There are 967 episodes of Star Trek. Some are good, some are great, and the rest we'll still watch from time to time because, why not? Star Trek is like pizza or sex: even when it's bad, it's still kinda good. It's a Star Trek podcast that seeks to establish the pecking order for its extensive canon. Which episodes are classic examples of Star Trek or simply good (TREK), which are all-timers (MARRY), and which are episodes that are okay to watch just once and then forget about (KILL)? Hosts Bryan and Kristen and the occasional special guest ask a series of...
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Sep 29, 2026 · 1:24:57
THE POLYWATER PROBLEM. The crew of the Enterprise begins to experience space madness after encountering some weird water cooked up on an ancient planet in the process of…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:41:41
IS SPACE BORING? That's what LITERALLY THE SECOND EPISODE OF ENTERPRISE wrestles with as the crew gets a little ornery waiting to run into some aliens. And then there's Hoshi…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:12:06
Along with Star Trek's 60th anniversary, it's the 25th anniversary of Enterprise, and so we'll be covering some season 1 episodes from that show along with TOS. But first! If you…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:09:49
All season long we'll be doing episodes from the first season of The Original Series. For those we've already done, we'll re-up them in the feed (as we're doing this week) and…
Sep 15, 2026 · 1:27:00
BOYS DON'T CRY in the 23rd century unless they have godlike powers like the ones a young man taken aboard the Enterprise possesses. Captain Kirk tries to teach him how to be a…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1:04:22
SALTY EX-GIRLFRIEND. The crew of the Enterprise are stalked by a being that just wants to suck the salt from them. It's the last of its kind, you see, and only wants to live. Is…
Sep 8, 2026 · 39:51
SEASON FIVE BEGINS with Bryan & Kristen tying up some loose ends from last season including tiebreaker votes for the Strange New Worlds season finale, "New Life and New…
Aug 4, 2026 · 1:11:29
SO MUCH SNARK in the pages of a 31-year old special edition issue of Entertainment Weekly focusing on the Star Trek franchise up to that point. Did the writers actually like the…
Jul 22, 2026 · 42:56
*TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con THIS SATURDAY! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library at 4pm!** GEN X…
Jul 15, 2026 · 36:51
**TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library on Saturday, July 25th at 4pm!**…
Jun 16, 2026 · 1:33:08
ALL GOOF THINGS... must come to an end and now it's time for Trek Marry Kill's journey through Lower Decks to wrap it all up. Bryan and Geekscape's Katie Hampton say goodbye to a…
Jun 9, 2026 · 1:22:32
PURPLE PEOPLE NEEDER. Katie Hampton returns to begin to close the book on Trek Marry Kill's coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks and in this pair of episodes, fans get the return…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:22:43
CALLBACKS AND COMEBACKS. TV critic Diana Keng reviewed Star Trek: Lower Decks through its first four seasons and jumps back in to reviewing season five right here on this week's…
May 26, 2026 · 1:41:41
RIKER ENGENDERS TENSION with a member of an androgynous race who becomes smitten with The Bearded One. They're paired up to pilot a shuttle for a rescue mission to retrieve two…
May 19, 2026 · 1:48:25
ALL GOOD THINGS... was a fantastic finale for The Next Generation and TV in general. But seven years later, how did the Voyager finale measure up? Does it manage to avoid…
May 12, 2026 · 1:09:39
SON OF A GLITCH. Control of the Enterprise is given over to a computer program programmed by a one-time wiz-kid who is trying to invent The Next Big Thing. But is automated space…
May 5, 2026 · 50:12
AUNTIE MAME'S MORALITY. Has Lwaxanna Troi finally found love in the form of timid Dr. Timicin, whose life's work to reignite his planet's dying star hits a wall when he's…
Apr 28, 2026 · 1:25:11
