If you like Star Trek and laughing, this is the podcast for you.

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If you’re a recovering addict, you will probably not be entertained by the inordinate amount of time these boys spend talking about various weed strains. If they could stay on topic, it would be an entertaining show though.

This would be a 5 star podcast if they had some focus or an editor. Almost every podcast has 25 minutes of chatter at the start, usually at least 5 minutes about a VPN, before the podcast starts. Listened to one from October in 2024 where they didn’t start talking about the episode until 40 minutes in. When they finally get to the episode it’s hilarious content. The age of the episodes and Star Trek “weirdness” that most fans just accept gets a priceless roasting. Genuinely a great podcast that does something unique in the sci fi space, as long as you’re okay skipping a lot of stuff.

A typical 90 minute episode has about 20 minutes of ads, 65 minutes of unfunny meandering and 5 minutes of tolerable conversation. Exquisitely terrible listening experience.

…so don’t mind if I do (I’m doing me!). I’m a Ricardo Guy and he is the true star! He has an impressive knowledge of film as well. Lol, clearly Sarah and Marvin didn’t know who Louis Gossett Jr is (Timicin’s bro—lmao)! And I’m sorry…I didn’t wanna be that guy to point out the painfully obvious, but even my rosy colored glasses are steaming up in frustration from the 20 minutes of ads. We GET it—wallets and VPNs - not exactly exciting subjects! 🥱🫠😘

They are enjoyable to listen to. The only thing I would change is a little more factual detail about the episode itself, so I don’t have to go back and rewatch. Maybe ground Sarah in a little more science and a little less superstition and conspiracy. They get some stuff wrong about Trek, but that’s part of the angle and it’s part of the fun.

Ok so I usually do not post reviews on things but this has been consistently an annoyance since I started listening to the podcast. Let me just say that I enjoy the show immensely and will continue to listen as I love the perspective as someone how jumped into start trek pretty blind or, with passing familiarity due to child memories or popular zeitgeist. The only and main issue I have is that Ricardo continues to have the worst/most inaccurate takes I’ve heard come out of a person. Whenever Sarah has a take that no one agrees with they argue her down to make the point however, when Ricardo says something wrong or from left field no one bothers to talk him down for real. Him saying blood was blue the last episode I listened to was absolutely the last straw for me and made me think about it every time I saw you guys post a new episode. In any case I do love the show and hope you guys continue being good otherwise. Thanks for your hard work.

Funny take on someone new watching Star Trek without the perspective of knowing what happens next. I wish I could do it myself! Ricardo: keep fighting the good fight.

Just binged 10 eps in 3 days—just the thing to take my mind off news and political pods. Great listen!

The ad reads guys! Seriously, they’re not great, stick to the show. The rabbit holes you go down and the nonsensical threads that have no relevance to the show. I really tried to like the show, but I’m out. The shorts on YouTube are good though.

Why do I bother? Was enjoying the DS9 eps, but seriously, no one needs a 10 minute VPN commercial. This is just annoying chitchat that amounts to “i liked it/i didn’t like it”.

It’s a rewatch podcast but with a comic aspect that gives my the nostalgia and laughs at the same time

Then they added someone creepier then Geordi. Talking about how they actively participated in being jailbait, hypocritical opinions on dating practices and just genuinely biased toxic views really ruined the flow and chemistry of the original three hosts.

Out on the high seas you can find the DS9 AI upscale, download and enjoy! ARRR!

As much as I enjoy podcasts with friends who have good chemistry, this podcast has way too much preamble most weeks. It sometimes will go 20+ minutes before really starting to talk about the episode in the title. If the lead-up was especially funny or insightful that would be one thing, but it’s frequently in need of a huge edit. It is enjoyable to hear new perspectives on these episodes and I sometimes come away from a story I’ve known for decades with a brand new insight. I do think some jokes fall very flat and there are times they all take a little too much glee in putting the show down, but as someone once said (slightly in jest), “Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant!”

Loving these guys (and gal).

This show is a lot of fun. RIP Yar.

my new favorite tng podcast lol keeps me giggling as i remember the episodes (most i’ve seen many times) from a fresh perspective. you can tell the hosts are really friends and they all have great chemistry and it’s just generally a lot of fun.

