mastodon 4.7.3Humanist Trek is a weekly #StarTrek podcast about the humanism in Star Trek. Hosted by Sarah Ray 🏳️⚧️👩🏼 and Allie Ashmead ✊🏿👩🏿🦱 Available at http://www.humanisttrek.com and everywhere you replicate your podcasts!
Happy First Contact Day! 4•5•2063
With Riker waiting on Worf to fucking fire the weapon already, and Allie studying banana slugs in a rainforest and literally watching a glacier melt, Humanist Trek will also be taking a short hiatus.
May the 4th be with you.
((And also with you))
Bryan Fuller came to Hollywood with a dream to write for Star Trek. He succeeded and then became a producer on Voyager and created Star Trek: Discovery. Our recent podcast guest Fred Bronson will interview Bryan on stage at Vitello's in Studio City CA at noon on June 6. Come meet Bryan & Fred and hear Fuller's inside stories. Details here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fred-talks-to-bryan-fuller-of-star-trek-american-gods-and-heroes-tickets-1988683858956?aff=oddtdtcreator
Just sayin.
From a new Patron who truly understands our silly little show:
“Hi all, I joined up after listening to 125ish episodes while getting stoned walking my dog. I appreciate all you guys do to be real and stay positive.”
This is our people! 🖖 Thanks BB!
Our small but mighty team actually won an award and we were SHOCKED. 😂 #2 New Community Team fundraising! Thanks to everyone who donated to our team! This one’s for you 🖖
Returning champ Leonard Crofoot joins us for this adventure in android parenting on TNG’s “The Offspring”. In this clip, Lenny talks about episode Director/Actor Jonathan Frakes seeking him out for the role due to his movement ability as a dancer, and what made him say, "I'm in!"
Listen to the full episode at https://HumanistTrek.com/03x66
Wtf does this have to do with our latest episode? Listen to find out! h/t ThirdEyeLid on our Discord for the brilliant joke!
@danjones000 we play Mahna Mahna on the show anytime someone says phenomenon. 🤣
Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us this week to review and discuss their Star Trek TNG episode, "Ménage à Troi"! Hear stories of the old days from meetings with Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry to inventing earjobs for Ferengis, and laugh along as Star Trek does a comedy.
Patrons get ad-free early access & bonus content, including the video version of this and other episodes!
This one drops Tuesday, May 12th. Beam up to our feed and Live Long and Prosper!
Star Trek: The Next Generation tackles issues of aging in the Season 3 episode, "Sarek".
Sarah and Allie discuss the episode and aging with a mix of humor and humanism.
This episode of Humanist Trek is brought to you by Serenitol™️(listen to the episode and you'll get the joke!)
LISTEN NOW @ https://humanisttrek.com/03x73
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.
LISTEN NOW: https://humanisttrek.com/03x61
TEAM TIM IN THE HOUSE! Humanist Trek representing at #PanCAN #PurpleStride in Littleton, CO. Doing our part to help in the fight against pancreatic cancer. 🖖
From left: Sarah, Bruce, Tim, Allie
Today is an official Humanist Trek holiday. How will you be celebrating? 🌱💨
Also, Happy Birthday @georgetakei.bsky.social
When the Enterprise races against the Romulans to make first contact with an Ancient Alien species, a 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.
Listen Now @ https://humanisttrek.com/03x70
Tomorrow (4/12) we're beaming up writing duo Fred Bronson and Susan Sackett to discuss their TNG episode, "Ménage à Troi". Hit us with your burning questions for them and you might hear your question on the show! Time's ticking though, don't wait!
Comment below or leave a voicemail at 920-550-TREK (8735)
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.
Full Episode at https://humanisttrek.com/03x67
On this anniversary of Leonard Nimoy’s birth, dig back into the archive and listen to our interview with his son Adam.
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.
Listen now @ https://humanisttrek.com/03x66
@djwudi@tenforward.social gross.
Happy #DarwinDay!
International Darwin Day inspires us to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin. It’s a day of celebration, activism, and international cooperation for the advancement of science, education, and human well-being.
@Anne_Delong@musician.social yes! I grew up on Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, and Reading Rainbow 📖🌈
@bipolaron@scholar.social I grew up reading with him on Reading Rainbow first. So to my young brain he was a familiar friend when I got to TNG.
You’re doing great! 🫶
@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @jenny753@indiepocalypse.social once I get back to a computer yes! My mobile app doesn’t allow editing, only delete/repost 👎
@jenny753@indiepocalypse.social oh thank you so much!!!
@anotherKpresser@mastodon.art omg I love Babs so much!!
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?
Listen @ https://humanisttrek.com/03x59
@floatybirb@mastodon.social yasssss!!
Writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson weigh in on the Wesley Crusher hate.
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Episode writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us to review "Ménage à Troi".
Available NOW on http://Patreon.com/HumanistTrek and Thursday (audio only) on http://HumanistTrek.com or wherever you replicate your podcasts!
Pitching scripts to Gene Roddenberry in the TNG era.
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Episode writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us to review "Ménage à Troi".
📽️ Video Available NOW on http://patreon.com/HumanistTrek
🔊 Audio Available FREE at https://humanisttrek.com/03x74 or wherever you replicate your podcasts!
Leonard Crofoot (Lal, “The Offspring” (TNG)) joins us again! Audio releases Thursday but Supporters get a special video edition as well, available now!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/153060536?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
This year Humanist Trek is joining the Trek against Pancreatic Cancer with our own team for the 2026 Colorado event!
A better world, a brighter future. No disease or suffering. Limitless possibility. Hope. These were all part of Gene Roddenberry’s vision of “Star Trek.” They also run parallel to PanCAN’s vision — to create a world in which every patient with pancreatic cancer will thrive.
Visit https://humanisttrek.com/pancan26 to join our team or make a donation.
"My, what big ears you have!" Susan and Fred talk about inventing the Ferengi earjob called "oo-mox".
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Episode writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us to review "Ménage à Troi".
📽️ Video Available NOW on http://patreon.com/HumanistTrek
🔊 Audio Available FREE at https://humanisttrek.com/03x74 or wherever you replicate your podcasts!
Star Trek writer Fred Bronson on meeting the "Great Bird of the Galaxy", Gene Roddenberry.
Episode writers Susan Sackett and Fred Bronson join us to review "Ménage à Troi".
Available NOW on http://Patreon.com/HumanistTrek and Thursday (audio only) on http://HumanistTrek.com or wherever you replicate your podcasts!
Holy shit. That shitty preview of Alexa plus is finally gone! I can call Red Alert! and fire photon torpedos again!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Join us for our first Patreon Happy Hour!
Grab your prune juice and join Allie and Sarah -- Wednesday, March 4 from 5-6pm Mountain Time for a Zoom Happy Hour! Hope some folks can make it!