New ep is up! We're talking #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy's "Vox In Excelso" - queer allegories! Climate refugee allegories! Liz's secret past as a debate kid! antimatterpod.com/221-starflee...

New Antimatter Pod! We're discussing the #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy episode "Vitus Reflux" - it's a prank war, it's a sports rivalry, it's a heist ... but is it Star Trek? It sure is! In conclusion: KYLE. antimatterpod.com/220-take-me-...

Caleb and Nahla are completely different and also the same person. From our latest episode on the two episode series premiere of #StarfleetAcademy!

#StarTrekStarfleetAcademy: it's good and we like it. Our new episode, covering the premiere, "Kids These Days", and "Beta Test", is up now in all good podcatchers! antimatterpod.com/219-liberal-...

The final day of @pixiedane.bsky.social’s countdown to #StarfleetAcademy features her cryptic and pop culture influenced first impressions of Tarima and Ahkem (sp??) Sadal. 🩵💫🖖🏽

Countdown to #StarfleetAcademy day three features @pixiedane.bsky.social’s cryptic and pop culture influenced first impressions of Jay-Den Kraag and Sam.

Countdown to #StarfleetAcademy day two features @pixiedane.bsky.social’s cryptic and pop culture influenced first impressions of Darem Reymi and Genesis Lythe

Countdown to #StarfleetAcademy day one features @pixiedane.bsky.social’s cryptic and pop culture influenced first impressions of Nahla Ake and Caleb Mir

Our countdown to #StarfleetAcademy starts tomorrow! In the meantime, here's a clip from our recent episode on DS9's "You Are Cordially Invited" featuring very special guests for #Caturday

We’re getting excited for #StarfleetAcademy! Watch this space and all our socials for a countdown starting Sunday, January 11! In the meantime, here’s Liz’s spoiler-lite review🖖🏽

We wrap up our miniseries on Star Trek Weddings with the very worst of the lot -- T'Pol's wedding to Koss. But on the upside, Trip wears a Henley, and we are looking RESPECTFULLY. Also Archer climbs a rock. antimatterpod.com/218-florida-...

The wedding series marches on with the marriage of Worf and Dax - and we do have to ask, are ANY women in Star Trek allowed to get married without running a gauntlet of patriarchy? antimatterpod.com/217-dad-hard...

Our weddings series continues with "Data's Day"! In which Chief O'Brien's wedding day turns out to be one of the worst days of his life ... so far. antimatterpod.com/216-live-dat...

#StarTrek #TNG Follow the link for the whole conversation 🖖🏽

Our wedding series continues with "Haven" —in which the wedding of Deanna Troi and Wyatt Miller is interrupted by the arrival of an AIDS allegory. antimatterpod.com/215-stephen-...

It's wedding season! We're kicking off our look at some key Star Trek weddings with the big one: "Amok Time". And respectfully, we have some questions for the Vulcans. Like, what the hell? antimatterpod.com/214-spaceboo...

It's sexist! It's racist! It doesn't make sense on any level! Antimatter Pod breaks down the season 3 finale of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds - at least, until we break down. antimatterpod.com/213-twentiet...

First time listener: What a great episode

This week, Antimatter Pod is discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds 309, "Terrarium", which is by far the best episode of the season ... until it settles for a lazy, nihilistic twist. Again. antimatterpod.com/212-gamer-go...

It’s time. We're discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans", an episode which is intersectional in its offensiveness and all around sincerely unpleasant. antimatterpod.com/211-ghostwri...

Our new episode is up! We're discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "What Is Starfleet?", an episode about journalism that thinks asking difficult questions is disrespectful to the troops. antimatterpod.com/210-selling-...

This week on Antimatter Pod, we cover #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail", a piece of grimdark nihilism in Star Trek cosplay. But thank goodness we find out whether Jim Kirk will make a good captain! antimatterpod.com/209-the-shap...

Three m/f romantic couples and a queer-coded Black man beam down to an alien planet, and you are not gonna believe who dies! We're discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "Through the Lens of Time", an episode which dares to ask: what if women be catfighting? antimatterpod.com/208-theres-a...

New ep is up! We're discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "A Space Adventure Hour", and we need to say that when Anika said she was shipping Spock/La'an the other week, she absolutely did not mean in canon, we are SO sorry, this is like that time in 2000 when Liz said Seven/Chakotay would be fun.

We're discussing #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "Shuttle to Kenfori"! Zombies! Klingons! Klingon zombies! The role of Captain Pike is played by JD Vance while Batel re-enacts Alien: Resurrection! antimatterpod.com/206-her-body...

We're up! We discuss #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' "Wedding Bell Blues", an episode engineered in a lab to make Anika unhappy. Is this a mean-spirited commentary on shippers? Does Spock have problems listening to women? Is "the snake in the Garden of Eden" a solid bridal look? All this, and more!

