I love that every Wednesday when Ben brings up Star Trek, Tom reacts with surprise like this isn't the weekly feature so many of us are waiting for.

I'm loving what's new in Star Trek this week, I hope Tom does DS9 and VOY after he's finished TNG

I now look forward to these.

in "the perfect mate" riker excuses himself from the sexy alien and goes immediately to the holodeck. lol

These desciptions of Tom's... magnificent

Can't wait for Tom's opinion on The Inner Light, considering its one of the best episodes of TNG

"Yeah, that poor boy (O'brien)" Oh Tom, you don't know the half of it.

The constant suffering of Miles Edward O'brien, poor bloke

Worf always got the short end of the stick in TNG, at least in DS9 he got to be a badass from time to time.

I dunno if I should be proud or ashamed of the fact that whenever Ben says "Is it x or y? I'm not sure" I can answer it with 100% certainty

I, Borg is legitimately my favorite episode of TNG. I love the theme, and the Borg are probably my favorite "villains" in Star Trek. I was so happy when Hugh returned later in TNG. (I didn't watch Picard, but I read about what happens.)

ben talking abt the horrifying death is def thinking abt Icheb - hugh dies too but it's not as bad

I thought the Icheb was the one that got his borg bits ripped out and Hugh died protecting Seven of Nine in the artefact.

Ah I love The Inner Light sooo much

i dont watch star trek or even know anything about it really and yet here i am every week watching these clips

16:51 haha the legends of tomorrow screenshot in the bottom middle.

The Perfect Mate reminds me of the pleasure Gelf from Red Dwarf! :P

DS9 writers seemed to forget about Ethics in a few years when they go almost exactly opposite where Worf doing Klingon killing stuff is now completely wrong and the Federation/Starfleet is totally against it, though Federation mind wipes are cool. The Cause and Effect message when did they have the time to figure out that plan? They don't know their tractor beam won't work (mainly because they don't do it soon enough) until the Boseman hits them and they explode 30 secs later. Not much time to figure out what they should do or change or how to relay that back in time.

I don't know I feel like not helping your friend commit suicide and accepting your friends help to stop someone being forced against their will to be mentally abused aren't really the same thing.

YAY STAR TREK PODCAST

Worf had it rough

You're spot on with why Tom Paris isn't Nick. Although they originally planned to bring Nick back as a character in the future voyager show... they didn't want to pay royalties per voyager show to the person who created the character of Nick, so they altered him ever so slightly with all kinds of other excuses about Nick being :"not redeemable" due to his personality. so therefore would not fit the character role of Tom, who was meant to be a starfleet reject who redeemed himself. Even the actor covers up (Just like his character) using that excuse... but it's bull to say Nick was "not redeemable" as... even though Nick was angry at Wesley, he was still willing to take on full responsibility for the accident and the cover up... to get the others off the hook. He still stood up for his team and did the honorable thing... so he was very MUCH redeemable as a character. I think it's wierd that Wesley spilled the beans when they had already ruled... and already deemed that all of them would just get off with a mark on their record and ban from flying for a while. Why even say anything??? he then risked getting expelled himself, just to please Picard? Nick was right.. Picard didn't really have enough evidence to prove anything. Just an open shaft door? I thinkt he writers here just made a mess... would have been better if Westley came clean BEFORE there was a ruling and things still in doubt. Clearly... that writer didn't deserve all the royalties of every Voyager episode :D

This is always amazing, and I don't know anything about Star Trek.

What a thumbnail!

They should just do this for all of em

Oh I just realised that Ben is thinking about the Star Trek: Enterprise episode that's pretty similar to the Outcast. This alien race needs a 3rd gender to like catalyise the sex to form a baby and the government of this species like rent them out to couples who want to fuck bc only like 1% of the population are this 3rd sex and Trip has a riker romance with them and teaches them how to read.

Ben was really off his game this time! Couldn't get any episodes right :D

Tom HAS to do DS9

The perfict mate episode was also stolen from Red Dwarf.

Hue's gruesome death represents everything wrong with Star Trek Picard. Its so overly dark when star trek has always been about an optimistic future.

I fully admit, I can't STAND Lwaxana Troi or how ever you spell i, she grates on my nerves and I generally skip re watches of her episodes,. but I do LOVE the relationship between Alexanda and Worf, so I suffered through that episode a few times... and it did have some good points to it. Deanna's wedding hair style, and Worf, clearly not understanding why they just "sit" in a mud bath, was worth the watch. It was also fun to see Worf pop the bubble with the stupid checkered clown face in it as that face was so cringy! and since I always like to face palm on Lwxana's outfits... seeing her with out one at all, and everyones experssions, was worth the watch too. Fav line from that episode... Picard "Nothing would please me more than to give away Mrs Troi!"

;)

Isn't ben right? I also remember them having binary genders and a third androgynous gender which is basically a slave with no rights.

Dr Crusher was the worst main character.

I hate The Outcast cause it says trans rights but also criminalizes being non-binary