DISCUSSED: ‘Devil in the Dark,’ (07:13) ‘Final Mission,’ (28:33) and ‘Caves,’ (52:53)
Talking points include- Common Side Effects, Cyberpunk 2077, Caves, the Horta’s beat poetry, Spock calling Kirk ‘Jim,’ Ma...
2025-05-121h 15
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastA Piece of the ActingListen up, you palookas, it’s time for a Casual Trek about times people tried to copy humans. We’ve got a bona fide Mafia planet thanks to a discarded novel in “A Piece of the Action”, featuring some incredible Shacting.Next, those Next Generation goombahs find themselves in a casino inspired by another discarded novel in “The Royale”, a troubled script and a bad episode which is actually a fantastic time.Finally, those Prodigy kids just wanna do a Starfleet and find a culture inspired by the original Enterprise in “All the World’s a Stage”
2025-04-281h 21
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSpace Scamps: Black Hole SunStrum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999 (Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show) and in doing so, get to talk about psychadelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in,) and the dispatch of a weasly middle manager in ‘Earthbound’ and then with ‘The Troubled S...
2025-04-141h 24
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStar Trek Adventures - Roll to Do A StarfleetGrab your dice-bag and make sure your character sheets are up to date!As Charlie is ill and both hosts are really busy, we take a quick detour from talking about Star Trek the TV Show to talk about Star Trek Adventures Tabletop RPG by Modiphius Entertainment. In his other side-career as a Gaming Journalist, Charlie got to try out a review copy with his gaming group and goes over the ensuing data. If you ever wanted your episode of Casual Trek to be 80% Charlie and 20% Miles, this one is for you! Find out Miles’ potted history wi...
2025-03-3152 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSave the PunksIt's time to get your stolen spaceship hurtling round the sun and going back in time to the 1980’s with “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”!We’re joined by our occasional editor and perpetual Pokémon expert, Reanna Reid-Lobatto, with some news about whales (and transparent aluminium).There’s some impressive Shacting as Spock and the crew get up to hijinks in order to get whales going back to the future!Then we’ve got the second part of this ‘bus punk’ duology with Picard’s “Watcher”, where we’re reminded why ICE should be abolished...
2025-03-171h 46
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDathon Wants StorytimeTemba, his arms wide!We have a new episode of Casual Trek for you and it’s about language, no, not naughty language, although we’re both British so we’re VERY good at that. We’re talking about times where language and communication have been important Trekian themes! First, everyone on Deep Space Nine is talking gibberish instead of Technobabble in ‘Babel’ while in Strange New Worlds, Uhura’s first away mission goes horribly awry when she has to communicate with the ‘Children of the Comet’ and finally, we deal with one of The Next Generation’s best episodes as w...
2025-03-031h 28
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSarek: Vulcan as a Muthaf***aBetter lock up your familial issues and not talk about things with your parents as we delve into possibly one of the worst fathers in Science-Fiction (at least this one has an excuse for emotional distance) as we talk about the most Vulcan of Vulcans, Spock (and Michael Burnham’s and Sybok’s) dad, Sarek. Is he well-meaning, or, as Miles believes, has definately eaten one of his own children like a Goya painting? Our first trip is to go Disco with ‘Lethe’ as Michael Burnham discovers that her adopted dad has been offloading his guilt complexes onto her. Then in...
2025-02-171h 29
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStar Trek: Section 31 - We're SorryIt’s finally here! The Section 31 movie, wanted by almost no one and quietly put out onto Paramount Plus looking like a bad attempt to be a Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad (the bad one) and Borderlands: The Movie.
To celebrate, Charlie and Miles have formed a ragtag band of bantering ne’er do wells including Cele from Celeste is Best and Sean from Famicom Dojo. They carry out a four-person relay recap, pitch their own versions of a Section 31 movie and try to say something good about it!
00:03:19 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Bee...
2025-02-032h 07
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDeath by Ceiling Rocks
Quick, put on your secret black leather uniform and prepare yourself for moral dubiousness as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming film- ‘Star Trek: Section 31.’ With the film debuting in just a few days after this episode drops, Miles and Charlie prepare themselves by choosing three episodes tangentially related to the forthcoming film, in ‘Inquisition,’ we and Julian Bashier meet Section 31 and all Bashier wants are Scone and Jams, then in ‘Yesterday’s Enterprise,’ we slip into an alternate universe/Tasha Yar fixfic and meet Captain Rachel Garrett (who will apprantly be in this movie) and we encounter that most deadly St...
2025-01-201h 49
Building ExcellenceCharlie Duke - Astronaut & Apollo 16 Moon Walker On Fulfillment, Fear, Forgiveness, & Faith#194: Charlie Duke is a former Astronaut & Apollo 16 Lunar Model pilot who became the 10th and youngest human being to ever walk on the surface of the moon. He has also served in many other critical historical events. On Apollo 11, the first ever moon landing, Neil Armstrong asked Charlie to serve at CAPCOM (which is the voice of Houston/mission control when they landed on the moon). He served back up on Apollo 13 working tirelessly to help safely bring back his fellow astronauts. Charlie attended the US Naval Academy before becoming a fighter pilot in the...