#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds is back! We ask the big questions: are men too emotional to be in command? Should women have bodily autonomy? Plus, Anika shares some alarming stuff Akiva Goldsman said about Spock/Chapel at the premiere in New York! antimatterpod.com/204-berman-e...

Please enjoy Anika's new account ⬇️

Ever notice how every single main female character in season 3 of #StarTrekPicard except Raffi has the same hairstyle? Don't worry, Anika noticed. We unpack hairstyling in #StarTrek from Voyager to SNW! antimatterpod.com/203-hair-tre...

This week, Antimatter Pod deals with the most pressing issue of our day: HAIR in #STARTREK! From beehives to bouffants to ... bald. Liz uses the word "semiotics". Anika remembers Ronald Reagan and has a rage black-out. PEAK ANTIMATTER POD. Part 1 of 2! antimatterpod.com/202-hair-tre...

Okay, we're NOT recording Antimatter Pod this weekend, because @pixiedane.bsky.social is going to *checks writing on hand* the SNW premiere in NY. But that's more time for Hair Trek Research! If there is a hairstyle in any era of Trek you want us to discuss, let me know!

New episode! We're discussing #StarTrekTheNextGeneration ep 6.22, "Suspicions" - an episode which is incredibly effective, provided it's your introduction to TNG. antimatterpod.com/201-very-six...

Not to brag, but this is our TWO HUNDREDTH EPISODE! We're using it to talk about Nana Visitor's excellent book on women in Star Trek - along with bodyshaming in fandom, hair politics and two separate rants about Janice Rand (our beloved). antimatterpod.com/200-performa...

It's our 199th episode, and we're talking about Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, a fan film from the mid-2000s which dares to ask: what if Gene Roddenberry was a massive Ayn Rand stan? antimatterpod.com/199-arm-day-...

While recovering from ankle surgery, Liz dug deep into the archives at rec.arts.startrek.current to look at the earliest reactions to #StarTrekDeepSpace9. She expected to find some bad opinions she could make fun of, and got something much more interesting! antimatterpod.com/198-plus-a-c...

Anika and Liz sit down to discuss #StarTrekTheNextGeneration's "Yesterday's Enterprise" - an all-time fave which, Liz argues, sets the template for Discovery, some 27 years later. antimatterpod.com/197-gel-budg...

New episode! Jonathan Alexandratos joins to discuss Star Trek: Generations - and we're asking the big questions. Is the Nexus the real villain? Is Kirk's death worthy of him? Why DID Picard give his Nexus son a Kenner Aliens Space Marine Evac Fighter for Christmas? antimatterpod.com/163-stepford...

Happy Threshold Day to all who celebrate.

Today we're discussing #StarTrekSection31, a streaming movie that combines the vibes of turn-of-the-century shows like Alias, Farscape and Enterprise with the very worst of 2020s streaming culture. Our controversial hot take: it's fun & we have a lot to talk about! antimatterpod.com/195-a-handba...

It's #StarTrekTheMotionPicture time, baby! Our new ep sees us talk for NINETY MINUTES (closer to two hours before the edit) about a movie that often feels forgotten ... but we like it? A lot? Listen and find out why! antimatterpod.com/194-kolinahr...

Don't miss our admiral and so many more come together for this great cause! Just two weeks now!

It's finale time! We break down "The New Next Generation", the final episode of #StarTrekLowerDecks. Did we need those Klingons? Are Mariner and Ransom hooking up? Is Carol Freeman still the best captain in Starfleet? The answer to some of these questions is ...yes! antimatterpod.com/193-natures-...

Antimatter Pod is a #StarTrek podcast where we discuss fashion, feminism, subtext, and subspace, hosted by Anika @pixiedane.bsky.social and Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/antimatterpod/ antimatterpod.com #promosky

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Antimatter Pod is back! With the silliest and most adults-only episode we've done so far: ranking #StarTrek men in bed. We're starting the new year with a bang! antimatterpod.com/161-holding-...

Antimatter Pod is back! With the silliest and most adults-only episode we've done so far, which ALSO has fairly bad audio quality because Liz is SO out of practice. BUT we are here to chew gum and rank Star Trek's male characters by how good they are in bed, and we're all out of gum!

New episode! We discuss "Under the Cloak of War" and ask once again if Pike is any good at his job. Spoilers! the answer is no. http://antimatterpod.com/149-all-hurt-no-comfort-snw-2-08/

Our new ep is up! We discuss #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' #StarTrekLowerDecks crossover "Those Old Scientists" and manage to make it about Barbie AND Oppenheimer! http://antimatterpod.com/147-his-job-is-just-trek-snw-2-08/