Pat Trek

Eric Scull guest stars on Pat Trek to discuss one of his favorite episodes: The Royale. Once again, the Enterprise crew is trapped in a film noir story full of swaggering gangsters, high-rolling gamblers, and terrible dialog (but on purpose this time).

The Pats continue their slog through middling season two episodes with Contagion. After the USS Yamato mysteriously explodes while studying an ancient alien graveyard, the Enterprise crew must uncover clues as to what destroyed their sister ship (SPOILER: it was the ancient alien graveyard).

Coming down off the high of Measure of a Man, Pat and Pat trudge through a more forgettable episode: The Dauphin. The Enterprise crew handles some delicate alien diplomacy, Wesley falls in love with a shapeshifter, and the Holodeck is surprisingly used for something other than death or sex.

Brian Sebby returns to Pat Trek to talk about one of TNG's most critically acclaimed episodes: Measure of a Man. Data fights for his legal rights as a person, Picard reunites with an old flame, and Pat W. struggles not to laugh at the words "JAG officers".

The Pats recap A Matter of Honor, a fast-paced, action-packed episode where Riker has an adventure on a real Klingon vessel, not a Holodeck sex fantasy or a sad desert.

Cinemajaw's Matt Kubinski joins the Pats to dissect Unnatural Selection, an episode featuring everyone's favorite single-season filler character, Dr. Pulaski.

Peaches & Hot Sauce's own Schuyler Weinberg talks with the Pats about The Schizoid Man, an episode where the Enterprise crew learns about what it means to be human. Also, Data gets a horny old man stuck in his android brain.

Pat W and Pat O try their hand at diplomacy in Loud as a Whisper, an early Season 2 episode where viewers learn a lesson about sign language, a war is (maybe) averted, and not much else happens.

Pat W.'s older brother Thomas guests on this week's edition of Pat Trek to talk about the Outrageous Okona, an early season 2 episode with a CBS version of Han Solo and special appearance by Joe Piscopo for some reason.

Once again, the Enterprise crew nearly destroys themselves by playing dress-up in the Holodeck. Carlos Luna joins Pat and Pat to chat about Elementary, Dear Data, the nature of life itself, and why Starfleet installed this death machine on the ship in the first place.

Lindsay Baish-Flynn returns to the show to talk to Pat and Pat about Where Silence Has Lease, a bizarre episode that finds the Enterprise crew trapped in a black hole by a sadistic late-80s CGI face.

Pat and Pat begin the journey into season two with "The Child", a confusing story that combines a deadly virus and an immaculately conceived space Jesus.

Pat, Pat, and Zack venture outside the studio and the TNG universe to see Star Trek Beyond, a summer flick that's one part Star Trek, seven parts action movie. (SPOILERS AHEAD)

Pat and Pat sit down with Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity to talk about "The Neutral Zone", the final episode in the long, strange journey of season one.

Pat and Pat break down Conspiracy, the most violent and graphic episode of Star Trek TNG yet, chock full of mind control grubs, phaser shootouts, and an exploding pile of meat that once was a Starfleet officer.

Pat and Pat explore the streets of Space France in "We'll Always Have Paris", an episode where Picard rekindles an old flame, Data travels through five seconds of time, and not much else happens.

Pat and Pat sit down with Jason Baker to talk about Skin of Evil, a controversial episode where not much happens, other than a main character getting killed by a puddle.

Pat and Pat break down Symbiosis, an episode where the Enterprise takes on a planet full of drug-pushers, the Prime Directive is stretched to the limit, and Wesley enrolls in D.A.R.E.

Improviser TJ King and P&HS contributor Zack Mast join the Pats to discuss The Arsenal of Freedom--an episode in which LaForge's command skills are put to the test, and Picard outsmarts a homicidal chatbot.

Pat and Pat discuss one of season one's better episodes, Heart of Glory. This week, the Enterprise crew pick up a band of Klingon outlaws, Captain Picard almost kills his away team by babbling about Geordie's visor, and Worf finally delivers more than one or two lines for once.