2025-01-0654 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHuman JankDon’t click on those ‘Unification Explained YouTube’ videos! Miles and Charlie open 2025 by talking about the OTOY short film ‘765874 Unification’ and honestly, for those of you disappointed that there were no lumps of coal in our Christmas Special… this is it, this is the coal. If this is (as the comments say) ‘Proper Star Trek,’ what do the Casuals who rank Tuvix as 44 out of 144 on their Big List (at time of recording) have to say about this and can they say anything good?Episode Mentioned: 765874 Unification (12:35)
2025-01-061h 02
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastNo Lump of Coal This YearIt’s the end of another year for Casual Trek, so Charlie and Miles have picked out episodes to gift each other!It’s been quite a year, all in all, so they’ve both been merciful and decided to go for some fun episodes.Charlie’s gift to Miles is Space:1999’s Nick Tate guest starring in a Miles O’Brien spy drama in “Honour Among Thieves”Miles’ gift to Charlie is some amnesia-based hijinks around a castle in “Among the Lotus Eaters”And for two episodes about betrayal with ‘A...
2024-12-231h 23
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDon't Put Your Dick in the Space HolePut on your biggest shoulder pads, your pointy ears and start being secretive because we’re looking at one of Star Trek’s dastardly duplicitous Romulans and we’ve recruited Celeste from the Nerd and Tie network to divulge secrets!
In ‘The Enterprise Incident,’(TOS) we see Kirk do THE WORST Mission Impossible Mission ever while Spock gets his flirt on, then in ‘The Enemy,’ (TNG) we get to see one of SF’s greatest performers make the first of three appearances with Andreas Katsulas’ Commander Tomalak and Worf ABSOLUTELY kills a guy (and there was definitely a meeting) and the...
2024-12-091h 58
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastMoopsy Did One or Two Things WrongMoopsy!
As Lower Decks is back for the last time, we’re looking at three animated Star Trek episodes, specifically ones about strange creatures.
The Eye of the Beholder brings us weird dopey-looking elephant slug things who are actually more evolved than humans!
A Tribble Called Quest brings us all kinds of mutant tribbles including a bizarre horrible Tribble with a face! Ugh…
I Have No Bones, Yet I Must Scream brings us an adorable monster in Moopsy, who may have done one or two things wrong.
Moopsy!
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2024-11-111h 34
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSex Ghost - Coast to CoastIt’s Halloween time again! Put on your sexy Star Trek costume and make sure you’re fully in control of your faculties because you might not be entirely you in there!This time, our Casual Explorers decided to explore some of the many psychic and or energy beings who can just pop inside your flesh and blood as easy as a pair of boots.In Enterprise’s ‘Observer Effect,’ Trip and Hoshi get sick off Klingon rubbish while Travis and Reed get possessed by one very eager energy being and one who is basically #quietquitt...
2024-10-281h 49
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastBanned by the Beeb II: Garth of Izar's Glam Rock BandDust off your illegal VHS tapes and be prepared to write a strongly worded letter to Points of View because we’re back with the second part of our ‘Banned by the Beeb’ two-parter looking at three more episodes of Star Trek that suffered the wrath of British censorship. We’re back with three episodes, the final two banned TOS episodes, starting with ‘The Empath’ where William Shatner has to do some Dark Place style slow-motion running and McCoy definitely violates some medical practices as our latest butt-headed aliens the Vians pull out the chains and then with ‘Whom Gods Destroy’...
2024-10-141h 54
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDeepfake Riker - Guest Starring Sean CorseINTERLOPER!
We have an interloper in the podcast! It’s Sean Corse of Famicom Dojo and Two Boobs Watch the Tube fame, here in the spirit of Nerd & Tie unification.
This episode we’re looking at the Unification trilogy, a multi-part story that spans multiple Star Trek series and over 800 years! First up, Picard and Data go to Romulus to hunt down Spock, who might have turned traitor! We also have Riker chatting up a multi-armed widow and a junkyard guy who has way too many face-folds.
Then, we fast forward to Discovery in t...
2024-09-301h 59
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastBanned by the BeebShow Notes: Despite what Americans may think, moral panics about TV exist everywhere and today, we begin the exploration of a doozy. The start of a two-part look into four episodes of Star Trek that came a cropper at the hands of Auntie Beeb (a not-so affectionate term for the BBC) that of course allows Miles to indulge in one of his favourite talking points about British movie culture - Video Nasties! Because of this, we’re only looking at two episodes per part. In ‘Miri,’ we see some very familiar style backlots and some very 1960s ways of talkin...
2024-09-161h 12
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastKill God with a Fucking Rock!SHOW NOTES: It’s the fiftieth numbered episode! Do our brave and casual explorers want to do something special? Do they want to drastically alter the podcast’s format and mission statement (Miles is still holding out for #blakesboys), not particually, but they’re interested in when Star Trek’s done it! Join them as they finally talk about Star Trek The Original Series’ second attempt at securing a series as we meet Captain James R. Kirk as he goes ‘Where No-Man Has Gone Before’ and proceeds to meet our first Godlike being who needs a swift beating. Then, in Discovery’s...
2024-09-021h 49
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStill Casual After All These YearsIt’s Casual Trek’s third anniversary! Can we still call ourselves casuals after all this time? Probably. In this episode we have a look at what exciting things we’ve discovered in the past year, such as: tolerating Neelix, hating Peanut Hamper, not knowing who all the bridge crew on Discovery are and more! We set each other some questions, and even had some questions from the audience!Enjoy, and next episode we’ll be celebrating 50 episodes by talking about the times that Star Trek repiloted itself! 00:01:12 What non...
