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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 47: Tales From the Holodeck IX - Three Mudds and a Lizard
It's that time of year again! We're right around our anniversary so we've cracked open our noggins and brought you more of our trademark fanfics in our…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 408: My Planet Needs Me
There's trouble on the (possibly tiny?) world of Kwejian this week, and Book has to book it over there in "The Sanctuary"! Surprisingly convincing the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 407: Absolute Candor and Absolute Killjoys
The search for the origin of The Burn continues in "Unification III", and our next step is Vulcan! Wait, no, it's called Ni'Var now. At the home to a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 406: Number One Did a Big Number Two
The "Discovery" crew is still finding their legs and has JUST gained a modicum of trust from Admiral Vance, so of course Michael is going to immediately go…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 405: A Lukewarm Welcome
The "Discovery" has found her way to Starfleet in "Die Trying"! A shame everyone assumes they might be temporal agents here to cause Time Shenanigans! In an…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 404: Memories Not Found
The "Discovery" crew continues its twofold search for Starfleet and a little inner peace in "Forget Me Not". A trip to Trill seems like it could hold the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 403: Good Tree. Nice Planet
Now that the gang's back together, it's time to continue the hunt for Starfleet and the Federation in "People of Earth"! But it turns out the titular people…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 402: The Future Ancient West
The "Discovery" crew may have been separated from Michael, but their arrival in the future also starts off with a jolt. A search for where and when they might…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 401: Kool-Aid Manning Into the Future
Season 3 of "Discovery" starts off with a bang—rather literally, as Michael's first act in the future is to have a space-car accident. In "That Hope is You…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 400: Experience Trivia
Welcome all to the 400th mainline episode of "A Star to Steer Her By"! While it was always theoretical we'd make it this far, it's still a little mad that we…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 399: Perhaps Once Was Sufficient
Back when the New Era of "Trek" was...new...they did "Short Treks". We looked at the first batch back between Seasons 1 and 2 of Discovery and have lamented…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 398: Go See a Star War
We've reached the end of S.2 of "Discovery" and...it's a LOT, guys. "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II" is mostly action sequences all just strung together rapid-fire…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 397: Letters Home and the Katraphone
We're coming to the end of Season 2 of Discovery, with the penultimate episode "Such Sweet Sorrow"! With the Sphere Data scuppering the Janeway Maneuver, the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 396: Field Trips!
The Klingon Soap Opera returns and Michael takes a merry jaunt across space in "Through the Valley of Shadows". Pike is seeking the rather mystical-sounding…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 395: Momchael in the Ducts
It's all happening now, finally getting into gear...kinda near the end of things. Oops. In "Perpetual Infinity", Control makes its big play as we find out what…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 394: Red Angel in the Spacetime Fold
We're running out of season so it's time to have a bunch of reveals at once! Turns out we know who the Red Angel is, and now we've got to capture them in their…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 393: Bishop to Queen's Metaphor Five
The sum is somehow greater than its parts this week on "Discovery", as an overwrought trope plays a sort-of central role and we get to know someone just in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 392: Serving Spock
Brace yourself for the earliest possible "Trek" nostalgia as we return to Talos IV to check in with some oddly beefy Talosians and a somewhat less messed-up…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 391: Between a Spock and a Hard Place
Bit of a double-filler show this week, as Michael drops in on the folks and Pike decides to chill with Tyler in "Light and Shadows". Just kind of spinning our…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 46: USS Callister: Into Infinity
Slight change of plans this week! The latest season of "Black Mirror" recently dropped, bringing with it the new "USS Callister: Into Infinity". Since we loved…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 390: Day of the Danglia
The Prime Directive is about as strong as wet tissue paper as usual, as Starfleet's need to dig into the Red Signals outweighs their morals. Then again, how…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 389: Science Ping-Pong
We're bouncing hard and fast between plots this week, and they don't quite gel. In "Saints of Imperfection" Section 31 is in everyone's face, which is weird…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 388: Communication Breakdown
"Star Trek" has always loved its various probes, from Nomad to V'Ger to the "Inner Light" time capsule, and now "Discovery" is getting in on it with their…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 387: Soap Trek
Hope you like "General Hospital", because "Discovery" is going full "Eastenders" this week with "Point of Light". There's a secret baby and a sort-of-love…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 386: A Reading from the Book of Michael
The "Discovery" crew is jumping farther than they've ever gone before in "New Eden". A new Red Signal from the far end of the Beta Quadrant leads them to a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 385: Spock Tease
The second season of "Discovery" is underway, and it's bringing Captain Pike along for the ride! In "Brother", mysterious signals have appeared simultaneously…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 384: Steamed Hams But It's Star Trek
Back in the day, streaming "Trek" tried a fun little experiment that actually worked out pretty well! So of course they only did it twice. This week we're…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 383: Someone Set Us Up The Bomb
And with that, we come to "Will You Take My Hand?", the season 1 finale of "Discovery"! A daring mission to the Klingon Homeworld, led by the Mirror Georgiou…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 382: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
It's almost the end of the first season of "Discovery"! In "The War Without, The War Within", Starfleet and the Federation are on their back foot. Having the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 381: Somebody That I Used to Know
In "What's Past Is Prologue" everyone really doesn't get that just because someone is identical to a lost loved one doesn't mean you can expect them to BEHAVE…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 380: The Dead Speak!
