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Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast

Charlie and Miles

Charlie is a lifelong X-Men fan. Miles is a lifelong Doctor Who fan. If ANYONE can objectively rank every single episode of Star Trek on a big list, it’s gotta be the people who think that Star Trek’s ‘Pretty Decent.’ (Citation Needed.)

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01:24:31

Casual Trek Rewind: Gamer Picard (Remastered)

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2026/01/05

Casual Trek's still in recovery mode from life and the festive period and we've wanted to fix the "Gamers" episode which was cursed with bad attempts to compress the file.Now, you can listen to the splendour of gaming in Star Trek!In Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Game", everyone gets addicted to Candy Crush except for Wesley Crusher, the big nerd!Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's incredible "Move Along Home" puts the cast in a board game escape

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01:47:37

By Grabthar’s Hammer, What a Podcast

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Charlie and Miles have ‘gifted’ each other episodes of Star Trek to talk about, both good and bad. The problem with being casual about Star Trek is you just don’t know all of what’s out there. That’s what the Casual Trek mission is for, after all. This year the gang are doing something different, talking about a film that’s adjacent to Star Trek, and even some Trek actors say is the best Star Trek movie: Galaxy Quest. They’ve even got guest stars Reanna Reid-Lobatto and Sean Corse from off of the

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00:55:23

We Saved This Vessel Once & Section 31 Pitch Session

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/12/08

Welcome to an emergency bonus episode! Miles is off, but the fortnightly schedule continues. Charlie’s played a solo roleplaying game based on Star Trek. No, not the official one, but “We Saved This Vessel Once”. 01:16 - Solo Actual Play07:38 - Section 31 Pitch SessionPedant’s Corner and Pluggable: Reanna Reid-Lobatto’s got a GoFundMe (not a Just Giving like I said in the episode… although I don’t remember if that’s a thing or not). If you can, please help the Reid-Lobattos deal with the expense of

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01:06:00

Flesh Katamari

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2025/11/24

We’re still concerned with the Delta Quadrant as this episode of Casual Trek covers episodes from Modern Trek’s animated series concerning the Voyager, the Delta Quadrant and all those assorted antics. First up is the Prodigy Season One mid-season two-parter ‘A Moral Star’ where Dal and the Protostar gang plan to actually do a Starfleet with a little bit of heist antics as they try to break out the prisoners of their old home and then in Lower Decks’ ‘Twovix’ as Boimler grapples with the possibility

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00:56:11

Star Trek Khan: Lost... In Space

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/11/10

It’s time for a podcast about a podcast!Yes, we’re talking about Star Trek: Khan, the official Star Trek podcast.What happened between Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Dr Rosalind Lear wants to know and brings some familiar faces to Ceti Alpha V to dig up some old recordings. Does she want to humanise this space tyrant or exonerate Kirk for his actions?Flashbacks, being stranded in a hostile wilderness, Naveen Andrews… Is this Lost? Kind of. At least, it’s enough for Charlie and Miles

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01:46:52

Star Trek Halloween III: Let’s Get Scotty Laid!

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/10/27

It’s that time of year where we try and delve into the strange and scary for our Halloween episode and this time, we’ve hit upon altered states (not the Ken Russell film) where our heroes undergo a strange transformation, in TOS ‘Wolf in the Fold,’ Bones’ obsession with getting Scotty laid ends in a lot of mysterious stabbings that date back to Victorian London while in Voyager’s ‘Darkling,’ the Doctor’s attempt to improve himself by adding bits of other people into him starts making him very large

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01:15:21

Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who:...

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Welcome to spooky season and we're horrifying Miles specifically with a crossover between Star Trek and his favourite fandom! Can you hear the finger of a monkey's paw curling?Assimilation Squared has been a threat on this show for a while, but why is that? Listen on and we'll explain the story and the many questionable art choices.04:09 - What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: 10:32 - Preamble and talking about licensed comics31:09 - What is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor

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01:38:32

Insert 2025 Reference Here

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/09/29

Insert all your tired 2025 jokes here because after the last nine months, we’re pretty much out as this episode, we go All-Voyager, All the Time with a slate of episodes concerning ‘The Year of Hell,’ one of Voyager’s more infamous wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey moments. In ‘Before and After,’ we see the writers try and tease out what never comes to pass as a time-displaced Kes discovers something horrifying, Harry Kim married her two-year old daughter! Then we go into two-part territory as we enter ‘The

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01:33:17

Holodickery

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/09/15

Put on your best private detective hat and prepare to get into character as we talk step into the Holodeck and prepare ourselves for inevitable disappointment. In ‘The Practical Joker,’ the Enterprise computer gets wacky while Bones, Sulu and Uhura fail to enjoy a primitive Holodeck. In ‘My Way,’ Odo uses AI to make girls like him and we get a lot of song and dance numbers (and the best IDW comics pitch) as we meet Vic Fontaine while in Strange New Worlds’ Space Adventure Hour, La’an gets to

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01:54:10

Neelix's Kitchen Nightmares

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/09/01

Welcome to Neelix’s Kitchen Nightmares you doughnuts!I’m Gordon Ramsey and we’ve got three meals for you to shove in your face from three questionable kitchens.Neelix’s kitchen’s covered in fluff and filth and seems to have been made in a large office meeting room. Will his food help Seven of Nine in “The Raven” or will it bring back dire flashbacks? I think we all know how it’s going to go.Next up is the unnamed chef of the Enterprise who actually has a full kitchen. Hoshi Sato comes in and takes

