Episodes

Lower Decks Review: “Much Ado About Boimler” (1.07)
Sept. 21, 2020

Lower Decks Review: “Much Ado About Boimler” (1.07)

A transporter accident and a genetically engineered “dog” send Boimler and Tendi to the mysterious “Farm,” under the direction of the possibly sinister Division 14! In this week’s Lower Decks review episode of Positively Trek...

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Book Club: Q-in-Law
Sept. 18, 2020

Book Club: Q-in-Law

Very few adversaries are capable of bringing the great Captain Jean-Luc Picard to his knees, and now two of them are coming together to make his life miserable. Lwaxana Troi, ambassador from Betazed and mother of Counselor De...

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Putting Away the Rod Roddenberry Bunting
Sept. 15, 2020

Putting Away the Rod Roddenberry Bunting

September 8th was the 54th anniversary of Star Trek, and CBS went all out! Nearly four hours of panels and an all-day Star Trek television marathon marked the event, with cast from every Trek television show hosting online di...

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Lower Decks Review: “Terminal Provocations” (1.06)
Sept. 14, 2020

Lower Decks Review: “Terminal Provocations” (1.06)

In this week’s episode of Lower Decks, Ensign Fletcher makes life interesting for Mariner and Boimler, while Rutherford’s new holodeck training program proves to be a little less… helpful… than he was hoping. Dan and Bruce ar...

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Happy Star Trek Day!
Sept. 8, 2020

Happy Star Trek Day!

54 years ago today, U.S. audiences were first introduced to Star Trek with the airing of “The Man Trap” on NBC. Now, the face of the franchise spawned by those humble early days is much different, and could scarcely be imagin...

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Lower Decks Review: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (1.05)
Sept. 7, 2020

Lower Decks Review: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (1.05)

Undercover Parasites and Visually Impaired Teddy Bears The Cerritos is tasked with helping to implode a plummeting moon, Tendi and Rutherford are in awe over the U.S.S. Vancouver, and Boimler has a girlfriend?!? With this epi...

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Book Club: Hell’s Mirror
Sept. 4, 2020

Book Club: Hell’s Mirror

In the infamous “Mirror Universe,” Khan Noonien Singh has been awoken. However, contrary to his Prime Universe counterpart, this Khan wishes to spread the ideals of peace and democracy across a fractured and violent galaxy. C...

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Steve Shives, Actually
Sept. 1, 2020

Steve Shives, Actually

Positively Trek 34: Steve Shives, ActuallyPlus: Star Trek: Discovery to Air on Network Television? On this week’s Positively Trek Flagship show, Dan and Bruce are joined once again by Steve Shives, a YouTuber famous for many ...

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Lower Decks Review: “Moist Vessel” (1.04)
Aug. 31, 2020

Lower Decks Review: “Moist Vessel” (1.04)

This week, Dan and Bruce are joined by renowned YouTuber Steve Shives to discuss “Moist Vessel,” the fourth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks! Captain Freeman attempts to manipulate Mariner into transferring off the Cerritos ...

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Down the Charo Rabbit Hole!
Aug. 25, 2020

Down the Charo Rabbit Hole!

In this week’s episode of the Flagship show of Positively Trek, Bruce and Dan run down the week’s top Star Trek stories. We wish a fond farewell to Ben Cross, who played Sarek in the 2009 Star Trek film. We report on Short Tr...

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Lower Decks Review: “Temporal Edict” (1.03)
Aug. 24, 2020

Lower Decks Review: “Temporal Edict” (1.03)

Star Trek: Lower Decks continues with “Temporal Edict.” The captain hands down a new directive: no more buffer time! This leads to a confrontation between the Gelrakians and a Cerritos away team, and first officer Ransom and ...

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Book Club: More Beautiful than Death
Aug. 21, 2020

Book Club: More Beautiful than Death

Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are assigned to escort Ambassador Sarek to the planet Akiron, a world rich in dilithium deposits. However, upon arrival, they discover the people of Akiron under attack by strange c...

