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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So, what non-Star Trek-Thing did you enjoy this last week? It can be a book, a film, social event, whatever brought you enjoyment! #startrek #treksky

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“New Woke Trek will change the way you look at Worf forever instead of giving us Star Trek Legacy.”

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CAREful FRiENds. It IS almosST the RED hour!

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Funny quotes I forgot one of us said until editing the latest Casual Trek- ‘Here are some Yuppies at play, they have five minutes before we release the hounds.’ #treksky

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In celebration of #space1999 and #breakaway, I’m posting the links to our show within a show ‘Space Scamps’ for when @skyshark.itch.io and @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social are feeling too British and cynical for Star Trek! Here’s our inaugural Space Scampering! open.spotify.com/episode/5VYC...

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Enjoyed what I’ve read so far of the IDW 60th Anniversary Comic, yet to read Issue 2 of the new Red Shirts miniseries. #treksky

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Jean Caden 🗡️ Art @johncaden64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can’t wait to play #metroid Girl Dinner

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Due to summer holiday and real life for Team Casual Trek, we’re pulling up an old episode from the archives and because we’re one film away from ending the TOS movie era, so let’s go back to the start with #StarTrek The Motion Picture! #treksky open.spotify.com/episode/5LbU...

My Oath of Celibacy is on Record- Dr. Leonard McCoy, hairy bearded love God!

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The Abominable Dr. Miles @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Recorded a new guest spot episode of @breakfastruins.bsky.social where we covered Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn's 'The Distant Suns.' Much more pulpier than Moorcock's usual straight SF fare.

A spaceship takes off against a yellow horizon. Michael Moorcock & Phillip James- The Distant Suns.

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Jon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s the ship that did the Kessel Run in under 20mph.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ALL HAIL COMPUTER OVERLORD! #startrek has always shown us societies run by computer and what better year than 2026 for us to get to it? As always, the show is available on all good podcatchers- rate and review or Computer Overlord will be displeased! #treksky open.spotify.com/episode/45LU...

I Have No Archons and I Must Scream- Landru looks on in authoritarian judgement.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Recording some non-Big List eps on Monday because hey, it’s Summer- one is a sequel to one of our earlier episodes when we talked about Chris Claremont’s #StarTrek TOS graphic novel Debt of Honor and the oft mentioned ‘The Black Hole’, back when Disney didn’t own Star Wars but wanted Star Wars $$$!

DC Comics Star Trek The Next Generation Special Issue 2- Riker and LaForge watch a crouching Ro Laren.

DVD- Disney’s The Black Hole

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The Abominable Dr. Miles @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

mareidlobatto.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/t... June is over and it’s Birthday Month Ahead, but here’s a smaller report than usual.

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The State of the Bookshelf- June 2026

End of one month and how’re we doing?

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Casual Trek’s looking at some non-Quark Ferengi episodes of Star Trek today. We’ve got Picard reliving “The Battle” in TNG, some terrible capering in Enterprise’s “Acquisition” and a reunion with Rom in Lower Decks’ “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place” #StarTrek #Treksky open.spotify.com/episode/3uKp...

I Apologise for the Amount of times I say capering in the recap- Clint Howard up to some tomfoolery and capering around in the Enterprise NX-01’s medbay. He’s sniffed some boots and now he’s playing with medical tools.

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The Abominable Dr. Miles @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I went to see #Backrooms with my wife and had a great time. Two for two on movies made by YouTubers, although this was more unsettling than ‘Iron Lung.’ mareidlobatto.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/i...

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Imagine a Dead Shopping Mall stamping on a human face-forever: Backrooms (2026)

Skirting the edge of no-clipping into the 2026 Backrooms movie, we look for meaning and horror looks back instead.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/06/2026

Attention Workers! Star Trek: Voyager’s “Workforce” was a lot of fun to talk about. You can listen to me and @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social have a chat before reporting to The Amnesia Booth.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Clock in with Casual Trek this Monday as we enter the amnesia booth and become productive workers! Also marvel at such experiences as Miles singing “Nine to Five” and Charlie trying to gently eject a bee from the recording room! #startrek #podtrek open.spotify.com/episode/0uil...

