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Romulans Bearing Gifts podcast hosted by Eric, Cat, Carl, and Caleb. We set out to discuss episodes covering all series and eras of Star Trek. We've been podcasting together for quite some time on Sci-Fi Party Line, Mostly Harmless Cutaway, and Prognosis Negative—from Sci-fi to Doctor Who, to film, we are finally focusing on the original wagon train to the stars, STAR TREK. We started covering some of the newer series episodes with Picard S2. Each week the regular hosts take turns selecting ...
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Primitive Culture is a Trek.fm podcast dedicated to a deep examination of the connections between Star Trek and our own history and culture. In each episode, Duncan Barrett and his guests take you on a fascinating exploration of how our world inspires the franchise we love—and how that franchise inspires us.
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A renowned Star Trek authority, Larry Nemecek is author of the bestselling classic Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, and founder of the behind-the-scenes monthly multi-mode fan experience Portal 47. As a regular convention guest worldwide, Larry is often referred to as “Dr. Trek.” He has also been a frequent guest on Trek.fm since the start of the network in 2011. In this special podcast collection, you can easily access all the episodes that feature Dr. Trek.
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Rec Deck™️ Welcome to the Second Romulans Bearing Gifts Cutbits aka REC DECK episode! Cutbits originated on the mother stream, Mostly Harmless Cutaway—little bits of audio tape that ended up on the cutting room floor, now packaged into a nice little program. In this Cutbit, we join the Romulans Bearing Gifts crew of the Saucer Section (Carl, Cat, a…
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Vulcans can be such jerks. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Seven Zero featuring Carl, Sean and Eric. Join us as we continue with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, with Episode 5, Charades. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek episode…
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Maybe some memories are worth the pain of others. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Six Nine featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we continue with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, with Episode 4, Among the Lotus Eaters. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choo…
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Once you have lived through every natural disaster and economic calamity in human history without becoming a pack rat, then you can judge me. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Six Seven featuring Cat, Carl, and Eric, as well as a surprise appearance by a frequent co-host from Mostly Harmless Cutaway, as Josh makes his debut for this …
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As you all know, I am not the biggest fan of Starfleet. But I am looking at a starship crew that proudly serves under an Illyrian commander. So, like I said, it's a start. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Six Seven featuring Sean, Caleb, Carl, and Eric. Join us as we continue with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, now onto Season 2, wi…
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I thought Human reproduction was complicated – you Denobulans make us look like single-celled organisms! Unknown (2151) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Nine featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we finally return to Star Trek: Enterprise, this time looking at Season 1 Episode 13, Dear Doctor. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section …
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Perhaps we can conclude this discussion over a barrel of bloodwine? (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Six Six featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we continue with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, now onto Season 2, with Episode 1, The Broken Circle. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3…
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Tuvok, I hope that's your stomach (Unknown) 2373.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Eight featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we finally return to Star Trek: Voyager, this time looking at Season 3 Episode 23, Distant Origin. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing rand…
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I think we should boldly get the hell out of here, Part Two. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Seven featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Caleb giving his brief thoughts on Episode 4 & 5. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the…
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I'm giving you what you gave me all those years ago. A fighting chance. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Six featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we continue our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Episode 5, Imposters. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts ta…
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I think we should boldly get the hell out of here. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Five featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we continue our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Episode 4, No Win Scenario. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choos…
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Like it or not, I'm your father. I don't know what that means, I know that means something, has some connection. But one thing is clear: you'll never look at your hairline again in the same way. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Four featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue our journey through Star Trek: The Next Gener…
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It took seventeen seconds to get down there. The longest turbolift ride of my life. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five One featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Episode 3, Seventeen Seconds. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, th…
