It's Got Star Trek

Two funny, smart and detail-oriented guys discuss episodes of Trek. Um, there’s also a third guy. The oddly-sprinkled swear words add nothing, they just limit the audience age range.

IGST is a phenomenal conversation on each episode of Star Trek. They have created sort of a non-randomizing algorithm that chooses the episode of the week — just one of the many ways you can hear the work that is put into this show. ***I am updating this review specifically in the hopes that I will get my frakking haiku.*** They have three hosts with vastly differing approaches, styles and personalities, who each also bring their own particular flavor to the show. This show is never boring, consistently funny, and never negs any of the Treks, which is a breath of fresh air to the fandom. I highly recommend this podcast to anyone who likes to laugh and enjoys Star Trek and examining the navel thereof! Estrellas Cincos! 🖖🏾

The winning formula for this series is simple: friends + Star Trek + hysterical soundbites = nerdy comedy gold. Patrick, Dan, and Jesse have an easy, comfortable style of banter that gives their recaps of current and classic Trek a friendly, accessible vibe. But it’s Dan’s perfectly clipped and hysterically timed pops of sound from all your favorite characters that sets this show far apart from any others I listen to. Shouts of “Chief O’Brien” or “holograms” or even well-spotted, rhythmic language — like the phrase “how deadly these bomb tubes are” from the Lower Decks episode “In the Cradle of Vexilon” — take on whole new meaning and become punctuation marks in their dialogue. Do they take that too far sometimes? 100%. But it’s worth it to endure the occasional tortured bit in order to hang out with these three buddies for an hour or so every Monday.

I have tried this a couple of times. It is not always grating, but it usually is. At the moment, I would recommend Enterprise Incidents as an alternative.