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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

Mar 25, 2019

The identity of the red angel is revealed! And then some. What is the best way to catch a time traveler who might have pertinant information at its disposal?

Sean is back. Where was he last week and what is going on with Star Trek Discovery?  

The streak is broken and Wade wasn't as big a fan of this episode. 

Can Glen...


Mar 19, 2019

The streak of episodes we like continues.  A background character gets some background for once and hey they pull off things in this episode of Star Trek: Discovery that S1 did not manage quite so well.  

Wade is joined by Glen Hall again, but no Sean Perrotta.  Lane Bowen does make a return, but without his wife or...


Mar 11, 2019

Pike's imaginary girlfriend shows up and a deep, dark, unforgivable and totally life altering secret shame that Michael Burnham has been hiding for years, comes to light.
[Totally not a rote typical sibling interaction]

Only two companions, Glen and Sean, join Wade this week. But we're... close.  Too close?  If you're...


Mar 4, 2019

We finally have Spock, and it is … fine. Time rifts are fine.  We're... pretty good?  

For all the leadup to this episode it didn’t instill any wild emotions that we'll need to use our logic to suppress. 

Pike and Tyler get caught up in some time shenanigans and learn a little bit about themselves.

Bucky with the...