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Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast

Casual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast

By: Charlie and Miles
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Charlie is a lifelong X-Men fan. Miles is a lifelong Doctor Who fan. If ANYONE can objectively rank every single episode of Star Trek on a big list, it’s gotta be the people who think that Star Trek’s ‘Pretty Decent.’ (Citation Needed.)Charlie and Miles Art
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  • By Grabthar’s Hammer, What a Podcast
    Dec 22 2025

    Charlie and Miles have ‘gifted’ each other episodes of Star Trek to talk about, both good and bad. The problem with being casual about Star Trek is you just don’t know all of what’s out there. That’s what the Casual Trek mission is for, after all.

    This year the gang are doing something different, talking about a film that’s adjacent to Star Trek, and even some Trek actors say is the best Star Trek movie: Galaxy Quest. They’ve even got guest stars Reanna Reid-Lobatto and Sean Corse from off of the Famicom Dojo joining the festivities.


    So sit by the fire, get a nice drink and listen to some nerds getting rabid about a fun film, even if it has Tim Allen in it.


    0:03:47 - What Non-Star Trek/non-Galaxy Quest Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: Pokémon Legends ZA, Taskmaster,

    0:21:49 - Galaxy Quest Preamble

    0:33:12 - Galaxy Quest Recap

    0:54:51 - Thoughts on the movie


    Talking points include: The Mojoverse, the Junkions, chilli, needing to cuddle a Pokémon, Detective Pikachu, Pokémon Legends ZA, John Pertwee’s Doctor Who episodes, conventions, Thought Bubble, Sean learning about names from the UK, Westlife, Santana, Chat Out of Hell’s Westlife episode, Charlie’s musical knowledge comes from Rock Band, Miles’ anecdote about how he saw Galaxy Quest (funny, charming), Charlie’s anecdote about watching Pokémon: The Movie (thankfully short, of questionable legal status). Charlie pitching 2000 AD, “some of the old tentacle action”, Sam Rockwell, Susan from Seinfeld, fandom in media, “Duct Tape Boy”, what is wrong with Monk from Monk, convicted felon & narc Tim Allen actually being okay in this, Airplane, The Shining, Three Amigos, favourite non-Christmas Christmas movies. Oh, and occasionally Galaxy Quest.

    Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto

    Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn

    Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network


    Support Reanna’s breast reconstruction surgery here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-reannas-breast-reconstruction-recovery


    https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek

    Miles’ blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com

    Charlie’s blog: http://www.fakedtales.com

    Sean’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@famicomdojo


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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • We Saved This Vessel Once & Section 31 Pitch Session
    Dec 8 2025

    Welcome to an emergency bonus episode!

    Miles is off, but the fortnightly schedule continues. Charlie’s played a solo roleplaying game based on Star Trek. No, not the official one, but “We Saved This Vessel Once”.


    01:16 - Solo Actual Play

    07:38 - Section 31 Pitch Session


    Pedant’s Corner and Pluggable: Reanna Reid-Lobatto’s got a GoFundMe (not a Just Giving like I said in the episode… although I don’t remember if that’s a thing or not). If you can, please help the Reid-Lobattos deal with the expense of her surgery: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-reannas-breast-reconstruction-recovery.


    We Saved this Vessel Once can be found here: https://citykey.itch.io/we-saved-this-vessel-once


    Sound Effects from TrekCore and Pixabay.

    Theme by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn

    Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and in absentia Miles Reid-Lobatto.


    Join us next time for our Christmas special!

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    55 mins
  • Flesh Katamari
    Nov 24 2025

    We’re still concerned with the Delta Quadrant as this episode of Casual Trek covers episodes from Modern Trek’s animated series concerning the Voyager, the Delta Quadrant and all those assorted antics. First up is the Prodigy Season One mid-season two-parter ‘A Moral Star’ where Dal and the Protostar gang plan to actually do a Starfleet with a little bit of heist antics as they try to break out the prisoners of their old home and then in Lower Decks’ ‘Twovix’ as Boimler grapples with the possibility of promotion, the crew of the Cerritos discover that when there’s an outbreak of Tuvixes, Janeway was 100% right!Episodes Discussed: A Moral Star (06:36) and Twovix (35:35)Talking points: Dan Dare (SPACE HYPER HERO), Hades II, the dark history of the Mushroom Kingdom, more of the Dark History of Charlie’s time with Dave’s, the one time the Holodeck safeties breaking was a good thing, Janeway is definitely cottagecore, 80s cartoons were great nostalgia, but modern cartoons do have some superior moments, Mantzoukis in Taskmaster has coloured our heroes opinion of Jakim Pog, many many references to Katamari Damacy, Janeway was right killing Tuvix, does Riker regret not having sex with his transporter clone? we make Tuvix a verb, an Americano is a Tuvix of Espresso and Water, what happens when coffee reaches Warp 10? Miles sings two seperate theme tunes.PEDANTS CORNER: The TOS episode Miles refers to is ‘Is There In Truth No Beauty.’ Miles and his wife DO have the Katamari Damacy soundtrack on vinyl, important to know.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
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