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A Star to Steer Her By
New episodes every Thursday! Podcasts: a frontier that isn't actually very final at all. These are the voyages of the podcast A Star to Steer Her By. Our continuing mission: to watch every single episode of Star Trek (even the dumb ones), to comment on and snark at whatever suits our fancy, to boldly split infinitives that no man has split before. Follow our crew of Chris, Jake, Ames, and Caitlin as we explore the universe of Trek, go on wild tangents, crack wise, and make more fart jokes than…
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A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 56: Bride of Re-Animator
Herbert West is back in "Bride of Re-Animator"! How? Ain't tellin'! No, this isn't us being coy, the movie literally doesn't explain how he survived the events…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 451: Oh No, Elnor! Anyway...
Picard isn't exactly setting the world on fire as Season 2 slogs on with "Assimilation". Elnor dies and only Raffi cares as our not-so-intrepid crew heads back…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 450: References, the Episode
It's time for "Penance", Jean-Luc, though Q is being very vague as to what for. Join us in the Not-Mirror Universe where everything is fascist! Meet some…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 449: It Belongs as a Museum!
It's time for the start of Season 2 with "The Star Gazer"! We open with a bang and then jump back to Picard deciding not to bang, which summons Q for some…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 448: Mel Brooks Presents - Picard: The Finale!
Prepare yourself for the epic conclusion to Season 1 of "Star Trek: Picard" in "Et In Arcadio Ego, Part 2"! Charge up for the excitement that's been building…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 447: L'eggo My Arcadia Ego
We're in the homestretch of season one with "Et in Arcadia Ego, Pt. 1"! Come to the shoes-off homeworld of the synths, which it turns out is overseen by YET…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 446: The Deep Dark Secret of Whatever
We're speeding towards the end of season one in "Broken Pieces" and it's time for dramatic backstory reveals! Aren't you excited?! Hello? Anyone...? Don't you…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 445: Hear Us Out!
60 years ago, "Star Trek" premiered. 10 years ago, the second-most-important "Star Trek"–related thing premiered. Yes, it's somehow been a DECADE of "A Star To…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 444: Because The Plot Needed to Happen
The cracks are really showing this week in "Nepenthe". Character motivations, actions, and the location of props all just seem to exist because the writers…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 443: Boxed In
In "The Impossible Box", we go to the Borg cube, where Narek has a special puzzle box, which helps him wheedle out the mysteries hiding out in the metaphorical…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 442: Oh, A VERY Confused Trek
There's tonal whiplash and then there's the absolute disaster of a clustered mess that is "Stardust City Rag". It's a comedy heist, except we opened on some of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 441: Full Offense, And
Chris just DOES NOT shut up this week about all the problems he had with "Absolute Candor", a side quest Picard drags the crew on despite knowing the urgency…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 440: A Very Smelly One
In "The End Is the Beginning," season 1 finally kicks off! Sort of? I guess? Picard whips out his powers of manipulation to take advantage of an old friend in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 439: The Sheer Hubris Episode
Yeah, it's this one. Where the writers decided trying was too much effort and just make it so anyone who actually has a good counterpoint to Picard's bloated…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 438: Where in The Alpha Quadrant Is Bruce Maddox?
Oh God it's time for "Picard". In "Remembrance" an aging Jean-Luc is mostly sad and regretting everything, until a mysterious young woman shows up and explodes…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 55 : Tales From the Holodeck X
It is fanfic time again! We're dipping back one last time to the "Discovery" well to tell tales of friendship, loss, and meta weirdness! Join us why not? Jake…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 08: The Middleagedtrix
Come with us to the early 2020s, when WB was busy making legacy sequels and canning random completed movies for tax breaks and check out "The Matrix…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 07: The Underbakedtrix
It's the original end of "The Matrix" trilogy as we take a look at the very noisy "The Matrix Revolutions"! We've got a big CG battle loaded with characters we…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 06: Smiths for Days
"The Matrix" is BACK, baby, and it's bringing along WAY more money and WAY more special effects for "The Matrix Reloaded"! Get ready for MORE fighting, MORE…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 05: A Trip to Grandma's Goes Wrong
Mr. Anderson! Come in, sit down, put on your comfiest headphones. It's time to discuss possibly the most iconic of Keanu Reeves' many iconic roles. It's time…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 04: Cyberpunk 2021
What happens when a painter/sculptor and a sci-fi writer want to make an art film but can only get the budget for an action movie? The very, very confused…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 54: The Muppets Take Nal Hutta
We're taking a break from our break (insert "Inception" horn) to check out "The Mandalorian and Grogu", the latest theatrical "Star Wars" outing! Everyone's…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 03: Bill & Ted's Delayed Threequel
Well, it took a lot longer than the writers hoped, but a third "Bill & Ted" finally graced our screens in 2020! With most of the world locked indoors, maybe…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 02: Bill & Ted's Underwhelming Sequel
Next stop on our Shore Leave jaunt is "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" and what can we say but: at least William Sadler is a delight. Your stalwarts find…
A Star to Steer Her ByShore Leave - Keanussance 01: Cleverly-Seeded Time Frippery
We're taking one of our patented Shore Leave breaks before the next leg of "Trek", and this time we're going over some choice cuts of the career of Keanu…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 53: Everything Everywhere All at Once
This week we're looking at arguably the reason the reprehensible "Section 31" exists: the excellent "Everything Everywhere All At Once"! In a movie that turns…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 437: Tunneling Beneath Expectations
Brace yourself for "Section 31", the abysmal "Star Trek" movie that's a mashup of all the worst ideas from your favorite franchises and none of the good ones!…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 436: The Vulcan Meh
We've come to the end of the beginning of the "Trek" streaming era with "Life, Itself". Unfortunately, it's all a bit underwhelming. We've got a pointless…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 435: Between a Breen and a Void Place
It's "Lagrange Point", the penultimate episode of the final "Discovery" season! And we're heating things up with a heist! The Breen have gotten their hands on…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 434: Insufficient Bowie
Keep your voice down as we make our way to a Marvel-ish library in "Labyrinths"! The race is on to the final clue and Michael has to endure one of the more…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 433: New Backgrounds All Around
In "Erigah", we've caught up to our plucky bandits, and one of them is in a bad way. Worse still: uncle has come calling! Meanwhile, the B team is trying to…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 52: Starfleet Academy Season 1
It's that time again; the first season of a new "Trek" series has come and gone so we're going to do our general overview first impressions chat! How do we…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 432 : Pre Alpha Build
We had the big Breen reveal last week, so surely now everything's REALLY going to kick off in "Whistlespeak"! Oh, no? We're going to just go follow the next…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 431: The Breens of the Operation
Despite the title, "Mirrors" only briefly brushes against the Mirror Universe, as we find out the next clue is on the ISS "Enterprise"! It's floating in a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 430: Que Sera, Stamets
In "Face the Strange", Rayner has to face his own little "Christmas Carol", except instead of three ghosts he's got Michael and Stamets. When transporters and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 429: Trilling Adventure
The hunt continues in "Jinaal", where the next clue is actually someone who was there from the off! Yes, through the magic of symbionts we meet the titular…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 428: Do A Barrel Roll!
