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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…
Episodes
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 102 Not a Merry Trial
Let's talk about Mr. Worf. In "Qpid", his dignity is put to the test when the eponymous Q tries to fix Picard's love life with Vash via a Robin Hood fantasy…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 101 Come to Me
This week, the crew is brought to the adventure instead of finding it! First up, the call of the wild is too strong to resist in "Identity Crisis"! Then, Reg…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 100 Let's Recycle!
It's our 100th Episode Spectacular, and to celebrate we're doing what we always do! And so is TNG. Yes, they seem to have gone back to the well of familiar…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 99 Searching
The hunt is on this week in A Star to Steer Her By! First up, something seems suspicious after the crew is unconscious for supposedly only thirty seconds and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 98 Lizard Men and a Devil Woman
And here they are! The Ferengi arrived with a whimper and the Borg, while terrific, are a bit too big to be a regular nemesis. But now the Cardassians have…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 97 Ups and Downs
It's a roller coaster of emotions in this week's SSHB! First up: Troi goes through all five stages of grief at warp 9 when her empathic abilities go kaput in…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 09 Tales From the Holodeck II
It's SSHB's 2nd anniversary, more-or-less, and in celebration we're bringing you our 2nd fanfic episode featuring figures from 2 major sci-fi franchises!…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 96 So Many Dreams & Breakthroughs
Time is creeping up on our heroes in this week's SSHB. First up, Riker apparently loses 16 years and has to cope with all the changes and his own future legend…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 95 Heretofore Unknown
Secret relatives pop up in both episodes this week on SSHB! First up, the "Enterprise" is visiting the late Tasha Yar's garbage home world and discover she has…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 94 Knowing Me, Knowing You
There are existential crises a-plenty in SSHB this week! First up, a human raised by aliens tries to understand who he is and wants to be in "Suddenly Human"…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 93 Sibling Rivalries
It's a big week for siblings on SSHB. and they really can be a pain. First up, Picard goes home to the most British village in France to visit his Luddite…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 92 We Got a Geordi Roll!
We're joined by a very special guest this week to cover one of the most famous TV cliffhangers of all time, and certainly the most famous of the "Trek"…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 91 Menage a Trek
For the first time since TAS we're hitting three episodes of "Star Trek"! This time, an old face returns to remind us that no one is immune from the ravages of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 90 I'm a Loser Baby
TNG is introducing us to two different men who are bad with people and compensate in different ways! First up, meet Reginald Barclay, a man with social anxiety…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 89 Hopeless Romantics
Love is in the air in this week's episodes! First up, Picard is compelled to take a vacation and falls for first-draft River Song in "Captain's Holiday". After…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 88 Loyalties
Loyalties are tested this week in TNG. First up, Worf holds fast to Klingon tradition as he faces its legal system as a true Klingon should in "Sins of the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 87 Alternate Versions
Everything is familiar but a bit...OFF in this week's SSHB! First up, the "Enterprise"-C drops in from the past to say hello, changing the timeline and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 86 A Full Butt
It's visits going wrong this week on SSHB! First up, a depowered Q tries to make himself useful to Picard and company during a crisis in "Deja Q". After that…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 85 Ramblown Opportunity
Internal strife and allegories abound this week on SSHB! First up, “Star Trek” does its own take on “Rambo” in “The Hunted”. After that, an attempt to do “The…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 84 Secret Identities
No one is quite who they seem in this week’s SSHB. First up: a seemingly-normal servant girl has a secret grudge and secret powers in “The Vengeance Factor”…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 08 Solo A Star Wars Story
Here we go again! The House of Mouse has churned out their fourth “Star Wars” outing since buying the franchise from George “Darth Plaid” Lucas, and it seems…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 83 Fair Trade
It’s all about what people want in this week’s TNG episodes. First up: Geordi just wants a Romulan to work with him so they both can survive while Crusher…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 82 From Memory
This week we have constructed phantasms haunting the “Enterprise”. First up, a mysterious force conjures the spectre of a lost crewmember and haunts her son in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 81 Widowers and Kidnappings
This week on SSHB, it’s all lost spouses and kidnapping via the transporter! First up: the mystery of how a single house and small square of grass remains on…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 80 Everyone's Multiplying
Season 3 begins! First up, two experiments collide and it almost spells disaster for one of them - and the "Enterprise" - in "Evolution"! After that, Data and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 79 Pulaski's Last Stand
It's a farewell to season 2, spandex, and Doctor Pulaski in this week's SSHB! First up: war games go awry and Data has ennui in "Peak Performance"! Then…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 78 Hungry Like the Worf
Sometimes finding a common thread between episodes is a challenge, but not this week! Be it Betazoid matriarch in "Manhunt" or Klingon warrior in "The…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 07 Black Mirror - USS Callister
Due to real life mucking up our scheduling, we were short a stalwart. Rather than press on with the project, we conned a guest into dropping by and taking a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 77 Well That Was Offensive
It’s kind of ableist and pretty anti-Irish, it’s this week’s episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”! First up: the Pakleds are technology thieves that…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 76 Worst Contact
There’s first contacts all around this week, but neither of them happen in a good way! In “Pen Pals” it only happens because Data blatantly violates the Prime…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 75 Two Picards, Two Rikers