2024-08-191h 18
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWe Have The Wrath of Khan at HomeThose wacky Soongs are at it again, proving that Data’s the only good one of the lineage as Eugenics criminal Dr Arik Soong has some genetically engineered children who are out causing diplomatic incidents.That’s right, we’ve got not one, not two but three Enterprise episodes as we watch all of the Augment trilogy in one go. Should they be ranked as one episode or three? How much does this want to be Wrath of Khan? Have they stopped with the whole ‘Space War on Terror’ and does Earth look less like...
2024-08-041h 37
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThey’re Just Weird Little GuysPull out two strips of Gold-Pressed Latinum and submit them in the little box to listen to our episode on the Farenghi, Star Trek The Next Generation’s first attempt at a recurring villain race which went incredibly poorly for everyone concerned. From their first appearance in the show when they act like incredibly hyperactive gerbils in the The Last Outpost to their most recent focus in Star Trek Prodigy where we find out more about Dal’s past and the conflict between his old life and his new life in First Con-tact to one of Deep Space Nine’s many a...
2024-07-221h 33
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSpace ScampsAfter watching some times Star Trek delved into Cosmic Horror, Miles might have told Charlie ‘Oh, this stuff is tame, let’s watch Space 1999’ instead. So, for this episode, we are now rebranding as #spacescamps as we talk about the greatest collection of space adventuring office workers Moonbase Alpha has to offer in Gerry Anderson’s Space 1999. After we briefly gloss over the opening episode ‘Breakaway,’ we discuss Brian Blessed being out-hammed by the amazingly named JOHN SHRAPNEL in ‘Death’s Other Dominion’ (27:36), things get a bit tentacle monster in ‘Dragon’s Domain’ (40:26), watch some amazing class politics and screams of ‘MUUUUUUUTANT’ in ‘Mi...
2024-07-081h 33
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastA Face in SpaceStar Trek’s universe is bizarre and horrifying at times. Cosmic beings summon orcs to stab you in the back, alternate versions of your flagship get stuck in a wormhole, nonlinear entities get taught about time through memories of baseball, love and death.
It’s all a bit weird and we’re going to revel in it today by talking about cosmic horror.
Ships full of Vulcans get a rough time today, starting with The Immunity Syndrome where a space amoeba kills them and the rest of a solar system. Can the crew discover a solution when their energy and the sh...
2024-06-241h 44
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastI’m Sorry, I Can’t Do That, B’ElannaCheck your software and make-sure to update your anti-viral software because our Casual Explorers are looking at times when Artifical Intelligence went ‘Wibbly’ in the first episode, Voyager’s ‘Dreadnought,’ Torres deals with a super-intelligent missile from her past, then in Discovery’s ‘Stormy Weather,’ we do some exploration in a dark abyss while the Discovery’s sentient computer struggles with self-doubt about her own skills and talents (and gurl, same) and then, Miles has to endure ‘A Mathmatically Perfect Redemption’ and has to deal with his most hated Lower Decks character and consistently get their name wrong, on a completely seperate ta...
2024-06-101h 45
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastQ Flash Noise!SHOW NOTES: He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty cosmic entity! Our casual travellers decided to let themselves in for a time and experiment with cosmic god-like powers (powered by subtle audio cues and sound effects) while they watch three episodes featuring John DeLancie’s cosmic japster ‘Q’ (Miles is surprised at no point do they make a reference to a similar role DeLancie plays in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’), at first they watch Baby-Faced Season 1 Riker do his own experimenting with Q-Flash Noises in ‘Hide and Q,’ see Q get brought down to human size sans pants...
2024-05-271h 50
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastJoran Dax is No HannibalIt’s time to draw some dots all over yourselves as Casual Trek’s discussing Dax! This one’s a Ko-Fi donor episode, so thanks Ben for the opportunity to talk about some more Trill shenanigans.
We normally talk about three different shows but here we’re looking at three different Dax hosts. There’s also a weird sub-theme of muuuurder.
In “Dax”, Jadzia’s on trial for a murder that one of Dax’s previous hosts may have done. We’ve got Odo in detective mode, a trial in Quark’s bar and a gloriously disinterested judge.
In “Equilibrium”, we delve into the dark pas...
2024-05-131h 43
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastGo Nick a StarshipSHOW NOTES: Grab your popcorn, take a sledgehammer to your 80s Pan N’Scan VHS (Disclaimer: Casual Trek endorses Physical Media, just, just not Pan N’Scan) and climb into your favourite beep-chair as Casual Trek goes to the movies In Search of Spock for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock! But, we have a little B-Feature before we hit our A-Picture and so we’re also covering the other time a member of the Enterprise stole the Enterprise because the needs of the one, outweighed the needs of the many, ‘The Menagerie,’ a clever way to reuse the unaired pi...
2024-04-291h 42
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThreshold is Lovecraftian HorrorCasual Trek has ranked 97 episodes and two movies, so we decided to do something special for when we ranked our hundredth item on our big list.
It would finally be time to rank the most infamous episode of Star Trek: Voyager! That’s right, it’s Threshold!
While we could fill an hour and a forty minutes talking about one episode, but rather than doing that we’ve decided to have some Trekxtra Curricular studies. As well as being the bestselling author of TekWars, William Shatner also released multiple albums. We decided to put ourselves through his first album, The Transf...
2024-04-151h 40
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCaptain Picard’s Sexy Bald HeadSHOWNOTES
Great Scott! We’ve a new season of Discovery starting this week and Miles and Charlie want in on all the possible synergy and sponsorship deals talking about BRAND NEW STAR TREK should entail. But we weren’t invited to the premier and Miles has just discovered ‘Taskmaster’ so he has no time to fly anywhere, but what they do have is the Trailer on YouTube and they spend a lot of time on YouTube. So our brave explorers have picked three episodes which might have a connection to what might happen in the show. In ‘Captain’s Holiday,’ we see Picard...
