http://StarTrekQuest.com en-us ℗ & © 2012 TrekQuest A podcast about the classic Original Star Trek TOS series The TrekQuesters TrekQuest is a podcast where two brothers and their dad boldly seek to watch and review every episode of the original Star Trek television series in the order they were produced -- one podcast per episode. Mixing trivia, irreverent humor, and general nerd nonsense, the TrekQuesters delve into the ultimate geek pastime. Hardcore Trekkies and nerd newbies alike are encouraged to follow along with our journey and relive the series that started it all. TrekQuest is a podcast where two brothers and their dad boldly seek to watch and review every episode of the original Star Trek television series in the order they were produced -- one podcast per episode. Mixing trivia, irreverent humor, and general nerd nonsense, the TrekQuesters delve into the ultimate geek pastime. Hardcore Trekkies and nerd newbies alike are encouraged to follow along with our journey and relive the series that started it all. The TrekQuesters startrekquest@gmail.com TrekQuest Spock's logic goes out the window when he encounters a beautiful blonde and gets sprayed with spores. Spock's logic goes out the window when he encounters a beautiful blonde and gets sprayed with spores. Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:00:00 GMT 36:33 Spock, Kirk, Bones, Spores, Plants, Sandoval TrekQuest KHAN!!! A super-being from an alternate past sleeps his way into Kirk's universe, seduces his historian, and decompresses him into a near-vacuum. KHAN!!! A super-being from an alternate past sleeps his way into Kirk's universe, seduces his historian, and decompresses him into a near-vacuum. Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:00:00 GMT 57:23 Khan, Botany Bay, Milton, Kirk, Spock, Bones TrekQuest Wars being fought by computer really sounded like a great idea until this episode came along and ruined it. Instead of being shot or gassed or nuked, just walk into this spinning closet and you're painlessly disintegrated. Such a civilized concept could have lasted forever if Kirk hadn't shown up and started blasting everything is sight. Wars being fought by computer really sounded like a great idea until this episode came along and ruined it. Instead of being shot or gassed or nuked, just walk into this spinning closet and you're painlessly disintegrated. Such a civilized concept could have lasted forever if Kirk hadn't shown up and started blasting everything is sight. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:00:00 GMT 59:27 Nerve Pinch, Bones, Armeniar, Body, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest Join the body! Become filled with peace, and joy, and experience glorious pre-planned acts of violence! Join the body! Become filled with peace, and joy, and experience glorious pre-planned acts of violence! Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:00:00 GMT 40:15 Landru, Bones, Archons, Body, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest A Madmen-era fighter pilot meets up with a time-travelling space captain from the 23rd century. A Madmen-era fighter pilot meets up with a time-travelling space captain from the 23rd century. Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:00:00 GMT 52:51 Lazarus, Space pod, Alternate Universe, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest Dueling Lazaruses duke it out in alternate universes. Complete with facial hair. If you met your anti-matter self, would you become BFFs? Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:00:00 GMT 26:49 Lazarus, Space pod, Alternate Universe, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest A big, extremely slow, scantily clad lizard man takes on a bamboo-equipped Kirk in the California desert. Sci-fi history is made. Let's prove our race is peacefully superior by creating an interstellar death match. Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:00:00 GMT 46:22 Gorn, Bamboo, Diamonds, Cestus, Battle, Deatchmatch, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest For the second time in 17 episodes, an adolescent boy is given nearly limitless powers. Luckily, no one gets turned into a newt this time around. General Trelane, retired. God of War, or spoiled child? Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:00:00 GMT 42:57 Trelane, Harpsichord, Napoleon, Sword, Uhura, Green Blobs, Kirk, Sulu, Spock TrekQuest The Enterprise crew visits a planet where their every whim is made manifest…for better or worse. The Enterprise crew visits a planet where their every whim is made manifest…for better or worse. Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:00:00 GMT 53:37 Shore Leave, Pleasure Planet, Samurai, Zero, Finnegan, Ruth, Amusement Park TrekQuest Gene Roddenberry's highly inventive use of left-over pilot footage. How do you take a left-over pilot with an obsolete cast and somehow turn it into not one but two hours of sci-fi magic? Wrap another court room drama around it, and toss in a vulcan nerve pinch for good measure. Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:00:00 GMT 01:16:50 Talosians, Captain Pike, Veena, Orion Slave Girl, The Cage, Pilot Episode, Court Martial TrekQuest Will Captain Kirk be stripped of his command because he pushed the wrong button? It's a courtroom drama - IN SPACE! Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT 52:59 Lawyer, Court Martial, Luddite, Finney, Kirk, Space Microphone TrekQuest Captain Kirk orders most of his senior staff to fly a tiny shuttle straight into the heart of a quasar-like green cloud. Again, what could possibly go wrong? Completely separated from Kirk for the first time, we see that Spock’s insistence on pure logic can really irritate his human colleagues. One of the other officers comes darn close to outright mutiny, and you're left wondering how Kirk would react once he learned the full details of what happened during the Galileo's little outing. