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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 1 “Shockwave Part II,” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Suliban have taken over the Enterprise, Captain Archer is stuck in the future, and Starfleet is considering canceling the entire deep space program. The only way to save it is for Archer to give a rousing speech over a Teams call about that time he saw a gazelle give birth in Africa, but will it be enough? 

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    Maria: Elsbeth (tv show)Jamie: Roots of Pacha (video game)Bill: Tis Time for Torture Princess (anime and manga)

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  • We have reached the end of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1! Jamie, Bill, and Maria are joined by Sue from the Women at Warp podcast to take a step back and talk about what it’s been like gettin’ from there to here. Who do we like? Who do we hate? What is this show even about? Why are we still watching it? How did we get through a full season? At what point will they replace Malcolm with Porthos and how much better will the show get when that happens?

    Guest: Sue from the Women at Warp podcast

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 26 “Shockwave Part 1,” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Fam, it’s been a long road, but we’ve finally made it to the season one finale! Things go from bad to worse as the Enterprise crew accidentally commits genocide before a time wizard shows up to solve all their problems and are they even grateful? Hahahahahahahaha… no. It all ends in a cliffhanger where Archer is stranded in a horrific future and Enterprise is about to be destroyed in what frankly feels like some karmic payoff, but it’s all… to be continued!

    Mentions:

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    Rikermendations:

    Maria: I’m A Virgo (tv series)Jamie: Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (anime)Bill: Slow Horses (tv series and books)

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  • SPECIAL GUEST: Jarrah from the Women at Warp podcast

    We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 25 “Two Days and Two Nights,” but only guest-explainer Jarrah has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew finally makes it to Risa, where heteronormativity abounds. It’s two days and two nights of scams, injuries, sexy language lessons, and some incredibly wild outfits and wigs.

    Photo Reference #1: In the Shuttle

    Photo Reference #2: In the Club

    Rikermendations:

    Maria: Much Ado About Nothing (1993 movie)Bill: The Trip (tv series)Jarrah: Smarty Pants (web series on Dropout)Jamie: Metaphor Refantazio (video game)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 24: “Desert Crossing” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise responds to a distress call and the captain they rescue is so grateful, he invites Archer and Trip down to his sunny home planet for a visit. Looking forward to a boondoggle, the boys head to the planet where they drink some wine and enjoy some slow-motion space lacrosse before learning that they’re actually maybe in a terrorist camp and things switch from Baywatch to 24 REAL FAST.

    Rikermendations

    Jamie: Jensen McRae Are you Happy? (album)Bill: The Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover episodes (TV)+ The Sparrow (book) by Mary Doria RussellMaria: Interior Chinatown (TV series)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 23: “Fallen Hero” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise gets to go on its very first ambassador escort mission! All they have to do is pick up an important Vulcan ambassador and then drop her off at a ship that’s a mere two days away. Easy peasy. Even this Enterprise crew can’t mess up a task that simple, right? 

    Rikermendations

    Maria: Crime Scene Kitchen (tv series)Bill: Lower Decks and DancingBacons (YouTube Channel)Jamie: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (book) and The Ghost Bride (tv series)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 22: “Vox Sola” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Plus, we have special guest K.O. Myers from Particulate Media joining us this episode. The Enterprise has been penetrated by a very slimy tentacled creature who has captured Archer, Trip, a random ensign, and Angelica Schuyler in its sticky slime. The slime creature will slowly devour them all if they aren’t freed soon, but that’s not even the worst part; their minds are all now psychically linked and Archer’s brain is constantly thinking about nothing but water polo. T’Pol and Hoshi better find a way to free them soon before they all have to hear a full play-by-play of the 2134 water polo regionals piped directly into their brain!

    Guest: K.O. Myers from Particulate Media. You can also follow him on BlueSky as @genvexed or @particulatemedia

    Rikermendations

    Maria: My Old Ass (Netflix movie) and Agatha All Along (tv series)Jamie: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (book)K.O.: Worlds Beyond Number (podcast) and The Originalism Trap by Madiba K. Dennie (book)Bill: The Ascendance of a Bookworm (anime and manga)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 21: “Detained” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Archer and Mayweather blunder into a military zone and get thrown into an internment camp filled with Suliban. This is definitely not a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 and certainly a nuanced and thoughtful take on a complex situation. Oh wait, no - it’s the opposite of that. But it brings the late, great Dean Stockwell back together with Scott Bakula and we’re pretty excited about that.

    Rikermendations

    Maria: Shrinking - Apple TV showBill: Spy X Family animeJamie: My Brilliant Friends - HBO series & novels

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 20: “Oasis” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The crew comes across survivors of a ship crash and Trip flirts with a cute girl, but they have secrets and blah, blah, blah. Who are we kidding? We’re all just here to see René Aubernjonois act the shit out of his guest role on this episode.

    Rikermendations

    Maria: Wolfs (Apple TV Movie) Bill: Matt Berry’s album Television Themes Jamie: How to do Everything podcast 

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 19: “Acquisition” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Ferengi pirates somehow manage to incapacitate every member of the Enterprise aside from a half-naked Trip, who is now tasked with saving the rest of the crew. The bad news is that the Ferengi are peak TNG-era annoying. The good news is that we will never have to see them again on this show.

    Rikermendations

    Maria: Queen Pins (movie)Bill: Only Murders in the Building (tv series)Jamie: Stereophonic cast recording (music)

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  • A quick check in from the EnterpriseSplaining crew to give you some exciting news! We are joining the ESO Network, a collection of geeky podcasts from across the internet. Everything you love about EnterpriseSplaining will remain the same, but we’ll be adding some special ESO intro and outros to each episode and will be taking a short break each episode to tell you about some of our sister podcasts on the ESO Network that we think you would enjoy.