2024-04-011h 36
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWhatever Happens on the Holodeck…Look out, the Holodeck’s malfunctioning and we’re all trapped inside! And the safety protocols have been disabled! And the holograms are self aware!
Today we’re looking at the Holodeck in three different shows and all the horrors it can cause.
First up is The Big Sleep, which introduces Picard as the private dick, Dixon Hill and his entourage can’t stop touching things. We also both attempt to re-create Picard’s epic speech from the end of the episode.
Then we’ve got Kobayashi, where Dal tries to get through a Holodeck Kobayashi Maru with some of the best peo...
2024-03-181h 36
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastNo Starfleet, Just Have a Jelly BabySHOW NOTES: Because Miles’ schedule sometimes means he has to prioritise other shows, even shows that aren’t ours, we decide to do something quick and off the cuff and we end up with one of our longest episodes, go figure. Of course, we got Miles to talk about Doctor Who, what did we think would happen because that boy goes feral pretty quickly! Mainly talking about the four recent Doctor Who specials put on in the last few months, the boys talk toot about Star Beast’s, body horror and Ncuti Gatwa’s energy before Charlie asks Miles a lot of s...
2024-03-041h 54
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastSaying ‘Borg Babies’ Again and Again Until it Loses All MeaningWe’ve been Borged! Oh no!
Specifically, we’ve been I, Borged as each of today’s Borg-themed episodes are based in some way around Hugh Borg. I don’t think Borg’s his surname, but I don’t recall hearing any other name for him.
First up is I, Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crusher and LaForge have a new pet and it’s a deadly Borg! A traumatised Picard’s eager to use him to do a genocide and Guinan’s with him. Oh no!
Second we have Star Trek: Lower Decks’ I, Excretus where attempts to perfect a Holodec...
2024-02-191h 31
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastTrill Talk (guest-starring Celeste!)We’ve got a guest star!
Celeste of the Nerd & Tie Podcast and Celeste is Best joins the casual crew this episode to talk about the Trill. The species has always been a fascinating one and science fiction stand-in for conversations about gender and identity, so the three of us are going to delve into that in three different shows.
Star Trek: The Nest Generation’s “The Host” is the introduction to the Trill who look a little strange compared to what we’re used to. There’s a romance, a death and Riker volunteers to get a slug put in him. We a...
2024-02-051h 56
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastPlaying in the Time HoleSHOW NOTES: We’re throwing ourselves through The Time Tunnel as Casual Trek decides to travel back to the past and to the future in a discussion about Time Travel. Kirk, Spock and Erickson (who is THE worst) break history and Spock have to fix it in ‘Yesteryear’, Janeway and Paris have to dress up in Burger King Uniforms when they travel back in time a day in ‘Time and Again’ and La’an and A Kirk try out poutine and Chess hustle in Toronto in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Episodes include TAS: Yesteryear (14:38) VOY: Time and Again, (37:17) and SNW: Tomorro...
2024-01-221h 35
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWild Wild WestIt’s the wicki wicki wild Wild West! We’re putting on our worst cowboy voices and donning some coconuts so it sounds like we’re on horseback as we go into the Holodeck or to worlds where things are suspiciously like The Ancient West.
A Fistful of Datas has Worf resentfully taking his son to the Holodeck during downtime only for things to go awry after Data gets plugged into the ship. We also get Troi living her best life as a Western LARPer.
The Spectre of the Gun puts the away team into a weird half-built Wild West set wh...
2024-01-081h 27
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastAnother Casual ChristmasIt’s Christmas Day and we’re giving you the gift of a new episode of Casual Trek and we’re now, as is traditional, gifting each-other an episode of Star Trek each to cover for the holiday season. There must be something in the air because both Miles and Charlie decide to go with a nice present instead of any potential lumps of coal. Miles desire to make reperations for Tek War results in us getting a good example of film noir in Deep Space 9’s Necessary Evil while Charlie gifts Miles a chance to talk about both racism and post...
2023-12-251h 23
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual TekWelcome to Casual Tek, a podcast all about the prose of William Shatner!
Is that not what we’re doing here? Well, if only because we could use the name “Casual Tek” it is this time! After months of Charlie trying and failing to get a copy of TekWar he finally has one, so it’s time for he and Miles to delve into William Shatner’s attempt at a cyberpunk noir tale.
We do some reading from the book and try to explain what TekWar’s about, what the technology’s like and then desperately want to take some Tek in order t...
2023-12-111h 25
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCaptain Pike’s Gimp MaskSHOW NOTES: November will come and go as does our two-part look into Season 2 of Short Treks. Miles is trying to make sure we keep to time, but in attempting to sound high energy and keep things moving, he sounds like he’s about to try and throttle Charlie through the Zencastr feed. The first few minutes are a little scratchy in places, but it improves. Spock is a little shouty on his first day on the job as Una makes him engage in Q&A while Edward’s attempts at being THAT coworker ends in Tribble-y horror in ‘The Troubl...
2023-11-2752 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastKelpien Folk Horror MonolithSHOW NOTES
It's November, so our Casual Explorers have novels to write, but we also want to bring you the innovative Casual Content you crave, so we're going to go through all of Short Trek in a two part binge. We've make some new friends alongside Tilly as we discover that Ice Cream isn't a universal constant like Sweedish Meatballs (Babylon 5 fans will get that one) in Runaway while in the far-future, things feel a bit like the opener to most RPGs with FPS mechanics in Calypse. After that, things go a little bit folk horror for the Kelpians as...