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If that ship decides to engage us, we are outgunned, and I am not going to risk five hundred souls for two relics who think that a couple of brass medals make them golden boys. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five One featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we begin our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Episode 2, Disen…
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Well, she wasn't the first, but she was certainly my favorite. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five One featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as we begin our journey through Star Trek: Picard Season 3 with Episode 1, The Next Generation. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take…
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Jim was always at the top of his class. Smart and highly skilled, obviously. But he's not above relying on charm, or even luck. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Five Zero featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 10, A Quality of Mercy. Let the Banter Begin! In canoni…
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Music in Star Trek From Alexander Courage’s “bright galactic beguine” in The Original Series to Jeff Russo’s churning, Game of Thrones-style theme for Discovery, the music of Star Trek has always embodied the spirit of its time, as much as it looks to the future. Rick Berman famously sacked composer Ron Jones from The Next Generation because he fel…
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Are emergency landings ever scheduled? (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Nine featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 9, All Those Who Wander. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing rando…
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2383.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Eight featuring Carl and Eric. Join us as they discuss their thoughts on Star Trek: Prodigy, Season 1 Episodes 11 to 20. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek episodes from any era/show for the hosts to digest a…
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Rec Deck™️ Welcome to the Second Romulans Bearing Gifts Cutbits aka REC DECK episode! Cutbits originated on the mother stream, Mostly Harmless Cutaway—little bits of audio tape that ended up on the cutting room floor, now packaged into a nice little program. In this Cutbit, we join the Romulans Bearing Gifts crew of the Saucer Section (Carl, Cat, a…
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Rec Deck™️ Welcome to the First Romulans Bearing Gifts Cutbits aka REC DECK episode! Cutbits originated on the mother stream, Mostly Harmless Cutaway—little bits of audio tape that ended up on the cutting room floor, now re-packaged into a nice little program. In this Cutbit, we join the Romulans Bearing Gifts crew of the Refit Era (Carl, Caleb, an…
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(Unknown) 2022 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Five featuring Cat, Carl and Eric. Join us as we discuss their thoughts on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episodes 8, The The Elyisum Kingdom. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek episodes from …
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(Unknown) 2022 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Five featuring Cat, Carl and Eric. Join us as we discuss their thoughts on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episodes 7, The Serene Squall. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek episodes from any er…
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(Unknown) 2022 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Five featuring Cat, Carl and Eric. Join us as we recap Cat's thoughts on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, Episodes 1-6. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek episodes from any era/show for the hos…
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Let the tree that grows from the roots of sacrifice lift us where suffering cannot reach. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Four featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 6, Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section ep…
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Maybe they’re just looking for somebody to take their point of view. Radical empathy. Maybe what they value the most in others is the capacity to see things their way. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four One featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 5, Spock Amok. L…
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As we honor the lives that've been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four One featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 4, Memento Mori. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, …
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You don't grow up with a bio-engineered mass murderer as your ancestor and not develop a thick skin (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four One featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we continue Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 3, Ghosts of Illyria. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of …
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I've never understood the human inclination to laugh at others' misfortune. It feels impolite. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Four Zero featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we finally finish Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, with Episode 2, Children of the Comet. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episod…
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Half a Decade of Primitive Culture Star Trek’s original five-year mission was brought to a premature end in 1969. But over the ensuing half-century and more, the franchise has continued boldly going to new frontiers. By the 1980s, when a second generation of fans came to seek out fresh adventures, the voyage had become a continuing mission … with n…
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Most humans, we like to think that, right until the very last instant, somehow, someway, we'll cheat death. Least, I did. (Unknown) 2259 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Nine featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Join us as we finally finish Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, with Episode 1, Strange New Worlds. Let the Banter Begin! In canoni…
