Podcasts by Second Officer Slog

Special Network Update Minisode from 2023-11-16T19:17

The strike is over! After what seems like a lifetime, the 2023 writers strike came to an end and with it the request podcasts not do promotional work. Whic...

Second Officer Slog 060: Lower Decks Season 2 and "Prime Directive" from 2023-07-06T02:58:06

We’re back! We’ve watched more Lower Decks and it’s fantastic, while reading a pretty interesting early Reeves-Stevens book that gives us the crunchy look ...

Second Officer Slog 059: Lower Decks season 1 and "To Brave the Storm" from 2022-12-11T20:17:30

We slide in under the closing Engineering door of the year to talk about Star Trek’s second foray into animation and the end (for now) of our Enterprise co...

Second Officer Slog 058: Beneath the Raptor's Wing (feat. SNW Season 1) from 2022-08-15T22:00

We’re back to the past past with the next in the line of Enterprise relaunch books but also in the more present past of modern trek as we watched all of se...

Second Officer Slog 057: The 34th Rule from 2022-02-07T21:00

We’re back with an infamous book written in part by Armin Shimerman about how he had wished DS9 had addressed the way people treat the Ferengi in Star Trek...

Second Officer Slog 056: Kobayashi Maru from 2021-07-18T20:59:09

We’re back with another Enterprise book, but also Em’s been digging into some other parts of the Star Trek universe so look forward to a quick run down of ...

Second Officer Slog 055: The Good That Men Do from 2021-01-10T21:00

Nobody can say when the intrepid Trek fans returned to history, but that is really the question we’ve come to discuss. Who has constructed this history, an...

Second Officer Slog 054: Last Full Measure from 2020-07-13T21:18:02

Pulled out of mothballs for one last mission, the intrepid crew of this ramshackle podcast are back to talk about an Enterprise book and the show as a whole. No other Trek news, but enj...

Second Officer Slog 053: Star Trek Into Darkness from 2019-10-09T00:00

We’re back after a long hiatus to … enjoy the worst Star Trek movie ever made! Join us as we take the trek into darkness and come out the other side confused as to why you’d even build ...

Second Officer Slog 052: Discovery S02E14 "Such Sweet Sorrow" part ii from 2019-04-20T21:30:04

Star Trek Discovery is finished (for now), and so are we (for now). Of all the souls we have met in our journeys, this was the most television.

Second Officer Slog 051: Discovery S02E13 "Such Sweet Sorrow" part i from 2019-04-14T17:23:23

In the penultimate episode of Discovery season 2, Tilly’s girlfriend returns, everyone gets a goodbye, everyone gets another goodbye, and nothing really happens. Sorry for a downer one, it will ...

Second Officer Slog 050: Discovery S02E12 "Through the Valley of Shadows" from 2019-04-09T01:36:38

We’re so very, very tired in this, the prepenultimate episode of Discovery season 2. Live long and prosper.

Second Officer Slog 049: Discovery S02E11 "Perpetual Infinity" from 2019-03-31T20:23:56

Finally Discovery rights itself and we have what we both consider to just be a good episode of Star Trek. Given that it involves forgetting major character motivations and making one of the char...

Second Officer Slog 048: Discovery S02E10 "The Red Angel" from 2019-03-24T13:00

The Discovery solves several mysteries as another giant one opens before them in this episode that splits us in two on what exactly we want or are willing to accept from modern Star Trek. One th...

Second Officer Slog 047: Discovery S02E09 "Project Daedalus" from 2019-03-17T23:00:15

Wasted potential and piss poor writing does not a good episode make, but we do our best to talk through exactly why this episode of Discovery set a new low for this show. Sorry for the downer on...

Second Officer Slog 046: Discovery S02E08 "If Memory Serves" from 2019-03-11T01:13:03

We’re back to the very beginning as Spock and Burnham go to Talos IV, Christopher Pike actually gets a character arc 50 years later, and Saru reveals that he might never actually be fit for comm...

Second Officer Slog 045: Discovery S02E07 "Light and Shadows" from 2019-03-03T23:03:37

We finally spend most of the episode talking about the actual episode of Star Trek, which means Sarek must be involved! But don’t worry, we get a little bit of time to yell about Enterprise, as ...

Second Officer Slog 044: Discovery S02E06 "The Sounds of Thunder" from 2019-02-23T23:11:26

The only thing better than good Star Trek is bad Star Trek.

- Gene Roddenberry, 1961

Second Officer Slog 043: Discovery S02E05 "Saints of Imperfection" from 2019-02-18T12:02:42

Light spoilers for a bunch of DS9 and Enterprise in this episode.

What happens when Discovery has its most dramatic story yet? We find time to talk about everything but the actual events o...

Second Officer Slog 042: Discovery S02E04 "An Obol for Charon" from 2019-02-11T00:03:30

Saru gets sick, Number One gets a burg, and Stamets gets high af in our fourth episode of Discovery season 2! We cover the ups and downs of this episode, and finally get around to disagreeing on...

