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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 49 End Of Side B
It's over. Oh, thank goodness, TAS is OVER! Unfortunately we ran out of gas for this blasted show last week, and we can't really muster up any enthusiasm for…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 48 The TAS Home Stretch
We're so close to the end, but TAS isn't making it easy to get through. First up, the title character of "Bem" is the worst, after which the Romulans are jerks…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 47 The Incredibly Stupid Journeys
Let's start off with a fun fact: you should be able to narrow down when we recorded this episode to a specific window if you listen carefully to our…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 46 Trapped Underwater With Cats
It's nothing but hard questions this time around from TAS. "The Time Trap" makes us wonder what the devil is up with the "Bonaventure" since we know the first…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 45 Vacation, Potion, And Shrinkage
It's double familiarity followed by a mediocre original idea from TAS this week. Kirk and Co. find things are more dangerous than ever on the Shore Leave world…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 44 Surviving Infinite Magicks
After things began looking up last week, we take another turn for (mostly) awful again. "The Survivor" is a highlight which your stalwarts generally enjoyed…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 43 What Is He Doohan
Things are looking up this week, as at least one of your stalwarts likes EVERY episode this week! Alright, we're not exactly raving about any of them, but this…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 42 The (Barely) Animated Series
And so the next phase of SSHB begins! Unfortunately we're off to an inauspicious start, as The Animated Series presents us with animation that might actually…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 02 Tales From The Holodeck 01
In our second Ten Forward, your stalwarts are engaging in the time-honored nerd tradition of fanfiction! We've broken into the House That Gene Built and we're…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 41 End Of Side A
It's the end of the series that started it all! So how does "Turnabout Intruder" do as a series finale? How does it stack up against its predecessors? And what…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 40 Blasts From And To The Past
It's one of the most bogus journeys the "Enterprise" crew has ever gone on as space Lincoln allows Kirk to glance behind "The Savage Curtain," followed by a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 39 PRIGS. IN. SPAAAAACE!
We're seeing familiar faces throughout the cosmos this week, though while one was likely intentional, the other only works in hindsight. First up, it's like…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 38 Only The Lonely
Everyone is trying to get some on this week's SSHB. First up, both Mister Scott and a colony of disembodied alien spirits have eyes only for Lieutenant Romaine…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 37 EverybodyNobody
It's worlds that couldn't be more unalike this episode, but either way Spock is in a mood. First up, Kirk is kidnapped to be the solution to an overpopulation…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 36 Death Coaster To Hell
We've got a sort-of rehash and a disappointing classic for you on this week's SSHB. First up, things are going wrong at a psychiatric colony again in "Whom…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 35 Bad Teacher Week
Kirk is picking up the slack for everyone this week, first having to remind some aliens that they've lost touch in "The Empath." After that, he's got to try…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 34 Smug D - Bags And Bad Puns
Big content warning right up front with this one: the whole plot of "Plato's Stepchildren" revolves around these superpowered aliens who have the ability to…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 33 Title Drops
Your stalwarts have their expectations dashed this week, folks! We positively loved "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," wherein a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 32 Cowboys And Aliens
It's gunfights and swordfights this week, as a pair of high-powered aliens muck about with our "Enterprise" stalwarts in very different ways. First up: it's a…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 31 Enterprise Security Is Still Shockingly Lax
Considering how late it is in the series, I don't think they're ever going to learn. It's still free access to all guests and no locked doors anywhere, and…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 30 Touch Of A Vulcan
Everyone's ready to get down with someone this week on SSHB! First up, "Trek" introduces us to our first female ship commander in "The Enterprise Incident,"…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 29 Spocktacular Headgear
Well, this was certainly a trying week for your erstwhile quartet of "Trek" raconteurs. First up is "Assignment: Earth," wherein alien-trained superspy Gary…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 28 As Heard On The Internet
It's the SSHB Podcast! It doesn't slice, dice, or julienne fries, but you can certainly set it and listen to it! I can't legally say we're brought to you by…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 27 The Essences Of Man
Seems like we've been here before. First up, it looks like the "Enterprise" is getting hijacked AGAIN in "By Any Other Name," while the Prime Directive is…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 26 Gang Aft Agley
Plans just keep going wrong this week. But while treachery is the proverbial wooden shoe in the machinery in "Return to Tomorrow," the basic idea itself was…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 25 Off Topical
First up: that background noise we mention and apologize for at the start actually cuts out pretty quickly and never returns, so you needn't worry about that…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 24 Five Hundred Quatloos On Kirk Getting A Royal Fizzbin
Everyone keeps getting captured this week, though by VERY different kinds of enemies; it's full sci-fi weirdness when they're in the clutches of "The Gamesters…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 23 Piglet From Pooh And Some Tribbles Too
We're looking at both ends of the "Trek" tonal spectrum this week! First up: murder and mayhem spanning the centuries in "Wolf in the Fold," followed…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 22 Kirk's A Jerk
Kirk sure is in a mood this week, but while he has a pretty good excuse in "The Deadly Years," what with crazy space radiation causing him and other members of…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 21 Set Phasers To Picante
We've got another week of doubling up! Two DC Fontana scripts bring us two stories driven by mineral rights and featuring two occasions of Kirk being rather…
A Star to Steer Her ByTen Forward 01 Rogue One
Wait, what's going on?! Well, we've mentioned it a few times before, but we've finally done it: it's our first Ten Forward, where we're going to go anywhere…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 20 Attendance Is Compulsory
Content Warning: even for us, this one gets a bit blue. But it's not our fault! First up we have "I, Mudd," which has the show coming as close to admitting…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 19 Not A White Whale But A Black Cat
"The Doomsday Machine" hits us over the head with an unsubtle Cold War allegory so we hit back with sex toy jokes, and then "Trek" tries its hand at some light…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 18 Zapping In The New Year
For the first SSHB of 2017 we've got a special guest to introduce us! Kind of. Then it's off to the EEEEEEEEEVIL races in "Mirror, Mirror," before beaming down…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 17 Scotty The (Foolhardily) Brave
One of the Jims was feeling particularly feisty this week and kept trying to join in, so apologies for the extra ambient noise this episode. Meanwhile, old…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 16 The Best First Officer In The Fleet
This episode is particularly SPOCKtacular, when everyone's favorite Vulcan is infected by parasites in "Operation: Annihilate!" and then infected by lust in…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 15 The Enterprise Needs Better Security
It's a low and a high as we try desperately to find something to like in "The Alternative Factor," followed by us being shocked that too many cooks DIDN'T…
A Star to Steer Her ByEpisode 14 Horta Culture And Kor Values
It's a regular Yakov Trekov this week, as pizza eats YOU in "The Devil in the Dark" and the occupied order around the soldiers in "Errand of Mercy." Also this…