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When Wil Wheaton asks to be written off the show, "but don't do me like you did Tasha", Picard taps Wesley to join him on one final mission. But when their shuttle crashes on a dusty old moon, Wes has to navigate an overeager shuttle Captain and an impenetrable force field around the only water supply in order to save his Captain Daddy's life because the D is stuck dealing with a stray Waste Management truck full of toxic sludge threatening an entire planet.

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When an Away Team goes wrong, Riker wakes up 16 years in a future he doesn't recognize. Picard is an Admiral, Riker has a son who sucks at trombone almost as much as himself, and the Romulan Tomalak is an Ambassador? It's the episode of Star Trek that asks if you can find all the red flags.

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Allie's shuttle has returned from her symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way.

Humanist Trek will be out of communications range next week, returning to Federation Space on Sept 29 for Patrons / Oct 1 for Public Feed.

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When K'Ehleyr shows up with a son Worf didn't know he had, Sarah sits in judgement of all y'all mad about Strange New Worlds soap opera episode. But when K'mpec, leader of the Klingon Empire is poisoned, Picard is chosen to preside over the Primary Election -- and determine which of the candidates murdered K'mpec: Gorwon or Duras.

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When the Enterprise attempts to rescue some freighter crew members from the home planet of the late Tasha Yar, they discover Tasha had a sister, Ishara. But when Ishara double crosses them, Picard and Company are faced with issues of bias and trust, learning the lesson "skin folk ain't kin folk".

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When another one of Wesley's science projects glitches out, his mother is trapped inside a warp bubble. But it takes her 4/5 acts of the show to figure out that she's in the bubble. Then, all Wesley has to do is ascend to a higher plane in order to save her. Easy peasy.

As mentioned on today's episode...

• USS Tiburon

• USS Cordilleran

• Melody Starya Mobley

• Dr. Kjell Lindgren

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When the D finds a human boy among aliens, the crew spends 40 minutes convincing themselves that the boy MUST be returned to his human gran. It takes a Klingon blade to the chest for Picard to consider another option.

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When Data glitches out after receiving a factory recall notice, he locks everyone out of the D with a 52 character password and 2FA and drives the ship to a planet where his creator is living. Unfortunately, his brother Lore also received the recall notice and Brent on Brent on Brent shenanigans ensue.

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The D returns home to Earth to decompress after the Borg attack. Picard rolls in the mud with his brother while Worf tries to keep his father from pestering O'Brien and LaForge too much. And Wes gets a special message from his dead father.

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As the Borg approach Earth, prepared to assimilate errbody, Riker chooses the needs of the one and launches a covert operation to save his Captain.

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HUMANIST TREK RETURNS NEXT WEEK!

With our appreciation for your patience during a summer break, Allie and Sarah return to look ahead at the episode list to see what they remember from this upcoming season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Sarah regales Allie with tales of TrekFest 41 (2026) in Riverside, Iowa in an effort to convince her to come next year.

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The Federation is caught with its pants down when the Borg finally turn up on course for Earth. But when Captain Picard is chosen as Speaker of the Borg, Riker must assume command, try to stop a Borg invasion, AND attempt to rescue his friend and Captain.

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The Enterprise saves an alien from death, an alien who turns out to have Space Jesus powers. But when the leaders of his world criminalize him as "a disruptive influence" threatening the natural order, Sarah and Allie recognize the familiar machinery of people in power treating marginalized identities as social contagions.

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When a Ferengi falls ears over heels for Lwaxana Troi, she finds herself kidnapped along with Bill and Deanna. While Mrs. Troi distracts her captor with an earjob, Picard combines threats with Shakespeare to free her.

Episode writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us for this review and discussion of "Ménage à Troi".

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When Sarek, Vulcan Ambassador of the Federation, boards the D to perform one last negotiation to cap off a lifetime of achievement, seemingly random violent outbursts begin to ravage the crew. But when Sarek is identified as the cause, Star Trek takes a big swing at mental health in aging.

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In yet another exploration of "The Cage", Kivas Fajo, possible owner of Hobby Lobby and collector of rare and valuable things, moves on from smuggling religious artefacts looted from Iraq, and Lt Cmdr Data finds himself the newest piece in his collection. Will Data's ethical programming to value all life prevent him from killing to survive?

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When Lt. Reginald Barclay joins the crew, Geordi must learn to manage an employee with severe anxiety who hides out in the Holodeck all the time. But when mysteries start popping up all over the D, it's Barclay who must try to set aside his fears to help save the ship.