    To learn more about ESO Network, visit https://esonetwork.com/

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 18: “Rogue Planet” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew meets a group of alien hunters on a rogue planet and Archer falls in love with a slug lady. 

    Thank you to Phil Plait for sending us some science on rogue planets. You can sign up for his Bad Astronomy newsletter and follow him on BlueSky @philplait 

    Rikermendations

    Maria: tv series The Brokenwood MysteriesBill: LudwigJamie: movie Footloose

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 17: “Fusion” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise crew meets some Vulcans that are happy to see them, which in and of itself should have been a big red flag. T’Pol warns everyone that these Vulcans are dangerous, but as usual no one listens to her until it’s too late. Plus, Trip makes a new B-plot friend! 

    Rikermendations

    Maria: the Vorkosigan book series by Lois McMaster BujoldBill: tv series Would I Lie to You?Jamie: anime Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 16: “Shuttle Pod One” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Plus, we have a special guest Andi from the Women at Warp podcast, getting her first-ever dose of Enterprise. Malcolm and Trip are stuck together in a cold shuttle pod with no way to get help, and because they are straight men, they will die of hypothermia before they cuddle together for warmth. 

    Guest: Andi from Women at Warp. You can also follow her on Twitter/X @FirstTimeTrek

    Mentioned: the Women at Warp “Where is HR episode?” episode is Episode 201: Labor Standards in Star Trek

    Rikermendations:

    Andi: books The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, donghua The Founder of Diabolism, and live action series The Untamed, plus all the related fanficsMaria: movie The Fall GuyJamie’s Mom: tv shows Monk and SuitsBill: tv show Kaos

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 15: “Shadows of P’Jem” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. The Vulcans are looking for a fall guy for that time the Enterprise crew destroyed all their religious artifacts back in “The Andorian Incident.” Plus, our favorite Andorian is back and we get to meet an alien who wears pink pleather hammer pants.

    These are the space audio voyager recordings we used courtesy of NASA and The University of Iowa. https://space-audio.org/ 

    We learned about them from Dr. Nicole Gugliucci, who you can follow on BlueSky: @noisyastronomer.com

    Rikermendations:

    Bill: the movie Reanimator

    Maria:  Hari Kondabulo’s Netflix comedy special Vacation Baby

    Jamie: the video game Strange Horticulture

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 14: “Sleeping Dogs” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. The Enterprise investigates a gas giant, Archer pouts because the Klingons don’t like him, Malcolm has a cold, and Hoshi and T’Pol are weirdly catty to each other but then share A Moment. Also, Seelix is back to talk about her thoughts on the last episode, “Dear Doctor.”

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    Rikermendations:

    Bill: The Langley School’s Music Project: Innocence & Despair

    Maria: Butterfly in the Sky - documentary on Netflix

    Jamie: The Dragon Prince TV show on Netflix

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  • It’s been a looooong road, but we’ve somehow made it though half of the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise. I know. We are as surprised as you! For this episode, we are all taking a much needed respite from the show and taking stock of our feelings so far. We also have a special guest joining us, Charles from the Earth Station Trek podcast, who actually knows some things about Star Trek. Yes, that’s right. We invited an actual Star Trek expert onto our Star Trek podcast. He kindly let us pepper him with very important and insightful questions like “wtf is synthol?”

    Jamie Bernstein and Charles Kelso will both be at DragonCon 2024! Look for their names in the DragonCon app under the speaker section to see their event schedule.

    Guest: Charles Kelso from the Earth Station Trek podcast, Felt Nerdy, and Felt Nerdy and Dirty 

    Earthstationtrek https://earthstationtrek.podbean.com/

    @earthstationtrek on YouTube and Facebook 

    @feltnerdy on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

    @feltnerdyanddirty on Facebook, Instagram (NSFW)

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 13: “Dear Doctor” but only Bill has actually watched the episode. Plus, we have a special guest, Seelix, join us to tell us if the science in the episode is accurate (spoiler: that is not how evolution works!). Phlox and Archer wrestle with some gnarly ethical issues which could have been solved if only they had a clear doctrine. Perhaps some sort of… directive. 

    Follow Seelix on Bluesky: @seelix 

    Jamie and Seelix will both be part of Science Track at DragonCon 2024! Look for their panels in the DragonCon schedule under Jamie Bernstein and Emily A Finke. If you say ”hi” to them, they may have special badge ribbons for you. 

    Rikermendations:

    Jamie: Stealing From Wizards YA book series by R.A. Consell Bill: Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol Maria: tv show My Adventures with Superman Seelix: Friends at the Table podcast

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  • We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 12: “Silent Enemy” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Hoshi stalks Malcolm, proving he is the most boring person who has ever existed and some mysterious aliens do a bunch of mysterious things for reasons that are never explained. Join us as Maria attempts to explain the episode to Bill and Jamie.

    Rikermendations:

    Bill: Star Trek Legends video gameMaria: KB Wagers Indranan War seriesJamie: Long Live the Queen video game

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  • We’re watching Enterprise Season 1, Episode 11: “Cold Front” but only Jamie has actually watched the episode. We meet a time traveler who makes very good eggs and something, something temporal cold war. Join us as Jamie attempts to explain the episode to Bill and Maria.

    Rikermendations:

    Bill: the Highlander moviesMaria: the Back to the Future moviesJamie: Shirley Jackson’s books The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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