- 1 hour 23 minutesTNG: The Dauphin - "Fuzzy Little Guys" Episodes
This week on Starter Trek, Wesley Crusher gets his first kiss, meets the girl of his dreams, and discovers her terrifying secret; she's basically a giant monster Furbies. We’re talking The Dauphin!
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24 August 2026, 7:05 am - 55 minutes 45 secondsTAS: More Tribbles, More Trouble - "Fuzzy Little Guys" Episodes
Andrew finally recognizes an episode and rediscovers that his childhood nostalgia survives as Star Trek brings back the Klingons, the grain, and far more tribbles than anyone requested for this animated sequel to the classic episode.
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17 August 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 15 minutesTOS: The Trouble With Tribbles - "Fuzzy Little Guys" Episodes
Andrew meets Star Trek’s most adorable ecological disaster as Kirk battles Klingons, poisoned grain, and an exponentially multiplying pile of purring potatoes.
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10 August 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 23 minutesDS9: House of Quark - "Quarkstop" Episodes
It's time for our latest Quarkstop episode, as we dive into HOUSE OF QUARK, where Quark gets caught up in some Klingon scheming while Jessie finds her true Ferengi self.
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3 August 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 22 minutesENT: Stigma - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes
Andrew dives into Star Trek: Enterprise's big HIV allegory episode "Stigma" as we also meet Dr. Phlox's wife and learn perhaps some... problematic things about polyamory and metaphors for minorities.
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27 July 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 37 minutesVOY: Author, Author - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes
Tawny shares some horrifying robots from the past as Andrew tries to understand Starfleet copyright law as the Doctor and Paris make competing holodeck diss tracks as we watch Star Trek: Voyager's Author Author.
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20 July 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 40 minutesDS9: Far Beyond the Stars - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes
Tawny shares her love of Gattaca while Andrew tries to understand the magical realism of this fantastic Trek episode without any context!
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13 July 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 23 minutesTNG: The Outcast - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes
We continue our journey through the most overtly political episodes of Trek, with The Next Generation's big episode on LGBTQ issues, "The Outcast." Riker gets a trans girlfriend, Wof wants to join a straight pride parade, and Jonathan Frakes himself gives us a quick thought about the episode! Welcome to Starter Trek, where Tawny Newsome guides her friend Andrew Ti through the endless frontier of the Star Trek universe, along with their producer Jessie Earl.
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6 July 2026, 7:05 am - 1 hour 12 minutesTOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes
Welcome to the first official public version of Starter Trek, where Tawny Newsome guides her friend Andrew Ti through the endless frontier of the Star Trek universe, along with their producer Jessie Earl. For our first batch of episodes, we explore some of the most overtly political episodes of Trek, starting with the subtlest of racial allegories, The Original Series episode "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield." Don't get any of that sticky makeup on you.
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29 June 2026, 3:18 pm - 51 minutes 49 secondsBen Folds 3 (The Yo, Is This Racist? Finale)
Tawny and Andrew are joined by Matt Apodaca and Cody Ziglar for the final episode of Yo, Is This Racist! They discuss Maroon 6, what the show has meant to them and the future of this feed!
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28 May 2026, 7:54 pm - 58 minutes 33 secondsStarter Trek - Best of Quark: DS9 S2E7 - Rules of Acquisition
Enjoy this un-paywalled episode of Starter Trek in our Best of Quark mini-series. This one covers Deep Space Nine season 8 episode 7 - “Rules of Acquisition.”
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