Lower Decks: This Is Not the Podcast Yet - Prep
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 p...
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Yo, Is This Racist?
Yo, Is This Racist?, hosted by Andrew Ti, creator of the popular blog of the same name, is now a weekly podcast! Every Wednesday, Ti, co-host Tawny Newsome, and their guests answer questions...
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20 of 115 episodesVOY: Elogium - "Fuzzy Little Guys" Episodes
This week on Starter Trek, Tawny, Andrew, and Jessie tackle "Elogium," where Kes gets space puberty, Andrew tries to figure out why Star Tre...
DS9: Trials and Tribble-ations - "Fuzzy Little Guys" Episodes
Deep Space Nine goes where no crossover had gone before: directly into "The Trouble with Tribbles." We revisit "Trials and Tribble-ations,"...
TNG: 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 basi...
TAS: 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,...
TOS: 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 o...
DS9: 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...
ENT: 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... probl...
VOY: 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 competi...
DS9: 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! ▶S...
TNG: 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 Ou...
TOS: 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 o...
Ben 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 sho...
Starter 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 - "Rule...
No Episode This Week!
Hey gang! Apologies but there's no episode this week. We have a big announcement next week though so stay tuned for that!
Too Much for Waffles (with Cody Ziglar)
Andrew and Cody Ziglar discuss the perfect pancake recipe, The Drama and a listener question. Check out the crew's bonus shows at suboptimal...
Clown for Hire, But Mostly Free (With Punam Patel)
Andrew and Punam Patel discuss young MAGA Indians, dogs in America and a listener follow up. Check out the crew's bonus shows at suboptimalp...
This Episode is Chinatown (with Jessica Gao)
Andrew and beloved guest Jessica Gao discuss gambling and diversity in media. Check out the crew's bonus shows at suboptimalpods.com .
Protect Your Neighbors
Andrew discusses the importance of protecting your neighbors during this fascist state and answers a listener question. Check out the crew's...
The Out of Pocket Episode With Cody Ziglar
Andrew and Zig discuss Star Trek, the BAFTAs controversy and some listener questions. Check out the crew discussing the Star Trek pilots on...