The Next Generation: Season 1, Episode 1
Drunk Factor: 7
We give you double the commentary this week, as we finish our celebration of Q by watching his first appearance in The Next Generation pilot “Encounter at Farpoint”! Marvel at the man-skirts, listen to Chris’s overly-excited battle bridge theme song, and cringe at McCoy’s space-racism!
Voyager: Season 2, Episode 18
Drunk Factor: 5
In Albert Camus’s essay The Myth of Sisyphus, the philosopher says “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Should a person who wishes to die be allowed to take their own life? This question has vexed humanity since the dawn of civilization, and is the subject of this week’s episode “Death Wish”. This week your humble hosts tackle this question with all the respect and aplomb that it deserv—who are we kidding, we get drunk and talk about how weird Q’s lips look.
The Next Generation: Season 4, Episode 20
Drunk Factor: 2
The Q-love continues this week as we check in with the bizarre Robin Hood themed episode “Qpid”! This week we learn that Picard does a mean Riker impression, how adulthood is like a video game, and watch Picard literally murder a man. Pour a stiff drink and join us!
TNG: Season 3, Episode 13
Drunk Factor: Impulse
We’re back with a new month’s worth of episodes! This month we snap our fingers and summon our four favorite Q episodes along with a special guest host! We kick it off this week with the classic “Deja Q”, the episode that brought us such delights as Picard’s Facepalm, Data’s Laughter, and a naked John de Lancie!
The Original Series: Season 3, Episode 22
Drunk Factor: 9
We wrap up “Amanda’s Favorites” with one of the most bat-shit crazy episodes of The Original Series, “The Savage Curtain”! This episode we can barely handle the arrival of Abraham Lincoln into the Star Trek canon; we also get a heaping dose of Vulcan Jesus, Space Hitler, and some really unfortunate makeup choices, don’t miss it!
Deep Space Nine: Season 4, Episode 2
Drunk Factor: 5
This week, we skewer one of the most critically acclaimed Deep Space Nine episodes of all time! Captain Sisko dies and we follow along with Jake Sisko as he mourns his dad for decades after his death. Meanwhile, Amanda, Chris, and Matt talk about the terrible fashions of the early 90s, the unfathomable privacy implications of a ghost dad, and the terrible moral lessons of the episode’s ending!
The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 15
Drunk Factor: 3
Continuing our March theme of “Amanda’s Favorites,” we go straight into one of our favorite episodes: “Tapestry”! In this episode we discover how unpractical Dom-Jot is, marvel at all the cool one-shot aliens, and discover how bad Picard is in the sack!
Voyager: Season 6, Episode 12
Drunk Factor: Impulse
March is Drunk Trek host Amanda’s birth-month; so this month we’ll be watching a selection of her favorite episodes! We kick the month off with one of Voyager’s great episodes: “Blink of an Eye”. Listen in this week as we discuss the best possible Voyager spin-off, discuss our disdain for plucky kids, and get way too hung-up on the alien prosthetic of the week!
Enterprise: Season 1, Episode 4
Drunk Factor: “Yeaahh” for Matt, 6 for Amanda and Chris
Our “Weird Sex Stuff” month comes to a close with a genuinely weird and awful episode of Enterprise! Amanda, Chris, and Matt give this episode all of the respect it deserves, as we drunkenly slog through Willy Wonka-esque shenanigans, Captain Archer’s butt, and spontaneous nipple growth.
Voyager: Season 3, Episode 16
Drunk Factor: 4.5 for Chris and Amanda, “Fuck Me” for Matt.
We continue our month of strange Star Trek sexing with “Blood Fever”! Ensign Vorik is Pon Farring all over the place and infects B’Elanna Torres with his seasonal horniness disorder. Also there are rock people. Amanda, Chris, and Matt try to make sense of these strange new feelings, while trying to avoid veering wildly off-topic.