Great podcast wether you’ve seen the show or not. If you haven’t it’s probably even more fun to watch the episodes for the first time and listen to the podcast immediately after. I love how Dan butchers everybody’s name.

The jokes fall flat more often than not, everyone talks over one another and too much time is given to tangental conversations. Each 1.5 hour episode has about 30-40 minutes of Star Trek discussions with the remainder given to Ricardo telling bad jokes or Sara taking the discussion into an awkward tangent. The best thing you could do to improve this show is provide a structure for each episode and edit out the aimless chit-chat and poor attempts at humor. For example, 5-10 minutes of preamble, 5-minute episode recap from someone that isn’t Ricardo, 20-30 minutes given to the topics of discussion, and 5-10 minutes to close out the episode.

This is a legitimately funny and interesting popcast (pop culture podcast). If you are easily offended, maybe not for you… or maybe you should give it a listen just to know where your boundaries are.

Understand the effort, but the hosts constantly talk over and interrupt each other. Give each other some space and drop the fake stoner vibe. Not every single comment has to be a joke.

I’m enjoying it so far, but I am increasingly annoyed by them calling the captain, “Luc.” That’s not his name.

Your pod blows, and your not funny. Annoying comes to mind.

Sure they don’t have all the trek lore fully downloaded (but you can read the title and learn that for yourself) but the retelling of each episode always makes me crack up. Excited to hear what the full 4-person cast is like!

Love it.

Started listening from the beginning recently, and as a gay male Trekkie, I have to admit I get very few of their references. But I do love Star Trek, and there’s something kind of fun about listening to people who are as pop culture obsessed with you, but about entirely different universes of pop culture, talk about a thing you love. I barely knew what a Jason Statham was before I started listening. And I recently found myself yelling at my phone when they were listing things Daniel Davis (Moriarty) had been in and somehow didn’t mention he was in the main cast of the greatest TV show of all time, The Nanny. Anyway, super fun show, check it out.

This is a great idea but not well executed. Why are they giving 75% of the air time to Ricardo to recap each episode? He refuses to learn anything. And dropping the f-bomb 100+ times an episode is not funny in and of itself, just tiring. I think I counted 5 in one sentence. Couldn’t deal with it after the first 10 episodes. Disappointing.

Great premise for a podcast (newbies watching Trek), but it’s 75% ruined by the guy who’s already seen the show and talks waaaaaay too much. He’s simply cannot stop himself from constantly seeking that attention of “I already know everything about the show! Aren’t I so cool!? Everyone listen to me!” It’s obnoxious and really hurts the show. We’re tuning in for newbie reactions, not to listen to someone who’s already seen it (and who’s clearly just feeding his superiority complex needs at that). Someone like that could helpfully guide the conversation with his foreknowledge, but instead he constantly stomps all over everyone else’s reactions and opinions. He interrupts far too much and it’s almost always to say why his opinion is correct and everyone else is wrong. Even when he tells Star Trek lore to the others it’s now annoying because we know he’s doing it for that attention/superiority fix, not to be helpful. I really want to like the show, but I always get a few mins into an episode and hear that guy dominating the show again and turn it off.

In an hour long podcast, they talk about Star Trek for maybe 25 minutes. Do you want to listen in on some likable banter? This is for you. Do you want them to focus and talk about the episode? You will get frustrated.

I just started listening. I’m a big enough trek fan that I can remember the episodes as they review them. I think it’s awesome that the Newbie calls Captain Picard “Luke.” It’s nice that I have hundreds of hours ahead of me. My commutes are set for a while.

I found this podcast through Instagram @newbiesstartrek They review each episode on a weekly basis and look at it through the lens of someone who hasn’t ever seen the show before and also a couple that have seen the episodes but are not TNG experts. It all is done in good nature and is quite funny.

This truly is a great podcast. If you have a good dark sense of humor and you’re not easily offended, this show is like watching Star Trek through the eyes of an above average intelligence gorilla.

A brilliant podcast. I just started from the beginning. Did we get to Identity Crisis yet? Pure nightmare fuel.

Ricardo. Ricardo. Ricardo. No. No. No. Dude. Dude. Dude. Ricardo. Ricardo. Ricardo. Please stop repeating yourself 17 times when you want to interrupt Sara for one of your jokes. Please. Ricardo. Ricardo. Ricardo. Please.

