Episodes

  • 32: We'll Always Have Unimatrix Zero (The Two-Parters)

    32: We'll Always Have Unimatrix Zero (The Two-Parters)
    May 31 2022
    Hugo Award-winner Frank Wu comes back to the podcast to talk about another big story featuring the Borg Queen. We discuss the merits of Seven’s love interest, the advisability of getting assimilated on purpose, and (our favorite subject) why Harry Kim keeps getting dissed. Even the Borg Queen zings him.

    Jean MacDonald with Frank Wu.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 31: Bad Dad of the Dark Frontier (The Two Parters)

    31: Bad Dad of the Dark Frontier (The Two Parters)
    Apr 24 2022
    In the latest of our two-part Voyager stories, we spend quality time with the Borg Queen and returning podcast guest Tammy Coron. We discuss about Seven’s childhood and why the promise of connection in the collective would be so seductive. And we rank the mother figures in Seven’s life. (Her dad gets a failing grade.)

    Jean MacDonald with Tammy Coron.
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    52 mins
  • 30: Klingon Neelix Is Killing It (The Two-Parters)

    30: Klingon Neelix Is Killing It (The Two-Parters)
    Apr 7 2022
    Jeff Gamet, tech journalist, podcaster, and big fan of Star Trek, returns to Voyager Revisited to discuss The Killing Game, a two-part story from Season 4 that lets us really get to know those scary Delta Quadrant bad guys, the Hirogen. It’s another great two-parter, in which we see our crew used as playthings for the Hirogen, whose only purpose is to hunt. Janeway is a French Underground leader, Seven is a torch singer, and Neelix is a badass Klingon, thanks to the holodeck. But we reserve our highest praise for Harry Kim, who had to heroically manage the ship and outwit the Hirogen. That guy deserves a promotion.

    Jean MacDonald with Jeff Gamet.
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    52 mins
  • 29: Year of Hell Revisited (The Two-Parters)

    29: Year of Hell Revisited (The Two-Parters)
    Oct 30 2021
    Don’t be alarmed! This is not a temporal incursion. Year of Hell is one of the most admired episodes of Voyager. One year ago, on episode 19 of this podcast, software developer and podcaster Tammy Coron was our guest. We were six months into the pandemic, and Year of Hell really struck home for both of us. Tammy’s situation especially, being flung into a pandemic with an unexpectedly extended family, was akin to Captain Janeway’s challenges in the Delta Quadrant. And like Janeway, we don’t know how long it will take, but we are still on a mission to see everyone through. We’re re-releasing this episode so that it’s in chronological order with the rest of the two-parters.. Enjoy this for the first time, enjoy a relisten, or skip to the next podcast episode, which will be all about the scary Hirogen.

    Jean MacDonald with Tammy Coron.
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    52 mins
  • 28: Scorpion's True Nature (The Two-Parters)

    28: Scorpion's True Nature (The Two-Parters)
    Oct 18 2021
    John Chidgey, engineer, podcaster, and big fan of Seven of Nine, returns to Voyager Revisited to discuss Scorpion, the two-part story that concludes Season 3 and opens Season 4. Scorpion is best known for the introduction of Seven, but on this rewatch, we notice that Seven doesn’t even appear until Part 2, and that the strain in the working relationship between Janeway and Chakotay is a key part of this story.

    Jean MacDonald with John Chidgey.
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    48 mins
  • 27: The Future Never Ends (The Two Parters)

    27: The Future Never Ends (The Two Parters)
    Oct 3 2021
    We are covering all the two-part stories in Voyager. They are all excellent. The Voyager crew return to Earth.🎉 But wait, it’s 1996 Earth. ðŸ¤¦â€ â™€ï¸ It’s Future’s End, and if it weren’t such fun, time travel would give us a headache. We get to watch our crew explore SoCal wearing a variety of late 20th-century outfits and hairstyles, teaming up with geek girl Sarah Silverman to battle hippie-turned-tech mogul Ed Begley, Jr. Returning to the podcast is James Dempsey, who knows a thing or two about moving to California to work for a cutting-edge technology empire.

    Jean MacDonald with James Dempsey.
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    50 mins
  • 26: Back to Basics (The Two Parters)

    26: Back to Basics (The Two Parters)
    Aug 30 2021
    We are covering all the two-part stories in Voyager. They are all excellent. We’ve already done Caretaker (“Invitation to a Holographic Hoedown”). Next up is Basics, in which the Kazon, under Seska’s treacherous leadership, take over Voyager, maroon the crew on a primitive planet, and find that they are no match for a hologram and sociopath. Casey Liss of The Accidental Tech Podcast joins us for this classic Star Trek action adventure story.

    Jean MacDonald with Casey Liss.
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    55 mins
  • 25: The Rediscovered Vulcan

    25: The Rediscovered Vulcan
    Apr 10 2021
    We’re celebrating the 30th anniversary Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country this week on The Incomparable network. Have a listen to not one but two panels, on the mothership episode and on Random Trek. Then come back here for the two podcasters missing from those panels as we take a deeper dive into the Vulcan who was missing from the film, Voyager’s own Tuvok. Flashback (S3E2) was itself a 30th anniversary homage to the original series. Tuvok returns to the Excelsior, serving under Captain Sulu, and turns out it’s Tuvok who served Sulu that iconic cup of tea from Star Trek VI opening scene. James Thomson, regular panelist at The Incomparable and developer of famous software programs, is our guest.

    Jean MacDonald with James Thomson.
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    51 mins