Transporter Room 3: The Star Trek Podcast

It's been a long road, getting from there to here... with here being our final Transporter Room 3 of 2020. This week, we review "Terra Firma, Part 2" and look back at Star Trek: Discovery's third season so far. And there be plenty of Red Shirts here, too. 

Happy 200th episode! To celebrate, Phil literally recorded in his parents’ basement (a step up from the van, honestly) and did our first ever feature commentary track -- for Star Trek: Generations as it hits its 26th anniversary!

Michael is back with her crew and we're back with a new TR3! This week, we review the newest (and very exciting) episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "People of Earth," as well as last week's episode, “Far From Home.”

This week, one of the biggest Star Trek fans we know beams on down to Transporter Room 3: Adam Mallinger. You might know him better as Bitter Script Reader on Twitter! With Scott out this week, Adam joins TR3 to celebrate the anniversary of Deep Space Nine’s “Take Me Out to the Holosuite,” which just turned 22 this month.

Burnham is back. And she shot out of a wormhole and hit a guy. "That Hope Is You" launches us and one of our favorite Trek characters to the 32nd century, and we learn everything about this strange new time as Michael does. What's "The Burn"? Who is this Book guy? And why is his cat so damn cute? We break down all that and more this week.

Star Trek: Lower Decks' first season has come to an end (sad face) but, wow, what a great freshman debut. We review the big finale and then creator Mike McMahan beams in to discuss all the revelations… and drop some hints about Season 2!

"Crisis Point" is Lower Decks' version of Star Trek VI porn which is very much our jam. Every Trek feature film iteration gets skewered in this deceptively poignant homage to the franchise's big screen legacy, and… oh, just listen to us gush about it in our review. And we look back at Next Generation’s classic “Family” for its 30th (!) anniversary.

Welcome back. It's been awhile! This week, it's a love fest as we catch up on the past several episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, including the latest segment, "Much Ado About Boimler."

We're back with our review of the Star Trek: Lower Decks pilot, plus we revisit Star Trek: The Animated Series' final episode -- "The Counter-Clock Incident." And then Lower decks creator Mike McMahan and star Tawny Newsome (Ensign Beckett Mariner) beam in to TR3 to talk canon, uniforms, cameos, and to take a Star Trek quiz!

Cardassians and Romulans working together ends about as well as you would expect in this gripping Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-parter which made Trek history. (You'll have to listen to find out how.)

“Mr. Worf... Fire.” When Riker uttered those three words 30 years ago today in “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I,” they forever changed the course of Star Trek. This week, Justin Bolger joins us once again, this time for a deep-dive into the legacy of the first season-finale cliffhanger in Trek history.

Recent days have been troubling at best. Star Trek is many things to many people, but right now? Its mission statement is important to all of us. The only way through this is together. And this week, we break down how key Star Trek episodes and movies prove that.

In honor of the 26th anniversary of the classic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Wire,” we’re taking a deep dive into why this great Garak story still holds up.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “In the Pale Moonlight” only gets better with age. 22 years ago this week, Sisko got one Romulan killed to save millions and decided he could “live with that” - forever changing Star Trek in the process.

Star Trek: Picard's first season finale ended with one hell of a twist -- a couple of them, actually -- calling back to things in two other Patrick Stewart movies: X3 and Star Trek: Nemesis! And showrunner Michael Chabon beams in to TR3 to break it all down!

Picard's first season has given us many surprising and interesting additions to the Final Frontier, but this week's first half of the season finale, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1," is A LOT. From another [BLANK] to an evil [BLANK], we unpack everything happening here.

With Phil still away on Risa, special guest host Matt Fowler -- yes, THE Matt Fowler -- takes Phil’s seat for the week, bringing his casual, normal person’s amount of Star Trek knowledge to Transporter Room 3! We dig into this week’s episode of Picard, hit the Reader Mailbag for a potential Star Trek: First Contact connection to the show, ponder the eternal struggle between the Borg and the Smiths, and, of course, pay tribute to our Red Shirt(s) of the Week.

Man, Star Trek: Picard just nailed it in Episode 7, “Nepenthe,” the episode that reunites Jean-Luc with Riker and Troi. We discuss that, and then Hugh actor Jonathan Del Arco uses the Sikarian spatial trajector to visit TR3 for a chat about his beloved character! Featuring special guest host Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg.

This week on Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc steps foot on a Borg cube for the first time in 30 years and sh** gets real!

Jonathan Frakes, who directed "Stardust City Rag," beams on down to chat about the latest episode of Picard! Picard and Seven have a mini Borg Survivors Anonymous meeting this week on Star Trek: Picard, and in doing so give Trek one of its great scenes. There is A LOT going on in this episode and we unpack it all.