Well great. now we've got Mirror Georgiou to deal with! in "Vaulting Ambition" the mirror universe gets more complicated and more ridiculous in equal measure…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 379: Adventures in Mirrortown
The "Discovery" crew continues their trek through the Mirror Universe this week with "The Wolf Inside". Can Burnham retain her core beliefs even while going…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 378: Just Accept It
Oh man we are SO back! By which I mean back to the Mirror Universe, simultaneously this show's least favorite and favorite place to visit depending on which…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 377: Klig Ol' Bitties
Content warning: episode contains depiction of SA and we discuss briefly. After last week's disappointing entry, we're on to something much more interesting…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 376: Planetfall(ing asleep at a mid episode)
We've got three plots this week and somehow almost nothing happens in "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"! We finally have an away mission and Saru goes a bit nuts…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 45: Edge of Tomorrow
Inspired by last week's "Discovery" time loop episode, we're taking a look at 2014's action sci-fi time-loop trip "Edge of Tomorrow". Tom Cruise plays a media…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 375: Mudd Is The Fire In Which We Burnham
Harry Mudd is back and he's out for revenge in "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"! He's got some inexplicable time magic creating a loop that should allow…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 374: Sarek Is A Terrible Father
"Discovery" is expanding the Bad Dad lore; we already knew Sarek wasn't great at the whole father thing, but when his adopted daughter dives into his…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 373: Do Something Muddy
This week's episode, "Choose Your Pain", engages in a time-honored "Trek" tradition: the Captain takes a shuttle somewhere instead of his massive starship and…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 44: 765874 Unification
A bit of a detour from our planned "Discovery" watch as OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive threw everyone a bit of a surprise for "Generations" 30th anniversary…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 372: Pulling an Equinox
Brace yourself for the second-longest and probably-goofiest "Trek" title ever as we spend this week looking at "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 371: Everyone Knows That
With that pesky, extra-long introduction out of the way, "Discovery" can start proper with "Context Is for Kings"! Michael's on her way to space jail until…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 370: The Vulcan Goodbye
We're picking up right where we left off last week as the "Discovery" premiere wraps up with "Battle at the Binary Stars"! The Klingons have the advantage and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 369: The Vulcan Ahoy-hoy
And we're back! Back to "Trek", back to the (soft rebooted) Prime Universe, but not quite back to normal! It's a new era of TV across the board and between…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 43: Jason X - Spacey Jacey
Happy Halloween, everyone! We decided to take advantage of the fact that the holiday is on a Thursday this year and sat down to watch the low-budget campfest…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 42: The Captains (Shatner's Lament)
Well. We weren't sure what exactly to expect going into William Shatner's other foray into "Trek" documentary making, "The Captains", but we definitely weren't…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 368: Third Time's the Charm
With JJ off to work on his beloved "Star Wars" and Simon Peg on writing duties, we come to the (as of writing) end of the Kelvin Timeline. They're going out on…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 367: The Wroth of Harrison
So the 2009 reboot actually did pretty well, the Kelvin timeline has been established, time to really go out there and oh never mind it's a lame "Wrath of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 366: Nero Fiddled While Canon Burned
Well the whole prequel thing wasn't great with "Enterprise", so Paramount went to the next "we're out of ideas" phase: REBOOT! Yes, they've dumped Berman but…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 41: Trektrospective
Somehow we've made it: after a little over 8 years and hundreds of episodes we've covered all the "Trek" that aired on broadcast TV from 1966-2005. Before we…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 40: Tales From the Holodeck VIII - Enterprising Tales
"Enterprise" might be over, but she has one last outing...sort of. If its finale was HORRIBLE fanfiction, how about you step right up for some, if we do say so…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 365: Unbelievably Dumb
Our collective dislike of "Enterprise" is hardly a secret, but even your hosts (and our guest) agree this show deserved a better sendoff than "These Are the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 364: Expecting the Dumbest Outcome
We're in the home stretch and "Enterprise" sure is cranking up the stupid to 11! What's the dumbest twist you could have? The two-parter "Demons" and "Terra…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 363: Ninety Percent Dumb
It's the moment one of your hosts has been waiting for and the others have been dreading! It's time for the "Enterprise" take on the Mirror Universe in the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 362: Worst. Rectons. EVER!
Oh, boy, time to get some new "Trek" lore! No, not the android kind, the backstory kind! Also I guarantee it's a kind no one sensible wanted, needed, or ended…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 361: The Big Special Best Friend Ship Fleet
Well now the Romulans have gone and done it! In their convoluted attempt to destabilize the region they've just gone and helped lay the groundwork for the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 360: For Reasons!
Everyone's up to something this week, tho motivation is maybe a bit vague. First up: voyeuristic aliens are being really creepy and possessing the crew just so…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 359: T'Pow vs The Space Ghost
Step right up to the bout of the 22nd century as the final showdown between the forces of EVIL face the forces of...ah...Archer and Co in "Kir'Shara"! But…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 358: The Forge Awakens
"Enterprise" woke up one day and realized they'd kinda made the Vulcans sort of a mess. So they've decided to semi retcon it so that it's just one dude in the…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 39: Gattaca
Since there's been some genetic engineering talk on "Enterprise" recently we decided to finally take a look at 1997's "Gattaca". It's the story of a…