Lower Decks Ep. 6: Terminal Provocations

Lower Decks Ep. 6: Terminal Provocations Our animated journey continues with Star Trek: Lower Decks Ep. 6 “Terminal Provocations”! Holodeck malfunctions, rogue computer components, and voice cameos! Plus, we talk Star Trek Day panels including the new Discovery Season 3 trailer and some nuggets from the Strange New Worlds dicussion! We’ll be back each week […]

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Lower Decks Ep. 5: Cupid’s Errant Arrow

Lower Decks Ep. 5: Cupid’s Errant Arrow Our animated journey continues with Star Trek: Lower Decks Ep. 5 “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”! Alien girlfriends, new scanners, exploding moons, and a brand new starship! Plus, we talk some Star Trek news including Blood Wine, our two new Discovery cast members that include a non-binary and a transgender […]

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There’s Plenty of Letters Left in the Alphabet

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of your two podcast hosts. This episode’s message, to explain to you the state of the Redshirts & Runabouts podcast and our plans moving forward, including some ideas we have for future Star Trek TV series! Don’t forget to join our brand new Facebook community! Facebook.com/groups/RedshirtsAndRunabouts Hey, […]

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Black Lives Matter: A Message from the HPN

This short statement is being released on all active Heroes Podcast Network podcast feeds. This week, there will be no Screen Heroes podcast. Echo Station will also released delayed, on Friday, instead of Wednesday. We do this in hopes of supporting and honoring the Black Lives Matter movement and those protesting police brutality throughout the […]

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An Impossible Box Filled with Broken Pieces of Nepenthe

We return with an impossible box filled with broken pieces of Nepenthe. See what we did there? This week we kick things off with some news about Short Treks before diving back into the world of Star Trek: Picard! We cover episodes 6-8, also known as “The Impossible Box”, “Nepenthe”, and “Broken Pieces” as well […]

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Star Trek: Picard Final Prep & Premiere

Star Trek: Picard is officially here on streaming services! Greg and Derreck sit down to first wrap-up their #Prepping4Picard conversation by discussing some other important moments and episodes that didn’t make the original cut. Then, it’s off to an in-depth spoiler-filled discussion on the premiere of Star Trek: Picard! Don’t worry, we’ll give you a […]

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Short Treks: “Children of Mars” & the Animated Ones

Short Treks wrapped up last week with “Children of Mars”. This week, we sit down to discuss the three episodes we didn’t cover yet, “Ephraim and Dot”, “The Girl Who Made the Stars”, and “Children of Mars”. Don’t forget to join our brand new Facebook community! Facebook.com/groups/RedshirtsAndRunabouts What do you think of these episodes? Did […]

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Prepping 4 Picard #9: Season 7

#Prepping4Picard concludes with our 9th episode in the series! This week, we cover two Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7 episodes off our Top 20 Quintessential Picard list. This week’s episodes include the two-part “Gambit” and the double length series finale, “All Good Things…”! Don’t forget to join our brand new Facebook community! Facebook.com/groups/RedshirtsAndRunabouts […]

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Prepping 4 Picard #8: Season 6 – Part 2

#Prepping4Picard continues with our 8th episode in the series! This week, we cover Part 2 of our Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6 episodes off our Top 20 Quintessential Picard list. This week’s episodes includes four episodes, “Tapestry”, “Starship Mine”, “Lessons”, and “The Chase”! Don’t forget to join our brand new Facebook community! Facebook.com/groups/RedshirtsAndRunabouts […]

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Prepping 4 Picard #6: Season 5 Episodes

#Prepping4Picard continues with our 6th episode in the series! This week, we cover our Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 episodes off our Top 20 Quintessential Picard list. This week’s episodes include “Darmok”, the two-part Spock episode “Unification”, and “The Inner Light”! Rae returns to help Derreck discuss these Picard focused episodes. Check out […]

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Prepping 4 Picard #4: Season 3 Episodes

#Prepping4Picard continues with our 4th episode in the series! This week, we cover our Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 episodes off our Top 20 Quintessential Picard list. This week’s episodes include “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, “Captain’s Holiday”, and “Sarek”! Plus, we talk about our first look at Admiral Picard’s uniform from the IDW comic cover […]

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RR48: Star Trek (2009) Kelvin Review

Alright Acting Captains. It’s time to punch it, fire everything, and elicit some emotional responses! We take a trip over the Kelvin timeline this week with our review of Star Trek (2009), the reboot\sequel\prequel from J. J. Abrams. Before beginning our Kelvin journey, we talk some news, specifically the details surrounding the newly announced Star […]

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RR46: Star Trek Insurrection Review

We continue our Star Trek: The Next Generation era movie reviews with Insurrection, the third installment from Picard’s Enterprise crew. Rae and Zach join Derreck for this movie review continuation. We discuss budgeting differences between the TNG era films, overall plot, how Insurrection might just be the most “Trek” of the TNG films, things we […]

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RR37: TNG Mek’ba Season 2 Silver Linings

We conclude our Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Mek’ba challenges with our favorite note so great episodes that have silver linings! Show co-host Derreck defends his episode, “The Royale”, while our guest, Zach Story, defends his pick, “Pen Pals”. We also discuss the results of last week’s listener poll for our Best Pulaski […]

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RR36: TNG Mek’ba Season 2 Best Pulaski

We continue our Star Trek: The Next Generation series of Mek’ba challenges with the Best Pulaski episodes of Season 2! Show co-host Greg defends his episode, “Unnatural Selection”, while our guest, Timothy Jackson, defends his pick, “Up the Long Ladder”. We also discuss the results of last week’s listener poll for our Best Riker of […]

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RR25: Section 31, Obsidian Order, and Tal Shiar

With all three hosts back in the studio for the first time in over month, Greg, Jeremy, and Derreck sit down to talk about Star Trek’s most secret and covert organizations, Section 31, the Obsidian Order, and the Tal Shiar. Who are these organizations? Well, three of the galaxy’s biggest groups, the Federation, Cardassian Union, […]

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RR18: What’s Lorca’s is Saru’s

This week, Greg and Jeremy go it alone to discuss Star Trek: Discovery Episode 13 “What’s Past is Prologue”. Derreck is on an away mission but there’s plenty to discuss like Lorca’s ruthlessness, Saru captaining the Discovery, the possibility of Lorca wanting to eat Saru, and just how action-packed Discovery is compared to the previous Star Trek […]

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RR03: The Tardigrade Cares not for the Discovery’s Cry

What alien species was the most misunderstood? Whose motives did we not quite get? We discuss this and then take a deep dive into Star Trek: Discovery Episode 4 – “The Butcher’s Knife Cares not for the Lamb’s Cry”. We talk about the tardigrade, dilithium, the Klingon plot, Captain Georgiou, and how the design of […]

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