WHAT FEAR WANTS is to keep itself alive and only Captain Janeway is clever enough to outwit a computer program that's become the embodiment of that extreme emotion. Are We Sure…
Apr 21, 2026 · 1:19:27
HIP HIP HIPPIE! The Ship Full of Jerks take command of the podcast once again as "Are We Sure It Was Bad?" Month rolls along. The Enterprise takes into custody a band of hippies…
Apr 14, 2026 · 1:24:21
ALIEN ANT HOTEL. Riker, Data, and Worf get caught in an alien habitat setup to mimic the story of a trashy airport novel carried by a long-dead NASA astronaut. "Are We Sure It…
Apr 7, 2026 · 1:18:03
QUARK THE GAMER. We kick off "Are We Sure It Was Bad?" Month with one of the more memed episodes of Star Trek: the episode where Sisko, Kira, Dax, and Bashir become trapped in a…
Apr 3, 2026 · 1:43:14
HASTE MAKES TASTE? Bryan is joined by the Kaplans, Avery & Ollie, to talk about their love of Lower Decks, the worst episode of Star Trek in Ollie's opinion, and thoughts on how…
Mar 31, 2026 · 1:31:06
EYES WIDE SH*T? It's the third season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and it would appear that the writing staff used the opportunity to combine three or four partial…
Mar 24, 2026 · 59:55
GORNTEGAS? Erica Ortegas finally gets a substantial spotlight and it's a take on Enemy Mine and the TNG episode "Darmok." Can the helm officer of the Enterprise survive in an…
Mar 17, 2026 · 1:45:38
HENRY ALONSO MYERS presents his Star Trek-ified version of Birth of a Nation in the latest "it's okay because they're aliens" racial comedy that Strange New Worlds is the genre…
Mar 10, 2026 · 1:12:09
BETO'S FIRST MOVIE isn't quite what it was sold as. It's not feature length and it's more of a hit piece than an examination of what Starfleet is, and that's probably for the…
Mar 3, 2026 · 1:12:37
TRUSTING HIS FARRAGUT. Lt. Commander Kirk is thrust into command of the USS Farragut, but thankfully, he has Spock, Scotty, Uhura, and Nurse Chapel there to help him get through…
Mar 1, 2026 · 1:34:06
THINE OWN SELVES. The Cerritos crew meets their alternate reality versions and are not too happy by what they discover about themselves via a parallel universe. Meanwhile,…
Feb 24, 2026 · 1:30:24
JEAN-LUC'S MOMMY ISSUES. This week, Bryan & Kristen transfer command codes of the podcast to the hosts of the Ship Full of Jerks podcast, Mark Farinas & Ryan Thomas Riddle. They…
Feb 17, 2026 · 1:16:10
WORST DAY EVER? B'Elanna Torres is stuck with Tom Paris floating in space, but that might not be the worst thing that's happened to her or Voyager on the Klingon Day of Honor.…
Feb 10, 2026 · 1:30:42
LOVE, DS9 STYLE. Star Trek has had farces throughout its history and here's one that centers an unlikely pair: Worf and Quark. Does this take on Cyrano de Bergerac reach the…
Feb 3, 2026 · 1:29:00
A HIDDEN TREASURE? Our theme this month is Love In A Vacuum, and kicking it off is an episode that's pivotal to understanding the Kirk-Spock relationship and the interiority of…
Feb 2, 2026 · 1:45:16
RETREADS AND RERUNS. Bryan and Katie delve into the final two episodes of Lower Decks' fourth season in this month's animated spotlight in a pair of episodes that feel awfully…
Jan 27, 2026 · 1:00:59
PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS. Conspiracy Month concludes with an episode where Seven of Nine becomes super online and in the process develops a conspiracy mindset. Bryan is joined by…
Jan 20, 2026 · 1:21:44
SISKO'S HOME COUP'ING. Can Sisko and Odo unravel another Star Trek Badmiral's plot to usurp control of Earth from the President? Bryan and Geekscape's A. Diallo Jackson play TREK…
Jan 13, 2026 · 59:07
SISKO FAMILY REUNION. For the first time in Trek Marry Kill's history, a member of the Star Trek team beams aboard to judge their own episode. Episode director David Livingston…
Jan 6, 2026 · 1:13:46
A REAL HEADACHE. Star Trek dips into pod people conspiracy territory with a complete outlier in the canon when it comes to graphic violence. It's an episode timed perfectly (?)…
Jan 2, 2026 · 1:32:11
SEVERE PEANUT ALLERGY. Bryan and Katie navigate the return of **REDACTED** as the Cerritos crew is badgered by AI from their past. Meanwhile, in the other half of our animated…
Dec 23, 2025 · 50:03
