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New episodes every Thursday! Now in our 9th year, the intrepid crew of Chris, Jake, Caitlin, & Ames watch through the entire universe of Trek, go on wild tangents, crack wise, and make more fart jokes than necessary. https://sshbpodcast.com/ Mature content
“Some of them literally didn’t know Michael, some of them were clearly escaping gambling debts.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 405: A Lukewarm Welcome
We were under the impression at the end of season 2 of #StarTrekDiscovery that only a skeleton crew jumped to the future with Michael Burnham, but there's a ton of people here! Was Spock the ONLY one who stayed in the past? #StarTrek
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“Okay, you get this ship that shows up—regardless of where it came from—it has a piece of technology on it that is a gamechanger. It’s fuckin’ Gillette Labs level of gamechanger.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 405: A Lukewarm Welcome
Jake does everything in his power to quote commercials that replay on PlutoTV or NESN waaaayyyy too much and this might be the first time Chris didn't cut it from the episode. Sigh. #GilletteLabs #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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“Not only did I not care about Nhan much to begin with, I don’t care that much about her now either because it’s like her noble sacrifice is spending a couple weeks in a seed vault with a weirdo.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 405: A Lukewarm Welcome
Caitlin's finally back just in time to watch Nhan's unceremonious departure. At least Airiam got interesting at her end. It's like #StarTrekDiscovery just gave up on Nhan entirely. #StarTrek
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Follow this white rabbit with us as we peer through the looking glass to alternate universes, alternate histories, and generally all things alternate! We're all mad here.
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The crew have found their way to Starfleet in "Die Trying", but are rather upset to find out Command isn't happy to see them as they are to see it. #startrek
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“But I did like Stamets absolutely just shutting down the Tilly Babble. It was a real subversion of my expectations.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 404: Memories Not Found
The only thing in #StarTrekDiscovery stronger than Tilly's nonsense is Stamets's nonsense. #StarTrek
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“The victim of this show. Culber is the closest we have to an O’Brien but he has less shitty days. But boy, did he have a REALLY shitty one.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 404: Memories Not Found
Every series needs one designated sufferer, and on #StarTrekDiscovery, it seems to be Hugh Culber. #StarTrek
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“And even, we get Gray sticking around as Adira’s sort of Great Gazoo!” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 404, Memories Not Found
Ezri had Joran Dax, whom only she could see. Adira now has Gray. Fred Flintstone had the Great Gazoo. It all tracks. #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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We're definitely getting charged with thoughtcrime for this one. This week we're sharing our favorite depictions of dystopia from various media, appropriately dipping into the banned books list heavily! #ReadBannedBooks
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The "Discovery" is off to Trill in "Forget Me Not" and learns what we all did in DS9: that planet's government is AWFUL. Meanwhile Saru throws the most awkward #startrek dinner party since "The Undiscovered Country"
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“I also hated that it’s Georgiou who just—for no reason—is just ripping his mask off. What if he was an alien and needed that mask to breathe or something?” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 403: Good Tree, Nice Planet
It's Georgiou Ex Machina yet again in our latest #StarTrekDiscovery episode. Maybe it's her special Terran eyes that let her see through Wen's mask? Who the hell knows, but we're over it. #StarTrek
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“They seem to try to be insinuating that her hair just grew that long in a year on its own, which is fucking impossible because that is really, really long fucking hair.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 403: Good Tree, Nice Planet
We already know hair growth stimulators in #StarTrek are a thing, so why not see them in #StarTrekDiscovery when Michael grows her hair out? I was SO distracted by that montage that seemed to imply it grew naturally!
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“Adira’s a teen whiz kid, kind of like Wesley, only with less good taste in sweaters. I will take any of Wesley’s sweaters over this fascist shit.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 403: Good Tree, Nice Planet
To be fair, we don't really get to see Adira's taste in sweaters compared to Wesley's, but the United Earth Defense Force uniforms definitely scream "Fascist." #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek
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It's clear the Burn rewrote a lot of societies in #StarTrekDiscovery, but how do post-apocalyptic stories fare across other media? We've got our favorite world-ending fiction over on the blog if you're really into bleak.
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Now that the gang is back together on #startrek Discovery it's time to check in on home in "People of Earth". The welcome isn't exactly what they're expecting...
