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A Discovery Home Companion is an unfiltered look at Star Trek: Discovery, a new  Star Trek for a new era of television, set in an older era before Kirk and Spock.  Will it be great, or will it be disappointing? Three close friends will approach the show with open hearts and critical minds. Oh, and it turns out we'll end up yelling at each other sometimes.

Check out our ongoing exploration of another Star Trek and “Prequel to the Golden Age of Television,” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in our other podcast, The Rules of Acquisition

Nov 28, 2017

“We just don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see”

WILL WE?

What if… https://twitter.com/karterhol/status/931197711625412608

What mysteries will be explained, and which were done intentionally enough that we can expect them to be?

Will the Stamets mirror scene ever be explained? Opinions differ.

Tom from...


Nov 14, 2017

We start off with some puerile excitement over certain… reveals in this episode…

And then get into fights over whether this was a good episode or whether this is a good series and whether we can have one without the other.  Just because it’s not what we want, can we still enjoy this show? 

It would seem the answer...


Nov 11, 2017

What is the dumbest thing?

Kristin from Toronto corrects a mistake, and also points out the lack of guiding thesis for the show, which other Treks have.

Lane calls up with a Schrodingers box metaphor, since we can't quite know whether not the contents (cat, Cornball, or the show itself) are either dead, banged up and...


Nov 7, 2017

If you want peace, prepare for War.

We jump right in and decide how we feel about this episode of Star Trek: Discovery. 

Wade liked a lot of this one, until he didn't.

Hugh appreciates the pew pew space fight noises.

James... James just doesn't know.

Was this also a "classic Star Trek" trope of an episode?  Were parts...


Nov 4, 2017

The most recent episode of Star Trek Discovery felt more like "Star Trek" to a lot of fans, but what exactly does that mean?

Can a show fill our desire for Trek while being worse than better shows that that don't scratch that itch? We explore our issues with Discovery and take a couple of your calls. 

A few thoughts...