This week on Starter Trek, Michelle Hurd and Todd Stashwick join Tawny Newsome, Jessie, and Andrew to celebrate Patrick Stewart, sharing personal stories and memories of working with the legendary actor behind Captain Picard. Along the way, we revisit clips from across his time on Star Trek and beyond, celebrating the performances, the friendships, and the man who helped define what Star Trek means to generations of fans.

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This week on Starter Trek, Jessie Gender, Tawny Newsome, and Andrew Ti take another Quarkstop in “Prophet Motive,” where Grand Nagus Zek stops by with a brand new Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, and Quark and Rom figure out what to do with a brand new bible, all while Andrew falls in love with Maihar'du. Also, we take a few moments at the start of the episode to honor the memories of recently passed Star Trek family members, Walter Koenig and Eric Bauza.

NOTE: This episode was filmed before Patrick Stewart's tragic passing. We have a future episode planned to honor his memory <3.

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We've finally reached the end of our batch of "spicy" episodes with Star Trek: Enterprise's "Bound"! The boys of the NX-01 are down for Orion Slave Women, the girls just get migraines, and Andrew makes the discovery that there are apparently no lesbians aboard the Enterprise. Meanwhile, Tawny and Jessie try to explain how Star Trek managed to make the Orion Slave Girls not technically slaves anymore while somehow making it even weirder.

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Andrew continues his journey through the 'spiciest' Star Trek episodes with one of Star Trek: Voyager's wildest episodes, Blood Fever! It's got Pon Farr, it's got The Doctor making holodeck adult material, and it's got weird alien tunnels! And don't forget Borg Skeletons! It's got it all, as Jessie and Tawny guide him through!

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The Starter Trek crew continue their journey through Star Trek’s “spiciest” episodes, finally returning to Deep Space Nine, where the queen of Star Trek herself, Lwaxana Troi, brings her horny space menopause aboard the station, while O’Brien faces an even more terrifying danger: being a husband in a 90s marriage storyline.

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This week on Starter Trek, Jessie Gender, Tawny Newsome, and Andrew Ti continue their journey through the "spicy" episodes of Star Trek, with The Next Generation's horniest episode, which is wild considering it was the second episode of TNG ever made: "The Naked Now." Why does no one quarantine? Why did the Chief Engineer even need a hypo-spray? Why did DC Fontana take her name off this script? We'll find out soon!

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This week on Starter Trek, Jessie Gender, Tawny Newsome, and Andrew Ti start their journey through the "spicy" episodes of Star Trek, beginning with the horniest episode of them all: "Amok Time." Why does Spock hate soup, why is Kirk sleeping in his full uniform, why did Jessie talk to a muppet, and where did the iconic Vulcan salute come from? Soon Andrew will know all!

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This week on Starter Trek, Jessie Gender, Tawny Newsome, and Andrew Ti take a Quarkstop in “Little Green Men,” where Quark, Rom, and Nog accidentally become the aliens at Roswell; the DS9 writers roast how absurdly much everyone used to smoke in 1950s America; and Quark and Odo get really close.

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This week on Starter Trek, Jessie Gender, Tawny Newsome, and Andrew Ti tackle “A Night in Sickbay,” where Archer completely loses his mind over Porthos, Phlox turns bedtime into a deeply unsettling performance art piece, and Enterprise proves that sometimes humanity's greatest obstacle to diplomacy is one very stressed man refusing to apologize.

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Tawny Newsome and Eugene Cordero are about to launch a new rewatch show for Star Trek: Lower Decks. This is not that show yet. This is the prep where they tackle the big questions: where will they receive gifts, whether we can watch the episodes at the gun range, and how they can get a Paramount+ subscription. For Star Trek Day, we're releasing the first episode for FREE! All future episodes of this podcast are available to paid subscribers on Suboptimal Podcasts, with episodes released biweekly!  Sign up to get every episode, the progenitor episodes of Starter Trek, support our content, and so much more over at https://suboptimalpods.com/

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This week on Starter Trek, Tawny, Andrew, and Jessie tackle “Elogium,” where Kes gets space puberty, Andrew tries to figure out why Star Trek doesn't understand cabbage, and somehow the USS Voyager ends up having way more sexual energy than anyone was prepared for.

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