Re:Engage TNG

Time's Arrow, Part II - s6e1 (SEASON PREMIERE)

Going to California. The whole gang is here in San Francisco, Guinan, Jack London, and Mark Twain included. There are aliens stealing human mind energies and Beverly Crusher has been crushing it as a nurse in a cholera ward. If there was a way to hide murderous aliens by going back in time, our dear doctor tells us THIS would be the perfect crime. Except Riker the cop who totally respects the law. Twain is a pain in Guinan's actual bonnet, while Picard rents a room from the most Irish landlady in Berkeley as, you guessed it, a traveling band of theater actors rehearsing Midsummer's Night Dream. Twain goes through time to the Enterprise, Data's head gets screwed on, and Guinan falls in friend love with a bald man. Then everything gets wrapped nicely. Somehow.
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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) 
Panel:  Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter),  and Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)
Audio Editor: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) 
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is the s6e2 "Realms of Fear" hosted by one of Erik!

Time's Arrow - s5e26 (FINALE)

As both Huey Lewis and his famous News have taught us, we gotta go back in time! It's 1889 S.F. this time around the sun but it takes the Enterprise crew a little while to get there. They find Data's head in a cave, contemplate death in Ten Forward, Guinan drops some plot bomb, and then bang, Data's in San Francisco at the stop of act three. There's some freaky aliens stealing human energies with a black light. There's also a poker game, an anvil gag, and Mark Twain as Hal Holbrook played by Jerry Hardin.
Special Guest Tyler Jacobson returns to talk about this episode and where it should have been cliffhunged. Cliffhanged? Cliffhung!
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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), 
Panel:  Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter),  and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG),
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is the SEASON SIX PREMIERE, s6e1 "Time's Arrow Pt. 2" hosted by one of us!

The Inner Light - s5e25

Picard playing the flute will get me every damn time. So damn good. While investigating deep space, the Enterprise finds a random odd-shaped probe out there. Before they know it, Picard is knocked unconscious by a beam of energy and lays down on the Bridge thanks to Riker gentle hands. He wakes up in a rustic house, being cared for by a woman who says he's his wife. Picard has all the memories of being Picard, but his wife Eline calls him Kamin and says he's a respected iron weaver who's been sick. A whole life goes by, Picard getting older as he ages through the decades on the planet Kataan, has children, grandchildren, and learns to love playing the Ressikan flute while the Enterprise crew attempt to break him out of his coma. But it's only been 25 minutes... Wonderful episode. Watch it and weep.
 
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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Panel:  Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Audio Editor: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is the SEASON FIVE FINALE, s5e26 "Time's Arrow" hosted by Greg with Special Returning Guest, Tyler Jacobsen!

The Next Phase - s5e24

There's to say about this phase of life. I mean, you get to watch people exercise, you get to push a nasty Romulan out of a ship, and ruin your own Dixieland funeral party. What's not to love? Ro Laren and Geordi Laforge get lost in the transporter beam while helping a Romulan science ship that's had a horrible accident in space. The Enterprise thinks the pair are dead, but they wake up, talk to each other and eventually figure it's all about mixing clocking devices with a phase invertor. The Klingon special does a number on the digestion (if they can eat while phased.) But forget all that. This episode is about death. Or Life. One of those, definitely. It's funny and good.
 
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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) 
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e25 "The Inner Light" hosted by Jimmie!

I Borg - s5e23

Hugh've got to be kidding me! We get back to the Borg and realize they aren't just the big implacable baddies the Enterprise made them out to be. Following up on a distress signal, Riker, Worf, and Crusher find an injured Borg on a random planet. Beverly wants to bring him on board, and Geordi devises a Borg jail after the Captain reluctantly agrees. Then they get the bright idea to poison this Third of Five borg kid with a shape, before Crusher and Geordi give him the name Hugh. Guinan wants to kill the Borg, but then she meets him and realizes he might not be Borg without the collective beaming into his brain. Locutus meets him too, and they call the whole thing off.
 
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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Audio Editor: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), 
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e24 "The Next Phase" hosted by Erik!

Imaginary Friend - s5e22

IFs can be creepy AF. The Enterprise welcomes Ensign Sutter and his daughter Clara on board while we welcome back Shareef Jackson to talk about this kid-centric episode. Checking out a nebula, Clara's imaginary friend she's created to deal with moving around from ship to ship comes to real life. Isabella is played by a fantastic young actor who brings breadth to the role of an alien learning about the rules of being a child on a starship. Guinan's presence is super welcome, as is Shareef's insights into this story that teeters back and forth between light horror and slice-of-life comedy.
 
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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)  
Special Guest: Shareef Jackson (@shareefjackson on BSKY @shareefjackson on Twitter)
Panel: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter) , and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e23 "I Borg" hosted by Kate!

The Perfect Mate - s5e21

Jean Grey is an animorph, I think. Nope, wait she's an empathic megamind. In the triumphant return of the Ferengi, they bumble into birthing Famke Jenson's Kamala. She's the key to uniting two warring peoples, but she can't help but be attractive to every male on the Enterprise. Riker says no as graciously as he can. But Picard has to work with her one-on-one and he hasn't been this tempted since he and Beverly were drunk on water in the first season. Speaking of Bev, she's lets the Captain know over croissants that what they are doing to Kamala is basically sexual slavery. Picard gives her away anyway.
 
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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)  
Panel: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Audio Editor: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e22 "Imaginary Friend" hosted by Greg and featuring returning guest Shareef Jackson!

Cost of Living - s5e20

Lwaxana Troi invented Tinder. You heard it here first, kids! Alexander teaches us all a life lesson on whether to be nude at your weddings. Before that, Lwaxana teaches young Alexander about mud baths and creepy circus performers and the importance of laughing hour. Before that, Troi teaches Worf about the power of signing contracts with your children so that they perform chores like every good Klingon does. It's all bit exhausting, but at least the protocol droid gets a little come-uppance.
 
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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Panel: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e21 "The Perfect Mate" hosted by Jimmie!

The First Duty - s5e19

Wesley Crusher returns! He's even more of a man, and is involved in a terrible scandal with Tom Paris, er, Nick Locarno and the rest of Nova Squadron while at Starfleet Academy. Picard reconnects with the gardener Boothby, who is a crotchety old man with a heart of gold or something like that. Nova Squardron was trying to make a galactic goatse when one of their number blows up his shuttle. Too bad goatses have been banned. Wesley comes clean, which makes us all very happy.
 
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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) 
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Audio Editor: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG) 
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e20 "Cost of Living" hosted by Erik!

Cause and Effect - s5e18

Is this thing on? Are we recording? Let's go back to the beginning. And when we'll get to the end. Stop. Stunt casting Frasier Crane aside, this one is a fun temporal romp. Crusher plays poker with the gang, then start to see some patterns emerge. Are they caught in a loop? How does that work? Data figures it out at the last moment, thanks to Jonathan Frakes weird ass camera shots. Kate saves the best for last.
 
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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG), Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) , and Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Audio Editor: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), 
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
 
Next up is s5e19 "The First Duty" hosted by Kate!