2023-11-1349 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHolodeck of Horror!It’s Halloween, so it’s time for spooky episodes of Star Trek! There are some ominous cucumber sandwiches, some salt and a lot of air vents this year!
The Man Trap gives us the classic TOS villain of the Salt Vampire and some shapeshifting shenanigans. There’s also an amazing glove puppet plant.
Dead Stop has a brightly-lit rest stop with offers that are too good to be true. Including why it was on ‘spookiest Star Trek episode’ listicles.
Persistence of Vision brings us some horror in the Delta Quadrant as it looks like Janeway’s losing her mind. The characte...
2023-10-301h 35
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastOf Course You Know, This Means WorfIn today’s episode we’re having a look at Worf, a character who’s a rare series regular between two whole Star Trek shows. We wanted to have a look at some early stories of him in both TNG and DS9 and they both ended up being about bad actors wanting to ‘Make Qo’NoS Great Again’ in their own ways.
First we’ve got some rebellious Klingons making trouble in the Neutral Zone and Worf’s first time being torn between his new friends and his work friends in “Heart of Glory”.
Then we’re over to some rash decisions from th...
2023-10-161h 36
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHumans: The FlesheningIt’s time for Casual Trek and oh no… Earth’s been infiltrated by aliens!
Thanks to the generosity of Ko-Fi donor Cheryl, we’re talking about aliens on Earth. We’ve got a Chakotay episode of DS9 where he might well bone down with a Species 8472. Also what the fuck is Pon’Far night?
Then we’ve got the story of the real First Contact in Enterprise, with a cosy story about Vulcans living among us.
Then we get decidedly un-cosy as Enterprise embraces the War on Terror era derangements of America and suffers from a bit of the old xenophobia...
2023-10-021h 46
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThe Episode With A Rock That Looks Like a Dildo (feat. Matt Hardy)We’ve got our first guest star in today’s episode as we get the nonstop machine of comics crowdfunding Matthew Hardy to join us in talking about the First Lady of Star Trek: Majel Barrett!
Majel’s been in so many episodes, hell, so many SERIES of Star Trek over the years, so there’s a lot to work with here. We’ve got shockingly little Majel in the TOS episode that ostensibly is a spotlight focus on her. Then we’re in to the wild world of Lwaxana Troi as she gets kidnapped by Ferengi in TNG and that version...
2023-09-181h 47
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastOnce More With PhasersWe’re feeling a bit musical in today’s episode of Casual Trek. Charlie’s been eager to crowbar in a musical episode after realising it’ll get another episode of Picard ticked off our list, then Strange New Worlds provided us with the perfect opportunity to talk music!
We’ve got three episodes all about music. First up is Voyager with a classic Hubris of The Doctor episode where some Space Karens get fascinated with his singing, but do they love him for him, or just his programming? We also end up talking about AI art and the content slurry of...
2023-09-041h 22
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual Khan!It’s time for another Star Trek movie!
We’re looking at Wrath of Khan, the supposed best Star Trek movie, which means we’ll also be watching the Star Trek episode which introduced us to 90’s icon Khan Noonien Singh, a man who thinks himself Kirk’s greatest nemesis. Will he be? And where will these episodes rank on our big list?
18:56 The Original Series: Space Seed
55:15 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Talking points include: Diving into an ongoing comic partway through a run, the Venture Bros Radiant is the Blo...
2023-08-212h 03
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastA Casual AnniversaryOh my god it’s been a year already!
We decided after a self-indulgent episode celebrating our birthdays that we should do the same for the podcast. Things get unscripted, but we cover things like:
Friends call each other out on weird ideas and make them follow through
Marathoning television shows
The things that surprised us with Trek
Living in a post-scarcity world
Our favourite characters in each series
What we want to see next!
Talking points include: Star Trek, a lot of Star Trek, but also Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Slayers, Hannibal, The Suzy Iz...
2023-08-071h 03
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHow Much Brien?It’s Miles’ birthday and we’re here to celebrate it with a thematic episode of Casual Trek. And you know what? It’s also Charlie’s birthday, so we’re going to celebrate both hosts with a special episode dedicated to some of the most memorable Mileses and Charlies in Star Trek!
Miles O’Brien is a fantastic member of not one but two crews in Star Trek and we’ll get to see both those incarnations here, with The Wounded bringing us some reminders of O’Brien’s military history. He also gets into some engineering hijinks helping out a lizard man in...
2023-07-241h 46
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastYour Laws Are StupidDid you know that some planets in Star Trek might not have the best laws? Especially utopian ones which are suspiciously wary of joining the Federation.
Today we’ve got a trio of planets that are up to no good, from an algorithmic war, a fuck planet with some deadly attitudes about lawns and a sky city which will fail if you don’t plug a child into it for… some reason.
09:54 Star Trek: The Original Series - A Taste of Armageddon
36:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Justice
59:10 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
...
2023-07-101h 46
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastStrange New Synergy!SYNERGY!
Yes, it’s time to try and coordinate an episode of Casual Trek with the start of one of the new shows. Specifically it’s Strange New Worlds, a show which has been fantastic so far.
Being Charlie and Miles, we do have some difficulty keeping to the point and ultimately this is more of an episode where we talk about Balance of Terror and how very good it is.
11:48 Strange New Worlds “A Quality of Mercy”
43:37 The Original Series “Balance of Terror”
1:16:45 Strange New Worlds “The Broken Circle”
Talking points include: Mass Effect, Void Rivals, Transformers, Robert Kirkman’s Ouvre, The Walki...
