Trek In Time

Matt and Sean talk about the best horror Star Trek has ever filmed, in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 2, "The Griffin Incident." A derelict Federation ship, a baby crying down a dark hallway, and a crew that stops trusting its own eyes. Matt reaches for Solaris and The Thing, Sean reaches for Event Horizon, and they agree the landing sticks. Also in the mailbag: the Voth, dinosaurs, and one very wrong answer involving Peter Griffin.
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Chapters:
00:00: Intro
01:42: Mailbag
05:31: Episode Description & This Time in History
08:57: Today’s Discussion
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Matt and Sean talk about a fun dinosaur romp that collapses by the halfway point in Star Trek SNW Season 4, Episode 1, "Valles Marineris." The T. Rex encounter works, Pelia's Doctor Who joke works, and then the plot logic falls apart. Nobody on the best crew in Starfleet asks the obvious question about the mysterious fifth planet. So does the season four premiere earn its time travel setup? Or does it hand wave away the only choice that mattered?
Chapters:
00:00: Intro
02:01: Feedback
04:47: Today’s Episode
05:17: This Time in History
07:30: Today’s Discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoYlPKc4Pb8
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One five-minute scene made Matt sit up: a man flatly refuses to accept he carries a deadly disease, and it feels ripped from 2026. Matt and Sean talk about the accidental anti-vax parable buried in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 20, "The Way to Eden." Space hippies hijack the Enterprise chasing paradise, and one man's denial of the science reads very differently today. So is this clunker secretly ahead of its time? Or does the DayGlo nonsense smother the one idea worth keeping?
Chapters:
00:00: Intro
02:37: Mailbag
04:17: Today’s Episode
05:04: This Time in History
10:46: Today’s Discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpvsIgEOow
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Matt and Sean talk about the rare late-season bright spot in Star Trek TOS Season 3, Episode 21, "The Cloud Minders." After weeks of episodes that dragged, this one finally feels like real Trek again. They pick apart why it works, where it still limps, and what a bigger budget might have done for the back half of a struggling season 3. This episode first aired on February 28, 1969.
Chapters:
00:00: Intro
03:46: Mailbag
05:53: Today’s Episode
06:24: This Time in History
10:48: Today’s Discussion
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQctuffaeGM
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Get in touch: https://trekintime.show/contact/
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