Antimatter Pod Anika and Liz

Anika and Liz get all dressed up to attend a wedding. They just have to figure out the meaning of life first. Easy, right?
It's a very special episode as we discuss the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery, "Life, Itself"!
We thought we were ready for Discovery to end, but we were wrong
Liz suffered a finale-related injury and Anika has wine
The Sega Star Trek: The Next Generation game (and also Jenny Nicholson's four-hour video essay about Disney's Galactic Starcruiser experience)
It feels like they were setting up Primarch Tahal as the big villain for season 6
We have even more feelings about Rayner than we do about the Galactic Starcruiser video
Moll's ending is not what we expected, but we like it
Discovery streaming movies when?
The epilogue! The Star Trek: Legacy we deserve!

Anika and Liz put buckets on their head and infiltrate a Breen ship, pausing along the way to have a serious personal conversation. We're discussing the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery (WE ARE NOT READY), "Lagrange Point"! Including...
What sort of ending do we want for Moll? 
We already have a crush on Primarch Tahal
Michael and Book parallel Michael and Ash in "Into the Forest I Go" - is infiltrating an enemy ship a date? 
We are briefly interrupted by an appearance from Anika's cat's butt
Paul and Hugh have been sidestepping drama all season and it's great? 
Saru: relationship role model
We're not NOT shipping Rayner/Tilly

Liz has done it AGAIN: she forgot to move her microphone. She's audible but a little echoey for the first 10 minutes, before she has a horrible realisation. 
Anika and Liz are spending their vacation AT THE LIBRARY, where they are checking out some books and checking in on Michael Burnham.
Every single thing in this episode is Sarek's fault
Libraries and archives are never apolitical
Primarch Ruhn heard there were drag queens doing storytime at the Eternal Archive, and he is NOT happy about it
Anika has been linking Labyrinth and Alice in Wonderland for YEARS
An alarming amount of people don't believe in atonement or redemption
Michael's riddle is, do you understand the point of Star Trek: Discovery?
Is the Federation bigoted against slime people?
"What I'm about to say is going to make it sound like I ship Vance and Rayner, and I want you to know that I do."

It is so awkward when you literally stick a guy in a refrigerator and then his death provides motivation for his grieving partner to go on a rampage. Anika and Liz discuss season 5, episode 7 of Star Trek: Discovery - "Erigah"(!!!).
It is DEVASTATING that this is Discovery's last season and we're going to lose Rayner as fast as we got him
Liz accidentally talks herself into shipping Michael/Nahn and also Nahn/Ortegas
We have unlocked Rayner's tragic backstory
Hot take: Michael is now a better captain than (prime) Georgiou
Anika is here to make it about Jack Crusher
We aren't puzzle people, but neither are the Discovery writers, and it kind of shows
Jett/Pelia has never been more canon

Anika and Liz infiltrate a pre-warp society, where they absolutely do not enter a race, that is clearly a trap. Not because of the human sacrifice, because of the running! 
Like episode 3, this felt a bit predictable, but ALSO like a rebuke to "Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach" and "Who Watches The Watchers", so we're not mad about it
What if obeying the Prime Directive is the unethical option? 
(Caretaker + Who Watches the Watchers) x (Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach + Sacred Ground) - Christopher Pike/Evil Ex + Michael "Fuck the Prime Directive" Burnham
Hugh Culber and ChatGPT therapy
Paul and Hugh are both at turning points, but it's not a crisis for them or their relationship
This season is the opposite of a mystery box
Discovery has always been a series where science and religion co-exist
Paramount, the most competent media company, accidentally took Anika off their Star Trek list and put her on the Knuckles list. So … we talk about Knuckles! 
Is Kovich a little too omniscient?
We are not here for fandom's fatshaming of Mary Wiseman

(Note: our episodes are getting shorter because the screeners are fairly low quality and don't have subtitles, so it's a bit harder to get deep into the weeds of a story than if we were recording as episodes air. But our day jobs are quite busy, so we need to record as far in advance as possible in order to make our self-imposed deadlines. It's a pickle!)
Anika and Liz beam over to an eerily familiar starship, steal a locket and a plush gecko, and discuss episode 5 of Star Trek: Discovery's fifth and final season, "Mirrors".
It's a double date for L'ak and Moll and Book and Michael!
We take it back about not being able to emotionally engage with L'ak
Liz has a theory about what this episode is setting up
We're checking in with Hugh
Respectfully, so far the puzzle isn't very puzzling
Rayner's performance anxiety