Second Officer Slog 041: Discovery S02E03 "Point of Light" from 2019-02-05T03:20:07

It’s time for the Klingons! What does it mean for Star Trek to be bad when there’s so much interesting stuff to talk about? We find out in this amazing mess of an episode!

Second Officer Slog 040: Discovery S02E02 "New Eden" from 2019-01-27T20:23:28

Discovery gets down and dirty with discussions of religion and the prime dir-oh, excuse me, General Order One, as we delve into the true joys of episodic Star Trek television. T...

Second Officer Slog 039: Discovery S02E01 "Brother" from 2019-01-21T23:39:37

Discovery is back, and so are we! With the Enterprise out of commission, King Cop himself Christopher Pike is here to usher in a new era of fun space adventure. Does he succeed? Well, it’s only ...

Second Officer Slog 038: Short Treks 2 from 2019-01-14T22:35:35

Short Treks are back! This is the week Discovery season 2 starts! The train never stops and we’re climbing on and not letting go. Please enjoy as we talk about the best and worst of Star Trek sh...

Second Officer Slog 037: Fear Itself from 2019-01-08T02:18:56

The ramp up to Discovery season 2 continues as we take on the third Discovery book and discover that the boy is all right as we spend a very bad day with everyone’s scared anxiety friend Saru! T...

Second Officer Slog 036: Short Treks 1 and 2 from 2018-12-10T22:04:40

We’re back at the end of the year with one short episode about two short episodes of Star Trek trying to sell you on keeping your CBS All Access account going during the lean months where there ...

Second Officer Slog 035: Unity from 2018-11-13T01:00

It’s all been building to this! The final chapter of this first ten book arc of the DS9 relaunch crashes home as all the threads of story collide in this … ending? Will Bajor enter the Federatio...

Second Officer Slog 034: The Left Hand of Destiny Book Two from 2018-10-18T23:40:16

We’re back again for the second adventure into the world of Klingons as Martok rebuffs an attempted coup and we get deep into Worf’s efforts to properly educate the youths of space.

If you...

Second Officer Slog 033: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One from 2018-09-18T01:00

The Dominion War is over, but the rhythms of war will never be purged from the Klingon heart! Join us as we return to the decade of Klingon politics as we watch the rise of Gowron, the challenge...

Second Officer Slog 032: Redshirts from 2018-08-27T21:54:49

We take a break from Star Trek for a duo of media inspired by Trek and taking it on as a sort of meta-parody with one of the best Star Trek movies and a well-regarded Trek-adjacent book! What ha...

Second Officer Slog 031: Rising Son from 2018-07-17T01:00

It's been six months of DS9 relaunch. New friends have been made, tragedies have struck, and through it all Ezri and Bashir are still together. Let's put all of that aside for today as we follow...

Second Officer Slog 030: The Lives of Dax from 2018-06-26T20:06:32

After a long, long absence we have returned to the world of the Deep Space Nine relaunch, but before we can tackle the final stretch of the first arc, we must step back and read a little book ca...

Second Officer Slog 029: Drastic Measures from 2018-05-22T01:11:16

The Second Officers (that's us, we're workshopping it) return for a new episode of your favourite Star Trek podcast! The stresses on our schedule are starting to clear, and so we've read the lat...

Second Officer Slog 028: Star Trek (2009) from 2018-04-05T01:00

There's a mistake in the timeline! We ditch our book and episodes for a month due to scheduling and instead turn our eyes to a little, forgotten corner of Star Trek lore. Once upon a time, a man...

Second Officer Slog 027: Avenger from 2018-03-19T01:43

James Kirk is dead (again), until he isn't. He's wishing he could see Spock (again), until he does. He's at cross purposes with Picard (again), until they aren't. The more things change, the mor...

Second Officer Slog 026: The Return from 2018-02-15T02:00

James Kirk is dead. Once, on the Enterprise-B, sacrificing himself to save a ship of strangers. Twice, on Veridian III, giving his life to save a planet of unknown aliens. And now? Well ... ther...

Second Officer Slog 025: Discovery Episode 15 from 2018-02-12T23:43:40

The finale of Discovery is here! We talk about the very final episode of Star Trek's return to television (on the internet), and after a season of ups and downs it all comes down to one question...

Second Officer Slog 024: Discovery Episode 14 from 2018-02-06T21:37:15

The USS Discovery is back in the Prime universe, and the war has gone very badly. What beacon of hope can we turn to in these moments of peril? Surely not the leader of the evil space fascists. ...

Second Officer Slog 023: Discovery Episode 13 from 2018-01-31T00:09:18

It's a bit of a down week here in Second Officer Slog but we're still bringing Star Trek Discovery takes to the people. Last time, we were wrong about literally everything that it is po...

Second Officer Slog 022: Discovery Episode 12 from 2018-01-22T23:18:40

The Mirror Universe spins off in complicated directions as we ponder the possibilities of existence and Em tries very hard to not say that Kelpians probably taste delicious. A lot happens as we ...

