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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

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Imposters on the Bounty (Picard S3E05-06)

Mar 29, 2023

Regrets. I've had a few. Has Picard? We watched two episode of a Star Trek show and had positive and negative reactions. What kind of references worked well and which felt unsatisfying? Can a viewer who knows nothing about Trek have an emotional reaction to a callback to a show from 30 years ago? Turns out it's all in...

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I Can Wait I Can't Picardly Wait (Picard S3E03-04)

Mar 16, 2023

Have the wrongs of the past been repaired?  What is this about a Dominion War? How does technobabble supplement melodrama? Wade is too excited for all the ways the show has fixed his problems.  Glen is still reeling from the pain of what's come before and is not quite ready to trust again.  Sean is down for...

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We CAN Picardly Wait (Picard S3E01-02)

Mar 3, 2023

After a long hiatus, and skipping right over the rest of Picard Season 2, Strange New Worlds, and more; your old pals and that one aquaintance finally get back into resignation mode and see what's happening with our Start Trek: TNG friends.  It's Picard Season 3! 

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