Re:Engage TNG
Four friends return to a sci-fi series we all have a strong connection to - Star Trek: The Next Generation. It debuted in 1987 when we were all young, and now in 2020, we re-engage with the series, one episode at a time, and re-consider Star Trek from a new perspective as grown-up fans.
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Episodes
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Sometimes an inner monologue is all you need to discover who the real killer has been all along. Guinan talks to Dr. Crusher about tennis elbow, but Beverly isn't the doctor on this ship anymore. Then through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, she uncovers the killer of a Ferengi scientist for which she was busy getting recognition among a group comprised of a Vulcan, Klingon and Takaran scientist. The Takaran has extra organs, FYI, that might be important! We get some great Nurse Ogawa agency, a little bit of Ferengi razzle-dazzle, and some strange behaviors from Riker and Picard, who never turned down a mystery before.
Happy New Year, y'all. We recorded this in December 2024 and will be returning to our schedule in the January!
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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG), 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 the s6e23 "Rightful Heir" hosted by Erik!
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
It's a meta-existential threat episode! Riker is an actor in a play written by Beverly Crusher, or is that Jonathan Frakes? Or is it the host of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? This episode is written in such a delicious way, blending exposition and strange character behavior in a perception-annihilating frame of mind. I am shattered, like the fabric of reality poor Riker is experiencing, each time I watch it. Shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Waiting for Godot, and The Matrix collide in a tour-de-force performance by Jonathan Frakes.
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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, @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 the s6e22 "Suspicions" hosted by Jimmie!
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
I love doing musical intros! After his old archeology teacher shows up to guilt trip him on a goose chase, Picard fondles some figurines before his teacher is killed. He leaves behind a trail, and Picard ignores protocol to make the DNA tell him and Crusher where to go next. Cardassians show up, then Klingons and Romulans, yet the Captain finds a way to put the petal to the warp metal and piece together the news that one man seeded all the species in the galaxy. That's why the aliens of Star Trek all look the same. Because they all came from one dude. His name was Roddenberry!
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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG)
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, @greg_tito on IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
Next up is the s6e21 "Frame of Mind" hosted by Jimmie!
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Monday Nov 18, 2024
The Fish and the Rocks! A quiet episode, until it's not. Picard meets a pianist, and she opens up his musician side as well as his heart. Too bad she is under his direct command. She plays the keys and he plays the flute in the sexiest part of the starship, the Jeffries Tubes! There are dolphins, there are non-stop HR violations, there is exquisite chest hair. This is a fantastic episode and we hope you enjoy it. Share and enjoy!
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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Panel: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), and Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG)
Audio Editor: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
Next up is the s6e20 "The Chase" hosted by Greg!
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
"The Enterprise is mine!" says Picard when he goes back for his saddle(!) No one grows in this one, including our panel, but that's just perfect for a mélange of 80s action movie moments. Due for a scan for waste particles associated with the warp engines, the Enterprise bridge crew must go to a reception held by Hutch, er, Commander Calvin Hutchinson. Data wants to emulate the art of small talk, but then verges into the actually interesting conversation around interior design and scientific facts about planets. Picard leaves the reception to grab the saddle he apparently always has with him, and discovers Tuvok and crew dissembling the ship. The captain trapped on his ship with ne'er-do-wells must make arrows and set up ambushes like he's John McClane Rambo. It's a fun one, with great stunts and an honest-to-god reference to Mr. fuckin' Ed. No joke.
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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, @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 s6e19 "Starship Mine" hosted by ???!
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Worf shines in this episode by teaching the town to dance, to hunt, and to sing. Michael Dorn is a true triple threat! The younger generation of prisoners don't even know they are in prison. The much younger lady he saw washing in the previous episode shows Worf the artifacts of an ancient time. The Romulan leader Tokath is generally nice - he even married one of his Klingon prisoners! - but he's pushed to the limit by Worf's presence. Worf kisses a ROMULAN on the mouth, but it's OK. She's half his age. It's time for the firing squad, until Toq arrives dressed in armor and all become Spartacus. Tokath relents, and Worf lies to Picard when he gets rescued. It's cool now.
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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Panel: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) , Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on 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 s6e18 "Starship Mine" hosted by Kate!
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
B. Dave Walters returns! We jump into a banger of a two-parter as Deep Space 9 takes center stage. Kind of. On the Promenade, Worf meets Mr. James Cameron, er, Cromwell, dressed up like a naked mole rat named Shrek (no, really) who says Worf's father is still alive. Mogh would be proud of his son breaking a glass table before donning a black caper suit and heading to the jungle to beat up some old people and look at naked lady Klingons. Meanwhile, Dr. Bashir assists Data in accessing his trippy visions and Dr. Noonien Sungh's proclamation that "I Am a Bird." Great to have B. Dave back in the saddle to discuss left-handedness, fake martial arts, and the connection to fatherhood we all have.
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Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG)
Special Guest: B. Dave Walters (@bdavewalters on Twitter, BlueSky, and on IG)
Panel: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) , Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
Next up is the s6e17 "Birthright, Part II" hosted by Jimmie!
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
We've come to see the tapestries! Q returns in an episode that doesn't have Q in the title, and we are pissed about that. Good thing, Erik has got us covered in that department. We start in the media-est of res-es, with Picard injured and rushed into sick bay. He goes into the light and a washed out Q tells him what's up. He's dead, because of the fight he had with the Nausicaans when he was a slick punk right out of the academy. He gets slapped in the face and wham bang! There we are - gone all the way back in time like Marty and Doc. Except this time, it's a singing telegram for Jon Luck Pickerd from the John Delancie Express.
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Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @greg_tito on IG) , Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Audio Editor: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)
Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com
Theme music: Ryan Marth
Next up is the s6e16 "Birthright, Part I" hosted by Greg!
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Counselor Troi wakes up as a Romulan and must immediately become badass or die. You see, she's been benevolently kidnapped by a Romulan friend of Spock's ... kind of. Meanwhile on the Enterprise, a traitor of the Federation who had defected to Romulus, comes back to deliver a message. They've got to go to some coordinates for a very important delivery. Troi verbally duels with Commander Toreth of the Romulan ship, and together they slay Bechdel in a Test of Tense Space Combat. Troi's best episode, which is something to celebrate.
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Host: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG)
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @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 the s6e15 "Tapestry" hosted by Erik!
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
The collective sigh of rut roh when Geordi sees Acquiel for the first time ... in that WIG! It's a murder mystery unlike you've ever seen before with a shape-shifting body-snatching thing eating dogs and taking names. The Klingons are here and Gowron's name gets thrown around, which is a nice touch. Levar Burton has to wrestle with a tough script and go to extremes while the guest star has a hard time finding the chemistry. All in all, no one comes out looking great in this one, not even Riker telling Geordi to cool it down a little.
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Host: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter)
Panel: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @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 the s6e14 "Face of the Enemy" hosted by Kate!
Re:Engage
Four friends return to a sci-fi series we all have a strong connection to - Star Trek: The Next Generation. It debuted in 1987 when we were all young, and now we re-engage with the series, one episode at a time, and re-consider Star Trek from a new perspective as grown-up fans.