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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

Apr 29, 2019

Wade sat down with two companions, Kristin from Toronto and Arthur (also known as BuckyWTGoodHair on twitter) to get their opinions now that we've been a week without Star Trek Discovery.  What did we like about Season 2, what did we dislike, and what are we looking forward to in Season 3.


Apr 21, 2019

We got emotional watching this episode. And not all of it was anger!  We talk a bit about things we like, so be cool everybody.  But then… we talk about some of the things we weren’t as keen on.  Great action, but what about the story of this season?   

Wade, Glen, and Sean are along for this one, but keep looking...


Apr 15, 2019

The end game approaches! In the meantime not much happens, but actually more happens than you could arguably fit into an hour, or fifty seven minutes.  We kvetch because we care!

Sean Perrotta is back to detail what he felt he missed in the past two episodes.  Glen Hall gives a synopsis.  Wade Bowen is here too. Go...


Apr 8, 2019

Time crystals, y'all. Time Crystals.  Lots happened in this episode, or did it?  Where did the time go?  Pike visits a Klingon to get a rock, Michael gets shot at, and Stamets and Culber get talked to.  Could last week's next-on have jumped straight past into this week's?

It's a full pod with plenty of opinions from...


Apr 4, 2019

Wade sat down with regular Kicker of Elves Hugh Crawford to try and explain Season Two of Star Trek Discovery to someone who hasn't watched it.

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