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Huh. Wait what? Picard is good now?

Yeah, that’s right. All those other podcasts and shows are lying to you. We’re the only source you can trust on NuTrek. NO. We’re not a cult. How dare you.

Here we go on about what works in episodes 3 and 4 of Star Trek: Picard season 3. How does the show finally use what previous seasons refused to acknowledge about the universe? Just what is the relationship between technobabble and melodrama? How prurient can we be about our extracurricular activities?

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Picard is Dead; Long Live Picard

The end of everything. Or is it? We get our final criticisms out on what Star Trek: Picard did in this final episode and what we might think of how they built these new characters and killed some old ones.

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Talking Picard from the Coronavirus Capital

Picard gets eaten by a flower and talks to some synths. Back in NYC and Jersey, your hosts podcast to keep from going crazy while isolated at home. Heed the Admonition and maintain social distance.

What that harkened back to classic Trek did Wade and Glen like in this episode, and what is Sean so mad about?  

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Dark Times and Sunny Nepenthe

Losses are suffered.  Things get DARK. And hey, SOME of us watched a TV show this week. We have pretty nice things to say about the Riker/Troi storyline of Star Trek: Picard this week.  We just have to survive the rest. 

Everybody’s sick. Uh oh.

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Brutally Stardust City Dragging

What did Star Trek: Picard do our beloved Star Trek in the Seven of Nine themed episode Stardust City Rag? Is it ok that we still ended up liking this episode? Though kicking it off by fridge-ing a character is kind of a dick move, even if we aren’t actually that invested in Icheb.

Easter eggs are discussed.
Glen has some questions about the economics of Borg reclamation, and Sean is having none of it.  

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Can’t Picardly Wait (You Don’t Have to)

Another episode of Picard. Tall who? When is Fandom a bad thing? A new segment, “Status Update” provides the math we’ve never needed.
Breaking down the episode or having a breakdown?  Wade doesn’t want to get caught up in being a fan, yet gets mad at minutiae.  Sean doesn’t know to get mad at anything. So he doesn’t.  Glen is really committed to being the ultimate Star Trek fan and getting his percentages up.

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Can’t Picardly Wait. Tell your friends. Subscribe.

In this confusing IP obsessed media landscape – where it’s hard to get definitive answers regarding the peculiarities of art – Wade Bowen, Sean Perrotta, Glen Hall, and Benny Scheckner give you the correct nuanced opinions on whether Star Trek: Picard is a good show, as based on the first episode.

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A Short Talk about Short Trek: Calypso

Wade is joined by Courtney Bowen and Lane Bowen to talk about the Short Trek, “Calypso,” written by novelist Michael Chabon.

Just how many scifi references can three people see in a 15 minute short? From Her to Ursula K. Le Guin, to Mass Effect, and Asimov’s Foundation.

But most importantly, The Odyssey.

After that we hit on a few of the latest news and reveals in the realm of new Star Trek.  From the Picard show’s airdate to crude opinions on the latest Spock and Gregory Peck’s grandson.

Think we’re kind of being jerks about the whole thing? To Gregory Peck’s grandson? Want to yell at Wade for getting it all wrong and confusing Calypso with Circe? Well come at us at 917 408 3898