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When the Enterprise races against the Romulans to make first contact with an Ancient Alien species, an neurospicy Betazoid and an autistic android both find their people, place, and purpose. Maybe you're just different, and maybe that's not a sin.

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When Captain Picard is nudged into taking a vacation, he finds himself wrapped up in a search for an artifact from the future. With a Horga'hn in his hand and a budgie in his britches, will our Captain find Jamaharon?

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When Captain Picard is snatched away by an old Hewlett-Packard ScanJet Plus and a copy left in his place, Picard Prime must figure his way out of a science experiment while his copy, Duplicard, attempts to convince the crew he's the real Slim Shady.

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When Worf's long lost brother joins the Klingon-Starfleet Cultural Exchange Program, Worf's family honor is put on trial. But when a surprise witness threatens to reveal the truth, Worf must consider accepting dishonor to protect a more influential and powerful family.

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Returning champ Leonard Crofoot joins us for this adventure in android parenting on TNG's "The Offspring".

When Data creates a new life-form, Starfleet responds in the most Starfleet way possible: by sending a bAdmiral to confiscate the kid. Despite the legal precedent set in "The Measure of a Man", the debate over android personhood somehow starts all over again, but before it can be resolved, Data's child dies.

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When the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C emerges through a time rift, the future is drastically changed. In this nightmarish version of the future, the Federation is losing a long war to the Klingons, Tasha Yar is still alive, and Donald Trump was elected President -- not once, but twice! After uncovering the secret to Trump's success -- a sports almanac from the future -- Picard and Crew embark on a quest to repair the Enterprise C and restore the space-time continuum. Then, Allie and Sarah use their "Phone-a-Friend" lifeline on the Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge.

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When Commander Riker is accused of murdering (yet another) recluse Star Trek scientist, Picard must decide if extradition is warranted. But when the holodeck recreations start showing very different ^ahem^ perspectives of the events leading up to the station's destruction... Sarah and Allie wonder, "Does this episode even have a point?"

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Picard and Company attempt to hang a moon back in the sky of some planet when John de Lancie drops into the D -- naked and afraid. With Data as Q's humanities professor, will Q grow as a person and actually show some compassion?

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When a group of ANTIFA separatists take Dr. Crusher hostage hoping to find a cure for what ails them, Picard and Company are forced to consider bargaining with the terrorists. But when the terrorists are revealed to only be conisdered the bad guys because they want independence from the state, we once again ask, "What, who are the good guys again?"

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When the Enterprise visits a world seeking Federation membership, the crew is caught in the middle of a prison break. But when the "criminal" turns out to be a bioengineered soldier built for war and abandoned afterward, Star Trek delivers a brutal indictment of America's ongoing failure to support its veterans.

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When a Romulan defector claims there's a secret military base in the DMZ—but offers no evidence—Picard must decide whether this is a genuine attempt to stop a war—or classic Romulan misdirection. When it's revealed that Tomalak is exploiting the claim as part of a disinformation campaign to spark war, Sarah and Allie get political. Again.

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While responding to a ransacked Federation outpost, the crew finds themselves in the middle of another civilization divided. The Acamarians are prepared to welcome home their Gatherer brethren from exile, but old clan rivalries thought to have ended long ago resurface. Can Picard negotiate a final end to the clan wars and a peaceful return home for the Gatherers?

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This episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation contains scenes of Sexual Assault. Listener discretion is advised.

When an alien race opens an eBay auction for control of the only known stable wormhole which just happens to be in their space, Deanna Troi is swept away by a mysterious bidder named Devinoni Ral. When Ral turns out to also be Betazoid and using his abilities to win the auction, Star Trek makes us think about ethics and morality. But when Ral uses his abilities to get into Troi's bed, Allie and Sarah think about how sexual assaulty this really was.

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A tale of two enemies: Geordi is trapped on Planet Hell with an injured Romulan crash survivor and a VISOR that doesn't work while Worf is the only person on the D who can save the life of another injured Romulan recovered from Planet Hell. Will they be able to put aside their differences to save lives? The answer may surprise you.

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When the D gets stuck in a booby trap while studying an Ancient Alien spaceship, Geordi conjures up a holodeck recreation of one of the designers of the Galaxy Class. But when the writers do a brotha dirty, Allie and Sarah grab their heaters and head for the transporter room.

