a Star Trek Podcast

about the humanism of Star Trek

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Where Silence Has Lease (TNG)

The D gets stuck inside a hole where things aren’t necessarily what they appear to be. The alien that lives here, Nagilum, purportedly wants to learn about how humans die, but does this episode pay that off? How many Bridges are there? When will Pulaski get over herself? How long would you like to prepare for your death?

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3x31 Elementary Dear Data SQ

Elementary, Dear Data (TNG)

With nothing better to do while waiting for a meetup, Data and Geordi fuck off in the holodeck to kill some time. But when Dirty Doctor Pulaski pushes Geordi to do the "create a holodeck nemesis to outsmart Data" TikTok Challenge, shit goes sideways. Does Pulaski EVER apologize? How long can you store a hologram on a floppy disk? Why don't the people running NuTrek™ see that filler bottle episodes like this give us time to breathe and develop characters and their relationships and stop trying to save the whole ass universe every episode?
3x30 Where Silence Has Lease SQ

Where Silence Has Lease (TNG)

The D gets stuck inside a hole where things aren't necessarily what they appear to be. The alien that lives here, Nagilum, purportedly wants to learn about how humans die, but does this episode pay that off? How many Bridges are there? When will Pulaski get over herself? How long would you like to prepare for your death?
3x29 The Child SQ

The Child (TNG)

This episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation contains scenes of Sexual Assault. Listener discretion is advised. In an episode that dances around issues of autonomy, Troi is raped by an alien who wants to see what it's like to be human while Guinan helps Wesley reconsider his career path.

Discover Our Hosts

Sarah Ray

Producer / Host

Sarah Ray


Sarah Ray (she/her) is a transgender atheist woman. She came to humanism out of the “angry atheist” phase on seeing a need for secular communities to focus our energy into productive, positive impacts in our world. Sarah is an endorsed Humanist Celebrant and Vice President of The Humanist Society, Support Group Leader with Recovering from Religion, and co-founded the Atheist Community of Polk County (now the Humanist Community of Polk County), She has produced and hosted the “SarahTalk Podcast” since 2015 and “Freethought in Florida” from 2020-2021.

Allie Ashmead

Host

Allie Ashmead

Allie Ashmead (she/her) is a humanist who grew up in rural Virginia. She has been in the IT industry for nearly 30 years and has spent her career doing business analysis, supporting SaaS systems, and building cloud solutions to manage data. She actively supports many humanist organizations, has done volunteer work in her local community, and was co-host on the podcast and YouTube show “Freethought in Florida”. Relocated to Aurora, Colorado in recent years with her two cats, Rax and Mr. Digsby, she’s also a fluid abstract artist. She is a die-hard Star Trek fan, and sci-fi fan in general.

Becca Ray

Starfleet Academy Instructor

Becca Ray

Becca Ray (she/her) joins the show each week to stump Sarah and Allie with a trivia question about the episode.

Becca is also the Program Assistant at the American Humanist Association. Before joining the AHA, Becca was a Director and Co-Founder of The Atheist Community of Polk County, where she and her team developed various community outreach programs. She also served as an Assistant State Director for American Atheists for the state of Florida.

Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge

Each week, Cadet Instructor Becca challenges Sarah & Allie with a trivia question about the current episode (we are not doing so hot here).  You can play along, too!  Share out the episode with your answer to the week’s question and use the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge and we’ll pick our favorite for bragging rights.  It doesn’t necessarily have to be the correct answer – NO GOOGLING! – we might pick the funniest or most outrageous answer, because it’s our show and we do what we want.

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The Sounds of Humanist Trek

Anytime a song is mentioned (more likely sang) on the podcast it ends up on our Spotify playlist! Put it on shuffle and enjoy the weirdest mix of music in the galaxy!

As Heard On Humanist Trek

Looking for one of the Star Trek books we’ve done interviews about? Well here… it… sits!

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Our Listeners are Saying...

A fabulous, fabulous podcast. Really! Check it out!
Leonard Crofoot
Star Trek Actor
What a hoot! Well done!
Susan Sackett
Former Star Trek production assistant and personal executive assistant of Gene Roddenberry
I love y'alls podcast. So entertaining. I love the fact that you really don't need to have watched to episodes in order to follow. Keep it up ladies!! Y'all are doing a great job!!
Sara D.
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I really love this podcast. Such a fun way to relive all the ST:TOS episodes in all their glory and albeit goofiness. Yeah I’m still waaaaay behind but dammit, Jim, I’ve got a day job!
Tim R.
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Great Show! Honestly cant remember the last time I ever listened to a Trek podcast and laughed so much.....When I tell my Trek friends about the podcast I'm going to describe it as the "Lower decks" of Trek podcasts.😁🖖🏼
Adam R.
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