ITS A METAPHOR FOR CAPITALISM- Chakotay is wheeled out for MANDATORY WORK PLACE BRAINWASHING

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Miles and Charlie have once more come down with a case of the ‘too British for Star Trek’ and are coping with it the only way they know how, by once more becoming Space Scamps and hopping over to Moonbase Alpha for three more episodes of #Space1999 #Treksky (1/4) open.spotify.com/episode/2G5Z...

Good-Another Breeding Program- Commander Koenig (Martin Landau) and Vana lean in for a smooch.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New from me. Interviewed Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe director Shūkō Murase about using SZA and Guns N' Roses as its theme, the "wow, cool robot" meme, and romance being a core tenant of the series.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The amount of times I’ve wanted to read this book, given the last book I was reading (and quit) 300 pages in, it feels apt. #startrek #treksky

‘THE ENTROPY EFFECT- A STAR TREK NOVEL BY VONDA N. MCINTYRE.’ Kirk, Spock and a long haired, mustachioed Sulu are positioned against a starfield in a triangular design. The starship USS Enterprise is positioned above them.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If you’ve been listening to our most recent episodes, you may have picked up that Miles was very recently in hospital. Here, he finally starts detailing his experiences and what led up to them.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Who watches 80s and 90s sf for the SFX space battles? I posit this does not hold up to scrutiny.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

…I think it’s the kind of thing a grown man tells himself, particularly in These Times, rather than, “As a boy I was moved by feelings of joy and delight and wonder and yearning in a way that I, a Grown Man in These Times, dare not admit to for fear of looking Womanly.”

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The whole “I’m only here to see the Federation shooting at the Romulans!!” thing is so bizarre that I don’t even believe it’s true. I don’t believe that’s what moved and thrilled and delighted that boy sitting down to watch TNG or whatever every week…

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bumping cos it matters. “Flawed writing” doesn’t cut it as critique. Fast forward 50 years & be a critic reflecting on how people subject to powerfully antagonistic institutional forces tried to tell truthful stories at the intersections of art/commerce/entertainment. Then come & tell me SFA is shit

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The Abominable Dr. Miles @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I think it can honestly at times come down to what John Scalzi wrote in his essay on straight white maleness essentially being the default difficulty setting. When everything is essentially catered to you to a point, sometimes it can be difficult to be told ‘you’re playing on easy mode.’

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ninjamonkky.bsky.social @ninjamonkky.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Star Wars, another notorious, completely non-political, franchise. These guys are all basically, "Why can't everyone's experience be as insular, uninformed, and self serving, as my own."

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ninjamonkky.bsky.social @ninjamonkky.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Boiling Star Trek down into, "Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other," says you're not actually a fan, not by any great measure anyway. These idiots are ruining everything for everyone because they're the loudest, most obnoxious voices, thanks to a POLITICALLY-bought media system.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 30/03/2026

A stupid take from Andy Weir.

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"As a...'Star Trek' fan, it's always bothered me that there is a presumed 'responsibility' within 'Star Trek' shows to talk about social issues. I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other." By Weir always claiming he's not political, he's making a political statement.

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Sci-Fi Author Andy Weir Has One Major Issue With The Star Trek Franchise - SlashFilm

Project Hail Mary and The Martian author Andy Weir likes Star Trek, but he also takes issue with one aspect of the franchise. Does he have a point?

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 28/03/2026

idk I get very worked up by the "keep politics out of Star Trek" weirdos. Star Trek means *so much* to me, y'know? It was watching Star Trek - especially TNG - as a kid that was one of my formative exposures to big "serious" art based around learning and diversity. Trek directly led to Magica Riot.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 30/03/2026

Casual Trek’s celebrating two landmarks: 80 mainline episodes and our 200th piece of Star Trek media which we’re recapping and then ranking on our list to best to worst, while trying not to be a dick about it! #StarTrek #TrekSky Check us out here: open.spotify.com/episode/5AxU...

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, with Captain Kirk holding a finger up, asking what God needs with a starship. Title, “What Does God Need With a Podcast?”
I’m a podcaster, I know the answer is nothing and we stray further from god’s light each time a podcast is started (this is a joke, BlueSky people).

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 30/03/2026

Our 199th item recapped and ranked is the incredible Star Trek: The Animated Series episode, “The Magics of Megas-Tu” where all historical wizards are confirmed as Star Trek canon interdimensional entities, as is the devil, and he’s kind of nice?