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT 47:56 Anton Karidian, Bones, Hamlet, Kevin Reilly, Kirk, Kodos the Execution, Lenore, Romance, Shakespeare, Spock, Tarsus IV, Uhura TrekQuest A bloody knife, an iron mask, and a man with half a face make for an interesting start to this most literary of episodes. Actors acting about being actors always makes for an interesting plot, and this show does not disappoint. This episode doesn’t just quote Shakespeare, it brings some of his most tragic concepts emotionally to life. Add in some groovy 60s lounge music and a classically twisted Kirk romance, and you’ve got one of our favorite episodes so far. Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT 45:43 Anton Karidian, Bones, Hamlet, Kevin Reilly, Kirk, Kodos the Execution, Lenore, Romance, Shakespeare, Spock, Tarsus IV, Uhura TrekQuest This episode, centered around a pseudo-romantic relationship between Kirk and a supposed thirteen year-old, left the TrekQuesters feeling all queasy inside. Bones cures the disease that destroyed an entire planet's worth of adults . . . in less than a week. Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT 38:50 Another Earth, Awkward, BlahBlahBlah, Bones, Bonk Bonk, Cure, Disease, Kirk, McCoy, Romance, Spock, Tricycle, Yoeman Rand TrekQuest Between the penal colony jokes, the stoned asylum inmates, and the various forms of hypnotic suggestions, we barely knew what to think of this show. For the second week in a row, we’ve got a galaxy-reknowned scientist who turns out to be on an evil quest to control mankind. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:00:00 GMT 49:08 Cavalry, Dr. Adams, Electrocution, Helen Noel, Kirk, Neural Neutralizer, Penal colony, Psychiatric Ward, Stoned, Tantalus, Van Gelder TrekQuest How did this generally ridiculous episode earn multiple five star ratings? One word: Andrea. Once again, William Shatner is asked to push his acting skills to the limits by playing both Kirk and Kirk's android double. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:00:00 GMT 40:49 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Kirk, Spock, Andrea, Ruk, Korby, Android TrekQuest It's a classic World War 2 tale of a destroyer hunting an enemy sub...IN SPACE!!! Discussing perhaps the best episode to date, the TrekQuesters dive deep into the murky celestial waters of space combat while celebrating the arrival of the Romulans into the Star Trek universe. Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:00:00 GMT 51:04 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Kirk, Spock, Romulans, Bird of Prey, TrekQuest A hormone-filled teenaged boy is granted god-like powers. What could possibly go wrong? Kirk gets to play father figure wearing skin-tight pants and black socks while Charlie X gags Uhura, turns a yeoman into a lizard, and smacks Rand in the nether regions. Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:00:00 GMT 37:54 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Kirk, Spock, Charlie X, Rand, Wrestling TrekQuest Madness reigns as the Enterprise crew faces its inner demons under the influence of a strange alien disease. Sulu wields a sword, Spock punches Kirk, Riley sings Irish ballads and Chapel expresses her deepest love in this week's whirlwind episode. Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT 39:59 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Kirk, Spock, Space Madness, Riley, Sulu, Bones, Scotty, Sword, Uhura, Nurse Chapel TrekQuest McCoy's old fling turn out to be a salt-sucking space vampire that ravages the Enterprise crew A shape-shifting alien sucks the life out of five cast members before Bones hesitantly blasts it, and the vision of his one true love, into extinction. Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 GMT 39:59 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Kirk, Spock, Salt Vampire, Alien, Buffalo, Bones, McCoy, Nancy TrekQuest Kirk faces his Evil Twin while Sulu freezes under a parachute Captain Kirk and a horned alien dog get split in two during a transporter accident, introducing the world to the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and some of the worst acting in Star Trek history. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:00 GMT 38:59 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Yoeman Rand, Kirk, Spock, Alien Dog, Bones, McCoy, He's Dead Jim, Transporter TrekQuest Kirk battles wits with Harry Mudd, sci-fi's most lovable conman. Scotty, Bones, and Mr. Farrell become blubbering idiots when facing three intergalactic mail-order brides. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:00 GMT 36:03 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Harry Mudd, Eve, Rigel 12, Scotty, Space Babes, Kirk, Spock TrekQuest Can Kirk out-bluff a puppet? Bones, Uhura and Yoeman Rand join the crew as Kirk is tested by a cackling, alcoholic space-baby. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT 30:56 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Corbomite, Tranya, Balok, Bailey, Yoeman Rand, Kirk, Spock TrekQuest The pilot that introduced the world to James T. Kirk In our first episode, we discuss a screaming Spock, a 200-year old space trashcan, tin-foil contact lenses, and the lovely Yoeman Jones, er, we mean Yoeman Smith. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT 33:14 Star Trek, Original Series, TOS, Dehner, Enterprise, Kirk, Mitchell, Phaser, Spock, Valiant, Yoeman