The Tricorder Transmissions : A Star Trek Podcast

TrekRanks dives into our Top 5 TOS Underrated by celebrating the unheralded and underappreciated elements of TOS, a series that is most certainly not underrated. This week Jim Moorhouse is joined by Jeff Hulit and two members of Five Year Mission (Mike Rittenhouse and Andy Fark), the renowned Star Trek band writing a song for every episode of The Original Series. We break down our Top 5 Underrated in five distinct categories: production design, performer, Dabo wildcard round, character and episode!

This week, hosts Will and Marty dive into the Star Trek: Invasion! Crossover novel. In the first of a four part series, they talk about the saints and demons within First Strike, by Diane Carey. Next time, Star Trek: Invasion!: The Soldiers of Fear!

This week on WeeklyTrek: The Tricorder Transmissions News, hosts Shashank Avvaru and Marty Allee cover all the latest Star Trek news from around the Trekverse! Join the discussion on Twitter @TricorderShow or on the web at www.thetricordertransmissions.com

Hosts Heather and Jeff are joined by Laura Johnson and Crystal Pisano for a deep-dive into the Sylvia Tilly character!

Hosts Heather and Jeff are joined by ReadingTrek hosts William Conlin and Marty Allee to chat about WonderCon 2018! Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/shoreleavepodcast or on Twitter @ShoreLeave

We're joined by co-host of PoliTreks, Shashank Avvaru, for the first of many comics focused episodes as we talk about IDW's Star Trek / Green Lantern crossover. We talk about the many ways these franchise's compliment each other, our history with comics, and the crossovers we'd like to see in the future.

Section 25 is a series of Politreks episodes celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Through critical examination and comparison to the real world, Shashank and Barry rejoice in characters, episodes, moments, dialogs - everything DS9 in lists of twenty five. First up? Five of twenty-five Fascinating DS9 Characters: Kira, Tosk, Jem'Hadar, Tom Riker and the Grand Nagus.

A monthly podcast where we explore one Trek fan's history with Star Trek and hear their stories.This week's guest is Hayley Stoddart. Find her on Twitter @Trekkie10D

Space battles in Trek have never just been about the action and explosions. And that's very apparent this week as TrekRanks tackles the Top 5 Space Battles in Star Trek history. Host Jim Moorhouse is joined by TrekGeeks Bill Smith and Dan Davidson this week to figure out where heart and emotion crisscross with special effects and explosions when highlighting your favorite Space Battles.

This week we're joined by Kirk cosplayer Tyler Habiger to break down "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk" by David A. Goodman.

Revenge politics, nasty tactics of the righteous, and space guerilla warfare! Shashank and Barry continue their 'PoliTreks Of' Series this time with a perennial favorite, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Join us for a rousing discussion of what political messages come from this movie and what i's real-world contexts and underpinnings can tell us about our society. To reach us with questions and comments about the show, feel free to call into the show at and leave a voicemail at 609 512 LLAP (5527). Find us on Facebook by searching PoliTreks and on Twitter at @PoliTreks

Our "Scenes in Trek" series continues this week with the Top 5 Scenes in a Shuttlecraft. Whether it be the classic TOS shuttlecraft or Enterprise's shuttlepod or Voyager's Delta Flyer, our TrekRanks crew navigates through it all and dives deep into their selections. Host Jim Moorhouse is joined by Thad Hait and Matt Hansen to break it all down. (Don't forget to check out Episode 16 for our Top 5 Scenes in a Turbolift.) Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/thetricordertransmissions or on Twitter @TrekRanks

Ian and Jeff cover issue #35 of Star Trek Gold Key Comics, A Bomb In Time. The Enterprise crew chase a bomb through time to a film set in the past! Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/thetricordertransmissions or on Twitter @DrawingTrek

This week we discuss Ch. 18-37 of "Star Trek Prometheus: Fire With Fire", the action packed first installment of the Prometheus trilogy. We chat about Kromms temper, Shield belts, Jassat's trouble fitting in, mist demons and why Spock is taking a seat at tactical. Next week we'll be discussing Ch. 1-6 of "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk" by David A. Goodman.

Hosts Heather and Jeff are joined by Kelli Fitzpatrick and Thad Hait to chat about the 2018 Far Point Convention! Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/shoreleavepodcast or on Twitter @ShoreLeave

This week's guest is Barry Deford. Find him on Twitter @BjornDeFjord

On our eighth episode of PoliTreks, Shashank and Barry delve deep into the political underpinnings of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in the first of our series - 'The PoliTreks Of'. We look at working relationships and how people in higher positions can sometime usurp those in lower positions, how Artificial Intelligence poses a major existential threat to humankind (something TMP does well at portraying with Vger), and how the TMP, along with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Alien sets it among the great Sci-Fi movies that kicked off the genre in its modern form. To reach us with questions and comments about the show, feel free to call into the show at and leave a voicemail at 609 512 LLAP (5527).Find us on Facebook by searching PoliTreks and on Twitter at @PoliTreks

Grab your hyperspanner and help the TrekRanks crew dive deep into our first-ever ranking of a key Star Trek series position. First-up is our Top 5 Series Engineers. Your choices are: Montgomery Scott, Geordi LaForge, Miles O'Brien, B'Elanna Torres and Trip Tucker. With only five possible picks in this finite topic, we'll go through each of our eligible engineers in the Prime Directive and name an episode or moment that we love about that character. Once the plasma exhaust settles on that engineering lovefest, we'll rank our selections in The Order of Things!

Hosts Heather and Jeff are joined by Carl Wonders and Alex Perry for a deep-dive into the Gabriel Lorca character! Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/thetricordertransmissions or on Twitter @Disco_Trek

This week on Reading Trek, William and Marty discuss Chapters 1-17 of Star Trek: Prometheus - Fire With Fire by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg. This is the first Star Trek novel written by and for a German audience and was later translated into English. Topics include the numerous Trek-references and an abundance of expositions. William and Marty also preview some upcoming books being featured on the podcast and announce the first ReadingTrek Contest, where listeners can submit a phone message to The Tricorder Transmissions and instantly be entered into a drawing to win a brand new hardback copy of The Autobiography of Jean Luc Picard, soon to be featured on this podcast. Join the discussion at http://www.facebook.com/thetricordertransmissions or on Twitter @ReadingTrek