2023-06-261h 44
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastShax’s Second Best DayIt’s time to call out some Bad Admirals! Why do admirals go bad in Starfleet? Oddly enough one of these episodes will get into it. We could have picked so many episodes for this one, and we’ve got some interesting choices including a couple of recent Trek outings.
We also talk about the awkward conversations on Voyager once Janeway de-Tuvixed Tuvok and Neelix for some reason and we cancel JL Picard for himself being a Badmiral.
If you want to pitch in and help us decide who’s the Worstmiral, come on down to the Nerd & Tie Discord after...
2023-06-121h 39
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastGuinan’s Angry Cat HandsIt’s time to get assimilated into the new episode of Casual Trek!
We’ve got some great episodes all about the ominous Borg. We’ve also got John DeLancie lounging on things and seeing a young Q here, wouldn’t Andy Samburg be a perfect Q? I’d love to see if he could be as ominous as John DeLancie, and we know he’d be good at the capering lunacy. We get some Frankenstein vibes from Drone which was not the episode I thought it would be, and then Let Sleeping Borg Lie gives us an excuse to check out Pr...
2023-05-291h 39
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThe Maquis Made Some Valid PointsWhat’s less casual than the Maquis? This episode we’re watching our first non-pilot two-parter with “The Maquis” which introduces some Federation rebels, something you didn’t often see apart from in the occasional colony as a one-off problem. Well, these folks are going to be a bit tricky both as a problem and an existential threat to the concept of the Federation. At least, that’s the potential of them. We watch a couple of episodes which aired around a fortnight apart and had different levels of effectiveness at showing the Maquis.
06:48 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Maquis”
43:21...
2023-05-151h 18
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastLord of the CasualsAfter having to sit through Tuvix, Miles and Charlie are feeling a little burnt out on Star Trek, so decided to talk about a book beloved to both of them- Lord of the Rings and they don't care how much they offend Tom Bombadil to do it! An attempt to talk about the book seriously briefly occurs before it devolves into the pleasures of saying the name 'Fatty Bolger,' Miles' school having a Tolkien Society (although as he's older, Miles is starting to think that was a ploy by his parents so he didn't want to go to the...
2023-05-011h 01
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastTuvix or Not TuvixWelcome to this inaugural meeting of the Brad Dourif Appreciation Society. Today we’re… wait, wait, that’s a different podcast. A private podcast.
We will be talking about Brad Dourif here, but we’ll also be talking about a number of other things including war criminals and Tuvix! Yes, we’re ripping that plaster off and talking about the merging of a good and awful character into a somehow worse character and what to do with him!
We’ve got it all though, a Neelix episode which might actually make you like Neelix, a Tuvok episode starring Brad Dourif and then fin...
2023-04-171h 36
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastVoyage to Adventure!Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Casual Trek! We talked about games in Star Trek last episode, now we’re playing a Star Trek choose your own adventure style game!
Voyage to Adventure is an old book and quite a weird one, being not one adventure but several short ones in different duty stations on the Enterprise.
Revel in my bad choices and Miles’ bad accents in this episode!
08:57 - The start of the book
11:28 - The first playthrough - Charlie on the bridge!
21:53 - The second playthrough - Charlie in science!
32:33 - The third playthrough - Char...
2023-04-031h 01
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastAllamaraine! (Fixed)Show Notes
***Properly Fixed Edition! Damn you AGIMUS for sabotaging our show!***
It’s games night here at Casual Trek! Crack open a steaming tin of gamer fuel and stretch those controller-twiddling thumbs!
We’ve got three episodes all about games today.
The Ktarian Game - A free to play puzzle game which looks very simple but is worryingly addictive
Chula - We get so annoying about this one and I can only apologise. Allamaraine!
Bat'leths & BiHnuchs was probably sold as an RPG but is more of a board game with purchasable DLC
Springball - Space Squash
We get into all...
2023-03-211h 36
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastAllamaraine!It’s games night here at Casual Trek! Crack open a steaming tin of gamer fuel and stretch those controller-twiddling thumbs!
We’ve got three episodes all about games today.
The Ktarian Game - A free to play puzzle game which looks very simple but is worryingly addictive
Chula - We get so annoying about this one and I can only apologise. Allamaraine!
Bat'leths & BiHnuchs was probably sold as an RPG but is more of a board game with purchasable DLC
Springball - Space Squash
We get into all of those games and some wacky nonsense of the first degree with...
2023-03-201h 26
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastGiant Vulcan!Whether played by Leonard Nimoy, Ethan Peck or even Zachary Quinto, The fantastic Mr Spock is one of the most popular characters in all of Star Trek. This episode we’re celebrating Spock by showing all manner of shenanigans; Angrily Horny Spock, Giant Spock and Freaky Friday Spock!
A quick note for the pedants: we forgot Jack Harlow’s song and talked about Harry Styles’ one again at the start of the SNW conversation which is probably all the statement you need on Jack Harlow’s song. Yes, this is a Star Trek podcast.
12:30 Star Trek: The Original Series - Amok Tim...
2023-03-061h 30
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastHoist By Our Own PicardSynergy! It’s what got me to force Miles to finally watch and rank the pilot episode of Picard!
We recorded this episode before watching the first episode of Picard season three, so we’ve picked the other two episodes based on guessing what’s going to happen thanks to the trailer. That means we’re covering the first appearance of Lore and of Evil Hologram Moriarty!