Lucien with his very detailed topless body and goat legs, arms out wide (yes, like Temba) and horns on his head. A cosmic wibbly background. Title, “Satan confirmed for Star Trek Canon”

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 30/03/2026

Then the main event, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, which is better than I remembered it being. We discover another secret Sarek offspring, mind control the Enterprise’s crew with telepathic therapy and go climb a rock (with some corrections about mountains from my beloved).

Captain Kirk (‘s stunt double) scaling a mountain that’s definitely not El Capitan given the way he’s climbing)

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s our 80th episode and we’ve hit our 200th unit of #StarTrek! And we’re celebrating that by covering Star Trek V: The Final Frontier to put on our big list of best to worst, but we pared it with an equally theological episode of Star Trek to match! #Treksky (1/3) open.spotify.com/episode/5AxU...

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) raises a finger to ask a very simple question- “What does God need with a Podcast?”

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We’re recording a new episode tomorrow. Spoiler alert- one of these is FAR better than the other. One of these also has a theme tune by Jonathan Coulton… which might be in its favour. #Treksky #StarTrek #dopeoplestillmakethecakeisaliememes

Star Trek: Redshirts- A burnt corpse in a Star Trek red shirt side eyes us while holding a phaser.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#startrek #podtrek #treksky Tomorrow @skyshark.itch.io and @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social do not ‘go climb a rock’ but instead outsource that to someone who wants to make love to the mountain.

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
That mountain
That mountain
He wants to make love to the mountain.
Tough young guys, sinewy bodies
And their...eh...
Fingers, and teeny toes
Challenge the rock
Challenging...death
Why do I climb the mountain?
Because I'm in love

There is a passionate affair going on
Between Kirk and the mountain
Kirk is on the-
Kirk is on the mountain
Now, in order to create that illusion
Sucking some of the most sensational men
Who not only climb
But are voracious, fleeting and elusive and peripheral
And that's putting me on the mountain

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Welcome to Starfleet Academy, Bitch! Yes, it’s time for Casual Trek to talk about Starfleet Academy’s first two episodes. Unlike angry weirdos online I will be making The OC comparisons which are correct, compared to just calling it Space 90210. #StarTrek #TrekSky open.spotify.com/episode/3KwD...

Caleb Mir slams Darem up against a wall, his fist held back.
Title, “Welcome to Starfleet Academy, bitch!”

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

According to our updated records, we have seen 20.55% of #StarTrek. Go Team.

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s time for a new episode of Casual Trek. This time we’re looking at stories about Starfleet Academy before cracking on with the new television show in our next episode! open.spotify.com/episode/4UFY...

‘So Much Child Death’- A Starfleet cadet gets taken out by an exploding console.

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The Abominable Dr. Miles @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Having seen Iron Lung, Markiplier’s self-funded movie written, directed and starring Markiplier, I can’t help but think of Garth Marenghi, but in a good way. mareidlobatto.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/i...

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“It had a brief run in Peru,”- Iron Lung (2026)

Having seen Markiplier’s self-funded movie written, directed and starring Markiplier, I can’t help but think of Garth Marenghi.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Happy Threshold Day. Hey, once Voyager established regular communication with Starfleet, did Captain Janeway ever tell Admiral Paris, her mentor, that she had sex with her son in lizard form and gave birth to his three grandchildren?

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It’s Threshold Day in #startrek history so we’re pulling this old episode out of our archives as @skyshark.itch.io and @milesreidlobatto.bsky.social watch this infamous slice of Trek alongside something far stranger- William Shatner’s first album ‘The Transformed Man’… don’t pull your tongue out!

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Threshold is Lovecraftian Horror

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Casual Trek @casualtrek.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It’s Christmas and we’re doing something different! Instead of our usual episode gifting, we decided to get @seanorange.bsky.social and show editor @reannamator.bsky.social to watch ‘Galaxy Quest’ with us for a fun Xmas party! #Startrek open.spotify.com/episode/1U7T...

“By Grabthar’s Hammer, What a Podcast”- Alan Rickman (rip) as Alexander Dane as Dr. Lazarus regretting he ever went to RADA in ‘Galaxy Quest.’

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