Category Archives: casual trek

Casual Trek: Guinan’s Angry Cat Hands

Posted on May 29, 2023 by fakedtales

We’re twenty episodes into Casual Trek! That feels like madness. Also we’re at 50 episodes (well, 50 and a film) into our big list of the best and worst of Star Trek. We pick three episodes based around a theme … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Nine: Troubles By Tribbles

Posted on December 20, 2022 by fakedtales

I love a bit of horror, but there was a point watching this trio of Tribble episodes where I snapped. There are only three proper episodes about tribbles, not counting the Short Trek and a couple of cameos of what … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Eight: Casual Toons

Posted on December 19, 2022 by fakedtales

There are so many Star Trek shows now. It’s incredibly cool, as someone who got into it back when there were four, only three of which were in rotation on the few channels we had. When Miles and I were … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Seven: Casual Trek’s Castle of Creepiness

Posted on December 2, 2022 by fakedtales

I love horror, so it was great planning and working out how to do a specifically horror-themed episode. There are actually a ton of spooky Star Trek episodes, so I’ve several for future Halloweens, if we’re still doing this in … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Six: Odo Exploded!

Posted on November 30, 2022 by fakedtales

I wasn’t a fan of the Mirror Universe, although I think it was mainly a case of encountering too many DS9 episodes and the lengthy second arc of Discovery season one. Watching three episodes about the Mirror Universe from different … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Five: A Lovely Walk

Posted on October 16, 2022 by fakedtales

This episode was a bit of a different one and way more personal than the usual episodes. Having watched the wrong episode and having some personal life things in the way, we wanted to make an episode, but had to … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Four: Daddy Beard of Sadness

Posted on October 15, 2022 by fakedtales

I’ve been loving Strange New Worlds and pacing out the watching of it. As of writing I’ve still got one episode to go, and I know that it’ll be a shame once it’s over. I knew the first episodes of … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Three: Oh Dear, It’s Blackface!

Posted on October 14, 2022 by fakedtales

We finally hit regular episodes instead of pilots and you can tell by the length of our recaps and my many pages of notes for each episode being reduced to a couple of pages. As well as our big sheet … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Six: Odo Exploded!

Posted on October 14, 2022 by fakedtales

I wasn’t a fan of the Mirror Universe, although I think it was mainly a case of encountering too many DS9 episodes and the lengthy second arc of Discovery season one. Watching three episodes about the Mirror Universe from different … Continue reading →

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Casual Trek Episode Bonus Episode

Posted on October 13, 2022 by fakedtales

Technically this is the first episode of Casual Trek Miles and I recorded. We wanted to make sure that the tech worked, we could manage scheduling and our interactions were good. The plan was to talk about our experience of … Continue reading →

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