OUR FIRST SHOW! Bryan and Kristen recorded a test episode to see if Trek Marry Kill could be an actual show, and here it is! Will they TREK, MARRY, or KILL the episode where…
Dec 16, 2025 · 1:16:02
SCOTTY GETS STABBY, according to the Argelians, and it's up to Kirk & co. to prove that their chief engineer is not a brutal killer of women. The investigation leads them face to…
Dec 12, 2025 · 57:07
THE LATINUM GIRLS. Bryan and Katie livestreamed this month's animated spotlight as part of Geekscape's fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Jersey. Come take a…
Dec 9, 2025 · 1:24:03
GHOSTS AND HOSTAGES. Bryan is joined by Sadie Witkowski of Geekscape's In Defense of Fandom podcast to decide if the episode where Troi, Data, and O'Brien are possessed by the…
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:12:10
EFFECT BEFORE CAUSE. Strange New Worlds visits a strange new structure and discovers what seems to be an alien prison. Meanwhile, Dr. M'Benga's new nurse, Gamble, has an…
Nov 25, 2025 · 1:50:18
A LOATHING HOMAGE. Bryan & Kristen activate the arch and step inside Strange New Worlds stab at a holodeck mishap episode. La'an assumes the role of her favorite detective…
Nov 18, 2025 · 1:04:28
GET AWAY, CAMP! Bryan and Kristen stumble into Tom Paris's 1930s sci fi serial adventure and find it a threat to good taste just as a species of photonic beings perceive the…
Nov 11, 2025 · 1:06:21
LICENSE TO BOND? Is this homage to James Bond our hosts' cuppa tea? Dr. Bashir becomes more interesting and a fair bit cooler putting on a tux, but it has the opposite effect on…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:07:27
ZOMBIES AND INSUBORDINATION. Pike and M'Benga go "off book" to find a flower to cure Captain Batel of her Gorn infection only to come across a research station now overrun by…
Nov 2, 2025 · 1:18:42
BITS AND BYTES. A couple of episodes jam-packed with comedy bits greets Bryan and Katie (Geekscape's Christian Cringe and Napping Through Happy Hour podcasts) in this month's…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:22:51
SCREAM QUEEN JOLENE? Bryan is joined by actor-producer Curtis Fortier, creator of the web series 12 Sided Die, to engage with Star Trek's first non-Borg zombie story involving…
Oct 21, 2025 · 1:17:52
STUPID SEXY KORBY. Spock and Dr. Korby must fight through a mass delusion foisted on the Enterprise crew by Trelane, who it turns out is a member of the Q Continuum. Bryan &…
Oct 14, 2025 · 1:10:30
SLINGS AND EROS. Q returns and drops Picard & co. into a recreation of Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood. Is Picard as Robin Hood enough to keep Vash interested in or is…
Oct 7, 2025 · 1:07:20
CAPTAIN UNCLE BROTHER. Jean-Luc Picard returns to his family vineyard to recover from his ordeal with the Borg. Meanwhile, Worf's adopted parents come aboard the Enterprise to do…
Oct 1, 2025 · 1:27:14
MUSEUMS AND MENAGERIES. In this month's animated spotlight, we replay our episode of Lower Decks' fourth season premiere, "Twovix," where Bryan & Kristen are joined by social…
Sep 30, 2025 · 1:34:28
WEREN'T GORN YESTERDAY! After a long hiatus, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns and the writers hope we don't remember the cliffhanger that ended season two. And what's going…
Sep 23, 2025 · 56:57
IT'S THEIR NATURE! Our opening theme for the season was "New Season, New Characters," and after talking through the introduction of Worf to Deep Space Nine, it's time to…
Sep 23, 2025 · 1:19:30
RESISTANCE IS NEGOTIABLE? Captain Janeway writes the 24th century edition of The Art of the Deal in which she believes she can negotiate a truce with literally the Borg long…
Sep 16, 2025 · 1:32:38
WORLD OF WORFCRAFT. Thirty years ago, Deep Space Nine was struggling in the ratings and the studio wanted them to do something to boost the ratings. Enter Michael Dorn as Worf,…
Sep 16, 2025 · 23:07
SEASON FOUR BEGINS with a look back at season three and an examination of the mini controversies that surrounded the Star Trek franchise this summer. We also have some news about…
Jul 1, 2025 · 53:50
FINALLY, CAPTAIN SISKO. It took the powers that be long enough to grant Avery Brooks the public role of Star Trek captain and it happens here in the finale of Deep Space Nine's…