It's a doppelganger and a counterpart this week on SSHB! First up, executive meddling makes a time-loop tale incomprehensible in "Time Squared", and the spare…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 74 Gateway to a Living Hell
Remember when “Measure of a Man” happened last week and things were looking up? Yeah, forget that. This week we’ve got two clunkers in a row, starting with…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 73 Guinan is Better Than Troi
The ship’s bartender is proving herself more useful than the ship’s counselor in this week’s episodes. First up, she helps Picard weave through thorny legal…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 72 Sickcast
Your hosts were almost all under the weather this week; we’ve cut out as much of the wheezing, coughing, and assorted death as possible, but some artifacts…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 71 Magnificent Beards
The facial hair is everywhere this week, and we're not just talking Riker. First up, a peacemaker with a Kenny Loggins vibe has to end an ages-old civil war in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 70 The Adventure of the Charmless Rogue
Data's trying out some things this week on SSHB. First up, he tries his hand at being Sherlock Holmes in "Elementary, Dear Data" before getting both his hands…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 69 Experience Points
This week is all about alien life-forms trying to understand humanity, and neither of them go about it in a way that isn’t terrible! First up, Troi gets…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 68 One Plus One Equals Wrath of Khan
It’s the end of the infamous first season of TNG, and it sure goes out on a poor note! First up, the B plot of “Coming of Age” comes to its buggy conclusion in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 67 Au Revoir
It’s all goodbyes in this week’s TNG offerings. First up, we say farewell to a major character in “Skin of Evil”, before Picard parts with past regrets in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 66 Riker's Stupid Faces
There are skeevy salesmen everywhere this week on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”! First up, an automated pitchman is putting the crew in danger in “The…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 65 Will Someone Please Lock the Doors?!
We are learning all sorts of things this week on TNG! First up: we find out that getting into the academy is utterly insane in “Coming of Age.” After that, we…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 06 The Last Jedi
SPOILERS AHEAD! We take a break from our usual franchise to jump on the “Star Wars” bandwagon and talk “The Last Jedi”! It’s about as divisive amongst your…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 64 Tangential
Hopefully you weren't looking for in-depth "Star Trek" chat from this "Star Trek" podcast, since this week the episodes become jumping-off points for just…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 63 Half-Truths
’Twas the cast before Christmas, and I’m not gonna lie: we’d not considered when this was coming out, so there’s nothing holiday themed in it and the meter…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 62 Gesundheit
There is entirely too much sneezing in this week's batch of episodes, with Data playing at humanity and Worf reminding us of failed sitcoms long past. First…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 61 Dreams And Illusions
It's all about fantasies this week on SSHB. First up: it turns out Troi has an arranged marriage, but her husband-to-be is disappointed she's not the literal…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 60 The New Antagonists Strike Back
TNG is wasting no time trying its new villains on for size again this week. First up, they take another crack at making the Ferengi seem like a threat when a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 59 Brought To You By The Letter P
It's Thanksgiving here in the States, and you know what that means: gathering with friends, family, and loved ones and praying that no one brings up politics…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 58 Frog Men And A Con Man
It's a "first appearances" week on SSHB! First up, the Ferengi step out of the foreshadows in "The Last Outpost," and oh boy they are NOT exactly the cool new…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 57 Back To The 60s
After "Encounter at Farpoint" established the new world of TNG, things take a decidedly unoriginal step backwards this week. "The Naked Now" is a sequel/rehash…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 56 The Next Iteration
And so we come to the next phase of the program, as we hit TNG and its first episode, "Encounter at Farpoint"! The groundwork for what will become, for many…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 05 Galaxy Quest
By Grabthar's hammer...what a movie! It's time for us to talk "Galaxy Quest," the definitive love letter to/paraody of "Star Trek"! Jason Nesmith, the…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 55 Pithy Shakespeare Quote Title
It's the end of an era, as "Trek" wraps the last collective outing of the TOS crew and the Klingon/Cold War metaphor all at once in "Star Trek VI: The…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 54 What Does God Need With A Podcast?
Gather 'round the campfire and settle in for what has become the most infamous of the TOS "Trek" films: "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." It's a series of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 53 The One With The Whales
Hello, computer! Order a Michelob and settle in, it's time for "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"! In a plot that would seem heavy-handed if it weren't so darn…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 04 Discovery Premiere
"Star Trek" is back! Well, maybe it is, depending on your definition. While we won't be covering the whole thing live, we're taking a break from our regularly…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 52 Spock's Marbles
Brain and brain what is brain?! Well, this time it's gone from physical media to digital downloads, as Spock has made Bones into an unwitting Johnny Mnemonic…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 51 A Tale Of Two Starships
After a bit of a rough start with "TMP," everything came together for "The Wrath of Khan"! Forget the hopeful ending of "Space Seed," everything's gone wrong…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 50 The Return Of Koenig
"The Animated Series" is finally over, time to dive into the films! Unfortunately we have to start with "The Motion Picture," which was brought to you by…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 03 Futurama - Where No Fan Has Gone Before
We've been talking about it since day one, and here it finally is: the TOS Love Letter episode of "Futurama," featuring almost all the then-surviving members…