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Like many people I found the reels/tiktok promos/shorts to be hilarious and found this podcast. I was listening here first but I thought maybe I was missing something and jumped over to the You tube channel thinking there would be more visuals (like in the promos). And there is a little bit of that, but I guess I hoped this was more of a riff trax/mst3k style thing where they live watched (or gave the impression they are live watching) an episode of TNG while adding funny commentary. If that existed I would be all over it, but that’s not really what this is— And that’s fine, they seem like they are having a nice time chatting with each other, and their fans seem to enjoy that, but it’s just not for me.

I had never seen Star Trek before, but I saw a reel for this show on Instagram that caught my attention and made me laugh out loud. I immediately dove into the first few episodes and watched along with the first few episodes of TNG, and I found that the NST crew captures so many of my feelings as a viewer: TNG is chaos, hilarious, touching, problematic, and ultimately a gem of a show. I'm grateful for the Newbies for introducing the show to me, and taking the journey along with them has been a blast. Sometimes the podcast can get bogged down in inside jokes or discussions that veer wildly off-topic, but that's what the skip button is for. Overall... Newbie Star Trek is a fun and funny show that ignighted a new interest for me. If you're new to Stark Trek, this is an awesome place to start.

They spent the majority of the episode I listened to not actually talking about the Star Trek episode.

This epic comedic revisiting has brought new light and joy to the nostalgic voyages of the star ship Enterprise. They shine new light on characters from the terrorist known as Wesley to his serial killer mother who consistently kills people on their death bed. You’d think that the D’Anna would be able to read Bevs mal intent but we learn that she is constantly wrong about what she “detects”. The epic leader that is Picard would be able to handle both of them if he weren’t so busy avoiding children and romance. Fear not though Riker will fill the romance gap by banging every alien lady he can find, or if that’s not your cup of tea you can watch Geordi face plant every relationship he’s exposed to. There’s these examples and so many more. My only complaint is I can’t fly around the sun and time travel to a point where I can binge the entire pod. Sadly I’ll have to stay here in this time vortex and wait each week for a new episode. (Ricardo’s so funny)

I generally enjoy the podcast and have come to appreciate Ricardo’s complete refusal to learn anything or anyone’s name. Honestly, though Sara drives me nuts, not all her takes are bad but when they get stuck in a prolonged awkward conversation it’s almost always because of an indefensibly bad take she’s all in on.

I’m not sure how I got teleported to this podcast, but thankful my molecules were reassembled here. At its core this is a TNG rewatch podcast, however the deep dives into cultural relevance and conversations about holodecks are the real gems. The crew is so perfectly assembled here and their banter is better than a weekend on Risa. Keep it up team. Goat in the water.

I love this podcast. I grew up in the 80’s when TNG first aired. TNG is a childhood favorite filled with nostalgia and comfort for me. I enjoy hearing the fresh perspective of the newbs on this series—especially when that perspective clashes with my own.

I’m trying to push through the second season and honestly I’m hoping for better. I’m a casual Star Trek fan so I do love the discussion on the show and the absurdity of the episodes but my biggest problem is the ragging so hard on the female characters (excluding Tasha Yar obviously). Maybe it’s because I actually did some research on why Gates McFadden was fired and then brought back. I think what’s annoying is it was lightly glazed over and they didn’t even touch the misogyny behind it. I do think the deadbeat mom joke is funny but also have they considered it was the bad writing in the first season that made her a bad doctor? I’m gonna try to give it more time so we’ll see if this changes.

Introduced to this podcast through their awesome TikTok promos. I grew up watching Star Trek TNG and love hearing Marvin, Ricardo and Dan (eventually Sara) share their love and opinions about each and every episode. Great job guys and dolls. You’re just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls! Remember… this is a Star Trek podcast. Lol

This podcast gave me a reason to go back and watch TNG. Also… I like to party.

I started listening from the first episode. When do you guys stop referring to Picard as Luke?

I listened to your podcast everyday for a month and a half sometimes two to three episodes a day and finally caught up. I enjoy your commentary because you are giving a younger point of view on what is happening based on todays political climate social culture. I am older (41) than all of you I think maybe. It was also nice to have a female join the discussion as well. Look forward to each episode. Be well.

I finally found a good TNG commentary recap show