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When an away mission goes wrong, Spot Conlon is left without parents and has to sell newspapers to get by. But when Worf and an ancient alien compete to step into the empty space, Star Trek inspects the healing and grief process.

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When a hidden observation outpost is revealed to a primitive culture who long ago abandoned their belief in the supernatural, Picard becomes a god figure and the Prime Directive gets violated deeply, OH MYYY. Will Picard choose to play god, sabotage the achievement these people have made, and send them back into the Dark Ages of superstition and ignorance and fear?

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When the Enterprise responds to a distress call, they find an entire planet destroyed save for one 5 acre plot and a couple of elderly residents with good tea in a nice house. But when things aren't quite adding up, Picard breaks character and does some solo sluething.

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When Commander Data is the only officer able to execute an evacuation mission, he finds the people unwilling to leave. Meanwhile, Picard pores over hundreds of treaty pages looking for a loophole. Will Data convince the settlers to leave before they're killed by the Sheliak? Will Picard convince the Sheliak to give him an extension? Just what type of batteries does a Soong-type vibrator take?

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When Dr. Beverly returns to Star Trek: The Next Generation, she finds that her relationship with her son has changed in her absence. Meanwhile Wesley's science project gets loose and installs 1990's Star Trek screensavers all over the ship and yet another wild-eyed scientist obsesses over a science project of his own.

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When Star Trek: The Next Generation runs out of money, Bill finds himself with a parasitic infection that causes him to replay scenes from earlier episodes. When Humanist Trek finds itself stuck in a clip show, what else is there to do but put a clip show in a clip show?

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While the Enterprise plays a war game that Picard doesn't really want to play, Data is manipulated into playing a board game he doesn't want to play. This week we learn that there is such a thing as too much self-confidence.

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When Worf's old flame shows up on the D, the tension gets thick. But once she gets his thicc Ds, Klingon honor bullshit insists that they're married. As several characters navigate being stuck between two different cultures, an old Klingon ship full of Japanese holdouts is about to wake up still believing they're at war. How do you even begin to bring them into the 24th Century? Well, we don't know because this episode isn't really about that.

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When Mrs. Troi shows up in the middle of a midlife crisis, her horny attention turns to just about every man on the ship. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc hides in the holodeck while Worf schools Wesley on not judging a fish person by it's scales. Then they turn out to be assassins? What?

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When the Enterprise stumbles upon a forgotten Earth colony whose planet is in danger, the racist Irish stereotypes get turned up to 11. The neighboring colony made up of clones needs new DNA to survive. The solution seems pretty simple, but what happens when you set up your Trump supporting, toxic manosphere, dudebro cousin with your hot socialist Bernie Bro bestie?

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While Picard and Wesley take the company van to the nearest Starbase to get open heart surgery and retake the Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge, respectively, the Enterprise responds to a distress call from a seemingly unintelligent species called the Pakleds. But when Geordi gets kidnapped and Picard's surgery takes a turn, Riker and Co have to outwit the dimwits to save them both.

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When Q drops in for another chaotic visit, the Enterprise finds itself in an encounter with Star Trek: The Next Generation's new baddies: the Borg. Is it Picard's stubborn arrogance or distrust of Q preventing him from asking for help? Could Q have taught Picard this lesson without killing 18 UC's? And just how do Borgs procreate?

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Data spends weeks communicating with a young girl on the internet and learns that her planet is destroying itself. Thankful that Chris Hansen isn't there when they arrive, Data breaks the Prime Directive and probably several Secondary Directives to save his new underage friend. Where is the line when it comes to saving lives? Why is Data more human than everyone else all of a sudden? And why is everyone so quick to perform a memory wipe on an alien child without consent?

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When Riker's Dad shows up after 15 years looking to make amends, father and son must beat the shit out of each other in order to deal with their feelings. Meanwhile, Worf's going through some cultural isolation and Wesley organizes Worf's friends to watch Worf get zapped with pain sticks over and over.

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When a giant space whirlpool sends Picard 6 hours back in time, the crew must unravel a timey wimey loop knot. But when Gene Roddenberry tells Maurice Hurley to stuff it, we're left with more questions than answers.

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When the D finds some old NASA junk orbiting a strange new world, they beam down to find themselves in a shitty old novel. One long-dead astronaut later, they discover they're trapped inside this hotel and casino and only Data's ability to know when to hold 'em can break them free.

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