The treasure hunt begins in earnest in "Under the Twin Moons"! Because "Star Trek", Michael and Saru head down alone to explore some ruins, only to find its…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 427: Brown Directive
The final season of "Discovery" starts with a bang in "Red Directive"! Everyone's least favorite "Trek" character is here to resurrect one of TNG's dumbest…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 51: Arrival
Look, seriously, if you haven't seen "Arrival", watch it first. It's a great movie to go into as uninformed as possible. It's new to two of your hosts and they…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 426: It Exploded Benignly
We're "Coming Home" in "Discovery" this week, and we're finding all sorts of rubbish there! We get a major level-up in translation off-screen! We get a lot of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 425: The Gassy Hello
Well shoot, a lot is happening all at once this week in "Species Ten-C"! With the key to talking to the titular aliens unlocked, it's time for negotiations and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 424: Huffing the Love Dust
We've made it past the galactic barrier and no one's gotten tinfoil eyes so it looks like the mission is a go in "Rosetta"! But on the way, we spot some neat…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 423: Michael's Chips and Rillak's Dips
We have some extra time opening Christmas gifts this week but our episode is normal length because basically nothing happens in "The Galactic Barrier". It does…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 422: Failures All Around
Everyone's favorite crewmate is back in "Rubicon"! No, it's not Tilly. No, not Ash, he's still in the 23rd century. No, not Dr. Pollard. It's Nhan! Nhan. The…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 421: Everybody Loves Haz
In "All In", Book and Tarka could have gone ANYWHERE in the galaxy, and tracking them down will surely be...oh there they are. Well, with that done in the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 420: A Compelling Title
It's a talker this week in "...But to Connect"! The Federation hosts a big DMA to-do and everyone's invited! Including, unfortunately, Tarka. There's all kinds…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 50: Fallout Season 1
Podcasting. Podcasting never changes. Except for all the times we break from "Trek" to talk about something else, which we're doing again to discuss "Fallout"…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 419: The Computer Needs Lexapro
In "Stormy Weather" Zora decides to be a difficult little AI. What's new in sci-fi, though, right? Except instead of evil, she's decided she needs to have…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 49 : The Runnings Men
Hollywood has gone back to the well, or maybe it's the library, with its recent remake of "The Running Man". So we've decided to take a look at both of them!…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 418: Really Too Short a Season
The lack of time to tell stories is painfully evident in "The Examples". A plot about prisoner rights and society that would feel right at home in about any…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 417: Hands (and Hand Stuff) in the Middle
"All Is Possible" as long as you have a team! Like a clutch of cadets who unfortunately remind us of one of the worst episodes of "Voyager". Like that hot…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 416: That's a Space-ty Meatball
I really hope you saw season 1 of "Picard" or the right episodes of DS9, because otherwise "Choose to Live" might not make as much sense as it could. In the…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 48: Re-Animator
Happy Halloween! We've transformed into "A Star to SPOOK Her By" this week as we take a look at a cult sci-fi horror classic. But this one has a quite explicit…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 415: Surf's Up!
In "Anomaly" we pick up where we left off, investigating the mystery THING that sent a space station tuchus-over-teakettle and made Kwejian an ex-planet. Book…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 414: A No-Kwejian Scenario
Season 4 of "Discovery" starts with a BANG! Haha, no but seriously a planet gets blown up in "Kobayashi Maru". Meanwhile, Tilly and Adira have to save a space…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 413: In Subspace, Dilithium Can Hear You Scream
It's the end of Season 3 and the answer to the big mystery that was set up so long ago: where's "That Hope Is You, Part 2"? Oh! Here it is! On the ship, we get…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 412: The Hard, The
Michael goes full Jean-Luc McClane this week in "There is a Tide...". Never mind whatever was going on with Saru and Co, as that plot is just completely gone…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 411: Oh! Well, That's Certainly AN Explanation...
Finally, we get to the root of The Burn in "Su'Kal"! That...that's really what you're going with, "Discovery"? Huh. But on the plus they let Doug Jones out…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 410: Farewell To A Monster
It may not be three ghosts but Georgiou is getting her own little "Christmas Carol" in "Terra Firma, Part 2". Witness what this show seems to think is a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 409: Arras
It's another jaunt to The Mirror Universe (or perhaps *A* Mirror Universe) this week as the "Discovery" writers have to figure out a way to get Georgiou into…