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01:30:36

Here Today, Gorn Tomorrow

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/08/18

Okay, lets you and him fight! In shameless pursuit of ‘brand synergy,’ this episode of Casual Trek celebrates the return of Strange New Worlds to our streaming services by doing an episode about those lizardy bastards Kirk fought once at those rocks from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the Gorn! In ‘Arena,’ Kirk fights a string vest wearing space lizard while Spock watches and provides inane commentary (hey Spock-o, that’s OUR job) and then in the Strange New Worlds Season 2 finale and Season 3 opener

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01:53:50

The Naked Time is Naked Now

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/08/04

It’s episode 69 and so our brave Casual Explorers are showing their emotional age by watching the infamous ‘everyone gets drunk, horny and crazy’ episodes of Star Trek, TOS’ The Naked Time where George Takei shows off his impressive sword and TNG’s less impressive ‘The Naked Now’ where Charlie asks the most important question ‘if Data has no emotions, why did his creator build him to be fully functional, sexually?’ and Miles asks the second most important question ‘Why have this as an second

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01:26:32

Death Stranding: Somehow Both Deep and Very Stupid

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/07/21

Strap on those babies and keep clear of the wet ghosts, we’re finally talking about Death Stranding! Yes, Casual Trek Episode 69’s going to have to wait as the boys are very excited about the work of the game designer, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor, Hideo Kojima.Sit back and listen to the attempts to explain what Death Stranding is actually about, the ways Hideo Kojima’s works are somehow both deep and very stupid, in the best possible ways.00:01:17 What Non-Star Trek or Death Stranding Thing

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01:40:31

Jeff 2: Weyoun Boogaloo

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/07/07

Grab your phials of glowing green goo and prepare to ham it up as we talk once more about Jeffrey Combs, the Philip Madoc of Star Trek (that’s a Classic Doctor Who reference) and three episodes where his many characters make large roles. Unfortunately, Weyoun is only in a few scenes of Deep Space Nine’s ‘Ties of Blood and Water’ and both Miles and Charlie try really hard not to get personal as Kira has to look after a seriously ill surrogate family figure, fortunately Shran more than makes up for it

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01:49:04

Mustard Hands

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/06/23

The ‘mystical pregnancy’ trope is a bit of an overused one in genre fiction and Star Trek visits that well so many times we had options for which ones to highlight here.The episode you all knew was coming is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Child” where Troi gets pregnant with a cosmic entity. We also see puppies and the Enterprise dealing with a horrendous disease as a B plot.Star Trek: Voyager had so many episodes for this trope, but we picked “Elogium” where Kes’ body accidentally jumpstarts

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01:35:55

The Hero of the Bajoran Resistance

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/06/09

Grab your tastiest sandwich and try not to spoil Twin Peaks as we return to Deep Space 9 with an all-DS9 extravaganza. We’re talking about the opening three-parter of season two of Deep Space Nine which, unlike the Augment three-parter of Enterprise we covered (Episode Title- We Have Wrath of Khan at Home), we’re discussing and placing on the Big List as one single entry and not three seperate ones. Watch as in ‘The Homecoming,’ Kira goes off to rescue Bajor’s greatest resistance fighter and gets no

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01:08:34

Godshook

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/05/26

It’s Bank Holiday Monday, so let’s take it easy and talk about some comics. After promising it early in the show’s history, Charlie’s finally read the first arc of IDW’s Star Trek comic by Lanzig & Kelly. Look, we’re Casual Trek, this is the level of service you get from us.The first arc, “Godshock” features that classic Star Trek concept: thumbing your teeth at god, only this time it’s a bad thing as someone’s killing gigantic cosmic entities! Who did this and how can it be stopped? Well, Ben

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01:15:36

Spock’s Pondering His Orb

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/05/11

Pull out your helmet with the torch on and your spelunking gear because we’re talking about Caves! Miles and Charlie go potholing for Star Trek episodes featuring caves and find a Horta in TOS’ ‘Devil in the Dark’, bid farewell to a member of the TNG cast in ‘Final Mission’ and do you remember when everyone got trapped in a turbo lift in Lower Decks’ ‘Caves?’ Always use the buddy system! Follow safety regulations! EPISODE DISCUSSED: ‘Devil in the Dark,’ (07:13) ‘Final Mission,’ (28:33) and ‘Caves,’

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01:21:03

A Piece of the Acting

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/04/28

Listen up, you palookas, it’s time for a Casual Trek about times people tried to copy humans. We’ve got a bona fide Mafia planet thanks to a discarded novel in “A Piece of the Action”, featuring some incredible Shacting.Next, those Next Generation goombahs find themselves in a casino inspired by another discarded novel in “The Royale”, a troubled script and a bad episode which is actually a fantastic time.Finally, those Prodigy kids just wanna do a Starfleet and find a culture inspired by the

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01:24:17

Space Scamps: Black Hole Sun

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast ·

2025/04/14

Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999 (Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show) and in doing so, get to talk about psychadelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in,) and the

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