Hifiscifi Podcast

After our month-long break, we’re back with a fresh batch of episodes.  Next week, on Tuesday – we’ll be discussing the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “11001001” – here’s a quick preview. It’s good to be back!

Season 1 is halfway complete – and Paul and Jason take a chance to look at the roadmap so far.  What worked?  What didn’t?  And more importantly… what’s ahead.

Next week – we’re taking a look back through Season 1, and review the good, the bad, and the bug people. No episode to watch for next time, just Paul and Jason reviewing the TNG roadmap as it stands, and looking forward to the rest of Season 1.  Our mid-season recap drops next week!

What should be an interesting Sci-Fi premise, and a compelling examination of gender roles, norms, and customs becomes just a weird sexist Riker romp. Angel One is a great example of what happens when there are too many re-writes. Oh well, at least we’ll always have Ski-Fever…

Here’s our preview of next week’s show – where we watch Angel One.  Die Hard TNG fans, you know what you’re in for.  Newbies?  Maybe hold off until next week…

Evil Data shows us what makes Good Data so great! Plus, Brent Spiner gets a chance to do a super over the top villian / evil twin. Jason Navarro (in this episode, we dub him Lore) joins Paul and Jason as we discuss one of the best… if not THE best episode in Season 1.

What if Data had an evil twin brother? We’ll find out when we watch Datalore – one of the best and most fun episodes in Season 1.  Watch the show over the weekend, and we’ll discuss next week on Tuesday.  Here’s our preview.

Another Season 1 episode that shows promise. Above all this episode shows what happens when you let the characters on “The Next Generation” feel a little more human, and have a little more fun. We see the birth of the “Holodeck Episode”, Dixon Hill, Data’s fascination with the world of fiction, and so much more. […]

Picard indulging in one of his favorite film noir crime stories?  Check.  Data and some random dude named “Whalen” crashing his psuedo-date with Dr. Crusher?  Check.  The first time we hear about the “safeties” in the holideck going haywire?  Check. This episode is a fun one, and actually creates the mold that many Next Gen […]

This week, the Enterprise travels to the mysterious planet Haven – said to have mystical healing powers. They never beam down once, and instead deal with Counselor Troi’s arranged marriage and a ship full of sexy plague victims. Hiliary (who also happens to be Jason’s wife) steps in to guest host in Paul’s absence, and proves […]

The 24th Century… humanity has cured most diseases, eliminated poverty, and united hundreds of planets in a peaceful federation. Stuff that’s still hanging around?  Arranged marriages… apparently. A very special guest host joins Jason (and maybe Paul too – TBD) for the next episode of the HiFi Scifi Podcast – here’s our preview.

This week – Q (played by the amazing John de Lancie) returns to terrorize the Enterprise once more – but this time he turns his attention to Riker. Jacob from the “Filmcast Without a Cause” podcast joins us to discuss all things Q, Worf, Riker, and “Viscious Animal Things” To hear more of Jacob – […]

Q is officially a recurring character, thanks to “Hide and Q”.  While Q is great, this episode isn’t quite as good as future outings with the all-powerful alien… but it begins to show where this story line is going. Here’s our preview of next week’s show: “Hide and Q” – watch the show and then […]

This Episode gives us: -The Picard Maneuver -The USS Stargazer (Picard’s first ship as captain) -Cool ship design to nerd-out about Honestly, what more could you want? For Season 1, this is as good as it gets folks. We discuss “The Battle” on this week’s show.

This episode is not only good, it may be the best episode in Season 1.  Ok, that may be going overboard a bit… but watch “The Battle”.  It’s one of the few TNG season 1 episodes that doesn’t completely fall apart by the end, and there’s some really good Picard character development here. Seriously – […]

In this episode, the Enterprise crew decides that a planet full of sex-hungry innocents is the perfect place for “shore leave”.  Unfortunately, they didn’t quite do their homework, and realize (way too late) that on this planet, any crime is punishable by death.  Bad news for Wesley Crusher, who accidentally vandalizes some plants and gets […]

What is the prime directive?  Is it right to defy the laws of a planet if it means saving a member of the crew?  Normally, these compelling questions would be grounds for a great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, “Justice” doesn’t quite get it right.  In failing to stick the landing, we […]

This week Jason and Paul are joined by another Jason – so for the sake of clarity we will call this duplicate “Thomas”. Also, we talk about an episode where Lizard people hate Dog people, and they go to a planet called Parliament to work out their differences. Picard turns into energy, and Data discovers […]

If you’re ok with universe-breaking plot contrivances – this next episode should be fun.  However, if quasi-magical space tech is a little too much for you, and “bear people” fighting “lizard people” seems like just a little too much cheese – you may want to pass on watching this next episode. Next time, we discuss […]

After three episodes where so much goes wrong – to finally have an episode that goes so RIGHT feels like we’re seeing a different show. Abby joins us for a spirited discussion on The Traveler, Ludicrous Speed, and a Land of Pure Imagination. Also – Wesley continues to wear terrible sweaters.