Comics
Literary Treks 187: Lucsly's Head Would Explode
The Escape. We talk about first novels, the early depiction of Voyager and her crew, the plot, the society of Alcawell, inflexible bureaucracies, the characters, impractical shoes, and our ratings.
Literary Treks 185: Damiano's Pizza
Enemy Unseen: Perchance to Dream. We talk about Data's dreams, how the Damiano scandal mirrors our own society, Worf's security shortcomings, the crew's fears, Picard's multiple personalities, and our ratings.
Literary Treks 184: Don't Scratch Your Sand Pimples!
By the Book. We discuss the RPG game, first contact with new aliens, early Enterprise, the two alien races, and Vulcan logic vs. Human impulsiveness.
Literary Treks 183: Morn's Little French Beret
The Long Mirage: David R. George III. We discuss the characters, Vic Fontaine, Quark's relationships, Ro's choices, Sisko's absence, tying the Vic Fontaine and Morn stories together, faith and belief, and the meaning of the title.
Literary Treks 182: Tough Noogies
Countdown. We discuss all four issues, the character of Nero, a resurrected Data, Ambassador Picard, General Worf of the Klingon Empire, Spock and Nero's ultimate fate, and our ratings.
Literary Treks 181: Mas Marko? Mas Polo!
The Siege. We discuss DS9 season one, the characters, violence, a possible Babylon 5 connection, Bashir's actions, and the story's villain.
Literary Treks 180: Seeing Geordis in My Sleep
Headlong Flight: Dayton Ward. We discuss alternate versions of our heroes, T'Ryssa Chen, the Romulan angle, the temporal prime directive, homages and references, and what's coming next from Dayton.
Literary Treks 179: Space Cats
Star Trek IDW Comics: Sarah Gaydos and Mike Johnson. We discuss their personal Star Trek stories, the Boldly Go series, Crossovers, Waypoint, new series coming up, and questions submitted by our listeners on the Babel Conference.
Literary Treks 178: James Kirk into James Bond
Spectre. We discuss the Shatnerverse, Kirk in the 24th century, responsibility, Kirk and Scotty, looking in the mirror, Janeway, a mirror imposter, the prime directive and our ratings.
Literary Treks 177: Threatening Facial Hair
The Mirror Universe Saga. We discuss the story, continuity errors, lower decks characters, mirror Spock, pity, deviations, wrapping up and our ratings.
Literary Treks 176: Trek Archeologists
The Roddenberry Vault: Micheal and Denise Okuda. We discuss 50 year of TOS, the beginning of the project, the holy grail, timeline, the thrill, the James Blish connection, what's in the set, new scenes and the gift.
Literary Treks 175: The Boogyman
The Face of the Unknown. We discuss the "puppet", global warming, fear-mongering speculation, Spock's future, the moment in time for the book and ratings.