Jul 1, 2025 · 1:23:16
HUMAN INTEREST STORIES. Did Mariner badmouth the crew? Has Admiral Buenamigo teamed up with an evil AI to takedown Starfleet or is all AI inherently evil? Bryan is joined by…
Jun 24, 2025 · 1:00:02
SAIL BONDING TIME. Ben takes Jake on a trip aboard an ancient Bajoran spacecraft that utilizes a solar sail. Does this father-son adventure takeoff? Meanwhile, Bashir finds an…
Jun 17, 2025 · 1:11:44
LOVE LIES SCREAMING. Garak tortures Odo to get back into Enabran Tain's good graces. Meanwhile, Sisko defies orders to mount a rescue only for he and the Defiant to come across…
Jun 10, 2025 · 1:08:22
TAILOR MADE CONSPIRACY. Garak's shop explodes and Odo's investigation soon gets the two of them into a situation of galactic importance. Our DS9's Season Three Leap Forward theme…
Jun 3, 2025 · 1:14:04
DOUBTING THOMAS RIKER. Kira and the crew of DS9 fall under the charms of a Riker, just not the one they think! Transporter Twin Thomas Riker has his eyes set on the USS Defiant…
Jun 1, 2025 · 1:41:30
NARCISSISTS AND CATHARSIS. Bryan and Katie Hampton from Geekscape's Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast shine a spotlight on a pair of sequel episodes. Do the hosts overcome their…
May 27, 2025 · 1:39:38
PICARD'S BASIC INSTINCT. We conclude Spring Flings Month with a look at the time Jean-Luc Picard bonded with one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on Star Trek: Kamala,…
May 20, 2025 · 1:18:44
INTRODUCING TRILL RIKER? Spring Flings Month continues as Jessi from Crusher Convo Podcast joins Bryan to discuss the episode where Dr. Crusher falls for the first Trill to…
May 13, 2025 · 1:10:34
HOLLYWOOD CRINGE FESTIVAL. Bryan continues Spring Flings Month with returning guest Diana Keng, a TV critic whose work you can read at Geek Girl Authority and Women at Warp. Did…
May 11, 2025 · 1:39:50
NINE OWN SELF. This month's animated spotlight features a pair of episodes that go to great lengths to give our cartoon characters some badly needed introspection. Rutherford…
May 6, 2025 · 1:22:18
TEARS FOR LEERS. Captain Kirk falls under the spell of... a former co-star of William Shatner's? It's Spring Flings Month here on Trek Marry Kill. Bryan is joined by film critic…
Apr 30, 2025 · 1:57:13
SIMPLY THE BEST? Don't sleep on Star Trek: Prodigy, which manages to capture the spirit and storytelling of the most popular Trek and aim it at kids while also being highly…
Apr 29, 2025 · 25:28
UNIVERSAL FAN FEST has kicked off at Universal Studios Hollywood and fans can stand on the bridge of the Enterprise-D as used in Star Trek: Picard - Season Three for a…
Apr 22, 2025 · 1:18:45
DADDY DEAD CARE. A shuttle accident puts Captain Janeway on death's doorstep and death is only too happy to answer, taking the face of her dead father. But that's not the only…
Apr 15, 2025 · 1:13:28
THE RUBBERBAND MAN. Bryan and Shereese commiserate over dead dads and her first time watching a classic episode of Deep Space Nine as THE CAPTAIN IS DEAD! Month continues. The…
Apr 8, 2025 · 48:20
WEB KIRK.O. Captain Kirk is dead! No wait -- he's a ghost! No... it's interspace! But, what's this? the crew of the Enterprise is slowly going mad? And now the ship is being…
Apr 1, 2025 · 1:16:42
PICARD WORKS BLUE. It's the death of Jean-Luc Picard as we kick off The Captain is DEAD! month on the show. Shot through the heart and **Q** is to blame? Bryan and Kristen…
Apr 1, 2025 · 1:16:02
COME ON, CAROL! In this month's animated spotlight, Bryan and Katie Hampton of Geekscape's Napping Through Happy Hour Podcast take a look at a pair of Lower Decks episodes that…
Mar 25, 2025 · 1:10:25
OH HEAVENS NO! Bryan & Kristen marvel at the tax dollars used to make the last two episodes of Star Trek: Picard's first season, but are these final two episodes a TREK, MARRY,…
Mar 18, 2025 · 1:05:51
PIZZAS AND ADMONISHMENTS. Picard takes Soji to the Riker Troi's house to chill out and think about their next move. Narissa kills a bunch of Borg... and Rios reveals he has a…
Mar 11, 2025 · 1:18:30
BREAKING BAD ACCENTS. Jean-Luc Picard couldn't save all the Romulans so he opted to save none of them. Does the attempt to turn the character into a classic 21st century antihero…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:23:55