00:00:00 Opening
00:14:21 Star Trek TNG - Datalore
00:45:50 Star Trek TNG - Elementary, Dear Data
00:58:46 Miles enters ‘Sherlock Holmes pedant mode’
01:11:55 Picard - Remembrance
Miles is on the Breakfast In The Ruins podcast talking about some Marengh...
2023-02-201h 50
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastWhatever Happens in the Timestream Stays in the TimestreamWe’ve got our first Ko-Fi donor request today! It’s time for time loops! How annoying can we make this for everyone including each other? We’ve got three very good episodes from different Star Treks, and even better, we’ve got our first Ko-Fi donor request today! It’s time for time loops!
11:29 Star Trek Voyager - Coda
31:03 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Cause & Effect
54:34 Star Trek Discovery - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Charlie’s Kickstarter for Explosion High 2 can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exposionhigh/explosion-high-1-and-2
Talking points include: Hap...
2023-02-061h 25
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastMy Oath of Celibacy is on RecordIt’s time to go to the movies! Yes, we’re covering Star Trek: The Motion Picture! We’re also watching The Changeling which is a very comparable episode to the movie. It’s an episode where a giant floating electric toothbrush threatens the ship, Earth and causes the first redshirt deaths we’ve seen on the podcast so far!
00:00 Opening
07:12 The Original Series: The Changeling
35:58 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1:30:36 Miles singing when we got separated on the call
Talking points include: Alien, Flash Gordon, presenting the podcast in widescreen or pan & scan depending on your podcatcher, the Eccleston Doctor Who...
2023-01-231h 31
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDebt of HonourWe’ve got a slightly different episode today and a callback to our very first episode of Casual Trek!
We discovered Chris Claremont had written a Star Trek comic and HAD to check it out. So here, in lieu of our normal episodes, we’ve got a bonus episode where we review and talk about Debt of Honour. I know that’s not how honour is spelled on the book but I kept writing it that way and with Claremont as an anglophile, I figure he wouldn’t mind.
We open by talking about the man himself and a few other th...
2023-01-0957 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastA Very Casual ChristmasI hope you all had a nice festive time! This episode should be airing on Boxing Day here in the UK, so enjoy your time off work and listen to a couple of chaps as the ‘gift’ each other a Star Trek episode. Will we be overjoyed with festive cheer, or will we hope desperately that the other person kept the receipt?
Also this one’s a bit low energy, as Charlie was thick with a cold and there was quite a bit of lag on the line, so to counter this, maybe have a Lucozade or run about a bit as...
2022-12-261h 10
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastThe Jeffrey Combs Power HourIt’s Jeff time!
Jeffrey Combs has played roles in several different Trek shows, so when I first started putting together theme lists, a Jeffrey Combs Appreciation Episode was on the docket. Here we have him as a mad robot, an angry Andorian and a pair of cloned zealots of varying levels of faith.
00:00 Opening
14:48 Lower Decks: Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
36.40 Enterprise: The Andorian Incident
57:51 Deep Space Nine: Treachery, Faith and The Great River
Talking points include: favourite Jeffs, ranking of Jeff names, Jeff Minter, Babylon 5, Justice League Unlimited, HP Hatecraft and Harlan Ellison, System Mastery, Questionable Content, The Three Jo...
2022-12-121h 29
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastUncasual Power!Once more we throw ourselves into very un-Casual waters as Miles tries to tell Charlie whether or not it's worth Charlie's time to watch Jodie Whittaker's final episode of her tenure as Doctor Who. Will Charlie watch and have an opinion of his own? Jump to:
TIMECODE
53:00 to find out for youself.
Miles' first time in the editing chair, so the machine isn't as smoothly run as possible. Talking points include Doctor Who, our histories of watching Doctor Who, Age Inappropriate Doctor Who novels in Miles' Primary School Library, Doctor Who Actors, Doctor Who Companions, The Master, Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Jeph Loeb...
2022-12-051h 02
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastTroubled By TribblesIt’s time for some Junji Ito style body horror with three funny episodes about little furry creatures! I didn’t mean to lose it at the utter horror of it all, but I do.
Also Miles’ audio’s not great here. We’re trying to sort out the levels and the general audio, please stand by and hopefully we’ll be able to improve it soon.
00:00 Opening
10:32 The Original Series, The Trouble With Tribbles
33:16 Deep Space Nine, Trials and Tribble-Ations
52:50 The Animated Series, More Troubles, More Tribbles
Talking points include: Evil pets, Kevin O’Neill (we recorded this literally days before he...
2022-11-281h 18
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual ToonsThere are so many Star Trek shows that we’ve got three more pilot shows to watch! No, not Picard. We’re still putting that off.
There are enough animated Star Trek shows for us to have a whole episode based around them, and we’ll be mixing live action and animated shows from now on (mainly to help our Jeffrey Combs episode idea).
It took some effort for me to bother with Lower Decks and that was the first of these shows I saw. We’ll get into it a bit and I feel like me criticising Lower Decks episodes...
2022-11-141h 26
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastCasual Trek’s Castle of CreepinessIt’s Halloween and time for a spooooky Star Trek show!
Slightly less spooky is Miles’ audio which wasn’t great on this episode, let’s say that’s part of the spooky atmosphere.
0:00:00 Opening
0:16:50 The Next Generation - Genesis
0:40:39 Voyager - The Thaw
1:00:22 The Original Series - Catspaw
Talking points include: Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island, Trophy RPG, Midsommar, The T-Virus, Jordan Peterson being full of shit, the first Babylon 5 reference we’ve had in a while, Twin Peaks, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, The Five Doctors, Charlie is not sidelining doing a Casual Thunder...
