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Antimatter Pod

Anika and Liz

The Star Trek podcast where we talk fashion, feminism, subtext and subspace.

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214. Spacebook Relationship Status (TOS 2.01)

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2025/10/21

It's wedding season! Anika and Liz are looking at some of Star Trek's key wedding episodes, beginning with the one that launched season 2 of The Original Series and rewrote a lot of people's brain chemistry: "Amok Time". And in typical "Antimatter Pod does it Antimatter Pod's way" fashion, we're gonna talk about ... how great it is for the Spock/Chapel ship. Why we're doing a wedding series: we love weddings, and we love how they can be used as a characterisation and worldbuilding tool Vulcans

63:52

213. Twentieth Century Thinking (SNW 3.10)

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2025/09/16

Noted Doctor Who podcasters Anika and Liz settle in to watch a very bad Steven Moffat pastiche. Yes, it's time for the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and spoilers, turning into a statue might be preferable to this. It turns out Marie's whole arc has been about becoming tradwife statuary The weird Christian subtext of the season intensifies, not in a good way The racial dynamics of this episode are very, very bad Do we need to dismantle the carceral state for the Vezda? No more

63:07

212. Gamer Gorn Girlfriend (SNW 3.09)

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2025/09/09

Anika and Liz get sucked into a wormhole and trapped on a moon orbiting a gas giant, which is actually pretty standard when you're adults with jobs trying to organise a board game night. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 3, episode 9, "Terrarium", an episode which comes so close to being good before it snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. "We're going to give you the stories you've been asking for since season 1, and then we're gonna end it with a twist that makes it all

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211. Ghostwritten by J. K. Rowling (SNW 3.08)

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2025/09/02

With heavy hearts, Anika and Liz discuss "Four and a Half Vulcans", the worst episode of Star Trek's streaming era, and possibly one of the top five worst episodes of Star Trek ever. So that's fun. Liz keeps returning to the question, "Is this worse than 'Code of Honor'?" "I understand that this is meant to be funny." Genetics and hair don't work like that "I felt disrespected as a viewer." The whole "feminist career women can't cook, amiright?" trope was tired when they did it with Janeway in

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210. Selling Starfleet (SNW 3.07)

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2025/08/26

It's documentary time! Anika and Liz look straight into the camera and share their feelings about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "What Is Starfleet?", including...We have complicated feelings about this episode! It interrogates the documentary as a form of propaganda, but also interrogates the Federation in bad faith? SNW is not equipped to deal with Israel/Palestine or Ukraine/Russia through allegory Liz would like to apologise to the Spanish speaking population of Earth for her pronunciation of

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209. The Shape of Star Trek (SNW 3.06)

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2025/08/19

Anika and Liz battle an ancient and unbeatable enemy: grimdark anti-morality in Star Trek. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail", an episode with all the ingredients of Star Trek except its soul...This feels like a backdoor pilot for a series which has been around for nearly 60 years Why are we spending so much time developing James Kirk instead of the regulars? We have had a whole movie trilogy about Kirk learning to be a good captain! Take a drink every

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208. There's Always A Bigger Fish (SNW 3.05)

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2025/08/12

Anika and Liz beam down to a nice planet where nothing bad happens and everyone leaves with the same amount of eyeballs they started with. WAIT, NO, we're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Through the Lens of Time"...This once again felt like several unrelated episodes smushed together Like season 5 of Discovery, this video game is on easy mode La'an is completely out of character in this episode, being both stupid and mean in a misogynistic way (NEVER date Spock, he is BAD FOR

54:21

207. Jaunt and/or Romp (SNW 3.04)

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2025/08/05

Anika and Liz are here, and we hunger for braincells! Unfortunately, before we can celebrate our favourite episode of the season so far, we have to talk about the Spock/La'an of it all... When Anika said she shipped Spock/La'an, she didn't mean in canon! "I want to slut shame Spock, and not in an ironic way." At this point it's gonna look pretty bad if Spock DOESN'T hook up with Uhura This episode has literally the same ending as "Charades" AND NOW on to the rest of the episode, which was perfectly

48:03

206. Her Body, Pike's Choice (SNW 3.03)

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2025/07/29

Anika and Liz go on a nice road trip to pick some flowers, and nothing bad happens to anyone. Okay, fine, we are discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 3, "Shuttle to Kenfori", including... First of all, WHAT IS HAPPENING ON REBECCA ROMIJN'S HEAD Season 3 has a recurring motif where a woman states explicitly what she wants, and her romantic partner decides to do the opposite Batel and M'Benga both tell Pike repeatedly that Batel has the right to make her own medical choices,

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205. The Girlfriend Edit (SNW 3.02)

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2025/07/22

Anika and Liz put on their cutest wedding outfits and settle in to discuss episode 2 of Strange New Worlds' third season: "Wedding Bell Blues". Liz is gonna try not to talk about Pike. Anika is going to do her best not to implode. It's fun! This episode was engineered in a lab to target Anika personally Is this a mean-spirited commentary on shippers? We did not need a second sequel to "The Q and the Gray". Or a first sequel. Or "The Q and the Gray". Christine: I don't want any big romantic

