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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

Oct 31, 2017

Time loop shenanigans!

Is this the most "Star Trek" episode of Star Trek: Discovery so far?

Harry Mudd returns with some quips and some humor and the urge to brutally murder Lorca over and over again with as many ways to disintegrate a guy as you can make a gun out of (and one transporter trick). 

How will they break...


Oct 28, 2017

Did we forget anything?  

Is Star Trek Discover trying to provoke us?

We take your messages and see how we feel about this episode after sitting with it a few days.

Tom remarks on how big the bridge is.  

Stefan is a little confused about Burnham's parents. Actually we are too.  Is this show "um, actually"-ing and...


Oct 24, 2017

Have we forgotten something?
1st impressions:
The APP SUCKS. Maybe that’s colored everyone’s opinions this fresh
The Expanse is mentioned not for the last time.
What is each of us’s Biggest Problem with this episode?
Vulcan MagicIs Lorca’s… bedroom scene particularly troublesome given current events?


Oct 20, 2017

We reflect with Vulcan logic on the state of Discovery, with the benefit of a few days rest to let our brash human emotions calm down.

Is this show good or bad? Somewhere in the middle?

Is it a paradox that Choose Your Pain was maybe the most Wade enjoyed the show, but also brought up the most concerns?

We hear a call...


Oct 17, 2017

Lorca gets STOLE and the tardigrade suffers worse indignities.

A chill West Coast James joins us for our least tumultuous recap yet. We inflict surprisingly little pain on each other this time out.

We do call out AaronSorkin for all that mystery box business on WestWing.  West Wing? Bear with us.

Ok. IT WAS L’RELL!