PADDING THE RUNTIME. It's been five years since the premiere of Star Trek: Picard and the first season was a bumpy ride for all involved. Patrick Stewart trying to capture…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:29:06
It's been five years since the first season of Star Trek: Picard concluded, and here in the month of March, Bryan & Kristen will be revisiting the episodes they didn't get to…
Mar 1, 2025 · 1:13:46
PARK AND RECREATIONS. This month's animated spotlight judges the kickoff of Star Trek: Lower Decks' third season, which include a pair of episodes that pay homage to iconic…
Feb 25, 2025 · 45:46
KIRK'S UNPLANNED VACATION. An alien obelisk gives Captain Kirk amnesia and strands him among indigenous people transported from Earth to an alien planet in the direct path of a…
Feb 18, 2025 · 1:47:07
A GOOD STORY? That's not something Bryan and his trio of guest co-hosts expected from Star Trek: Enterprise here during Inner Lights month. Jamie, Bill, and Maria have their own…
Feb 11, 2025 · 1:03:24
HOPE AND DESPAIR walk hand and hand, but that's not the only lesson to be learned from a classic episode of Star Trek and Deep Space Nine. From a technical standpoint, the Star…
Feb 4, 2025 · 1:17:30
A FLUTE OCCURRENCE. Captain Picard gets zapped into a simulation where he must live out a whole other life as a man on a dying planet. It turns out this has a profound effect on…
Feb 1, 2025 · 1:47:18
KLINGONS! VULCANS! PROMOTIONS! This month's animated spotlight focuses on the last two episodes of Lower Decks' second season, in which we get the introduction of T'Lyn and Ma'ah…
Jan 28, 2025 · 1:25:51
SAY "CHEESE," TUVOK! When some surly MaQuis crewmembers refuse to conform, it's up to Tuvok to whip them into shape. Meanwhile, Neelix cuts the cheese and it winds up being so…
Jan 27, 2025 · 1:34:36
YEOHING FOR IT. The long-gestating Section 31 TV series finally premieres on Paramount+ as a standalone movie -- or is it? Bryan and TV critic Diana Keng try to figure out just…
Jan 21, 2025 · 1:15:30
TIME IS PRECIOUS. It's been 30 years since this episode aired and yet it remains one of Voyager's most indelible hours. Is a random Romulan contacted through a wormhole friend or…
Jan 14, 2025 · 1:22:30
COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE. It's the episode that gave us Captain Kathryn Janeway's most famous line *and* underscored just how much of a charlatan the show's Native American advisor…
Jan 7, 2025 · 1:21:07
LOL (LOSS OF LUNGS). It's the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager's debut. Bryan & Shereese play Trek Marry Kill with "Phage," the episode that introduces us to the gnarly…
Jan 6, 2025 · 1:13:58
MINOR BIPEDAL SPECIES? Captain Kathryn Janeway has a problem: in order to save a childlike race of people called the Ocampa, she must strand her ship and crew 70,000 light years…
Jan 1, 2025 · 1:40:52
LADIES BE SCHEMING! Billups' mother has been trying to trick her son into losing his virginity so that he can leave Starfleet and take his place on his home world's throne.…
Dec 31, 2024 · 1:29:43
ALL GOOD STREAMS must come to an end, and Star Trek: Discovery is no exception, despite putting Paramount Plus on the map. But is this final episode a fitting conclusion to…
Dec 24, 2024 · 1:28:29
RUNNING IN PLACE? As Discovery closes in on the Progenitors' technology, Saru and Federation negotiators must deal with the Breen. It's the penultimate episode of Star Trek:…
Dec 17, 2024 · 55:25
BADLANDS AND BOOKMARKS. While Discovery fends off an advancing Breen force led in part by Moll, Michael Burnham must therapyspeak her way through a mindspace to get the last…
Dec 10, 2024 · 1:09:13
BIG EVIL HELMETS. Michael Burnham must lead the Federation against a faction of the Breen Imperium in order to protect what they know about the Progenitors' technology from…
Dec 3, 2024 · 1:21:21
DENOBULAN GOD COMPLEX. Burnham and Tilly go undercover as a pair of true believers to find the next clue which has been hidden in a malfunctioning water tower built by a…
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