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204. Berman Era Level Misogyny (SNW 3.01)

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2025/07/20

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back, baby! Anika and Liz fight off some Gorn and settle in to discuss the premiere! (We did not realise, when we recorded, that "Hegemony" part 2 would be dropping along with "Wedding Bell Blues", so we're only discussing that first episode now.) This is certainly an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Chris Pike the human embodiment of a Democratic Party fundraising email? Are men too emotional to be in command? Pelia is single-handedly inventing

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203. Hair Trek (part 2)

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2025/07/08

Anika and Liz let their hair down, and as it tumbles over their shoulders in perfect beach waves identical to the hair of every other woman on television in the 2020s, they return to their discussion of hair and hair styling in Star Trek...Liz has a theory about why Janeway's early hair was … like that. And we're sorry, but it does involve Margaret Thatcher and Madeleine Albright Enterprise: the end of the torturous updo WASP beauty standards, "professionalism" and Michael Burnham The Romulans of

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202. Hair Trek (part 1)

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2025/06/24

Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time -- hairstyles in Star Trek. We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into a two-parter, which is PEAK Antimatter Pod, but in this first half, we discuss... Janice Rand, Marie Antoinette and Sabrina Carpenter Pavel Chekov, The Monkees and appealing to girls WASP beauty standards, "professionalism" and Deanna Troi Tasha Yar and the changing meanings of short hair on women since 1987 "I'm sorry,

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201. Very Sixth Season TNG (Derogatory) (TNG 6.22)

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2025/06/03

Anika and Liz put on their least comfortable lounging clothes and settle in to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 22, "Suspicions".Why is Beverly Crusher hosting an astrophysics conference? And other questions that will forever go unanswered However, this episode, which makes no sense in the context of TNG, makes a LOT of sense in the context of Star Trek: Picard, and its theme of marginalised people doing SCIENCE is resonant in 2025 You're not gonna believe this, but you

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200. Performative Femininity

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2025/05/20

It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends!To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek. Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism. How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Trek's narrative The throughline of mentorship We gently interrogate Nana Visitor's second wave biases We also have two separate (but related) rants about

01:00:57

199. Arm Day (Star Trek: Of Gods And Men)

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2025/05/06

Anika and Liz don their sparkliest shirts and biggest earrings, and sit down to watch Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, a fan film starring Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck, Walter Koenig and more.You can watch it here, or -- in a much smaller window -- watch an unauthorised HD remaster. We're in our Alan Ruck era, but we were not prepared for the unbelievable hotness of Garrett Wang, or the SURPRISE LIBERTARIANISM. We take … issue. With the timeline-changing catalyst. This comment from a Redditor who

01:01:47

198. Plus A Change

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2025/04/22

Liz takes a deep dive into Usenet archives and tells Anika about fandom's earliest discussions of Star Trek: Deep Space 9! (Please note, we are still having audio problems -- despite literally nothing changing in our set ups, Liz's feed is echoing on Anika's channel. This means Anika had to be muted for a lot of the time. At this point we may have to get two tin cans and a really big ball of string to record…) What was Usenet? (Please do not fact check Liz on the technical details.) And who was

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197. Gel Budget (TNG 3.15)

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2025/03/11

Anika and Liz apply a normal amount of hair gel and step into a grim alternate universe to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Yesterday's Enterprise", including...Is this TNG's best episode? It could be! This story turns on Picard absolutely trusting the word of a Black woman Rachel Garrett was Liz's very first female starship captain The original premise for this episode is FULLY BONKERS "Yesterday's Enterprise" takes a completely novel approach to writing Tasha: what if she's just good at

01:42:13

163. Stepford Beverly (Star Trek: Generations)

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2025/02/18

Anika and Liz are joined by guest Jonathan to discuss a movie Jonathan calls "the greatest Star Trek movie ever made": Star Trek: Generations. Our feels run the spectrum: Jonathan loves it, Liz loves everything except the plot and script, and Anika is … not a fan. Everything that happens on the Enterprise B is the fault of Starfleet PR This is a movie that mistrusts nostalgia, but also believes really strongly in heterosexual domesticity, which makes for an interesting internal

01:26:04

195. A Handbag Nuke (ST:S31)

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2025/01/28

Anika and Liz are here to discuss the NEW and WIDELY REVILED streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31. And here's Antimatter Pod's hottest take yet: we ... liked it? Not because it's good! (It's not!) But ... well, have a listen while we discuss...We feel cheated that we didn't get series that Erika Lippoldt and Bo-yeon Kim wrote But is it Star Trek? Yes. Next question! We are intrigued by Georgiou's decision to go into the hospitality industry Rachel Garrett is not quite a fully-fledged character,

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