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More Short Treks?
Aug. 18, 2020

More Short Treks?

In this week’s episode of the Flagship show of Positively Trek, Dan Gunther & Bruce Gibson discuss all the news from the Star Trek Universe, including the hiring of a new director for the Nickelodeon animated show, Star Trek:...

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Lower Decks Review: “Envoys” (1.02)
Aug. 17, 2020

Lower Decks Review: “Envoys” (1.02)

The newest Star Trek animated series continues! Boimler and Mariner escort a Klingon general to diplomatic negotiations. However, when the general gets drunk and steals the shuttlecraft, Boimler’s confidence is shaken to the ...

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A 1930s Gangster Star Trek Movie?
Aug. 11, 2020

A 1930s Gangster Star Trek Movie?

Emma Watts, the new film chief at Paramount Pictures, has decided to make the direction of the Star Trek film franchise a priority. But what will be the next Trek film? In this week’s Positively Trek, Bruce and Dan discuss th...

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Lower Decks Review: "Second Contact" (1.01)
Aug. 10, 2020

Lower Decks Review: "Second Contact" (1.01)

These are the voyages of the starship Cerritos. Her mission: to boldly go where others have gone before! In this, the first episode of the Positively Trek Episode Review show, Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther discuss “Second Cont...

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Book Club: Strangers From the Sky
Aug. 7, 2020

Book Club: Strangers From the Sky

In the history of the Federation, the story of first contact between Humans and Vulcans is well-known: Earth astronauts came to the rescue of a Vulcan ship, stranded in our system’s asteroid belt. The rest is, as they say, hi...

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Emmy-Worthy Star Trek
Aug. 4, 2020

Emmy-Worthy Star Trek

Lots going on in the Star Trek Universe this week! We have a release date for Discovery season 3. Lower Decks starts this week. Sonequa Martin-Green had a baby. There are t-shirts being released for every episode of Lower Dec...

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Star Trek Universe at SDCC 2020!
July 28, 2020

Star Trek Universe at SDCC 2020!

Are we going to let a little thing like a worldwide pandemic stop us from going to San Diego Comic Con? Well… yes, actually. That stuff’s pretty dangerous. But nothing is stopping the Comic Con from coming to us! In this week...

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Is it Canon?
July 21, 2020

Is it Canon?

In this week’s Positively Trek, Dan and Bruce are joined by veteran Star Trek authors Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. We talk about the Lower Decks trailer, as well as an in-depth discussion about that dreaded C-word when it c...

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The Lower Decks Trailer is Here!
July 14, 2020

The Lower Decks Trailer is Here!

We finally have a trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Lower Decks! Let’s talk about that. Plus, we have information about Star Trek panels at ComicCon@Home, streaming directly to YouTube on July 23rd. We also talk about a rec...

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Taking Comfort From Star Trek in the Age of COVID
July 7, 2020

Taking Comfort From Star Trek in the Age of COVID

It turns out that Star Trek fans are everywhere! On this week’s episode of Positively Trek , Dan and Bruce welcome Dr. Brian Goldman, an ER doctor, healthcare pundit, author, and radio host to the show. We discuss his fandom,...

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Cloudy With a Chance of Temporal Anomalies
June 30, 2020

Cloudy With a Chance of Temporal Anomalies

This week on Positively Trek, Bruce and Dan are joined by KMEG’s Katie Nickolaou, Meteorologist for Siouxland News At Sunrise. The creator of the Fandom Forecasts, Katie is a huge fan of Star Trek and has had the joy of integ...

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Exploring Alternate Worlds with The Templin Institute
June 23, 2020

Exploring Alternate Worlds with The Templin Institute

Since 2017, The Templin Institute has been exploring alternate worlds every week on their YouTube channel. These include deep dives into the universe of Star Trek, with videos detailing The Romulan Empire, the Klingon Empire,...

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