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“The plan was, again, kicking. Like, Georgiou has one plan and it’s fight your way out of it.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 402: The Future Ancient West
Georgiou Ex Machina returns in our #StarTrekDiscovery episode this week, because when talking out your problems doesn't work, the next best option is to try kicking them. #StarTrek
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“You know what would make Jett Reno even a little slightly more interesting, I think, is if we found out she’s El-Aurian.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 402: The Future Ancient West
Jett Reno and Guinan would totally be besties. #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery
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“There’s a sound somehow. It’s like how when we were kids, our shoes lit up. In the 32nd century, they have little speakers in their heels instead of lights.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 402, The Future Ancient West
#StarTrekDiscovery went full space western this time, with an old-timey saloon, tongue-in-cheek musical stings, and even spur sound effects absolutely out of nowhere. Too much? Maybe a bit. #StarTrek
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We've become unstuck in time over on the blog this week! Hop in your DeLorean to join us as we highlight our favorite time travel stories across the science fiction genre! ⏰⏰⏰
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SADDLE UP! #startrek Discovery is indulging in the ages-old tradition of going to the space-west as we see what's up with Saru and the crew in "Far From Home"!
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“As a modern-day Prometheus, he gave them slingshotting-around-the-sun technology and his punishment was to become the Guardian of Forever.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 401: Kool-Aid Manning into the Future
Every fan theory we come up with is better than what we actually learn about Daniels in #StarTrekDiscovery. Is he Section 31? Is he the Red Angel? Is he a rock that's also a time machine? All of it tracks. #StarTrek
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“The mystery is: How is it the Romulans aren’t dominating right now? As we know, at the heart of a Romulan ship is a micro black hole, because they’re idiots.” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 401: Kool-Aid Manning into the Future
Yeah yeah yeah, the Burn in #StarTrekDiscovery season 3 knocked out all the dilithium, boohoo. But Chris is asking the important question: How are those wily Romulans doing? #StarTrek
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“Okay, we’re jumping 900 years in the future. Now it’s gonna make sense that we can just go nuts with tech: ‘BIRD CLOCK!’ is their first thought and I’m about that.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 401: Kool-Aid Manning into the Future
Those of us who found some of the early #StarTrekDiscovery tech distracting can really revel in the 32nd century tech, which are all opportunities to be as bonkers as possible! #StarTrek
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“Book does have an Earth cat. This goes back to my theory from Enterprise about dogs! That Earth’s #1 export is pets.” -Jake, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 401: Kool-Aid Manning into the Future
We had "The Chase" to retcon why all the #StarTrek aliens are played by human actors, and now we have Jake's theory to retcon why we see so many Earth pets too. #StarTrekDiscovery
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We're taking a trip down memory lane over on the blog. What do we look back on fondly and what was seared into our minds at a young age? Gallivant with us as we reminisce over our earliest sci-fi memories.
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OH YEAH! Time to crash hard into the future as "Discovery" starts season 3 with "That Hope Is You, Part 1"! #startrek #koolaid
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We've hit episode 400 of "A Star to Steer Her By", and we're celebrating with trivia that snaps back and forth between obvious and intensely niche! Join us, why not? #startrek
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“I love an episode that is minimal like that and tells the story through action and facial expression. They did a good job showing and not telling that ‘Bitches, amirite?’ basically.” -Ames, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 399: Perhaps Once Was Sufficient
A mostly dialogue-free episode like "Children of Mars" gets to really explore storytelling with an entirely different toolset. The rest of #StarTrekPicard should have taken something from this lesson. #ShortTreks #StarTrek
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![“A few weeks ago we were saying, ‘Oh, I knew [Daly] was bad from Callister 2 because of his whole test scenario.’ That’s not a thing a good person does. Starfleet does it all the time!” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 399: Perhaps Once Was Sufficient](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:244ogw6t5gecfg7yn3p7rzno/bafkreigzdm44u6vzl5qqiezkkcfdj3357zovmntpm7mwnxoli2z5md44ce@jpeg)
“A few weeks ago we were saying, ‘Oh, I knew [Daly] was bad from Callister 2 because of his whole test scenario.’ That’s not a thing a good person does. Starfleet does it all the time!” -Chris, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 399: Perhaps Once Was Sufficient
Justice for Michael Eddington! The more we see Starfleet pull shit like they do in "Ask Not," the more we question if they've they've got their morals straight. #ShortTreks #StarTrek #BlackMirror
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“None of it would land without H. Jon Benjamin. They had to have written that role for him and if they didn’t, then what a fucking coincidence that the exact right person existed in the universe to play it.” -Caitlin, A Star to Steer Her By, Episode 399: Perhaps Once Was Sufficient
While most of us found a lot of the comedy in "The Trouble with Edward" fell flat, one thing is for sure: It would have been a disaster without the perfect casting. #ShortTreks #StarTrek
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