Kids These Days

Episode 180

Friday 30 January 2026

Much to the consternation of a bunch of racist shitheads, three fabulously cool and competent women — Lieutenant Rork, Lieutenant Commander Lura Thok and Captain Nahla Ake — are at a console on the bridge of the USS Athena, discussing some kind of subspace instability.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Series 1, Episode 1

Stardate: 853724.6 and Unknown (3190s)

First broadcast on Thursday 15 January 2026

This week, the children of Earth face a difficult and precarious future — one that they didn’t create but that they nevertheless have to endure. And now there’s a new Star Trek series where that’s basically happening too. But in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, these kids have hope: some weird and kindly people are here, with patience and empathy, determined to help them find a way through.

Recorded on Monday 27 January 2025 · Download (108.8 MB)

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Fury

Episode 179

Friday 23 January 2026

Older, grim and determined, Kes walks down one of Voyager's corridors, her jaw set, as the walls explode around her.

Star Trek: Voyager

Series 6, Episode 23

Stardate: Unknown (2376 and 2371)

First broadcast on Wednesday 3 May 2000

This week, Joe and Nathan struggle to find exactly the right word to express their feelings about this episode.

Recorded on Tuesday 20 January 2026 · Download (66.8 MB)

Star Trek: Voyager

Vanishing Point

Episode 178

Friday 9 January 2026

Hoshi is standing alone in the gym, wearing her exercise clothes. She looks at herself in the full-length mirror, but her reflection is transparent.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Series 2, Episode 10

Stardate: Unknown (2152)

First broadcast on Wednesday 27 November 2002

Another astonishingly dull and unambitious week aboard Enterprise, as Hoshi Sato is accidentally transported into a high-concept plot that we’ve seen done better half a dozen times in the last fifteen years. Things liven up slightly ten minutes from the end, when we are treated to the dumbest line of dialogue in the history of the franchise.

Recorded on Monday 6 January 2025 · Download (63.9 MB)

Star Trek: Enterprise

The Way of the Warrior

Episode 177

Friday 26 December 2025

A close-up of Michael Dorn as Worf, arriving on Deep Space Nine for the first time. (I know about Birthright, Part I. Don't at me.)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Series 4, Episodes 1–2

Stardate: 49011.4

First broadcast on Monday 2 October 1995

This week, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine starts again — with a second pilot episode two and a half years after the first one. It’s The Best of Both Worlds, but much faster, funnier and more confident. And this is only the beginning. Again.

Recorded on Tuesday 23 December 2025 · Download (114.4 MB)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Episode 176

Friday 19 December 2025

Three weird and grumpy old men, McCoy, Kirk and Spock are in a forest at night, sitting around a campfire, with Spock playing a Vulcan harp while Kirk stands holding a mug and McCoy watches.

Star Trek Movie #5

Stardate: 8454.1

Release date: 1989

The quintessential odd-numbered Star Trek film, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier roared onto our screens in 1989, delighting and enthralling basically no one at all. Still, despite the glacial pace, the lack of incident and the horrendous special effects, it has something to say — something about the love and friendship between weird and grumpy old men who have known and annoyed one another for decades. And if you’ve got that, who needs Sha Ka Ree?

Recorded on Monday 15 December 2025 · Download (126.3 MB)

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