2022-10-311h 25
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastOdo [CENSORED] Exploded!Oh you’re in for a special one today! Things get a bit crazed as we experience the Mirror Universe. You get to hear me sounding the most ignorant about DS9 that I ever have, despite it being a show I very much love. You also get to hear us literally lose our minds at one point. Miles keeps calling Ash Tyler Ash Taylor and I don’t correct him as I don’t care for Ash Tyler. Enjoy!
00:00 Opening
13:58 TOS: Mirror, Mirror
33:15 DS9: Crossover
01:02:02 DISCO: Despite Yourself
Talking points include: Holy Terror, Doomsday Clock, MASH, Justice League International, John Ostran...
2022-10-171h 25
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastA Lovely WalkHey, guess what? It’s an episode with no Star Trek this week!
We messed up some of the watching and had the dreaded life issues get in the way, so we’re talking about a Casual Trek… just not one in the stars.
Talking points include: The South Downs Way, Brighton both fair and foul, wandering Wisconsin, Ed Gein, light pollution and oddly enough, a few personal bits and pieces about anxiety, insomnia and meeting the ones we love.
Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd...
2022-10-0352 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastDaddy Beard of SadnessIt’s a Casual Trek episode all about the Enterprise Episode “Strange New World”.
What? There’s a whole show by that name? I guess we’d better cover that, too.
00:00 Opening
07:22 ENT: Strange New World
23:48 DISCO: If Memory Serves
46:08 SNW: Strange New Worlds
Talking points include: Peeing on a new planet, camping trips, space racism, Miles talking about Blakes 7 & Dr Who crossing over, tedious average worlds, Davros style wheelchair thingies, edging, the Mines of Moria, Supergirl, The Orville, The Ernest Cline School for Writing. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.
Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
Music by Alfred...
2022-09-191h 15
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastOh Dear, It’s Blackface!It’s an episode of Casual Trek all about Klingons! Qapla’!
It was so hot when we recorded this, I muted myself and had my fan on so many times during the recording and am amazed I didn’t pass out.
00:00:00 Opening
00:11:29 TOS: Errand of Mercy
00:29:18 TNG: Matter of Honour
00:47:16 DS9: House of Quark
When I was a child I found a corkscrew my dad left out from a night drinking wine with friends and thought it was weirdly like a d’k tahg. I’m amazed I never stabbed anyone with it.
Talking points include: Orks. Sigh… blackface. Space Vietnam. Sol...
2022-09-051h 04
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastBonus Episode 01 - Taste CalibrationYou’ve listened to Charlie and Miles talk about Star Trek pilots for a bit now, but who are they? What are their favourite Trek things before going into this task? There’s also a surprising amount of niche Brighton lore, too.
2022-08-2949 min
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastAttack of the PS1 Aliens!Hey, it’s episode two of Casual Trek!
We’re still watching the pilot episodes of Star Trek, so this is a long one, but we’ve had an idea for a gimmick which will help keep us on point with the recaps
00:00:00 Opening
00:06:41 VOY: Caretaker
00:37:17 ENT: Broken Bow
01:03:38 DISCO: Vulcan Hello / Battle at the Binary Stars
This is a mostly poorer set of pilots, but luckily they’re a lot of fun to talk about.
Where’s Picard, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Prodigy and The Animated Series in our examination of the pilots? Shh, we’re ignoring most of those for...
2022-08-221h 31
Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking PodcastFlat Galaxy TheoryHey, it’s episode one of Casual Trek! Consider this our Kobayashi Maru… and yours!
00:00:00 Opening
00:08:25 TOS: The Cage
00:34:57 TNG: Encounter at Farpoint
01:07:00 DS9: Emissary
It turns out there’s another episode called “The Emissary” which I think I keep calling this one. It’s not though, but we’ll get to that soon. Also my airdates aren’t 100% perfect, but I’ll be back on track for episode two. Please don’t correct me, I already know I goofed.
Talking points include: Ball aliens or butt aliens? Alf. 80’s Mall Chic. Detaching The Saucer. Reading your character description out loud instead of acting...
2022-08-081h 41
Startups for GoodCharlie Olson, co-founder and CEO of PandoCharlie Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Pando. Pando was founded after Charlie and his co-founder, Eric Lax, graduated from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 2017. Since inception Pando has signed hundreds of professional athletes and entrepreneurs into income pools and has raised a Series A from top fintech investors. Prior to his time at Stanford, Charlie worked with Bob Grady at Cheyenne Capital, a private equity firm based out of Jackson, WY. Concurrently, Charlie worked in search fund investing for Professor David Dodson and was a speechwriter and policy analyst for two governors. Charlie also holds two...
2021-12-0650 min
The Lucas Miles ShowEp. 110 - Charlie Kirk on Trump, Jesus, and Ideas that will Win the Future Charlie Kirk is many things - young, brilliant, a friend of President Donald Trump, even controversial, but more than any of these, he's a follower of Jesus. On this episode of The Lucas Miles Show, Charlie and Lucas go deep talking the importance of a personal relationship with Jesus, how progressive ideology has been shaped by Hegel and Kant, and the coming division within the Democratic party. Follow Lucas on Twitter: www.twitter.com/lucasmiles Follow Lucas on Instragram: www.instagram.com/mrlucasmilesOrder a Copy of Charlie Kirk's new book: https://www...
2020-09-1036 min