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Cardassian war crimes and The Man in the Glass Booth For many fans of Deep Space Nine, the penultimate installment of Season 1, “Duet,” is also the show’s first classic episode. A bleak exploration of guilt, responsibility, and forgiveness in the aftermath of war, it’s a story that could scarcely have been told on any other Star Trek series. One of…
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Autistic representation in Star Trek “Perhaps you’re just different,” Tam Elbrun tells Data in the Next Generation episode “Tin Man.” “Not a sin, you know, though you may have heard otherwise.” Both characters—the emotionally sensitive Betazoid and the supposedly emotionless android—have been seen by fans as allegories of a particular kind of diffe…
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Humans. Your griefs, your pains, fix you to moments in the past long gone. You're like butterflies with your wings pinned. My old friend, forever the boy who with the errant turn of a skeleton key broke the universe in his own heart. No more. You are now unshackled from the past. As I leave, I leave you free. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Be…
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Humans. They're all trapped in the past. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Seven featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 8, Mercy. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing random Star Trek e…
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We could all use a dash of extra with all this ordinary. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Six featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 7, Monsters. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take turns choosing r…
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I know what it looks like. Or not. But trust me, we're the good guys. (Unknown) 2401.0 Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Five featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 6, Two of One. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3 hosts take …
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If I could encapsulate all the knowledge I've gained through the years from life experience and careful study into a single pearl of wisdom for you, it would be this. People are idiots. 2401.0 (12 APR 2024) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Four featuring Carl, Caleb, and Eric. Join us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek: Picard Seaso…
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None of us knew whether she had inherited the capacities of the Q, but recently they've begun to emerge, and uh, as an expert in Humanity, I was sent to investigate. 46192.3 (2369) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Three featuring Carl, Caleb and Eric. Just us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek The Next Generation Series Season 6, Ep…
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The State of Star Trek 2022 We long called the 1990s the golden age of Star Trek. From 1993 to 1999, two series overlapped one another on the airwaves and, once The Next Generation left the small screen, we even got doses of three incarnations of Gene Roddenberry’s vision from time to time. But it all came to an abrupt end in May 2005, with the fin…
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Star Trek’s Double Troubles Don’t they say you die if you meet yourself? Our intrepid Starfleet officers had better hope the answer is no, since encounters with doubles, doppelgängers, and duplicates appear to be just part of the job. From the two Kirks in “The Enemy Within” to Lower Decks’s twinned Boimlers, Star Trek has offered up a host of alt …
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"We would like you to work on your recruitment speech." "Don't give me notes." 1025.19 (2257) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Two featuring Caleb and Eric. Join us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek Discovery Season 2, Episode 3, Point of Light. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the original 3…
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Trans representation in Star Trek. In 2022, trans characters in Star Trek have become part of the fabric of humanity’s shared future in space. In addition to Adira and Gray Tal in Discovery, we’ve been treated to the villainess Captain Angel in Strange New Worlds and even an explicitly non-binary character, the Medusan Zero, in Prodigy. But a few d…
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As a child, I had what my mother called nightmares. She taught me to control my fear by drawing it, rendering fear powerless. The nightmares have returned. 1025.19 (2257) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three One featuring Caleb and Eric. Just us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek Discovery Season 2, Episode 2, New Eden. Let the Banter B…
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The Alien franchise and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In space, no one can hear you scream. But for unlucky Starfleet landing parties, meeting a nightmarish alien menace can prove as traumatic as deadly. For La'an Noonien-Singh, who carries the burden of having survived captivity in a Gorn breeding colony during childhood, another encounter with t…
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Wherever our mission takes us, we'll try to have a little fun along the way too, alright? Make a little noise. Ruffle a few feathers. 1025.19 (2257) Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Three Zero featuring Caleb and Eric. Just us as we dive deep into Eric's pick: Star Trek Discovery Season 2, Episode 1, Brother. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Sau…
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Readings indicate the beings used almost 70% of their brains – a very high ratio. 5554.4. Welcome to Romulans Bearing Gifts Two Nine featuring Caleb and Eric. Just us as we dive deep into Caleb's pick: Star Trek The Animated Series Season 1, Episode 7, The Infinite Vulcan. Let the Banter Begin! In canonical Saucer Section episodes of this show, the…
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How Star Trek’s leaders reflect our own. Young, charismatic, and a bit of a ladies’ man, Captain James T. Kirk was cast in the mould of President John F. Kennedy, the beloved US leader who had been killed just three years before Star Trek debuted. But over the course of more than half a century, Star Trek’s captains have often echoed the great poli…
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