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Anika and Liz

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

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175. Gwyndala's Dad Has Got It Goin' On (Prodigy 2.01...

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2024/07/09

Anika and Liz sign up for an internship, accidentally steal a ship, and … well, we're discussing the second season premiere of Star Trek: Prodigy! (Please note we have seen the whole season, and although we make some very virtuous remarks about sticking to the episodes at hand, we cannot be trusted to respect the Temporal Prime Directive.) The binge model and Star Trek Dal versus the education system Sexualising the Diviner Zero's story is both a trans narrative and a disability narrative The

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174. The Puzzle is the People (Discovery 5.10)

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2024/06/04

Anika and Liz get all dressed up to attend a wedding. They just have to figure out the meaning of life first. Easy, right? It's a very special episode as we discuss the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery, "Life, Itself"! We thought we were ready for Discovery to end, but we were wrong Liz suffered a finale-related injury and Anika has wine The Sega Star Trek: The Next Generation game (and also Jenny Nicholson's four-hour video essay about Disney's Galactic Starcruiser experience) It feels like

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173. Progenitor-Aged Whiskey (Discovery 5.09)

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2024/05/28

Anika and Liz put buckets on their head and infiltrate a Breen ship, pausing along the way to have a serious personal conversation. We're discussing the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery (WE ARE NOT READY), "Lagrange Point"! Including...What sort of ending do we want for Moll? We already have a crush on Primarch Tahal Michael and Book parallel Michael and Ash in "Into the Forest I Go" - is infiltrating an enemy ship a date? We are briefly interrupted by an appearance from Anika's cat's

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172. Being Inner Lit (Discovery 5.08)

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2024/05/21

Liz has done it AGAIN: she forgot to move her microphone. She's audible but a little echoey for the first 10 minutes, before she has a horrible realisation. Anika and Liz are spending their vacation AT THE LIBRARY, where they are checking out some books and checking in on Michael Burnham. Every single thing in this episode is Sarek's fault Libraries and archives are never apolitical Primarch Ruhn heard there were drag queens doing storytime at the Eternal Archive, and he is NOT happy about

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171. Ice Cold Hot Take (Discovery 5.07)

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2024/05/14

It is so awkward when you literally stick a guy in a refrigerator and then his death provides motivation for his grieving partner to go on a rampage. Anika and Liz discuss season 5, episode 7 of Star Trek: Discovery - "Erigah"(!!!). It is DEVASTATING that this is Discovery's last season and we're going to lose Rayner as fast as we got him Liz accidentally talks herself into shipping Michael/Nahn and also Nahn/Ortegas We have unlocked Rayner's tragic backstory Hot take: Michael is now a better

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170. Kovich Ex Machina (Discovery 5.06)

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2024/05/07

Anika and Liz infiltrate a pre-warp society, where they absolutely do not enter a race, that is clearly a trap. Not because of the human sacrifice, because of the running! Like episode 3, this felt a bit predictable, but ALSO like a rebuke to "Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach" and "Who Watches The Watchers", so we're not mad about it What if obeying the Prime Directive is the unethical option? (Caretaker + Who Watches the Watchers) x (Lift Us Up Where Suffering Cannot Reach + Sacred Ground)

36:20

169. (Anika's Version) (Discovery 5.05)

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2024/04/30

(Note: our episodes are getting shorter because the screeners are fairly low quality and don't have subtitles, so it's a bit harder to get deep into the weeds of a story than if we were recording as episodes air. But our day jobs are quite busy, so we need to record as far in advance as possible in order to make our self-imposed deadlines. It's a pickle!)Anika and Liz beam over to an eerily familiar starship, steal a locket and a plush gecko, and discuss episode 5 of Star Trek: Discovery's fifth

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168. Wig Continuity (Discovery 5.04)

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2024/04/23

Anika and Liz are caught in a time loop, which is actually a nice opportunity for a nap when you think about it. We're talking about Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange"! Let's check in with Anika, The Only Person Who Hated "Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad". She thought "Face The Strange" was … good "I don't wanna sound creepy, but I have a pretty good idea of where Jason Isaacs is at all times." This season feels like an intentional final season, even though we know

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167. Trust the Process (Discovery 5.03)

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2024/04/17

Anika and Liz beam down to Trill, don their finest red cloaks and hoods, and discuss the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery's season 5, "Janaal". Including...This is a perfectly fine episode, but it seems a shame to waste our limited time this season on something that is merely competent RIP Star Trek: Lower Decks Introducing the beta shift when fans are still under the impression that the alpha shift bridge crew should be the leads: brilliant trolling We have always been Wilson Cruz

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166. His Holiness Pope David Cronenberg (Disco 5.01...

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2024/04/09

First, we both have essays out! On Raffi by Anika Dane is in the current issue of Star Trek Quarterly The Diversity Paradox: Star Trek, Star Trek fandom, and the limits of fandom as progressivism by Liz Barr is in Speculative Insight SECOND, it's time. Anika and Liz are being called away from a fancy 32nd century cocktail party to stand in an empty void and discuss the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery's fifth and final season... Compared with the over-the-top emotional drama monarchs of

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165. Hallmark Trek (VOY 5.22)

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2024/03/27

Anika and Liz fire up the ancestry.com subscription and do a deep dive into an episode which does a deep dive into Kathryn Janeway's heritage. Yes, we're watching "11:59", an episode which has aged badly but maybe wasn't ever good to start with. This is ostensibly the sort of filler episode that people now say they want more of, but it mistakes trivia for character development "Small town business owner who hates progress and reveres the past" is a type that hits different in 2024 Henry Janeway

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164. The Sito Jaxa Duology (TNG 5.19 and 7.15)

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2024/03/12

Anika and Liz assemble a board of inquiry and examine two episodes which turned out to be significant for Star Trek: Lower Decks - "The First Duty" and "Lower Decks". Are we gonna cry? Oh yes. "The First Duty": Imagine if Beverly Crusher got to parent her son "Anika needs to talk about Jack Crusher" is an item in our outline We get into the really serious issue: who is dating whom in Nova Squadron? Liz's knowledge of American high school life, as gleaned from YA fiction and Archie comics Star Trek

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