Second Officer Slog 021: The Ashes of Eden from 2018-01-17T23:22:18

Second Officer Slog makes a glorious return as we begin the epic journey that is The Shatnerverse. In this month's book we deal with Kirk's Horny Middle Aged Crisis and greatly relish in the thi...

Second Officer Slog 020: Discovery Episode 11 from 2018-01-16T01:49:51

In this week's Discovery, everything happens at once, and in this raucous episode of SOS, we stumble upon some of the most troubling deep lore possibilities yet.

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Second Officer Slog 019: Discovery Episode 10 from 2018-01-08T21:21:28

It is a turbulent time for Abnormal Mapping, but we just had to talk about the latest Star Trek: Discovery. It's a fucking stealth sequel to an episode of Enterprise, it could not possi...

Second Officer Slog 018: Desperate Hours from 2017-12-05T02:00

Second Officer Slog, December 2017, we're here at the very beginning of Star Trek to talk about both the pilot that started it all and the latest book about the very latest Trek. Vulcan nonsense...

Second Officer Slog 017: Discovery Episode 9 from 2017-11-13T22:05:33

We're here at the end of all things, where the Pahvans misstepped and made a terrible mistake, where the Discovery makes a daring gambit to take the next step forward, and we all boldly go for o...

Second Officer Slog 016: Discovery Episode 8 from 2017-11-09T02:55:48

Hello friends, and welcome back to our continuing Discovery coverage. Today we talk about "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum," the penultimate episode of the fall half of this season. The table is set a...

Second Officer Slog 015: Lesser Evil from 2017-11-07T03:27:23

Discovery barrels through the first half of the season but we still have books to read, and this week we complete our journey through the Mission Gamma series! It is one of the most wild books w...

Second Officer Slog 014: Discovery Episode 7 from 2017-10-31T22:26:06

Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Discovery recaps! We're here to talk about episode 7, "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", and deviate into our thoughts on Tilly, Mudd in DIS versus ToS, o...

Second Officer Slog 013: Discovery Episode 6 from 2017-10-23T21:34:45

We go on for ages about this week's Discovery, which is the most deep lore nonsense for episode six of a brand new star trek show! Sarek's Brain! Lorca's Scars! Klingon Spies! It's all ...

Second Officer Slog 012: Discovery Episode 5 from 2017-10-16T21:00:53

We're back for another journey down Discovery lane, as we reach a conclusion to the Tardigrade saga, open a door into possibilities dark and mysterious, and contemplate a real speed bump in the ...

Second Officer Slog 011: Discovery Episode 4 from 2017-10-11T01:00

In which the ship spins, twists, and goes where no man has gone before—Corvan II! No really, this episode involves Tardigrade friendship, Klingon uneasiness, and all the Tilly/Burnham shipping y...

Second Officer Slog 010: Cathedral from 2017-10-09T20:52:35

As Discovery brings Star Trek back to our screens, we have not neglected the regular monthly episodes! This time we continue with our journey through the Deep Space Nine relaunch, and after last...

Second Officer Slog 009: Discovery Episode 3 from 2017-10-04T01:00

Discovery returns, The Discovery appears, and we're here to talk about both. Our journey through weekly Trek episodes continues with our discussion of episode 3 "Context is for Kings".

Tha...

Second Officer Slog 008: Discovery Episodes 1 and 2 from 2017-09-25T21:09:34

Discovery is here! We're going to bring you our takes every week the show is going, and that starts now. You don't have to be watching Discovery to enjoy these takes, but we are going full spoil...

Second Officer Slog 007: This Gray Spirit from 2017-09-12T15:38:37

After the best Star Trek book we have yet read, today we are ...

Second Officer Slog 006: Twilight from 2017-08-07T20:49:58

We launch into Mission Gamma with our longest, most intense, and most beloved Star Trek book yet! The DS9 relaunch is at full steam, and we are ready to tackle new adventures and new horizons wi...

Second Officer Slog 005: Perchance To Dream from 2017-07-24T22:55:21

Welcome to the first in our irregular series of episodes focused around Star Trek comics! No episodes this time, it's a much shorter and looser affair, as we take you through on a journey of a r...

Second Officer Slog 004: Imzadi from 2017-07-10T22:12:36

In this month's Second Officer Slog we take a deep dive into everyone's favourite Star Trek pairing: that's right, Troi and Riker! Now, before you all leave the website in disappointment, I'm he...

Second Officer Slog 003: Section 31 Abyss from 2017-06-12T23:32:32

Welcome to month three of Second Officer Slog, after the explosive two-parter to kick off the DS9 Relaunch we take it down a notch, for a more relaxing and subdued vacation with everyone's favou...

Second Officer Slog 002: Avatar Book Two from 2017-05-08T21:23:53

We're back for our second voyage as we obliterate the last of our pre-launch backlog and feel our way through this raucous second half of the DS9 Relaunch pilot. Also, we talk about what might b...

Second Officer Slog 001: Avatar Book One from 2017-04-03T23:42:27

It's the much delayed maiden voyage of the latest and not-so-greatest ship of the fleet as M and Jackson launch Second Officer Slog. This book club podcast attempts to be a window into Star Trek...